Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Carrots with sour cream.



Ingredients:

3 lb carrots shredded

1 large onion chopped

5-6 gloves of garlic pressed

1 cap sour cream

1 teaspoon red sweet paprika.

1 teaspoon of olive oil

hot red pepper (optional)






1. Into the pan with olive oil add chopped onions and fry them until golden .


2. Add carrots, mix and continue frying for 10 min on medium. Do not overcook the carrots.



3. Turn to low.

4. Sprinkle carrots with paprika, garlic mix, hot red pepper and add sour cream.




5. Mix again.


It could easier if you first mix paprika, hot red pepper and garlic with sour cream first and then add this mixture to the carrots.


Bean bread



Ingredients:

Buritos

Kidney beans from red kidney beans recipe.




1. Add olive oil into the frying pan.

2. Put one flat brad and on one half spread red kidney beans.





3. Cover it with the other half and heat it on low for 5 min.


4. Turn it over and fry on the other side on low for another 5 min.




Serve warm or cold.

If your beans are cold form the fridge, cover pan with lid to make sure that beans heat through.


Red kidney beans with walnuts



Ingredients:

2 cups red kidney beans

1 chopped onion

6-7 cloves of garlic

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 bunch of chopped cilantro

1 teaspoon paprikaI

red pepper (optional)

1 table spoon of salt








1. Into the pot add beans and water and half gallon of water.

2. Bring it to boil, reduce heat and cook it for 15 min.3. Discard all water, rinse beans and add the same amount of fresh cold water. Add salt.

4. Bring it to boil, reduce heat to low and cook for 2 hrs.





5. In the pen, fry chopped onions in olive oil. When onions start turning golden, start adding cooked beans. Use spoon with the holes to reduce liquid in the beans.


6. Mush them a little with the spoon of potato masher. Continue simmering.



7. Add paprika, red pepper and garlic. Mix well and continue simmering for 5 minutes.




8. Add walnuts and cilantro. Mix well. Simmer for another 3-4 minutes.



Serve warm of cold. Could be used as a separate dish as well as a garnish to meat and poultry.

Stuffed bell peppers.


Ingredients:

2 lb minced beef

1 lb minced pork

1 cup of white rice

10 bell any color bell peppers.

2 large onions

5 cloves of garlic

1 bunch parsley

1 bunch cilantro

1 can of tomato sauce

salt 1 table spoon







1. In the food processor - process onion, garlic, cilantro and parsley.

2. Rinse rice 2 times in water. For that, transfer rice into the large bowl, add water to

cover rice, mix with your hands and pour water out. Do it one more time.




3. Cut tops of the peppers and remove the part with the seeds.







4. In the large bowl combine minced meat, processed onion - garlic - cilantro - parsley mixture, and rice. Mixed well with your hands. Add salt, one cup of cold water and mix again.

5. Stuff peppers with mixed mince with all ingredients from step 4. Place them in the pot and cover each pepper with the top parts of the peppers that you cut off in the step 3.




6. Add water into the pot to cover peppers, add one tea spoon of salt. Bring it to boil on medium, then reduce to low and cook 1 hour.

7. After 1 hour add 1 can of tomato sauce and bring it to boil.

Can be served with black pepper and sour cream.

Green salad with black olives and feta cheese.






Ingredients:

1 romaine heard

2 stems celery

1 can black olives

1 yellow pepper

1 red pepper

1 green pepper

1 cup of crashed Greek feta cheese

2 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil

2 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar (any)

1.Wash and dry romaine heard and tear leaves into the salad bowl.

2. Cut celery, peppers and add to the bowl with romaine heard.

3. Open can with black olives, pour out the water and add to the bowl.

4. Add feta cheese.

In the cup mix olive oil and vinegar and pour over salad. Mix gently.


Baked red potatoes and carrots



Ingredients:

4 carrots

8 red potatoes

2 garlic heads

paprika

salt

olive oil




1. Cut potatoes and pilled carrots into the approximately the same size.

2. Place them into the baking dish.

3. Cut 2 garlic heads across in half and place into the same baking dish with carrots and potatoes.

4. Sprinkle them with salt, paprika add olive oil and mix well with hands.


5. Bake for 1 and a half hours in the preheated oven at 350 degrees F.





Serve as a garnish to meat and poultry or as a vegetarian dish with walnut sauce or any other sauce of your choice.

Turkey Breast




Ingredients:

Turkey breast

1 garlic heads

paprika 1 teaspoons

salt





1. Place turkey breast into the baking dish. Dry it with paper towel. This step is

2. Salt it over with hands. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of paprika and smear it over turkey.

3. Fill inside of turkey breast with 5-6 garlic cloves. The rest of garlic head crash and place in the baking dish.



4. Bake in the oven at 320 degrees F until indicator pops up.





Let it rest for 10-15minute and serve with baked potatoes and carrots and walnut sauce.

Walnut sauce






Ingredients:

2 cups walnuts

1 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon cilantro seeds powder

1 teaspoon curry powder

6-7 glove of garlic

1 bunch fresh cilantro

1 cup of boiled cold water

salt half teaspoon





1. Into the food processor add garlic, fresh cilantro and mix well.




2. Add walnuts and mix again until walnuts turn into paste.
3. Add the rest of ingredients and mix again. Sauce is ready.


If you plan to use it immediately, there is no need to boil it.

Sauce could be kept in the fridge for 2 days if you you bring it to boil continuously stirring on low.

Fish nuggets pie



Ingredients:

2 lb of fish nuggets

3 medium size carrots shredded

1 bunch of fresh dill chopped

1 can of pizza dough

1 row egg.

1 medium size onion chopped

1 teaspoon of salt

freshly ground black pepper

olive oil




1. Into the pan add olive oil and chopped onion. Cook on medium for 10 min

or until onions starts turning golden.



2. Add shredded carrots and continue cooking for another 10 minutes.


3. In the separate pot add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and fish nuggets and 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook for 15 min.

4. Add to the pot with fish onions and carrots from step 2.

5. Add chopped dill, black pepper and mix everything very gentry.




Take it off the heat to cool down. It has to be only little warm before placing it on the dough. You can make this filling day before and keep it in the fridge. If you do so, just warm it up a little before using.



6. On the baking sheet smear with tissue one teaspoon of olive oil.

7. Open can with dough and arrange it as it is shown on the picture



8. Place the filling in the middle of the dough.




9. Cut the sides of the dough as it is shown on the picture.
Make 4 cuts on each side leaving middle part unattached and pleat it.





and pleat the ends.


10. In the cap mix one row egg with the folk and smear it over the pie using a brash.

11. Bake in the preheated oven at 320 degrees F for 40 min. or until it gets golden.




Lentin soup.


Ingredients:

2 cups lanteens (any)

1 chopped onion

1 cup chopped walnuts

2 shredded carrots

1 bunch cilantro

1 table spoon of olive oil

salt

red pepper (optional)





1. In the pot add olive oil, onions and carrots. Fry them stirring for 5 minutes on medium.

2. Add half gallon of water, add 1 teaspoon of salt and bring it to boil.







3. Add lanteens, bring them to boil and reduce heat to low and continue cooking for 1 hour.







4. Add walnuts, cilantroand continue cooking for another 5 minutes and serve.


Meat ball soup


Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef

1 onion

1 bunch parsley

1 bunch dill

1 cup white rice

2 carrots shredded

salt



1. Into the soup pot pour 0.5 gallon of cold water, add 1 tablespoon of salt and bring it to boil.

2. In the food processor mix onion, dill and half bunch of parsley.

3. Add mixture from step 2 and raw washed rice to ground meat. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and mix well.




4. Form balls from step 3 mixture and one by one add into the boiling water and cook for 30 min





5. Add shredded carrots and cook another 10 min.

6. Turn the stove off and add chopped left half bunch of parsley.







7. Mix and serve.