Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chicken braised in white wine wine with leek





Ingredients:
  • 6 upper thighs
  • 1 leek
  • 1 packet of mozzarella cheese
  • 1 dl of white wine
  • oil, salt, pepper
Take the skin off the chicken, and sprinkle salt and pepper on them. In a heatproof dish pre-fry them for a couple of minutes, so that they get a nice colour, and then add the wine, cover it and put it in the oven at 200 deg celsius. Meanwhile chop the leek and steam it in a pan under cover. Add salt an pepper according to taste. When the chicken is done, pile the onions on the top of them, and cover them with the sliced mozzarella. Put it back in the oven until the cheese fries.

Monday, January 18, 2010

A Sunday lunch for my friends

All of it disappeared, I hope that was the sign of success.

The menu:

Mozzarella and tomatoes with basil
Mustard and rosemary chicken rolls
Rapsberry-coffee cream

Mozzarella and tomatoes with basil
Cut the tomatoes in pieces and mix it with the mozzarella balls and olives. Mix some basil leaves with olive oil and pour it on the tomatoes. Add some freshly ground pepper and salt.

Mustard and rosemary chicken rolls





Ingredients:
  • chicken breast
  • rosemary
  • mustard
  • garlic
  • salt, pepper
  • yarn to hold the chiken together
Cut the chicken breast in halves. Its better if you marinate it the night before, all you need to do is to mix the mustard with the smashed garlic and slush the chicken with it. The next day put fresh rosemary leaves on the slice of chicken and roll it up. Fix it with the yarn. Pre-fry the pieces in a pan and then put them in the oven, covered with aluminium foil, at 200 degrees celsius until its done. You can sprinkle some cheese on it in the end and wait until it goes golden.

Rapsberry-coffee cream

 
















Ingredients:
  • mascarpone
  • rapsberry (can be frozen)
  • instant coffee
  • milk
  • caster sugar
  • ladyfingers
  • rum or rum flavour
Dissolve the coffee in a little hot water. Mix the mascarpone with the coffee, the sugar, and the rum or rum flavour. Modify the amounts according to taste. Dissolve some coffee in the milk and add some rum or flavour. Dip the ladyfingers in the milk for a couple of seconds and then put them on the bottom of the cup. Put some of the rapsberry on the ladyfingers and then comes part of the cream. Then rapsberry again and the rest of the cream. Let it rest at a cool place for some time.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Muffins filled with dried fruits




I changed the original muffin recipe but the result was very good so here is the new kind of muffin :)

Ingredients for 12 muffins
  • 30 dkg of flour 
  • 10 dkg of sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder 
  • 2 eggs 
  • 2 dl of milk 
  • dried fruits (apricots, plum, papaya-pineapple mix) 
  • crystallized orange and lemon skin 
  • 1 tablespoon of oil 
  • cinnamon, ground cloves, rum flavour
  • 1 packet of baking powder
Mix the eggs with the milk, the sugar, the oil, the cinnamon and the cloves. Add the baking powder to the flour, add the cocoa powder and the chopped dried fruits along with the lemon and orange peel. Mix the milky mixture with the flour. Fill the pastry cutter and put in the preheated oven. It needs 20 minutes at 170 degrees celsius.

Zucchini stew with sweetcorn




It's quick, light and easy. I ate without any garnish, but rice is perfect with it. You can leave the sausage out, then you get an even lighter and fully vegetarian dish.

Ingredients:
  • a couple of zucchinis
  • canned sweet corn
  • chorizo sausage, chopped
  • sour cream
  • spring onion
  • salt, pepper, seasoning (according to taste)
Fry the onions in a bit of oil and add the pieces of sausage, let it fry for a bit. Cut the zucchinis in half, then in half again and then cut them into pieces of 1 cm. Add them to the onions. Add salt and cover it. When its soft, add the corn, the seasoning and the sour cream and cook them for some time more.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Soda bread with mushrooms




The original recipe is Rachel Allen's soda bread recipe, plus I added some tomato sauce, mushrooms, onions and grated cheese. The outcome is a filling, vegetarian and quick lunch.