Sunday 24 November 2013

POTATO CRUNCHIES

INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PEOPLE:
ä 5 big potatoes

ä 10 tablespoons of wheat semolina

ä 1 egg
ä 2 teaspoons of salt
ä 2 teaspoons of marjoram
ä 1 teaspoon of dry herbs
ä Oil for baking
 PROCEDURE

Grate the raw potatoes, add egg and all other spices then mix it very well.


Mixture shouldn’t be too liquidy or too thick. If it’s too liquidy then add some more wheat semolina, if it’s too thick add one egg.


Before frying prepare a bowl and lay some paper towels in it, where you’ll be able to put fried potato crunchies. Paper towels will absorb excess oil from it.


Heat the oil in a pan, use tablespoon and make a steak shape from the potato mixture, then fry them on each side until they become golden brown.


You can offer a green salad beside potato crunchies.


This is a very popular children's crunchy lunch.

Try it, you will not regret.

Sunday 6 October 2013

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS


Ingredients:
 · 80g / 4 tablespoons of blueberries
· 80g / 5.8 tablespoons of soft margarine
· 80g / 9.8 tablespoons powdered sugar
· 2 eggs
· 180g / 1.49 cup of sour cream
 · 200g / 1.8 plain white flour soft
· 30g / 4.8 tablespoons white flour sharp
· 1 teaspoon of baking powder


PROCEDURE:
 · Preheat the oven to 180 ºC / 356 ºF (electric oven), 160 ºC / 320 ºF (fan oven).
· Mix all the ingredients (mix flour and baking powder together) and then add the remaining ingredients.
· Bake for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.


Tuesday 20 August 2013

HOMEMADE FLAKY PASTRY CAKE

For 8 people
Ingredients for the dough:
***240 grams / 2.4 cups of white wheat flour
***20 grams / 1.5 tablespoon of olive oil
***1 teaspoon of salt (leveled)
***100 to 130  milliliters / 0.42 to 0.55 cup of  lukewarm water
***100 grams / 0.43 cup / 6.97 tablespoons of soft butter or margarine to spread
Filling:
***500 grams / 2.2 cups of mashed curd
***10 grams / 2.5 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
***200 milliliters / 0.84 cup of sour cream
***120 grams / 0.6 cup of sugar

PROCEDURE:
Sift the flour, make a hole in the middle, pour oil and add salt. Pour the lukewarm water to it, mix all together and start to knead it for 15 minutes. After that make a ball from dough, spread oil over and cover it then let it rest for at least half an hour.

Then put the dough ball on a floured, large wooden table or tablecloth and roll it over to get thinner layer of dough and spread oil over it. After that, stretch the pastry with your hands and cut thick edges on the sides of it. Put stretched ball dough on a plate (diameter of 50 centimetres / 19.7 inches) and around it gently cut 6 layers with which you’ll cover the filling (see photos).

Now make filling from curd, sugar, sour cream and vanilla sugar, mix those ingredients together. After that you can start to spread the filling over each layer.

Tip: the same pastry you can use for rolls, dumplings, flat cakes, etc., but with different filling.




Monday 12 August 2013

SPINACH NOODLES

INGREDIENTS FOR JJJJJ PEOPLE:
- 200 grams/ 2.01 cup of wheat flour
- 2 whole eggs
- 60 grams/ 5. 34 tablespoons of cooked spinach
(add water if necessary, or replace it with egg whites)
- salted boiling water
- 20 grams/ 1.49 tablespoon of butter or olive oil

PROCEDURE:
Sift flour on the board, make a hole in the middle and crack the eggs in it, if it's necessary add some warm water. Mix the mixture with wooden spoon then try to knead it with your fingers. After the mixture is moisturized enough knead it into dough. Knead the dough until it becomes elastic and is not sticking to your hands and board.
When you cut the dough in half it should be dense and free of holes.


When the dough was well kneaded (for 15 minutes) spread oil over the dough ball on the top, and place it to rest for ½ hour, it can also be more time, cover it with the container, in order to avoid drying.

Afterwards re-knead the dough and make elongate roll out of it, cut it in half and then cut it for 1 centimetre / 0.39 inches thick to get dough cloths (which must be evenly thick). 


Before you put the dough cloths through the noodle machine, you have to carefully sprinkle them with flour, so that they will not stick to the rollers. Leave the rolled out dough to dry on a board or a kitchen cloth.
When the dough isn`t sticky anymore, sprinkle it with some flour and using the noodle machine cut it into strips and leave them to dry.

There is no need to dry them, if you plan to cook the noodles right away.

You can serve them as a side dish alongside various meat dishes or as an appetizer with herbs or a sauce.



Following the same procedure, you can also make carrot noodles.

Homemade noodles are very quickly cooked and they do not bloat us up. 

Sunday 21 July 2013

SEMOLINA CRUNCHYS

INGREDIENTS (for 10 people):

*2.5 Cups of Milk
*200 grams/1.14 Cup of Semolina
*40 grams/2.9 Tablespoons of Soft Margarine
*2 Eggs
*pinch of Salt
*little bit of Oil for frying


Put milk to cook, add pinch of salt and soft margarine. When it boils, slowly add semolina and mix it all the time of cooking, to prevent lumps. When it thickens stop cooking it and put it on a side.

After it gets lukewarm add both eggs and mix it very well, then make a round shape. Then use hands to make small balls or oblong gnocchi. Now put them into a pan, quickly fry them to become (golden-brown light colour) and crunchy. 

You serve them as side dish to meat course with sauce like: stakes, goulash or as a main course with salad.

Sunday 12 May 2013

FRUIT OMELETTE


INGREDIENTS

(For 1 big / 2 middle sized / 4 little omelettes)

[*-*] 2 Egg yolks

[*-*] 2 Egg whites

[*-*] 40 grams/ 4.9 tablespoons of Powdered sugar

[*-*] 30 grams/ 4.8 tablespoons of White wheat soft flour

[*-*] Grated lemon peel of a half lemon

[*-*] 10 grams/ 2.5 teaspoons of Vanilla sugar

[*-*] 100 grams/ 1.006 cup of Preserved or frozen fruit (preferably cranberries, blueberries, etc.)

[*-*] 200 millilitres/ 1.66 cup of Sweet whipping cream

[*-*] 10 grams/ 1.23 tablespoon of Powdered sugar (for spreading it over omelette before serving)

[*-*] Your favourite Jam/Marmalade


PREPARATION

Whisk egg whites into hard snow and slowly add all the sugar in it. Then add egg yolks, lemon peels and sifted flour. Now gently mix it all together. If you like you can add ground walnuts/hazelnuts.

On prepared baking tray with baking paper, use a pastry bag filled with cream that you have made before. Now pour the cream in a swirl move to make circle shape. Bake omelettes at the temperature from 180ºC/ 356ºF to 200ºC/ 392ºF (from 15 to 20 minutes). Omelettes must have golden-brown colour both sizes, then we know that it’s baked.

Still hot, remove them from baking paper and spread a jam that you desire after it. Then fold it, fill it with whipped sweet cream and add some preserved/frozen fruits.

Instead of powdered sugar you can use a sweetener for diabetics, so that anyone can enjoy eating omelettes, even diabetics.

For the holidays or birthdays you can pour sweet liqueur (vanilla or menthol liqueur) over omelettes and light a matchstick, then turn off the lights and put matchstick close to liqueur to start burning. This will make a nice unforgettable atmosphere. But be careful, do not get burned.
 
 

Sunday 21 April 2013

DUMPLINGS WITH COTTAGE CHEESE AND WHEAT SEMOLINA


INGREDIENTS:

# 300 grams/1.36 cup of margarine

# 2 eggs

# 300 grams/1.31 cup of curd/cottage cheese

# 100 grams/0.57 cup/9.1 tablespoon of wheat semolina

INGREDIENTS as a final step:

# 30 grams/2.09 tablespoon of butter

# 40 grams/5.3 tablespoon of bread or biscuit crumbs

# 2 litres/8.45 cups of salted boiling water

PREPARATION METHOD

Foamy mix margarine and add two eggs, then add blended into paste curd/cottage cheese and wheat semolina.

Then mix it all together. Meanwhile heat up salt water, when it boils put in sculpted dumplings with a tablespoon.

Dumplings must slowly cook in an open pot for 10 minutes.

After they are cooked carefully pick them up with a strainer.

Before serving dumplings sprinkle them with roasted breadcrumbs in butter.

WAYS TO EAT DUMPLINGS

You can eat dumplings for a main course, dessert or side dish. For the children you can sprinkle over dumplings roasted breadcrumbs with a pinch of sugar and cinnamon.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

PUFF PASTRY DRILLS AND POCKETS RECIPE


DRILLS PREPARATION


Roll the bought puff pastry on floured cutting board. In small cup scramble 1 egg and spread it over the rolled puff pastry. After that add half of a teaspoon of salt and sprinkle it over pastry, do same with the grated cheese (add it as much you like it).
With a pastry wheel cutter, cut it in strips for a size of width 2 thumbs, length 20 centimetres / 7.9 inches. Now roll those in a shape of drills and put them on baking trays covered with baking paper. After you’re done, put it to bake them in a medium hot oven.





APPLE POCKETS PREPARATION


First roll the puff pastry on floured cutting board and cut it on equal squares (10×10 centimetres / 3.9 × 3.9 inches), after cutting put a single apple segments (use fresh and peeled apple) in the middle of the square and sprinkle them with a little sugar and cinnamon.

Now fold the square to get a triangle and firm the edges with fingers. After that, spread the scrambled egg over firmed triangles. Put it to bake in a medium hot oven.
 
Stuffing can be various: chicken meat, cottage cheese, fruits, vegetables, fish meat, spinach, chard, etc.

Note: some stuffing must be pre-cooked (boiled or fried).

This recipe is simple. You can make drills or pockets with different stuffing for all week, just after are baked, cooled them down and storage them in refrigerator. Now you can use them when you don’t have much time to prepare them from beginning.
 

Tuesday 2 April 2013

My 1st mini e-book of homemade recipes 4 purchase:)

Hello everyone!

Today I'm happy to spread the news about my 1st Mini Book of Homemade recipes, which is avaliable for purchase from TODAY.

In this book you'll find easy and more complex recipes that you'll hardly find anywhere else.
For some that you don't know me yet I'm Megii from Slovenia, I'm working at a pastry shop and writing blogs.

As a person I have big passion for baking, cooking, I also have interest in  natural health and in developing new recipes.
In my mini book you'll find 9 unique recipes

·  1. Mixed homemade bread

·  2. Whole-grain bread

·  3. Diabetic pie

·  4. The festive gingerbread cookies

·  5. The chocolate hearts

·  6. Walnut roulade gluten-free

·  7. Cookies 4 any occasion

·  8. Pancakes with almond & veg filling

·  9. Alien cake

BELOW IS A SHORT REVIEW PICTURE OF WHAT YOU'LL GET!



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Thank you 4 your support.
See ya:)

Your Megii

Sunday 3 February 2013

Valentine recipe


 
INGREDIENTS
 

FILLING
Apricot jam, honey, nougat cream, chocolate, lemon, nuts or cottage cheese. Choose a filling that you like.
STEPS



 
 
 


Tuesday 15 January 2013

Recipe 4 diabetics as well


WALNUT SNAILS (for diabetics as well)

 INGREDIENTS
200 grams of dark wheat flour
200 grams of white wheat flour
220 grams of soft margarine for baking
1 egg
100 grams of maple syrup
10 grams of vanilla sugar
150 grams of ground walnuts
½ teaspoon of cinnamon
Grated lemon peel (1 lemon)
 
 
Preparation
 
 
Mix all the ingredients and knead it for about 15 minutes.

Then put dough to rest in refrigerator for one hour. After that turn on oven and preheat it at 180ºC / 356ºF electric oven or 165ºC / 329ºF convection oven.

Meanwhile make some snails (start as you would do walnut croissants and then swirl it). Then put walnut snails on a baking paper and bake it from 15 to 20 minutes.

NOTE!

Maple syrup is very healthy because it contains a lot of antioxidants and more than 50 active/nutritional ingredients, which act against inflammation, prevents development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Walnuts must be rough ground, this makes cookies even more tastier/healthier.
A glass of white wine can greatly complement walnut snails.