Soup
Tom Yum Goong Soup
Ingredients
20 prawns (with shell and head on)
4 lime leaves
2 lemongrass stalks 4-5 cm long
4-6 slices of galangal
Chillies
1 tbsp tom yum paste (optional)
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 lime juice
2 tbsp fish sauce
10 cherry tomatoes (or two nice ripe tomatoes)
4-6 shallots
10 small...
Creamy butternut squash soup
When autumn is getting closer this is on the menu every week.
Ingredients
3-4 tbsp olive oil (for cooking)
1/2 butternut squash
1-1,5 l vegetable or chicken stock
1 dl double cream
Salt, pepper and nutmeg (grounded)
Sage - optional
To garnish
Grated parmaggiano reggiano
Pumpkin...
Onion soup
Simpliest ever recipe, but just too good... On the menu, basically weekly!
Ingredients
2 big onions
1 leek (if there is no leek, put in 3 onions)
5-6 dkg butter
2 l chicken stock (or stock cube is perfectly fine)
1-2 dl double cream
Salt and pepper
10-15 dkg cheese...
Pasta
Pumpkin ravioli
OMG.
Ingredients
Dough
2 eggs
20 dkg flour
Filling
1-2 slices of pumpkin without the seeds
5 dkg parmesan
1 tbsp ricotta - optional
Seasoning - salt, pepper, nutmeg / sage
Sauce 1
10-12 cherry tomato
1-2 tbsp philadelphia cheese
3-4 tbsp double cream
5 dkg...
Spaghetti Carbonara
Simpliest and around a million calories - but during the winter you have to make sure you do not freeze, don't you?
The original recipe is coming from Gülü - I bless the day he showed this for me.
Ingredients
25 dkg bacon / pancetta (thinly sliced)
4 dl cream
10 dkg...
Lasagna verde
Perfection - this is exactly what it is.
Ingredients
Bechamel
10 dkg butter
8-10 dkg flour
1 liter milk
Salt / pepper / nutmeg
Filling
Zucchini, eggplant, tomato, mushroom, spinach - but in reality whatever: carrots, celery, leeks, onions, peppers, asparagus and so on, but be...
Vegetable
Sweetcorn polenta with aubergine sauce
I guess it is no wonder that Yotam Ottolenghi is a genious, so here is another masterpiece based on his brilliance! I have created this dish twice during one weekend, it is THAT good. Let's see... and eat of course.
Ingredients
Polenta
6 corn cobs (or half kg frozen corn)
1/2 l water
4...
Barley risotto with marinated feta
Got inspired by NOPI restaurant - and the guardian team - who were so lovely that they've surprised us with the newest Ottolenghi cookbook - namely Jerusalem (later on a further post about that).
Winter food - lovely - creamy - surprising - what else do you want on a rainy (and...
Hummus
Quick, simple and good - or more time consuming, little more complicated still good... There are two basic methods of making hummus, but only the start is different. I usually pick the first :)
Ingredients
1 can of chickpea (400 gr w water)
2 tbsp tahini
2-4 garlic cloves
1/2 lemon...
Other & Hungarian
Hyderabadi Bhuna Prawn / Chicken
This dish is just great - I have learnt it in an Indian cookery school! Showing my appreciation I gave this as a present to my mum, to my best friend and my boyfriends mum... You see how much I love this food???
Ingredients
Whole spices
4-6 green cardamom
3-4 black cardamom
1 bay leaf
2...
Prawn with garlic
OK. Simpliest ever recipe - still sophisticated outcome! Who could ask for more?!
Ingredients
20 prawn - the fresher the better
50 gr butter
4 garlic cloves
1-2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 dl dry white wine
Parsley, salt, pepper
Method
Heat the butter with the olive oil and add the garlic...
Croque Madame (originated from Croque Monsieur)
If sandwich this is exactly it. No triangle with chips for sure :)
Ingredients
for the bechamel
3 dkg butter
1-2 dl milk
1 tbsp plain flour
1 tsp dijon mustard
1 eggyolk
Salt, pepper and ground nutmeg
Sandwich
8 slices of bread (good quality white or brown - for me white rather)
3...
Dessert
Red velvet cake - with polka dots
Ingredients (for 15 cm / 6 in tin)
150 gr butter
150 gr caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
125 gr plain flour
25 gr cocoa powder
1,5 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp red food coloring
300 gr icing
For the buttercream
150 gr butter
300 gr icing sugar
150 gr cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla...
Crème Brûlée
It is a mixture of Julia Child's and Nigella's Brulee, basically only to show how old-school but contemporary I am...
Ingredients
300 ml double cream
1/2 vanilla pod
4 medium egg yolk
2 tbsp caster sugar
3 tbsp demerara sugar
Lemon/orange/grapefruit zest
Orange blossom...
Chocolate drops
This is the Xmas present for my colleagues - supereasy, check this out!
Ingredients
100 gr white chocolate chunks
100 gr dark chocolate chunks
For the toppings
Nuts, walnuts, pistachios (just a few pieces)
Dried fruits, mixed peels (lemon or orange zest)
Crystallised...
How to guide
How to make perfect pasta dough?
Ingredients
10 dkg plain flour per egg
You also need a pasta machine
Method
Place the flour in a bowl and form a well in it the center with your hand. Crack the eggs into the centre of this well. Use a fork to gently whisk the eggs then change to your hand until the dough becomes thick. I...
How to make Creme Patisserie (pastry cream)?
Ingredients
3 egg yolks
3 tbsp caster sugar
1 tbsp cornflour
1/2 tbsp flour
380 ml milk
1/2 vanilla pod
Method
Place the milk with the vanilla pod in a heavy bottomed saucepan, on a gentle heat. Meanwhile in a mixing bowl whisk together the eggs and half of the sugar until they turn...
How to cook perfect sushi rice?
Ingredients
3 cups or 600ml of sushi rice (this is a short grain rice, ideal to buy the one dedicated for sushi)
660 ml water
120 ml Sushi vinegar (this is not the same as rice vinegar! It is called sushi seasoning as well)
Method
Wash rice thoroughly with cold water - several...