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Showing posts with label TRADITIONAL RECIPES II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRADITIONAL RECIPES II. Show all posts

Monday, 8 June 2009

Les crêpes Suzette


Les crêpes Suzette


Ingredients

- 250 grammes of flour.

- ½ litre of milk.

- 2 eggs.

- 25 grammes butter.

(and a little more to setup the crêpes)

- 1 soup spoon of sugar.

- one pinch of salt.

- oil (to cook the crêpes).

- orange jam.

- cream

- some orange alcohol like

Grand Marnier (or rhum).



Process


1. In the salad bowl, beat the flour with eggs, milk, melted butter, sugar and salt. Leave it for 1 hour.

2. Heat the pan with a little oil in it.

3. With a ladle, put some mixture on the pan distribute evenly by turning the frying pan.

4. Cook for 2 minutes on each side.

5. (most difficult part) Make all the crêpes and keep them safely away from greedy people until the serving time…

At the serving time (with adult help only)


1. Heat some butter in the frying pan.

2. Heat one side of a crêpe and turn it .

3. Spead some orange jam, cream and fold it.

4. Pour the alcohol over the crêpe, light it and serve.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Bacalhau com natas - Codfish with cream sauce (Portugal)

We need the following ingredients:


700 gr of Codfish
Potatoes (5/6 medium)
2 onions
1 Clove Garlic
6/8 slices of Cheese
500 ml cream
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1/2 oil
6Boiled eggs
Oregano

How to prepare:

To prepare this recipe the codfish must be ready to cook. If you buy dry salted codfish, before cooking all you have to do, is put it in water for about 24hours.Cook the codfish in water, don’t add salt, it has enough. Let it cool and then prepare it, removing the fish skin and bones.Peel potatoes, cut them in slices or small cubes, add some salt and fry in hot oil.
Chop the onion and garlic into a cooking pan, add the olive oil and fry for 2 minutes. Add the codfish and cook it for 3 minutes, mixing well.Use an oven tray to cook the rest of the recipe. First, put the codfish, add potatoes, cream, and slices of egg. Top it with cheese and a bit of oregano. Cook in hot oven (220º) for 30 minutes:

To prepare this recipe we have invited some parents, so take a look at the pictures and if you need help just let us know.
Enjoy it





















Oil's bread. Spanish Recipe

Recipe of oil´s bread


INGREDIENTS
· A glass of sugar.
· A glass of olive oil
· A glass of milk
· Two glasses of flour






· Matalauvas (to your's taste)
· A packet of baking powder
· Walnuts (to your's taste)
· Raisins (to your's taste)
· Almonds (to your's taste)







PREPARATION

· Mix all the ingredients except walnuts, raisins and almonds and beat.
· Then, put it in a bowl.
· Put butter or oil in the baking tin.
· Put half of the mix in the baking tin.
· After that, put the walnuts and raisins in the bowl and pour the other half of the mix in it.
· Add the almonds.
· Bake in the oven for one hour at 150 degrees celsius. In that moment, pour some sugar and put it into the oven again for 15 minutes.
· Finally, wait until it cools down and take it out of the baking tin.













Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Rice Pudding-TURKEY

Ingredients

4 glasses of milk
½ glass of rice
1/2 glass of sugar
A tea spoon of corn starch
2 glasses of water
Cinnamon


Wash rice





Put it in a pan and add water. Cook rice until the water is gone.


Put it in a casserole and add milk. Cook it till it is boiled.
When it starts to boil add sugar. Meanwhile mix corn starch with a few drops of water in another cup till it dissolves.

Add this mixture to the boiling milk and rice. Keep boiling till it thickens. Put it in separate bowls and sprinkle cinnamon on it.

Here is the rice pudding. ENJOY!!!