Sweet potatoes cake

For 8 parts, you need:

1,5 kg of sweet potatoes

50 g of flour

150 g of sugar

150 g of butter

3 eggs

1 packet of vanilla sugar

1 tablespoon of rum

Wash and cook sweet potatoes, covered with water in a saucepan. Peel and mash.

Add the hot butter, the eggs, the sugar and the flour in the mashed. Add the packet of vanilla sugar and the rum and mix it.

Pour the mixture into a mold, remove with a fork. Bake at 170 degrees. Eat it cold.

Bon appétit!

Turkish Recipe "BÖREK"

Ingredients

2 eggs

300 ml milk

1 glass of oil

1 bottle of mineral water (250ml)

7 thin sheets of dough

5/6 potatoes boiled and smashed

salt, black pepper, cummin

1st step:

Add salt, pepper and cummin to the smashed potatoes.

2nd step:

Whisk eggs then add milk, oil and mix.

3rd step:

Grease baking tray and place a sheet of dough. Spread liquid mixture on it. Do the same thing with other two sheets. Spread half of the potato filling on it. And then, place three more sheets and don’t forget to spread the liquid mixture between them. Spread the rest of the filling on them. Lay the last sheet and spread mineral water on it. Bake until it gets gold brown color.

Enjoy!!!

coconut balls recipe

Easy, quick and easy recipe

Ingredients

* 6 tablespoons condensed milk
* 250 grs. shredded coconut

Abstract:
Cold dessert based ball of condensed milk and coconut hardened in the fridge.

Method of preparation:

Put in a bowl 200 gm. grated coconut, add the condensed milk, with the same spoon, mix well.

Let stand in refrigerator (not freezer) until the mixture is "hard" around 30 minutes approx.

Make the "balls" and coat with remaining coconut.

Put them in the freezer until serving.

These are kept more "tough" than truffles.

UK - How to make mince pies

How to make Mince Pies

Ingredients

• 225g of cold butter, diced
• 350g plain flour
• 100g golden caster sugar
  
• 280g mincemeat
• 1 small egg, beaten
• icing sugar, to dust

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/mincemeat/home-made-christmas-mincemeat.html (In case you cannot buy it in jars)


Method

1. To make the pastry, rub the butter into the flour, then mix in the sugar and a pinch of salt. Combine the pastry into a ball - don't add liquid - then knead it briefly. The dough will be fairly firm. Use the dough immediately or chill in the fridge to use later.

2. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Line 18 holes of two 12 hole patty tins by pressing small walnut sized pieces of pastry into each hole. Spoon some mincemeat into each hole.

3. Take slightly smaller balls of pastry and pat them out between your hands to make the lids for the pies. Put the lids on top to cover the mincemeat, then press the edges together slightly (but not too much as they will seal on their own whilst they cook). Brush the tops of the pies with beaten egg.




4. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before placing each on a wire cooling rack. Dust with icing sugar before serving.

Romanian traditional holiday dish

Beef salad

Although it bears a French name, this salad is entirely Romanian. The French prepare something similar but with a different sauce and only with vegetables, while the Romanians add to it beef or chicken breast. The French call their mixture Macedoine. The Germans mix as well meat, pickles and boiled vegetables and they call it Berliner. The Slavs call it A la Russe and they don't add meat at all. So, here is the original pure Romanian Salad de Boeuf (even Romanians use the French name).

We cook this recipe for all our winter and spring holidays (Christmas, New Year, Easter).

Things You'll Need

· 500 g beef or chicken breast

· 7-8 potatoes

· 1/2 celery

· 4 carrots

· 2-3 parsnips

· 1 can peas (300 g)

· 7-8 pickled cucumbers (depending on the taste and how sourish you want it, you can put more or less )

· 500 ml mayonnaise (keep 3-4 spoons for decoration)

· 2 teaspoons mustard (depends on the taste)

· salt

· pepper

· mushrooms are an extra option

Instructions

Step 1

Wash the meat really well and boil it. After cooking let it cool, then chop it and put it in a strainer to make sure that all the juices are gone. We do not need extra liquids in this salad.

Step 2

Boil the carrots, the potatoes, the parsnips and the celery root. After this let them cool down and cut them into little cubes. Put the peas in a strainer. Cut the pickled cucumbers and squeeze them well with your hands. They need to have as little water in them as possible, otherwise the mayonnaise will turn too fluid.

Step 3

Once everything is strained, put them all in a mixing bowl; then add the mayonnaise, the mustard, salt and pepper. Mix them together, making sure you do not mash the ingredients.

Step 4

Place the mixture on a large plate and level it to look like a birthday cake. Spread the remaining mayonnaise and use your imagination to decorate it. Use as decoration pieces of hard boiled egg whites, olives, parsley, boiled carrots or pickled cucumbers. Let it sit in the fridge for at least an hour.

It can be served as an appetizer or side dish




ENJOY !!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!