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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Salad with pesto, avocado and gula

Summer is comming and salads are a good option for a nice meal.
Today I am going to explain how to prepare an easy and very tasty salad!

Difficulty: Very easy
Preparation time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

1 bag mix Lettuce
1 packet Gula (It is a kind of surimi made from pieces of fish, shaped and textured to resemble a cheaper version of the very expensive baby eels)
1 Avocado
Kikos
Pesto


Preparation:

1. Put the gula in a hot pan with some pesto and stir it for 3-5 minutes.
2. Cut the avocado in small squares
3. Mix in a salad bowl: lettuce, avocado, gula and some kikos

And... that's all my friends! easy and really nice recipe. Enjoy it! :-)


Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Chicken with Tahini (sesame Paste)

Anana's dinner is celebrating its more than 1100 visits!
Today's recipe it's a new one I found on Pinterest. It looked really good so I decided to try it and... I really liked it! I hope you liked it too!

Preparation time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy


Ingredients:
1 Chicken breast
1/2 Onion, minced
2 Garlic cloves, minced
1 Tablespoon sesame paste
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 Tablespoon water
1/2 Tablespoon honey
1 Tablespoons and a half of rice vinegar
3 Green onions (spring onions), chopped
1/4 Cup peanuts, chopped
Some large outer lettuce leaves
Salt
Black pepper

Optional: (to improve the recipe)
1 Inch fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
2 Teaspoons chili garlic sauce (if you want it spicy and don't have chili garlic sauce, add a bit of cayenne pepper)
1/2 Can sliced water chestnuts, chopped

Preparation:

1. Cut the chicken and the onion into small pieces.

2. Heat a pan with some olive oil. Add chicken, onion, some salt and pepper, and cook it until chicken is nearly done.

3. Add the minced garlic (and ginger if you want), and continue cooking until the chicken is cooked..

4. Meanwhile, in a microwave bowl, combine sesame paste (1 Tablespoon), soy sauce (2 Tablespoons), water(1/2 Tablespoon), honey (1/2 Tablespoon), rice vinegar (1 Tablespoons and a half), and pepper (if possible, add peanut butter and chili garlic sauce). Put it into the microwave for 20 seconds, then stir it until it gets smooth. Add it into the pan and stir to combine.

5. Add the three green onions chopped (and water chestnuts if possible) into the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes until the onions are soft and the water chestnuts are heated through.

6. Once it is done add some chopped peanuts, and serve with cold lettuce leaves

7. Put the chicken mixture on a lettuce leaf and roll it like a taco!

Enjoy it! ;)


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