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Showing posts with label Pesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pesto. Show all posts

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! :-)


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Pesto Pizza

Today's recipe is Pesto Pizza. A delicious recipe very easy to prepare!

Difficult: Easy
Preparation Time: 15 min

Ingredients for the pizza:

Flour
1 Small Beer
Salt
Mozzarella
Grated Cheese
Coriander
Pesto (Pesto Knorr is a good one, if you want to prepare it by yourself here you have also the recipe)

Ingredients for the pesto:
15 gr fresh basil
4 tablespoons pine nuts
30 gr Parmesan cheese
30 gr old cheese
1 garlic clove
8 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Preparation:

1. To prepare the dought can take a look to the Pizza recipe post

2. To prepare the Pesto. Pesto's Recipe:
  •  Peel the garlic. Put it with the basil, the pine nuts and the salt in an electric grinder until you get a mixture.
  • Put the mixture in a mixer, add some olive oil (8 tablespoons) and mix it. Then add 4 tablespoons of water and mix again
  • Grate the Parmesan and the old cheese and add it to the sauce, mix it all (not in the mixer anymore).
 Now, the Pesto is ready. ;) Let's go for the pizza!
3. Take a tray from the oven,  grease it with olive oil if its possible, if not you can do it with butter . Put the dough on it and add some pesto instead of fried tomato.

4. Add the mozzarella in slices and some grated cheese on top. You can also add some coriander.

5. Pre-heat the oven and after 3-5 minutes put the tray with the pizza in the oven at 200-220º for 8 minutes more or less, take a look to the pizza from time to time.

Enjoy it!