Wok 3. Pasta with mushrooms and Nori seaweed

Happy New Year everyone! Todays' recipe it is a really nice one I found on the Internet. 

The seaweed gives to the dish a great taste. Hope you like it.

Preparation time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredientes:

250 grames of 3 colours pasta
1 onions
1 tomato (or 2 if the tomatoes are small)
1 garlic cloves
25 grames de Parmesan cheese
A nori seaweed
150 grames mushrooms or oyster mushrooms
Olive oil
Sage
Oregano
Salt
Pepper 

 Preparation:

1. Cut the tomatoes base and place them in hot water for 30 seconds. Peel the tomatoes, remove the pips and cut the tomatoes into little squares.

2.  Clean and cut the mushrooms into pieces. Cut the garlic and the onion into slices.

3. Add a splash of olive oil in a wok, cook the onion for a minute (middle heat). Add the garlic, the tomato, then add the mushrooms, a bit of oregano and sage. Cook it until the mushrooms loose all its water. Add salt and pepper.

4. Boil the pasta in a pot with water, salt and a bit of olive oil. Once the pasta is ready, strain it and put it in the wok.

5. Cut the nori seaweed into squares and add it to the wok, cook it. Once it is ready serve it and add some grated parmesan cheese over it.

Enjoy it :)

Vegetarian Moussaka

The moussaka is a tipical Greek dish with an intense flavour.
I have always like Moussaka but when I tried the vegetarian version I liked it even more! The way I explain here it's not the traditional one. It is prepared without bechamel, what makes it lighter but delicious!

Preparation time: 1 hour and a half

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients: 

(For 4 persons)

1 Aubergine

1 Courgette

1 Onion

1 can 100 gr fried tomato

250 grames soft unripened cheese / Burgos cheese / or cottage cheese

50 grames grated Parmesan cheese

50 grames walnuts
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon oregano

A pinch of ground nutmeg
Olive oil
Salt

Pepper

Preparation:

1. Cut the aubergine and the courgette in 1 centimeter slices. Put some salt over them and keep them this way for an hour so they give off the water.

2. Meanwhile, cut the onion. Put some olive oil in a pan and cook the onion until it gets ready.

3. Put the soft unripened cheese in a bowl with the oregano, cinnamon, a pinch of ground nutmeg, salt, pepper and a splash of oilve oil. Stir it until you get a homogeneous cream.

4. Crush the walnuts and add it to the mixture. Taste the mixture and if necessary, add salt and pepper. Keep it in the fridge.

5. Dry the aubergine and the courgette with kitchen towels. Fry it in a pan plenty of olive oil (or sunflower oil if you prefere it). When they are cooked dry the excess of oil with some kitchen towels. Add them some salt and pepper.

6. On a baking sheet put a coat of aubergine, another of fried tomato, then the onion, the cheese cream, the courgette and on top add some grated Parmesan cheese.

7. Before serve it, put it in the oven to gratiné the cheese.

Enjoy it! :)

Pisto Manchego. Recipe by Fer

Hello everyone! Ananas' dinner is back! I know, I know... I took a long break during the summer.. lol but now the blog is back with some new recipes.  

Today's recipe is Pisto Manchego, a typical Spanish recipe with its origins in Castilla La Mancha.

Difficulty: Easy

Preparation time: 50 minutes

                                                          Ingredients for 4 person:
 
1 can crushed tomatos
1 onion
2 green peppers
1 courgette
2 tablespoon  of salt
3 tablespoon of sugar
Olive Oil

                                                                   Preparation:

1. Put some olive oil in a pot and heat it in a mid heat.

2. Cut the onion into little pieces and add it to the pot. Stir the onion from time to time until it gets nearly done.

3. Add the crushed tomato, salt and sugar, stir it all and let it cook over a low heat.

4. Wash the courgette, don't peel it, cut it into little pieces and the green peppers too, and add them to the pot, stir it all to mix it .

5. Stir it from time to time and let it cook over a low heat until it gets cooked.

Now it's ready! Don't forget to serve it with some bread or with a fried egg, as you prefer! ;)

Enjoy it! 

 Picture by: Fer

Wok 1

Estela and Ale taught me this recipe in Brussels. It is not typical from there, but it is really good!

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

- Rice
- Mushrooms
- Courgette
- Onion
- Olive oil
- Maggi sauce: "de enige echte" (if you are in The Netherlands), Jugo Maggi (if you are in Spain) and for the rest of the countries, look for the same sauce that appears in the picture. It's name can be "Maggi juice" or "The real one" or who knows...
- Salt

Preparation:

1. Cut the onion in little pieces and in a wok (or if you don't have, in a pan) with olive oil fry it. When it is half cooked, add the courgette and bit of salt. When it is nearly ready add the mushrooms, a bit of the maggi sauce and let it cook.

2. While you are cooking the other ingredients, prepare the rice in a pot.

3. When everything is ready mix it and add as much maggi sauce as you like.

Enjoy!

Gazpacho

  Tipical spanish tomato soup for the summer made mainly with tomato and vegetables.
This recipe is for 1liter Gazpacho

Difficulty: Easy
Time of preparation: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

Bread
Olive oil
Vinegar
Salt
Garlic
3 or 4 Tomatos or a 1/2 Kilo Tomato tin
1 Green pepper
1/2 Cucumber (Spanish cucumber if possible)

Preparation:

1. Put the bread in the water and let it there until it become wet and soft. Then, put it in the mixer.

2. Cut 2 garlic cloves into little pieces.

3. If you are going to do it with normal tomatos you have to peel the tomatos. If not, just put the tomatos from the tin into the mixer.

4. Then add directly into the mixer, a big splash of olive oil, a bit of salt, bit of vinegar, the garlic, the green pepper and the cucumber (both already cut) and a bit of water (just a glass, later we will add more)

5. Turn on the mixer until it looks liquid.

6. Once it is done, add one or two more glasses of water and stir.

Now you have the perfect cold drink for the summer!

Curiosity: It appears in an episode of The Simpsons, when Lisa decides to be vegetarian