Russian Salad (Ensaladilla Rusa)

As it's name indicates, this salad is from Russia but in Spain is very popular and it's also part of our gastronomy. Invented by Lucien Olivier, it's original name is Salade Olivier.

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

Carrots (1 per person)
Potatos (1 per person)
Peas
Tuna
Eggs (1 per person)
Mayonnaise
Piquillo pepper
Olives (better without stone)

Preparation:

1. First, peel the potatos and carrots. Then cut it into small squares.

2. In a pot with a stream of olive oil and salt, heat it until it boil and add the carrots, potatos and peas, once it is done (be sure the potato is done) remove the water with a crepine (sorry, a colander XD)

3. While you are boiling this you can also put in another small pot the egg/s and boil them.

4. When everything is ready cut the egg, and the red pepper into little pieces, and mix it with the carrot, peas and potatoes.

5. Add the tuna and the olives

6. Add the mayonnaise (as much as you like)

And that's it! Enjoy it!

Chicken Mole Tacos

A mexican recipe. The Mole (chili sauce with chocolate and peanuts) it's very difficult to prepare so I will use one ready to serve, you can find it in the supermark and it taste really good.

Preparation: 15 min.
Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

1 Chicken breast

1/4 Onion

1 or 2 Garlic cloves

Mole (chili sauce with chocolate and peanuts)
Salt

6 Mexican Flour Tortillas

Preparation:

1. Add in a pot with water: salt, onion and garlic and let it boil. Once it is boiling add the chicken and let it with medium fire until the chicken gets cooked.

2. Take out the chicken but keep the water where you have boiled it.

3. Shred the chicken.

4. Put mole enough in a small pot and add just a bit of the water you have kept (2 - 3 tablespoons) And heat it until it boil.

5. Add the chicken in the pot with the mole, remove and mix it all well.

6. Heat the Mexican flour tortitas and serve the chiken with mole. You can add some onion if you like it or eat the taco like that.

Enjoy!

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Hummus (Fer's recipe)

 A popular food throughout the Middle East. Recipe of my friend Fer, who likes to prepare it after the Aikido classes lol.

Very typical in countries such as Greece or Turkey.

Preparation time: 15 min.
Difficulty: Very Easy

Ingredients:

200g of chickpeas
1 clove of garlic
2 tablespoons of tahini (sesame paste)
2 tablespoons of olive oil 
The juice of half lemon
1 teaspoons of salt
1/2 teaspoon of grind cumin
1/2 teaspoon of grind black pepper
1 teaspoon of paprika *(before serve it)

Preparation:

1. First of all, if the chickpeas are from a jar, put them under running water until they stop foaming.

2. Beat it all. To make it more creamy add a bit of water (if you have cooked the chickpeas, is better to use that water)

3. Before serve it (cold or tepid),  flavored it with olive oil and paprika.

Recommendation: Eat it with pita bread

Fer's picture

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Country Salad - Ensalada campera ( typical Spanish salad )

A great recipe for the summer

Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 30 min

Ingredients:

- Eggs (1 per person)
- Tomato (1 or 1/2 per person depending on the size)
- Green Pepper (Half per person)
- Red Pepper (half per person)
- Tuna
- Potatos (1 per person)
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Olives (optional)
- Vinegar (optional)
- Onion (optional)

Preparation:

1. Boil the egg/eggs and the potatoes

2. Peel the potatoes

3. Cut everything into pieces

4. Add salt, olive oil and vinegar if you want.

5. Serve it cold (you can keep it in the refrigerator 15 minutes if you want to eat it colder)

 Enjoy it!

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

Curried rice

Time of preparation: 40 min.
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

- Rice
- Chicken (half of a chicken breast or what you prefer)
- Onion (half of a big one or 2 small ones)
- Curry
- White wine
- Paprika
- Salt
- A chicken stock cube
- Olive Oil

Preparation:

1. First, cut the chicken and the onion into small pieces. Put it in a pan with a bit of olive oil and cook it.

2. Once it's ready, add into the pan: white wine (1 glass), water (2 glasses), curry (a tablespoon per 2 persons), the chiken stock cube (crushed), bit of pimentón (a teaspoon) and salt.

3. Let it cook until the water get evaporated and the rice looks ready to eat, (take a look from time to time to see if it needs more water)

Now, it is ready! Enjoy it!

Quiche Lorraine

French salty cake from the sixteenth century.

Preparation time: 1 hour and a half

Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

For the dough:

200 g flour

50 g butter

1 tablespoon milk

Salt

For the filling

100 g ham in 2 thick slices

100 g blue cheese

150 g soft unripened cheese

4  eggs

1 glass milky cream

20 g butter

Salt and pepper

Nutmeg

 Preparation

1. To prepare the dough: mix butter, flour a bit of salt and a tablespoon of milk and work it with the hands.

2. With a rolling pin (in case you don’t have a rolling pin be creative and use a glass or other similar thing)

3. Grease a cake tin with butter and spread the dough covering the bottom of the cake tin and 5cm. of its walls.

4. Cut the ham in squared shapes or stripes.

5. In a little pot, melt the chesses and let it get cold. Then, add the beaten eggs and mix well, after that, add the milky cream, the ham, a bit of salt, pepper and nutmeg and mix it all well.

6. Put the mixing into the cake tin with the dough.

7. Preheat the oven at 250ºC and put the quiche inside the oven for 40 min. You can serve it hot or cold.

Bon appetit!