Wok 2: Fried noodles with prawns

Happy New Year of the Dragon!!

Today, in order to celebrate the Chinese New Year, I am going to give you a Chinese recipe probably known by all of you. Fried Noodles with prawns.

Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 30 minutes

Ingredientes for 2-3 persons

200gr de tagliatelle/noodels
1 Onion (if it is red onion better)
1 Green pepper
1 Courgette
2 Carrots
150gr of prawns
The green part of a leek (optional)
Soya sauce
Salt
Sunflower oil

Preparation:

 1. Clean under the tap the green part of the leek.

2. In a Wok (or, if you don't have a wok it's ok to use a pan) add a bit of sunflower or olive oil and cook the carrots, the onion, the green pepper and the courgette with a bit of salt. When it's ready keep it.

3. In another pan and without oil, cook the green part of the leek during one minute and then add all the vegetables we have cooked before. Cook it with hot fire for a minute, cover it and keep it.

4. Let the vegetables stand. Meanwhile, we cook the pasta in a pot with water and a stream of soya sauce.

5. While the pasta is being cooked. We cook in a wok or a pan the prawns with a bit of sunflower or olive oil. Once the sprawns are cooked put all together in the same wok: the vegetables, the sprawns and the pasta (previously strained under the tap)

6. Fried it all together for a while in the wok.

7. Then, if you like it you can add a bit more of soja sauce.

And that's it! Now you can celebrate the Chinese New Year with a Chinese dish.

To accompany this dish I suggest some prawn bread (you can find it in most supermarkets)

Currywurst

Happy New Year my dear followers!

After my trip to Berlin I want to show you a nice and easy German recipe: the currywurst!

Difficult: Very Easy
Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

4 - 6 German sausages (if possible) or normal ones
Ketchup 300 grames
1/2 Onion
2 tablespoons of honey
3 tablespoons of balsamic módena's vinager
2 teaspoons of curry
A pinch of powdered cayena
5 drops of soya sauce
Salt
(optional) - 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce concentrate

Preparation:

1. Cut the onion into small pieces and do it in a pan with a bit of oil.

2. When the onion is done, add the ketchup, the honey, the balsamic vinager and the concentrate tomato and let it boiling for some minutes

3. After some minutes add the soya sauce, the curry, the cayena and move it to mix it all. Taste it and in case you need to, add a bit of salt. If you consider it is too thick add a couple of tablespoons of water.

4. You can colar the sauce to remove the onion or eat it like that.

5. Now put the sauce over the sausages or fried potatos if you want (It is a good sauce for fried potatos)

Guten Appetit!

Pizza

This recipe is probably not the best for pizza but you will be able to do a tasty pizza in an easy and very fast way.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Diffiulty: Very easy

Ingredients:

Flour
Salt
1 Small beer
Fried tomato
Cheese
The ingredients you want to add to the pizza.

Preparation

1. Mix in a bowl bit of beer, flour (just add a bit and depending on the size of the pizza you want to make, add more beer and flour) and salt to do the dough.

2. Once you have enough dough spread some flour on the table and with a rolling pin, spread it in a very thin dough.

3. Take a tray from the oven,  grease it with olive oil if its possible. Put the dough on it and add the fried tomato, the cheese and the ingredients you prefer.

4. 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.

Bon Appetite!

Stuffed eggs

Very nice and easy recipe also known as "Marta's eggs" in honor of the Master of this dish ;)

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: easy

Ingredients:

4 eggs

1 tuna can (If you don't want to eat tune, you can substitute it for some spinachs)
1 small fried tomato carton

Letucce

Mayonnaise

If you prefer a home-made mayonnaise you will need:

- 1/2 Lemon

- 1 Egg

- Sunflower oil or Olive oil (the softer you have)

- Vinegar (optional)

- Salt

Preparation:



1. Boil the eggs for 10minutes in a pot with water. After that, remove them and put them under cold water.

2. When the eggs are cold remove the shell and cut it in two pieces (vertically)

3. Remove the yolks and let them in a bowl.

4. Put half of the yolks in a bowl with the tuna and some fried tomato and smash it all until it becomes a mass.

5. Put the whites in a dish and in the hole add the mixture you have prepared with the yolks, tuna and tomato.

6. To prepare the mayonnaise: put in a mixer an egg, some sunflower oil, the juice of half lemon (be careful not to drop the stones in the mixer) and salt (if you want, you can add a bit of vinegar). Mix it and taste it. If it is very liquid add more oil until it gets the right texture and also depending on how it taste you can add more salt or lemon.

7. Put mayonnaise on top of every egg.

8. Also on top of every egg, grate the other yolks you have kept in the bowl.

9. Put some letucce around the eggs.

And that's it! Enjoy the meal! 

 

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!

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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