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! 

Chocolate Brownie

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

125g chocolate
75g sugar
30g flour
30g butter
3 eggs

Preparation



1. Melt the chocolate putting the chocolate tablet in a dish or a saucepan over a pot with boiling water.

2. Beat the eggs

3. Mix all the ingredients (eggs, flour, sugar and chocolate)

4. Grease the cake tin with butter

5. Put the mixture in the cake tin. Pre-heat the oven 200º and put the cake tin in the oven for 10 min. (check while cooking)

6 .The brownie must look damp over, put a knife inside to check.

Enjoy it!

Oeufs en meurette

Finally the mystery is solved! Here you have a delicious French recipe to impress your family and friends!

And thanks to Nick! who taught me this recipe.

Preparation time: 1 hour and a half

Difficulty: Medium 

Ingredients:

 This recipe is for four or five people, one or two eggs for person.

- 8 eggs and 8 bread slices

- 200 g. of bacon

- 4 red onions

- 75cl. red wine (Bourgogne red Syrah)

- Butter or Olive oil (what you prefer)

- A chicken stock cube

- Garlic

- Parsley

- Flour

- Salt and Ground Pepper

- (You can also add mushrooms)

Preparation

1. Cut 4 garlic heads

2. Cut the parsley and the red onions

3. Boil a stock cube in 50cl of water and stir

4. In a wok or a pan with butter (30g. a tablespoon) put the bacon, the and the red onion (here is where you can also add the mushrooms), once it is cook add 20cl of red wine and the half of the water with the stock cube, stir it and add salt and ground pepper.

5. When the water is mostly evaporated, sprinkle a tablespoon of flour two times, stir it and let it cook until a kind of sauce is done.

6. In another pot, put 30cl of red wine with 1liter of water and boil it.

7. Meanwhile, prepare the toasts, crush the garlic (with a mortar and pestle) and spread it over the toasts.

8. Then you have to poach the eggs: Crack an egg into a glass taking care not to break it. When the wine with the water in the pot is boiling, stir it very fast with a spoon, throw the egg and let it boil for 3minutes. While the egg is cooking, prepare the next egg, to repeat the process.

9. After the 3 minutes take out the egg with a slotted spoon, taking care not to break it, put it on the toast, put over it the bacon sauce and sprinkle a bit of parsley.

Eh voila! Bon appétit!

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