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! :-)

Chicken with Tahini (sesame Paste)

Anana's dinner is celebrating its more than 1100 visits!
Today's recipe it's a new one I found on Pinterest. It looked really good so I decided to try it and... I really liked it! I hope you liked it too!

Preparation time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

1 Chicken breast
1/2 Onion, minced
2 Garlic cloves, minced
1 Tablespoon sesame paste
2 Tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 Tablespoon water
1/2 Tablespoon honey
1 Tablespoons and a half of rice vinegar
3 Green onions (spring onions), chopped
1/4 Cup peanuts, chopped
Some large outer lettuce leaves
Salt
Black pepper

Optional: (to improve the recipe)
1 Inch fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
2 Teaspoons chili garlic sauce (if you want it spicy and don't have chili garlic sauce, add a bit of cayenne pepper)
1/2 Can sliced water chestnuts, chopped

Preparation:

1. Cut the chicken and the onion into small pieces.

2. Heat a pan with some olive oil. Add chicken, onion, some salt and pepper, and cook it until chicken is nearly done.

3. Add the minced garlic (and ginger if you want), and continue cooking until the chicken is cooked..

4. Meanwhile, in a microwave bowl, combine sesame paste (1 Tablespoon), soy sauce (2 Tablespoons), water(1/2 Tablespoon), honey (1/2 Tablespoon), rice vinegar (1 Tablespoons and a half), and pepper (if possible, add peanut butter and chili garlic sauce). Put it into the microwave for 20 seconds, then stir it until it gets smooth. Add it into the pan and stir to combine.

5. Add the three green onions chopped (and water chestnuts if possible) into the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes until the onions are soft and the water chestnuts are heated through.

6. Once it is done add some chopped peanuts, and serve with cold lettuce leaves

7. Put the chicken mixture on a lettuce leaf and roll it like a taco!

Enjoy it! ;)

 

Picture by: iowagirleats.com

Tomato stuffed with Babaganoush (aubergine paté)

Today's recipe: Babaganoush or aubergine mousse paté,  is a tipical dishs from the Eastern countries.
It is very similar to hummus but the taste is completely different. 

You can eat it just with bread or with tomato as we are going to explain in the recipe.

Difficulty: Easy

Preparation Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

2 Aubergines

6 small tomatos

The juice of half a lemon

1/2 teaspoon of Comin

1 Garlic clove

1 teaspoon Salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 tablespoon Tahini (sesame paste) or sesame

Olive Oil

Some Bread

Optional:

Tuna (1 can = 50gr)

Preparation:

To prepare the Babaganoush:

1. Preheat the oven 200 ºC

2. Wash the aubergines and cut them in half vertically. Make some deep cuts in the pulp without cutting the skin of the aubergine.

3. Put some oven paper over the oven tray and place there the aubergines with the pulp down and cook them for 30 minutes.

4. When the aubergines are cooked remove the pulp and put it in a mixer with the salt, black pepper, cumin, (and tuna if you want)

5. Mix it all until you get the paté

6. Let it get cold for 1hour.

7. Before serve:

- You can serve it with some toasted bread or with "pan tumaca" (bread with tomato) and a bit of olive oil.
 

- Another option is to fill in some small tomatos removing the pulp of the tomatos and stuff them with the Babaganoush.

In both cases I recomend you to put some olive oil on top and spread a bit of paprika above the tomato or the bred with paté

Enjoy it! 

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!

Avocado fries with cilantro lemon dipping sauce

Hi everyone! Long time past since last post... But now Ananas' dinner is back with new recipes!

Today's recipe is easy to prepare and very tasty! Hope you enjoy it! 

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

For the Avocado Fries

Oil For Frying

1 Avocados

1 Egg, beaten

Bread Crumbs

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

1/4 Teaspoon Cumin

For the Cilantro Lemon Dipping Sauce 

4 Tablespoons Mayonnaise

2 Tablespoons Fresh Cilantro, chopped

Juice from 1/2 of Lemon

 Preparation:

1. Peel the avocado and cut it in long pieces.

2. In a bowl, mix together the bread crumbs, salt and cumin. Set it aside. Cut the avocados in half and then slice them vertically into 4 inch by 1 inch wedges. Set them aside.

3. Dredge the avocado slices in the breadcrumb mixture, then in the egg mixture, and in the breadcrumb mixture again.

4. Heat the olive or sunflower oil in a pan.

5. Place the avocado slices in the pan and fry them until golden brown. Remove them with a slotted spoon or tongs, and set them on a plate lined with paper towels to absorb the excess oil.

6. To prepare the Cilantro Lemon Dipping Sauce, place the mayonnaise, cilantro, and lemon juice in a blender and mix until smooth and creamy in texture.

7. Serve the avocado fries in a dish with the Cilantro Lemon Dipping Sauce.

That's it!

Maki Sushi

 Today I am going to explain how to prepare some maki sushi!
Surprisingly, it does not take so long and it is not as complicated as it is thought :)

Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

Sushi Rice
Nori Seaweeds
Sushi Rice Vinegar
Soya Sauce

To fill the sushi:
Filling 1:
2 crabsticks (Surimi sticks) cut in half, lenghtways
Mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons
1/4 Avocado (sliced)
(optional) 6 cooked and peeled prawns
Filling 2:
100 grames Smoked Salmon slices
Cucumber cut into matchsticks
Filling 3: The ingredients you want

Preparation

1. Cook the rice for 15-20 minutes in salted water. Once it is done drain it well and stir in the sushi rice vinegar. Let it get cold.

2. Place on the bamboo mat a sheet of nori seaweed. Once the rice it's cold, put some of it into the centre of the seaweed (it is better for you to do it if your hands are wet to avoid the rice to stick to you). Spread the rice to cover the seaweed, leaving a 1,5 cm margin on the far side of the seaweed (this will be the extreme we will paste to the roll) Try to put a bit more of rice in the laterals of the seaweed also.

3. For the rolls with the Filling 1, spread the mayonnaise over the rice.

4. Put the ingredients for the filling in a line across the middle of the seaweed with the rice.

5. Now, start rolling the mat so that all of the rice is enclosed inside the sushi nori. And seal the uncovered edge with a bit of water.

6. Cut the roll into pieces and serve it with a small bowl with soya sauce and a bit of wasabi. You can mix the wasabi and the soya sauce or just let the wasabi in the corner of a dish for the most braves ;)

Itadakimasu! いただきます  (Bon appetit!)

Petite Crêpes

Today I am going to explain how can you prepare some crêpes for your family and friends, and surprise them with an easy and very tasty recipe. In spite of the fact that we already have the crêpe recipe in the blog, I will explain it again.

Difficulty: Easy
Preparation Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients for 6 crêpes:
(it is difficult to prepare less than 6 but you can eat them in the following days)

- Flour, 150 grams
- Eggs, 2
- Milk, 15 centilitre
- Water, 15 centilitre
- Olive Oil, 1 tablespoon
- 1 pinch of salt

Ingredients for this crepes:
- Smoked salmon
- Philadelphia cheese
- Caviar (a cheap one it's ok)

Preparation:

1. Mix the flour and eggs, then gradually add the milk and water to not have lumps

2. Add oil and salt. Mix well to not have lumps (you can do it with the mixer).

3. In a pan, put a little butter or olive oil. Once the pan is hot, put a bit more of butter or olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan. You can do this: after every crêpe, put a bit of olive oil in the pan and spread it with a paper serviette

4. Add just a bit of the mixture to cover the bottom of the pan and turn the crêpe when it begins to harden with a spatula. At the end you can "jump" the pancake in the pan.

5. Once you have prepared the crêpes, cover them with Philadelphia cheese. Then add some caviar (not necessary an expensive one, you can use a normal one) I recommend you herring caviar. And add the smoked salmon cut in little pieces.

6. When you have the crêpes ready, cut the crepes vertically in 3 or 4 lines, then cut them in 2 or 3 parts and roll them up.

Now you have the perfect appetizer for a nice dinner.

Another option, as you can see in the picture, is to cut the smoked salmon in lines, cover it with Philadelphia, add some caviar and roll it up.

Bon appetit!