Ellie Great

Baked Pears

Ingredients:

4 pears
150 ml honey
2 teaspoons sugar (preferably brown)
50 gr butter
4 sprigs of thyme (or about 1 teaspoon)
½ teaspoon of cinnamon
50 gr walnuts

Preparation:

Cut the pears in half lengthwise and cut out the seeds

In a pan put the honey, sugar, butter and the thyme sprigs

Boil for 2-3 minutes

Arrange the pears in a pan – cut part facing down

Cover with the sauce

Bake on 200 C for about 15 - 20 mins (fan on if your oven has that function)

Serve turned cut side up sprinkled with cinnamon, crushed walnuts and meringue.

Enjoy!

Salmon Mezze

Products:

Salmon
Red onion
Carrots
Celery
Pepper
Tomato sauce or puree
Parsley
Cooking oil

Preparation:

Dice all vegetables and fry them lightly in the oil. When they have softened a bit add the diced salmon. After stirring all together for some time add a bit of water (about half a cup) and put the lid on the pan.

After 15-20 minutes take the lid off and add the tomato sauce and stir.

Simmer for a couple of minutes and it is ready.

Add some chopped parsley and serve.

Bone appetite!

Pork with Beans

And now the ultimate protein booster – Pork and Beans – the food of the Titans

Products:

Half a kg of pork

3-4 cans of beans – (not baked beans and butter beans are best) or you can boil your own.
4 carrots
3 celery sticks
2 onions
1 capsicum (I like the red ones most and the yellow least)
1 chilli
Tomato sauce around 200 ml
Mint
Parsley
100 – 150 ml cooking oil

Preparation:

Cut the meat into small cubes.

Dice the vegetables and the mint.

Heat the oil in a big pot.

Add the diced onion followed by the carrots, celery, capsicum, chilli and mint.

Fry until they are soft.

Add the diced meat to the fried vegetables and after searing it a bit – add water just enough to cover it.

Simmer on low heat (with the lid of the pot on)

When the meat is nearly cooked add the tomato sauce and simmer for another 10 minutes.

Add the drained boiled beans (you can use canned beans for quicker results or boil your own)

Simmer for another 10 minutes

Add salt.

Add diced parsley and mint close the lid and switch of the heat.

Bon appetite!

White Jelly

White Jelly

Products:

25 g gelatine
300 ml milk
Sugar to taste
5 g vanilla
Jam, fruit and nuts you like

Preparation:

Pour the gelatine into one half of the milk. Stir and leave it for 20 – 30 min. Warm the rest of the milk on low heat and add the sugar and vanilla.
Add the rest of the milk with the gelatine while stirring to achieve a homogeneous mixture. Be careful not to let it boil up.
Pour the creamy mixture into muffin forms and leave it in the fridge to settle overnight or for about 8 hours.
Before serving turn the forms upside down on a plate and garnish with jam or fruit.

Enjoy!

Happy Mather's Day!

Lyutika – an easy side dish or dipping sauce

Lyutika – an easy side dish or dipping sauce

Products:

Potatoes
Tomatoes
Peppers
Onion

Preparation:

Roast the peppers and peel off the skin.
Boil the potatoes.
Chop the onion in small pieces – add a pinch of salt and pound with a pestle until it is in the form of coarsely ground puree.
Add the roasted peppers and continue mixing and pounding.
Add the chopped tomatoes.
Finally add the potatoes and continue pounding wile mixing with the onion.

Use quantities as required and experiment with increasing or decreasing the relative part of a particular ingredient.
Add a roasted chilly pepper if you like it spicy. If preparing it for a particularly large crowd you can use a rolling pin as a pounder and a large plastic vessel.

Bone appetite!