Monday, September 4, 2017

Irresistible Lasagna (Anita)

Irresistible Lasagna (Anita)


Ingredients
Precooked lasagna pasta sheets


600g Ground beef
oil to fry onion, garlic and beef
1 small onion
1 clove garlic

3 tbsp of tomato sauce,
Paprika (as you wish),
Oregano  (as you wish),
cumin (one pinch),
Salt,
Half of a beef stock "knorr",

4 tbsp of olive oil,
Around 2 cups of béchamel sauce  or white sauce,
6 slices of Ham,
slices of cheese to cover 2 or 3 layers,
Shredded cheese to cover the top,

Procedure
On a fry pan fry the onion and garlic (finely chopped) with some oil. When gold add the ground beef, salt, cumin, paprika, and half beef knorr. Let it fry until beef is cooked.
Add the 3 tbsp of tomato sauce and let it fry for 5 minutes. Cover with water (3 fingers above the meat) and let it cooked for some minutes. Keep it aside.

On a oven tray, put around 4 tbsp of olive oil and a bit of béchamel sauce  or white sauce. Cover the bottom of the tray with lasagna pasta sheets, then a thin layer of meat, meat sauce, ham and cheese. Repeat one or two more times in the same order. At the end cover the top with béchamel sauce  or white sauce and at last with shredded cheese.

Put the lasagna (covered with aluminum paper - shiny part turned down to food) on oven (200C - 220C) and let it cook for 25 minutes. Take the aluminum paper and let the cheese get toasted.

Bom Apetite!!

Bolinhos de Areia- Sand cookies (Portugal)

Bolinhos de Areia- Sand cookies (Portugal)

Ingredientes:
300g de farinha
200g de manteiga amolecida
100g de açúcar

Misturar bem todos os ingredientes até formar uma massa homogenia. Fazer bolinhas do tamanho de nozes. Com o dedo fazer um pequeno buraco no meio de cada biscoito.

Polvilhar o tabuleiro e levar ao forno medio até ficarem dourados. 

Bom Apetite!!

Monday, March 16, 2015

Arayes - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Arayes - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Ingredients :
- ½ kg minced lamb meat
- ½ kg tomatoes ( finely shopped )
- Pita bread
- 1 medium onion
- 2 gloves of garlic
- ½ of green pepper
- Pinch of salt
- Spices ( you can use shawarma spices ).


Preparation :
-  Mix the onion, garlic and the green pepper with the food mixer
- Add the chopped tomatoes, salt and the spices and mix well
- Open the pita bread in half and spread the meat mixture in the middle ( ½ cm thick).
- Grill the sandwiches until its cooked .

P.S. you can use chicken instead of the meat.

Bon appétit

Fatet Shawarma - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Fatet Shawarma- Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Ingredients
- ½ kg chicken or meet shawarma cooked in a pan with a little bit of sauce.
- ½ kg cooked white rice.
- Pita bread (chopped into small squares and toasted).
- For the white sauce, mix well
• 6 boxes of yoghurt
• 2 tablespoons tahini sauce
• juice of one lemon
• pinch of salt

Preparation :
In a plat put in layers
- toasted bread
- then cover it with the shawarma sauce.
-  rice .
- the last layer is the shawasma meat or chicken .

As a garnishing sprinkle some toasted pines or almonds with some shopped parsley.

Bon appétit

Chicken and meet shawarma - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Shawarma

Chicken and meet shawarma 

Ingredients :
- (one boneless chicken) or ( ½ kg beef or lamb meet), cut into thin strips .
- 2 tablespoons of shawerma spices.
- 1 chopped onion.
- 2 chopped garlic gloves .
- Zest and juice one lemon.
- Zest and juice one orange.
- 3 tablespoons olive oil.
- 2 tablespoons vinegar.
- 1tablespoon (tomato past for chicken) or (tahini for meat).
- 1 box of yoghurt (yaourt nature Brassé-Roer).

Preparation :
- Mix very well all ingredients together and leave it to marinate at least 2 hours.
- Fry or grill the meet or the chicken until it become golden.
- Serve it with shawarma sauce.

 Bon appétit

Shawarma Sauce - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Shawarma Sauce - Chef Marwa (Jordan)


For Chicken
Mix 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise + 1teaspoon of dry garlic + 1 box of yoghurt.


For Meat
Mix  2 tablespoons of tahini + 1teaspoon of lemon juice+ 1 box of yoghurt.

Shawarma spices - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Shawarma spices - Chef Marwa (Jordan)

Ingredients :
- 1 tablespoon grounded cardamom
- 1 tablespoon grounded cumin
- 1 tablespoon dried coriander
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- ½ tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon turmeric (curcuma)
- 1 teaspoon grounded ginger
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon grounded cloves
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
- ½ teaspoon grounded cinnamon


Mix all the spices very well in a container and keep
them in a dry place.