Showing posts with label Stews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stews. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

More food.

I have no time at all because I have to pack my bags for my flight tomorrow, yet I'm cooking. Cooking Chicken with vegetable... Chow. Sooo, here's how you marinade chicken:

Lemon (slices or juice)
Garlic
Rosemary
Olive oil

And here's how you cook them vegetables:

Carrots
Potatoes
Salt
Olive oil
Aubergine
Paprika
Beef stock
Oregano
Basil
Rosemary
Pepper
Parsley
Cumin
Coriander
What else?

Pre-boil diced potatoes and carrots in salted water, fry aubergine and paprika in lots of olive oil, add everything else, water, mix and cover. Don't forget to something. Whatever. Cook the chicken separately, sprinkle with salt whenever. It's kind of changes the taste when you salt it to the end. Probs not the taste we are used to.

You may kiss le cook.

Friday, 17 June 2011

Super-simple Curry

You'd better believe me when I say I invented/discovered the easiest dish in the world! I'll just get on with it then.


You'll need:
Frozen vegetables
Curry powder
Cream
Salt

Do I need to walk you through this? Just boil the vegetebles in a pot until they're aaalmost ready (I chose broccoli, cauliflower, baby carrots, green peas and spinach (you want to cut those to small pieces after they're boiled)), you drain them and toss them into a frypan to cook in olive oil covered, you add lots of curry, mix everything and 20 minutes before it's ready you add  cream! And that's that!
Oh, for a full meal boil some rice (brown short grain is super-good with that!).

And there you have it! Pretty straightforward for a tasty meal like this, huh? :)

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Couscous Recipes

There are some things I like to eat with couscous. This is the recipe for easy-made couscous. If you're Mr. Fancy-pants, you can steam it, use Chai bags or stock to alter the flavour.

When cooking any of these, I usually have to add water during the process so that it would not start burning.
I'll start with the easiest one which makes a soft-tasting breakfast.


Olive oil
Tomatoes
Celery sticks
Paprika (optional)
Soy sauce (optional)
Dried parsley
Black pepper
Salt
Ground coriander
Eggs


Olive oil
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Black pepper
Dried parsley
Eggs
Soy sauce
Salt
Cheddar cheese (extra mature, crumbled)

 I tried arranging these in order of  going to the pan, well, more or less. As for the amount, just work it out yourselves. Usually it's 2-3 tomatoes, 3-5 celery sticks and 2-3 eggs. When you put eggs in, mix everything and make sure the eggs are cooked. The vegetables should still retain some crunchiness. Just top a plate of couscous with that or mix it in a pan and enjoy a mild-tasting meal.


Meats that go well with couscous are chicken and fish. I have another recipe that's quite easy yet very tasty.

You'll need to shallow fry some Coriander Chicken, some couscous (link to recipe above) and some probably Mexican-tasting stew:


Olive oil
Tomatoes
Green paprika
Lime
Dried chilli
Salt
Fresh parsley leaves

It's super-simple - just cut it however you want it, squeeze a half of lime over it when it's cooked for a bit, leave the rind in the pan, make it chili with chilli, salt, cut parsley and 'tadah!' But make sure everything's cooked this time.

Tuna Stew

Broccoli 1
Red onion 1
Tuna (canned, in oil) 1
Parsley (fresh or dried)
Black pepper
Cream 75-100 ml
Salt
Soy sauce (tasty one, e.g. Kikkoman)


  1. Cut broccoli into pieces to fit into a pot. Salt it and boil until soft.
  2. In the meantime cut the onion and cook it in a pan using a spoon or two of oil from the tuna for some time.
  3. Add tuna (without the remaining oil).
  4. Add the boiled broccoli, parsley and pepper and then pulverize it using a spatula.
  5. Add the cream and mix everything.
  6. Add some salt if needed, but remember that soy sauce is salty as well.
  7. When in a plate, splash with some soy sauce.


Feel free to add a dash of hot water at any time if you see or hear it fries instead of boiling.
You have to get it off the hob and let it rest covered for up to 20 minutes.
Try it on hot potatoes.