Cheesy flat cake

 

Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • Sour cream (15-20% fat content) — 2 tbsp
  • Flour — 50g (I use cornflour)
  • Cheese — 100g
  • Salt, herbs — to taste.
  • Make for 2 persons.

Instruction:

  • Mix eggs and sour cream until smooth.
  • Add grated cheese and herbs.
  • Add flour and spices. Mix all well.
  • Pour the batter on a fry pan and fry each side for 5 min.
  • Here is it! Easy!

 

Salad with crab sticks and garlic croutons

Ingredients:

  • Crab sticks — 200 g
  • Cucumber — 150g
  • tomato — 150 g
  • Corn — 100g
  • garlic croutons — 50 g
  • Mayonnaise, salt, herbs — to taste.

Ingredients for 3-4 portions.

Instruction:

  1. All ingredients cut and mix them up.
  2. Аdd croutons
  3. Season with mayonnaise, salt, herbs — to taste.
    Enjoy!

Chocolate Easter cake

Ingredients:
-Flour — 550g
-Cocoa — 50g
-Milk 3,5% — 200g
-Honey — 10g
-instant dry yeast — 7 g, living yeast — 21g
-2 eggs
-Sugar — 250g
-Sunflower oil — 120
-Cream 33-35% — 100g
-Pinch of salt
-alcoholic drinks — shotglass (whisky, cognac, rum)
-Сranberry or raisin — 150g
-Pecan nut — 2 cupped hands
Decoration: chocolate — 120g, nuts and dry flowers — optional.

Instruction:
*Sponge cake:
*Melt down yeast and honey in warm milk (38-40C)
*Leave in a warm place for 30 min.  I stay dough in warm switched off oven.

Cake:
*Berries is soaking in hot water and alcohol
*Beat eggs with sugar until white colour.
*Add sponge cake and crème in the beaten eggs.
*Add flour and cocoa. Mix all up for 5 min.
*Add oil and beat dough for 20-25 min.
*Dough is ready when do not stick to walls. Grizzle hands with oil a bit.
*Once dough is ready, add berries, mix all up and lwave for proving for 2 hours. The volume will increase twice.
*Punch dough and add chopped nuts.
*Pour into moulds on 1/3
P.S. I add hazel-nut praline in one part. Optional.
*Leave moulds in a warm place for 40 min.  I stay dough in warm switched off oven.
*Bake for 30-50 min. It depends on your oven. My oven works properly  that’s why I decrease untill 140C for 15 min.
*Ready. Cool  and decorate.
*Glaze: melt chocolate and top the cake. Decorate — to taste.

Samosa with beef

Ingredients:
-Water — 200g
-Vinegar — 1 tsp
-1 egg
-Flour — 500g
-Salt — 1 tsp
-Butter — 150g
-Forcemeat with onion — 600g
-Salt, spices for forcemeat — to taste.

Instruction:
-Mix up water, vinegar and egg.
-Add sifted flour and salt. Add first part of flour,  the rest part of flour — add gredually.
-Make a dough .Dough must not  stick in fingers
-Cover with food wrap and leave for 20 min (room temperature)
-Roll out the dough thinly.
-Stretch by hand untill semipellucid condition.
-Spread with melted butter.
-Make a roulade.
-Turn up roulade like a snail and cover with food wrape
-Put to a fridge for 20 min.
-Cut dough for pieces. I had 16 pieces for small size of samosa.
-Press those pieces.
-Roll out each pieces of dough.
-Add filling.
-And make turnovers.
-Bake for 40-45 min at 180C
-Spead top of samosa with egg and sesame.

Belyash

For the dough:
-Milk — 150g (3,2% fat)
-Water — 100g
-instant dry yeast — 7 g, living yeast — 21g
-Sugar — 1 tsp
-Sunflowe oil — 2 tbsp
-Salt — 0,5 tsp
-Flour — 350g
-Filling to taste. My version — forcemeat with spices — 300g

Instruction:
-Mix up warm milk and water.
-Add yeast and sugar.
-Leave in a warm place or leave with room temperature for proving for 15 min.
-Sift flour
-Add sponge dough, salt , oil in one part of flour. Mix all up.
-The rest part of flour adds gradually.
-Make a dough until elastic condition. Cover with food wrap
-Stay dough in a warm place for 1 hour. I stay dough in warm switched off oven.
-Afte 30 min punch dough and return to the warm place for 30 min.
-Split the dough up into 10-20 balls.
-Make rings by hands.
-Put the filling in the middle.
-Join the edges of ring making a hole in the midle.
-Fry in a big volume of hot oil.
-Place belyash in the oil with the side with hole.
-Fry until golden brown.

Green lentils Panecakes

Вкусные и полезные панкейки из красной чечевицыIngredients:
*Green lentils — 200g
*Flour — 250g (1 glass)
*Milk — 1 glass
*Sugar — to taste.
*Sunflower oil — 2 tbsp
*Baking powder or soda — 0,5 tsp (I don’t add)
*I wanted to add egg nd baking powder, but I am not sure that it is necessarily

Instruction:
*Lentils should be soaked for 8 hours.
*Blend until puree condition.
*Add milk, mix all well.
*Add sugar (I add date syrup) and flour.
*Mix all properly.
*Add oil and mix up all again.
*Fry each side on non-stick pan without oil.
*Ready!

Azu with Turkey

Ingredients:
-Turkey — 0,7-1 kg
-1 onion
-1 carrot
-Potato — middle size.
-2 pickles
-Flour — 2-3 pinches
-Tomato paste — 2-3 tbsp
-Water/ soup stock — 500ml
-Spices — to taste.
-5-6 cloves of garlic
-Fresh herbs — to taste.

Instruction:
-Cut meat on pieces as you wish.
-Cut potato. (slices, sticks or as you like). Chop onion (half-ring), carrot and pickles. It is better if you cut all vegerables on sticks.
-Heat the pan and fry meat until golden brown  for 5-10 min. Leave the meat for some time.
-In the same pan (iwhere we fried meat) place onion and fry for 5 min untill soft. Don’t overcook. Next — add carrot and fry for 8 min on the middle heat. Next — add couple pinch of flour — optional.
-Add pickles and simmer for 2 min.
-Add 2 tbsp of tomato paste and chopped tomato ( I don’t add tomato, but it better to add them). Fry for 2 min, pour soup stock or water, mix up and bring to boil.
-Add spices (black peper, paprika, etc)
-Next stage — add meat and simmer on a low heat for 20 min.
-At the same time fry potato on a large heat, add salt a bit. Fry until done.  I started to cook potato when I cooked onion in order to cook everything in time.
-After 20 min add potato and simmer for 5 min. Add salt, spices and chopped garlic.
-Switch off the stove, add fresh herbs and lets the dish sit out a bit.
-Here is it. Azu is ready.
Enjoy and wishing you to have a good mood.

Bulgur Pilaf

Ingredients:
*Dry bulgur — 120g
*Chicken fillet or what you want (mushrooms) — 200g. Mushrooms — 400g
*1 carrot
*1 onion
*1 clove of garlic
*Oil, salt, peper, jeera

Instruction (use a pot with a thick bottom or deep pan) :
*chop vegetables and cut meat or as you wish.
*Fry onion, carrot and chicken (if you cook beef, first simmer beef until semiprepared, then — add vegetables). Simmer chicken fillet with vegetables for 5-10 min. Chiken with bones — for 20 min. *Beef — 30-60 min. After that add vegetables and simmer for 5-10 min.
*Add Bulgur, fry with meat amd add water. Water must cover all ingrediesnt for 2-4 sm.
*Season with salt, peper. My version — black peper, jeera. Simmer for 15-20 min utill water escape. Next — switch off and leave for some minutes under a lid.

Pizza

Ingredients:
-All-purpose flour — 250g
-Salt — 0,5 tsp
-Water — 150g
-Sugar — 1 tsp
-instant dry yeast — 1 tsp
-Sunflower oil — 1 tbsp
-Ketchup — to taste.
-Spices — «Italian herbs»
-Filling (ta taste). My version: prosciutto sausage, Pork, sweet peper, tomato, pickles, ketchup, cheese.

Instruction:
-Add dry yeast into warm water. Add sugar. Mixx all up until fully dissolved.
-Dough should not  stick in fingers. I use mixer for 5-10 min.
-Preheate oven t 30C and switch off. Put to a oven for 30-40 min for proving in switched off oven,
-Volume of dough increase at 2-3 times. Split dough  into 2 parts.
-Roll out each part of dough  like a ring. Spread with ketchup and sprinkle with spices. Put to baking pan covering with greaseproof paper.
-Place filling: prosciutto sausage, Pork, sweet peper, tomato, pickles, ketchup, cheese.
-Bake for 5-10 min, at 200-230C

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Lasagna

Ingredients:
-9 lasagna noodles
-cheesse — 360g
-Forcemeat — 700-800g
-Milk — 1 package.
-Butter — 50g
-Flour — 2 tbsp
-Dolmio sauce with mushrooms or traditional — 1 jar
-White mushrooms — 400g ( optional)
-Salt, peper — to taste.

Instruction:
*Fry forcemeat with mushrooms. Simmer untill semiprepared. Next stage — add Dolmio sauce and simmer untill done. Leave for some time.
*Bechamel sauce: melt butter in a pot. Add flour. Mix all up intill smooth and add milk gredually. Season with salt, black peper. Bring to boil,  stir at a steady pace
*Grate cheese.
*Making Lasagna:
*Pour soup ladle of sauce into a baking pan and place lasagna noodles, again pour sauce.
*Place forcemeat with mushrooms.
*Place cheese.
*Place lasagna noodles.
*Pour sauce
*Place forcemeat with mushrooms.
*Place cheese.
*Place lasagna noodles.
*Pour last part of sauce
*Place last part of cheese.
*Put into preheated oven for 25-40 min, at 180C. Preparation time depends on your oven.