Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Kohlrabi - Vietnamese Food


If you go to Vietnam, the food is not known. Yes, most people in this country much. I would like to invite you to learn more about the food.

 
Refrigerator was nearly empty bag of farmers root vegetables - carrots, radishes and kohlrabi watermelon - half a red onion and eggs. Recalling the observations and conversations with his mother about kohlrabi, I whipped up this simple jump to go with a bowl of rice and watermelon radish.

 
The hardest part was all the kohlrabi peel tough skin. The size of the root and stem ends, first made easier to use vegetable peeler to remove skin. After the initial legitimacy of the peeling, I Did It Again. Kohlrabi glows when its thickness is not the outside.
Then it was only a matter of thick julienne kohlrabi, about 1/4-inch wide. You can add carrots, stir-fry, but it would be too curly steal his fame. The next time I throw a teaspoon or so of minced dried shrimp in a skillet with garlic and red onion.

 
I feel much better after the meal, I hindered a step much lighter.

 
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Food Ingredients :
  • 2 kohlrabi, each about the size of large oranges
  • 2 large eggs
  • fish sauce 1 1 / 2 c. Tea
  • 1 / 4 c. teaspoon pepper
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 2 large cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 / 2 small red onion, cut vertically into thin wedges
  • Salt
How to Cook :
  1. Peel celeriac and cut into thick strips. Set aside.
  2. Beat the eggs with fish sauce and black pepper. Set aside.
  3. Heat canola oil in a skillet over medium-high. Add garlic and onion and cook for about 1 minute until softened.
  4. Add the kohlrabi fourth and cook for 3-5 minutes, stirring often, to soften. A portion of the liquid should be crying. However, please make a splash in the water and / or lower the heat if the pan seems dry.
Give a final beat eggs and pour over the sweet kohlrabi. Mix well and cook for another 30 seconds until the egg has set. Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a platter and serve with rice.

 
via vietworldkitchen

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Famous Food Recipes From Russia

Russian cuisine, an important element of Russian national culture. Our goal is to present to the Russian national cuisine, with its authenticity and originality. In former times grain wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet - has always been the main food in Russia. Bread is the food nationwide. Cattle have always been popular in Russia, as he was hunting - hence the wide range of meat dishes, wild animals and poultry inform the Russian restaurant.


Vast areas of forests, especially in northern Russia, were abundant in mushrooms and berries and provided a wealth of forest gifts "on the Russian table. Do not forget the price of fish. Russian cuisine is known for many delicious foods, especially beverages, with the fish. Russian rivers, lakes and seas have brought much of this kind of flavors and foods useful.


Famous dishes include:

borscht (beetroot soup), Olivia (potato salad) pelmeni (meat dumplings), beef roll (minced meat and spices wrapped in dough) draniki Chicken Kiev (potato pancakes) Golubtsy (cabbage rolls stuffed with meat and rice, covered in broth, tomato), blini (pancakes, cakes) perogies (little dog) ponchiki (buds)



There are many other dishes, beef, pork, poultry and fish, and potato salad, pickled vegetables, mushrooms, caviar, black bread and wonderful.



Traditional Russian cuisine, an important element of Russian national culture. Our goal is to present to the Russian national cuisine, with its authenticity and originality. In former times grain wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet - has always been the main food in Russia. Bread is the food nationwide. Cattle have always been popular in Russia, as he was hunting - hence the wide range of meat dishes, wild animals and domestic fowl.

The dog always fare vacation pairs. The dog is usually filled with different kinds of meat, fish and fruit. As for cereals, millet was the most frequently used because it was the main agricultural product. They are also different types kashas (cereals), buns, puddings in the oven.



Vast areas of forests, especially in northern Russia, were abundant in mushrooms and berries and provided a wealth of forest gifts "on the Russian table. Do not forget the price of fish. Russian cuisine is known for many delicious foods, especially beverages, with the fish. Russian rivers, lakes and seas have brought much of this kind of flavors and foods useful.



Ages Past: the strengthening of contacts with Western countries has led to a number of loan words in Russian cuisine. At the time of Peter the Great, contemporary kitchen and spread to Russia with them pots and pans, spoons and other efforts necessary kitchen appliances were taken. In the early nineteenth century Russian leaders of different sauces and French cuisine that became famous. These innovations have become an important addition to the traditional spices of Russia - the horseradish and mustard. All this undoubtedly enrich the Russian cuisine.

One last important thing, to be replaced by a better understanding of the traditional cuisine of Russia.



Russian cuisine is rich in history and offers a wide selection of soups, fish dishes, cereals and beverages. Vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, berries, herbs also play an important role in the meat. Primary products, such as Russian caviar, sour cream, buckwheat, rye flour, etc., have had a major impact on world cuisine.



Orthodox Russia is a country and all parties have always been strictly observed. Totally there are over 200 days per year that Orthodox Christians must avoid eating meat, milk and milk products (except butter), eggs. Therefore, commonly used vegetables Russian cuisine, fish, berries and mushrooms. To cook delicious meals with vegetables only, it is necessary to use different spices, the Russians used dill, parsley, celery and Spider used later as from other countries - pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves. Almost all foods are onions.

Shabu-Shabu - a Recipe From Japan

And more recipes and food from Japan ever felt in a Japanese restaurant. But if you know how. I will share with you. Good luck.
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Shabu Shabu name imitates the sound of how to do it gently whisk in the hands of his pieces in strips of raw meat broth steaming. The meat cooked quickly in boiling water, very thin slices are made in seconds, so it is no secret to lose them in the broth. herbal ingredients, but generally a little longer if they wish, they are cooked according to the dropout and extraction "method nabe used in many other dishes.

Make savory sauces and spices below and let the mixture of all these will be for dinner with his immersion in the bowl. This is the fun part of eating shabu-shabu - Can we create a flavor (s) desired. Sauces - ponzu sauce of lemon and based on white toasted sesame seeds - are used separately. Spices info or spicy sauce.

Start moving your meal with appetizer, then to shabu-shabu with the pot set fire to the heater on the table. Like the first fish cooked in a pot of fish flavor development of the broth, dishes, starting with the meat. When all the meat and vegetables are ready, you can drink the broth, a little salty, with the cut. Pasta can be added to the broth in a pot and served in a hot broth to each guest. For this dish hot to drink Japanese sake, cold beer or hot green tea. If you want to drink wine, dry red box. For dessert, each offers a choice of fruit or sorbet or ice easy.

In Japan, shabu-shabu is a great party dish, served at home on real cases, partly due to the high quality beef required is expensive. But East and West, this dish is a treat that guests will long remember z. Donabe Serve in the pot or Mongolian hot pot.
Ingredients
  • 2 lb (900 g), high quality, well-marbled beef or lamb
  • 12 shiitake mushrooms, wiped and cut
  • 6 onions Long (naganegi) or 8.10 ball
  • 6 leaves Chinese cabbage
  • 1 bunch of edible chrysanthemum leaves (or Kikuni shungiku), washed and chopped
  • 2 cakes tofu
  • 1960-1910 small pieces of wheat gluten (FU)
  • 8 oz (225g) bamboo shoots
  • ponzu sauce (see below)
  • sesame sauce (see below)
  • 1 cup grated giant white radish (daikon-oroshi)
  • 1 / 2 cup finely chopped green onion
  • 4 inches (10 cm) square giant kelp (kombu)

- 6 servings - 

Instructions
Meat: beef shabu-shabu zł beef, lamb or pork chops. In all cases, the meat should be well marbled, so it will be tender Pls be cooked in boiling water.

Ask your butcher cut the meat into very thin, thinner even than slices Sukiyaki. This can be difficult to do at home, even frozen meat.

You may have to reduce by half in each room, depending on size. If the various measures 8x3 inch slices (20x8 cm). It is close to a bite size. Do not simmer slices are so big and so heavy they want pieces cooked.

Shiitake: Notch decorative crosses for the caps. If very large, cut in two caps.

Long onions (or spring onions) cut into 1 1/2-inch diagonal (4 cm) long.

Chinese cabbage: Bottom Trim Chinese cabbage and separate leaves six together. (Use of the headrest in another recipe). Wash, then burn the whole list of offers for 2-4 minutes, with water in a wide saucepan. Drain, salt lightly and dry. Using the bamboo mat, roll cabbage leaves (optional) and cut into slices, or just use the leaves without looking back.

chrysanthemum edible leaves: If the branches are very long, halve the cooking Pls easy operation.

Tofu: Cut the tofu into 1 1/2-inch (4 cm) square plate is disposed Pls.

Wheat gluten (FU): soak for about 5 minutes in hot water. Squeeze moisture and land use.

Bamboo shoots: If you use canned bamboo, wash (remove the hard years of filing limelike within the ridges), burn and cut into slices about a half-moon 1 / 4 inch (7.5 mm ) thick.

Prepare sauce and spicy seasonings. The two sauces refrigerated for two or three days, then they want to be well prepared canned advance, but they want the best prepared just before serving. green onion, chopped a few cans a few hours earlier and refrigerated, but grated white radish IMMEDIATELY must be prepared before use.

To order plates: Place all ingredients about 18 inches (45cm) around plaques in a spirit of generosity to give it merit.

Place the sliced sausage attractive so that everyone can be easily answered with chopsticks or a fondue fork, mix, or defect in parts is unappetizing, and it is difficult to extract tissue slices Standard & Poor's. Arrange other vegetables on the plate in the same way, or arrange for one meat and one for vegetables only. It takes five minutes to a plate and arrange all the ingredients have been prepared.

Cooking at the table: Put a 4-inch (10 cm) square giant kelp (kombu) in a large saucepan or hoko donabe-nabe (a Mongolian hot pot). First, wipe with a damp cloth to clean and cut in several places to release the aromas. Fill donabe or hot-pot two-thirds of freshwater. (When the kelp is not available to shed light broth with Chinese cabbage, carrots, fresh mushrooms, etc.)

Bring to a boil, remove the seaweed just before the temperature reaches a boil, then simmer gently for 3-4 minutes. To do this, either on the stove, transfer the pan to the heating unit on the table at the last moment, on the table itself and heating equipment.

Each guest must chopsticks or a fondue fork. As there are two drops, you should have two bowls available for each guest. (Chances are, however, only one will be used.) Or hot spices mixed with ponzu sauce to taste, but only finely chopped green onion, sesame sauce is added. Each guest puts a piece of meat with a fork and serve it swishes back and forth, Shabu-shabuing in the hot broth until the meat is red to pink. Less frequently, the meat is delicious. May Diners meat and vegetable parts.

From time to time to keep the broth clear vision of the foam.

When the meat and vegetables were finished, serve ladle the broth into a bowl and lightly salted with a little chopped onion.

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Oyako-Donburi, Japanese Cuisine

This is one of Japanese cuisine from the land that we can learn and serve the food we eat. The food is very tasty and everyone liked. Good luck.
figure via bento

 

In the 4 servings

 
Components
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 3 / 4 pounds of skin, bone - chicken breast cut into strips
  • 1 / 2 onion, minced
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 6 shiitake mushrooms, soaked until soft, then cut into strips
  • 1 carrot, julienned
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • soy sauce 4 tablespoons
  • 1 / 2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 / 2 cup chopped green onion
  • 5 eggs, beaten

Instructions
  1. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high. chicken strips and onions cooked fry chicken for about 5-7 minutes. Drain as much liquid as possible.
  2. Stir chicken broth and simmer for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms and carrots and simmer for a few minutes before stirring the sugar, soy sauce and salt. Cook 3 minutes. Amid sprinkle with green onions, stirring gently. Pour the beaten eggs in a mixture of chicken and cook until cooked eggs for about 10 minutes. We serve over Japanese sticky rice.

 
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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Dendeng Balado - West Sumatera, Indonesia

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When speaking country Indonesia is not separated from the typical food very much at all. This is not surprising because this country consists of diverse tribes and cultures. Each tribe and culture has its own variety of food.
In this article I will unlock the secret delights of food "Dendeng Balado." This dish comes from West Sumatra in Indonesia. Good luck ...

Cooking Materials:
  • 1 pound thinly sliced beef rather wide
  • 3 pieces of lime in the water grab
  • 1 teaspoon salt, or according to taste
  • 2-3 cloves garlic finely
  • 1 slice of ginger in puree

How to Make "Dendeng":

Meats soaked with all the spices for ¼ to ½ hour. Dry in the sun until dry and then dry fried


Balado Seasoning Ingredients:
  • 100 grams of crushed red pepper
  • 100 grams roughly chopped red onion
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 5 tablespoons coconut milk

Balado Seasoning Cooking Method:
  • Saute onion until yellow, chili input when it is cooked, add coconut milk.
  • Bumbu Balado can be blended directly with the "Dendeng" that has been made or is poured on top "Dendeng".

(posted by Hipokrates )

Chicken Sambal Balado - Indonesian Recipes


                                                          figure via sekedarpercobaan

If you ever travel to Indonesia must be familiar with the food on this one, Yes! "Chicken Sambal Balado." This dish comes from West Sumatra. It feels very aroused our appetite. You want to try! I'll tell you this secret recipe to your food. good luck.

Material:
  • 1 chicken, cut into small pieces
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • A little oil for frying
Marinade:
  • 5 spring onions (I'm still pake 1 onion), thinly sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • 6 large red chilies, or up to taste, puree
  • 1 red tomatoes, puree
  • salt
How to make:
  • Marinate the chicken with lime juice and salt and let stand a few moments.
  • Fried chicken until creamy, set aside
  • Saute onion and garlic until fragrant and wilted, enter the chillies and tomatoes that have been mashed, stir until evenly distributed, enter the salt.
  • Enter into a chicken stir fry seasoning, stir a few moments.
  • Remove and serve.

(posted by Hipokrates)

Friday, August 27, 2010

Know The Kinds of Sushi

Of course, this poses a problem when I returned to my favorite restaurant and ordered a piece of "that thing with the tuna on top of rice." This is certainly not the happiness of a sushi chef's!

Sushi Guide will give you the speed and save unnecessary embarrassment. Heck! You can even make an impression on friends not love sushi.

And if you think you really know what is sushi, then think again.

Maki-zushi

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Basics of Sushi consists of rice experienced, wasabi and toasted nori. A variety of tasty morsels such as tuna and raw vegetables are wrapped in seaweed. It is divided into 6 or 8 pieces. Click this link to learn more about the different types of maki-sushi: Types of maki sushi

Nigiri-zushi


Nigiri consists of a pile in the form of seasoned rice, which is with both hands. A small piece of fish like tuna or shrimp draped over the top. Sometimes, the belt of nori (seaweed thin strip) is used to keep fish from falling.

Temaki-zushi, or hand rolls


This type of sushi consists of a piece of nori, which is an ingredient in a cone shape and filled with seasoned rice, wasabi, and many delicious.

Chirashi-zushi

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Fans of North American average sushi probably never heard of chirashizushi. Seasoned sushi rice is a place on a large plate and various toppings, such as lotus root, shredded nori, carrot and shrimp are spread on top. Neither station or cutting! This may be the easiest type of sushi to go!

Inari-zushi

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Inari is the pocket of fried tofu stuffed with seasoned sushi rice. They are very tasty, but I find them a bit too sweet for my taste. If you want to try to do at home is that the recipe uses shiitake mushrooms and cucumber filling.

other kinds of sushi
Oshizushi (pressed sushi)
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Narezushi (matured sushi)
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reference via diy-sushi-recipes