Monthly Archives: January 2015

Sweet bergamot
Delicious traditional sweet with aromatic bergamot. With photos step - step for sure success! From radicio.com.
5.0 stars rate, from 5 people

Preparation time: 40 minutes 1 day waiting | Cooking: 30 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes 1 day waiting
Recipe for: 40 pieces

Nutrition information per 1 piece
Calories: 130 Calories | Fat: 0 g.


Ingredients:
bergamot: 10 moderate
Ζάχαρη : 1 kilo
Water: 2 mugs
Lemon: 1 tablespoon, the juice

Directions:
1. Wash and dry bergamot. Rub the grater slightly fruits, to leave a dark outer layer of the peel.

2. Cut the top and bottom of Pergamon. The cutting quartered lengthwise. Make a small incision between the skin and flesh of the fruit and pull carefully to remove the peel, without a break.

3. Wrap each roll skin and fasten with toothpicks. If you want you can fasten with cotton string.

4. Weigh the peels and note how it is to know how much sugar you use. Put plenty of water into the pot and put it to boil. Add the bergamot and boil for 5 minutes.

5. Drain and allow to cool. Remove the toothpicks.

6. Put in saucepan sugar (if the peel was 1 kilogram, you put a pound, if it was 900 g. will put 900 g. coke) with 2 cups water and put the fire. Stir to melt the sugar and let it boil. Boil for 4 about minutes and add the bergamot. Bergamot let simmer the syrup for 5 minutes.

7. Turn off the fire, cover the pot and let the sweet syrup to stay on 24 hours.
8. The next Return the pan to the fire and cook until the syrup thickens (with thermometer confectionery 106 degrees). Add the lemon juice and turn off the fire.
9. Carefully fill sterilized jars, the close and allow to cool. The store in a dry cool place and after opening in a refrigerator.

Prepared in 29 January 2015 by Luise

A recipe for delicious healthy cookies, for coffee, breakfast or school, sent to the member of radicio.com, “Delicacies from Crete”

 

ingredients:

Ελαιόλαδο : 1 glass

Margarine: 1/2 packet (125 gr.)

Ζάχαρη : 1 glass

Brandy: 1 rakopotiro

orange juice: 1/2 glass

Soda: 1/2 teaspoon

Baking powder: 1/2 sachet

Cinnamon: 1 teaspoon

Vanilla: 1 package

Carnation: 1 teaspoon

Flour: 1 kilo

roasted sesame: 1/3 about cup

 

Implementation:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

Mix in a bowl the flour with the baking powder. In another mix spices.

Melt the margarine and put it in the mixer, with oil, sugar and brandy.

Dissolve the baking soda and the juice and add this. Beat and add slowly – little spices. Finally add some – a little flour, stirring gently, until we get a soft dough.

Shape sticks and sprinkle with sesame seeds and place in greased pans or covered with wax paper.

Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown.

The Sautied greens are a traditional recipe, that make it in many parts of Greece, from Crete, to Epirus and Macedonia. Many herbs can be cooked in this way, such as collard greens, the Myronia, nettles, spinach, fennel, the kafkalithres, leeks, spring onions, the blites etc.. Tastier course mixtures of various grasses, but one kind alone. Here we show in detail and with photos step – step, This way of cooking. From radicio.com

 

ingredients:

Greens: 1 kilo

Ελαιόλαδο : 2 tablespoon and extra for serving

Onion: 1 moderate

Garlic: 4 – 5 cloves

chilli: little – optional

Salt, pepper: as you like

Water or vegetable broth: 2 mugs

Lemon squash: 2 spoons and extra for serving

 

Implementation:

Wash thoroughly and clean the greens (1 kilo). Throwing dry leaves yellowed and thick roots. the chontrokovoume.

 

Chop an onion. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a saucepan and add the onion. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring regularly, until smooth and well begin slightly changing color, about 5 minutes. We add 4 – 5 cloves chopped garlic and chilli if we just (sweet or spicy, depending on our taste). We continue to saute for 1 minute more.

 

Add half the greens and strengthens the fire. Stir and when the greens lose their volume, add the rest.

 

also add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2 cups water (we can put half – half the water and vegetable broth).

 

Reduce heat to medium and cover the pot. Simmer until the vegetables are tender 25 minutes (if the grass is very tender, you may need to boil less). Uncover the pot and turn up the heat, to evaporate the water almost all the water. Stir and check regularly (It will take about 10 minutes). Remove from heat, we add 2 tablespoons lemon juice, extra olive oil and taste for seasoning. Serve tepid or at room temperature.

Salad cabbage colorful
Easy, delicious and spectacular salad, winter, with cabbage. From radicio.com.
4.0 stars rate, from 3 people

Preparation time: 20 minutes | Cooking: 0 minutes | Total time: 20 minutes
Recipe for: 6 servings

Nutrition information per 1 portion
Calories: 134 Calories | Fat: 11 g.


ingredients:
White cabbage: 1/3 a small (about 350 gr.)
Red cabbage: 1/2 small (about 250 gr.)
Carrots: 2 moderate
Florina pepper: 1 moderate
Celery: 2 - 3 branches
parsley: 3 - 4 twigs
White pepper: 3 pinches
Salt: as you like
Ελαιόλαδο : 1/3 cup
Vinegar: 3 tablespoons

Directions:
1. Cut the cabbage into very thin strips (the knife or mandolin). You put in a deep salad bowl.
2. Cut the stem from the peppers and remove the seeds. Cut it into slices. Put it in the salad bowl.
3. Finely chop the celery and parsley and place in salad bowl and these.
4. Rub carrots on a coarse grater and place in salad bowl and these. Stir well vegetables.
5. Beat well with salt pepper, vinegar and olive oil and pour over the salad. Stir well.

Prepared in 22 January 2015 by Luise