Monthly Archives: April 2015

Chicken with cider
Lovely, delicious dish, with chicken, apple and cider. With very delicious sauce that is perfect over boiled rice. From radicio.com.
5.0 stars rate, from 4 people

Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking: 1 hour 10 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Recipe for: 6 servings

Nutrition information per 1 portion
Calories: 614 Calories | Fat: 42 g.


Ingredients:
Cut portions chicken: 1 moderate, around 1500 g.
Ελαιόλαδο : 3 tablespoons
Chopped κρεμμύδι : 1 moderate
Chopped garlic: 2 cloves
chopped fresh thyme: 1 tablespoon
Flour: 2 teaspoons
Peeled and sliced apples: 2 moderate (not green apples)
Cider*: 1 mug
Brandy: 1/4 cup
Apple vinegar: 1 teaspoon
Salt, pepper: as you like

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Wash and dry the pieces of chicken. Salt and pepper. In utensil enters the eye and the oven, put olive oil and heat. Add the chicken pieces first skin-side down and brown well on all sides (12 minutes). Take them out and put them on a plate.
2. In utensil browned chicken, add the onion and wilt over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the garlic, thyme and flour and cook for another 1 minute. Add the apples, cider and brandy. Increase heat to boil.
3. When the mixture boiled, put inside the chicken (with the skin upwards) and eject liquid in the dish and put the food in the oven. Bake until thoroughly cooked, about 40 minutes.
4. When the food is cooked, Remove from the oven, put the chicken pieces on a platter, add the vinegar sauce, stir and pour it and the platter. Serve very hot, together with boiled rice or potato puree.
* The cider is a beverage of low alcohol content apples. If you can not find, replace with 2/3 apple juice and 1/3 White wine.

Prepared in 25 April 2015 by Luise

A coffee from Cuba: hot and sweet, with 2 species milks, very impressive when served in a glass. From radicio.com

For 1 Coffee

 

ingredients:

Sweetened milk: 2 tablespoons

Πλήρες φρέσκο γάλα: 1/3 cup

Ζεστός εσπρέσο: 120 ml (1/2 mug)

 

Implementation:

Βάζετε σε ποτήρι ή κούπα το ζαχαρούχο γάλα. Από πάνω προσθέτετε τον εσπρέσο.

Ζεσταίνετε το φρέσκο γάλα καλά, το χτυπάτε να γίνει αφρόγαλα και το προσθέτετε με προσοχή πάνω στον καφέ.

Serve immediately.

A beautiful, spring cake, fluffy, “siropiasmeno” with strawberry jelly, that creates wonderful “waters” in cake. The whipped cream on its surface, makes it even more delicious. From radicio.com

12 servings

 

Ingredients for the cake:

Flour: 2 and 1/4 mugs (310 gr.)

Baking powder: 4 teaspoons

Salt: 1 teaspoon

Milk: 1 mug

Eggs: 6 large, only the egg

Vanilla extract: 2 teaspoons

Butter: 12 tablespoons (170 gr.), at room temperature

Ζάχαρη : 1 and 3/4 cup ( 370 gr.)

Ingredients for jelly:

Strawberries: 3 mugs, coarsely chopped

Water: 1/2 mug

Ζάχαρη : 2 tablespoons

Orange juice: 2 tablespoons

gelatin powder: 2 tablespoons

Materials for coating:

Sour cream: 2 mugs (very cold, the refrigerator)

Powdered sugar: 4 tablespoons

 

Implementation:

Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius.

Grease a rectangular pan, 32 X 22 from. about and Lay on wax paper. Grease the wax paper and flour.

Sift together the flour, the baking powder and salt.

Beat together milk, egg whites and vanilla.

In bowl, beat with mixer the butter with the sugar, to turn white and fluffy.

Reduce the mixer speed and add the flour, alternately with a mixture of milk, beginning and ending with flour.

Pour the dough into the pan you prepared and bake for 35 minutes (drive into a toothpick in the center comes out clean and if you are ready).

Remove cake from oven and let in the pan to cool completely (at least 1 time).

For the jelly, put strawberries, water, sugar and orange juice in a saucepan, over medium heat. Stir to melt the sugar and simmer until soft strawberries, 10 minutes.

Remove from heat and pass the mixture in colander. In syrup picked, dissolve gelatin. Allow the mixture to cool for 30 minutes.

Make to stick holes uniformly spaced in cake (holes must reach the bottom – you are doing 40 – 50 holes). Pour the gel evenly over the holes. Cover with food wrap and store in refrigerator, until completely coagulate the gel, at least 3 hours.

Beat the cream with the sugar into whipped. The spread with a spatula over the cake. Cut the cake into squares and serve.

Burgers from minced beef, tasty and juicy, a rich mushroom sauce. From radicio.com

4 servings

 

ingredients:

Milk: 1/2 mug

Flakes instant mashed: 7 tablespoons

Ground beef: 500 g.

Salt, pepper: as you like

Butter: 4 tablespoons

Onion: 1 large

Mushrooms: 500 g.

tomato paste: 1 tablespoon

Flour: 2 tablespoons

beef consommé: 1 and 1/3 cup

Dry red wine: 1/4 cup

parsley: chopped for sprinkling (optionally)

 

Implementation:

Put the milk in a bowl and add the puree flakes. Stir to mix and add the minced meat and. Add 1 teaspoon salt and tea 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Knead and divide into 4 parts, the shape into which a big burgers, 1,5 from. thickness of at most. The cover and place for 1 hour in the refrigerator.

Meantime, Clean the onion and cut it in half and then sliced ​​vertically. Cut into slices and mushrooms.

When one hour passed, heat 1 tablespoon butter in a large pan and cook the burgers, until they darken and the 2 sides, about 10 minutes. Put them in a dish.

Add to the pan (not wash) the remaining butter and onions and wither for 5 approx., to evaporate the liquid.

Add the tomato paste and flour and cook for 2 minutes. Add finally the broth and wine kaiotan boil, add the burgers (along with juices pulled the plate). Cover the pan and simmer for 10 – 12 minutes.

Trying to spice and extinguish the fire. Serve very hot with boiled rice and green salad. If desired sprinkle with a little chopped parsley.