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Fish in oven

2010-02-21T21:52:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

3 pieces of fish (Pangasius)
3 potatoes – rounded slices
2 onions – rounded slices
1 carrot – rounded slices
1 red pepper – rounded slices
1 tomato – rounded slices
1 lemon – the juice of half lemon
1 chilli pepper
Olive oil
4 cloves of garlic – crushed

Spices:

Parsley
Ginger
Salt
Oregano
Paprika
Turmeric
Black pepper
Coriander

How you prepare it:

- First of all make a sauce for the fish. Mix in a bowl all the spices. Add the crushed garlic, 1 table spoon of olive oil and the juice of half lemon. Mix all.
- Put the fish in this sauce and cover it all over
- Take a larger pan (baking tin) and oil it
- Place the sliced potatoes in one layer on all the pan
- Place the sliced carrot in one layer on the potatoes
- Place the fish after you covered it with spices
- Place the sliced tomatoes and onion in layers
- On the top of all these place 3 slices of lemon
- Add a chilli pepper
- Add half cup of water or one cup (it depends on how much sauce you like)
- Put it in oven and leave it for 30 minutes

Bon appetite!

Tajine with chicken and peas

2010-02-21T21:48:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

400 grames of chicken
2 Potatoes – cut them in rounded slices
1 Corgette – cut it in thick sticks
1 Onion – cut it in rounded slices
1 Carrot – cut it in sticks
2 Tomatoes – cut them in rounded slices
2 cloves of garlic – crush them
Olives – 100 grames
Peas – 300 grames
Parsley
Olive oil

Spices:

1 tbs Salt
1 tbs Black pepper
1 tbs Turmeric
1 tbs Paprika
1 tbs Coriander
1 tbs Ginger

How you prepare it:

- Place the tajine pan on a low fire and let it until the pan is warm
- In the tajine pan put some olive oil and leave it 1 minute
- Add onions and cover it for 5 minutes
- Add the carrots and cover for 5 minutes
- Add chicken, crushed garlic, spices and half cup of water. Cover it for 10 minutes.
- Add potatoes and corgette. Put more water (one cup). Spray on the top some salt and pepper. Cover it for 20 minutes.
- Add peas and cover for 10 minutes
- Add tomatoes, olives and parsley. Let it cook for 15 minutes.
- Add more water if it is necessary for the tajine not to burn.

Bon appetite!

Mushrooms filled with cheese

2010-02-18T22:35:00.000-08:00

Mushrooms are a good source of riboflavin and niacin and contain no fat or cholesterol.

Ingredients:

10 Champignon Mushrooms
100 gr Natural Cheese
1 Red pepper
Green parsley
Black pepper

How you prepare it:

- Peel the mushrooms and wash them with cold water
- Take off the stalks from the mushrooms
- Finely grate the cheese
- Cut the pepper in circles
- Place the mushrooms in a tray for oven
- Pour a little bit of black pepper into the mushrooms
- Fill the mushrooms with grated cheese
- Add red pepper (in order to form a handle and to make the mushroom looks like a small basket) and a leaf of parsley on top
- Place the tray in preheated oven for 20 minutes or till the mushrooms are done

Tips:

Recent studies have shown shiitake and reishi mushrooms are potential cancer-fighters. Reishi extracts have been shown to stop the growth of cancerous tumors and also produce an antihistamine action which can help to control allergies.
Shiitake mushrooms contain a compound called lentinan, which is being used as a cancer treatment in Japan.

Oriental salad - Romanian way of cooking

2010-02-18T05:03:00.001-08:00

This is a recipe that I have learnt it in Romania from my grandma and my mother. It is very healthy and flavoured and very easy to prepare.

For ingredients you will need:
- 5 medium size potatoes
- 1 big red pepper or 2 medium
- 1 big onion
- 3 eggs. I recommend you to buy the eggs from vegetables market, where people from country side come and sell their products. In this way you will know the eggs have good quality and they are healthy for you.
- 100 grames olives (green, black, red it's your choice)
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of mustard with seeds
- 1 lemon
- salt
- black pepper
- green parsley

How to prepare it:
- Wash potatoes because you will boil them without peeling.
- In a pan boil potatoes with a little bit of salt till they are cooked.
- In another pan boil the eggs till they become hard inside. Put a little bit of salt in that water also. (boil about 7 minutes)
Meanwhile prepare this:
- Cut the onion in small pieces
- Cut the red pepper in cubes or sticks (2 cm long)
- Take off the seeds from olives
- Cut the green parsley
After potatoes are boiled, peel them and cut them in cubes.
- Peel eggs and cut them in cubes also.
- In a bowl put all the ingredients that you already prepared: potatoes, eggs, red pepper, olives, olive oil, salt, pepper, mustard with seeds and mix all.
- Add the juice from half of lemon and mix all again. You can add more lemon if you want. It depends on everyone's taste.
- Decorate with green parsley.

Bon appetite!

Tajine marocaine with chicken and olives

2010-02-17T23:54:00.000-08:00

"Tajine with chicken and olives" for 3 people

This recipe is from Moroccan cuisine and is one of my favourite. It is very easy to prepare and very flavoured.
Tajine is a dish used in the countries from North Africa and is formed entirely of a heavy clay which is sometimes painted or glazed.
It consists of two parts:
- a base unit which is flat and circular with low sides
- and a large cone or dome-shaped cover that rests inside the base during cooking. The cover is so designed to promote the return of all condensation to the bottom. With the cover removed, the base can be taken to the table for serving.

If you don't have this dish you can use a large pan with teflon buttom and follow the same steps for preparation.

For ingredients you will need:

3 upper legs of chicken
2 carrots (cut half of quantity in circles (rondelles) and the other half cut it in sticks)
3 potatoes (cutted into thick slices)
1 or 2 tomatoes
olives (the quantity it depends on you)
3 onions (cutted rondelles)
4 cloves of garlic (crushed)
olive oil

Spices

turmeric (curcuma in french, it has many benefits like antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, stomach-soothing, liver and heart protecting effects. It is used in treatments for arthritis and cancer) - 2 table spoons
salt - for your taste
black pepper - 1 table spoon
paprika - 1 table spoon
ginger (helps to prevent or treat nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, pregnancy and cancer chemotherapy. It is also used as a digestive aid for mild stomach upset, as support in inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, and may even be used in heart disease or cancer ) - 2 table spoons
coriander (helps in anemia, digestion, menstrual disorders, small pox, eye care, blood sugar. skin disorders) - 1 table spoon
cumin (it helps in flatulence, indigestion, diarrhea, nausea, morning sickness, and atonic dyspepsia, anti carcinogenic, great tonic, it increases the heat of the body, ) - 2 table spoons
green parsley (it helps to clean the blood, dissolves sticky deposits in veins, maintains elasticity of blood vessels, facilitates removal of moderately sized kidney and gallstones, treats deafness and ear infections, and benefits the sexual system)

How you prepare it

- Place the tajine pot on a very low fire and when the pot is getting hot you can add oil.
- When oil is hot add 80% from onions and the carrots sliced rondelles and cover. Save few slices of onion and carrot for later. Mix all with a spoon from time to time.
- When the onion is soft add the chicken and crushed garlic. Mix all from time to time for 5 minutes.
- Add the spices and mix everything.
- Add half cup of water (we put water to prevent burning) and mix again all. Cover the tajine for 10 minutes.
- Add potatoes in circle layers and decorate with carrots cutted into sticks. Add more spices (salt, pepper, cumin) and a cup of water.

- Cover and let it cook for 30 minutes.
- Add onion slices that you already saved, tomatoes, olives and green parsley. Taste the sauce. If you want more spices it's your choice, you are free to add more and cook it for your taste.

- Cover and let it cook for 15 minutes.
That's all folks!

Bon appetite!

Tips
If you want to add more water after you already added potatoes and other ingredients, add it on the sides of tajine. Because if you would add water in the center or on the surface you will wash all the spices from potatoes, tomatoes so on.