recipes: Stuffed long sweet peppers

Ingredients: minced meat 250 gr (beef or lamb), 5 small red onions, butter 2 tbsp, 2 long sweet peppers, Cumin 1 tesp, tomato puree 2 tbsp, parsley 2 tbsp, 2 dried chili peppers, cayenne pepper 1/2 tsp, pepper & salt, 3 tomatoes, plain flour 150 gr, lukewarm water, olive oil 2 tbsp, juice of half a lemon.

Turkish salad: slice 4 onions in very thin rings and cover with salt. Leave for 30 minutes and rinse with water. Slice the tomatoes, dry the onion rings with some kitchen paper. Put the tomatoes and onions in a bowl add the lemon juice, olive oil and some pepper & salt. Mix and put in the fridge.

Stuffed peppers: prick the peppers with a fork and blanch them for 2 or 3 minutes, drain. Take a bowl and add meat, tomato puree, 1 finely chopped onion, finely chopped parsley, chilies, cayenne pepper, cumin, 1 tbsp butter and some pepper & salt. Mix very well. Cut the top of the pepper and take out the seeds carefully. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture. Pre heat the oven on 200 °c. Take an oven plate and butter it. Lay the peppers on the plate and cover them with olive oil. Put into the oven for about 30 minutes. Turn on the other side after 15 minutes. Serve hot, you can put the peppers on a BBQ if you like.

Paratha: sift the plain flour add some salt and luke warm water and make a firm dough. Leaf for 15 minutes. Divide the dough into 4 balls. Flatten the balls and roll with a rolling pin until 2 mm thick. brush with melted butter and fold in halve, butter again and fold. roll very flat again and bake in a dry non stick frying pan for 2 minutes each side. Until they start blistering and turning brown.

recipes: Chicken salad

Ingredients: Shallot 2, medium sized red onion 2, ripe tomatoes (Cœur de Bœuf) 4, 3 red chili pepper, 1/2 cup of peanuts, 1/2 cup cashew nuts, 1/5 part iceberg salad, sunflower oil 8 tbsp, 1 lime, black pepper, rock salt, fish sauce 2 tbsp, a little palm sugar about a tsp, rice crackers (Vietnamese or plain), chicken breast 300 gr, sambal oelek 1 tbsp, paprika powder 1/2 tbsp.

Slice the chicken in to small strips. Take 4 tbsp of oil and mix with sambal, paprika powder, pepper and salt. Mix together with the chicken and leave for about an hour to marinade.
Slice the red onion in fine rings and fry until golden brown in some oil. Dry roast the nuts.
Slice the shallots and chilli peppers in to fine rings and put in a bowl. Add the sliced tomatoes, dry roasted nuts and the finely sliced iceberg salad. Mix 3 tbsp lime juice with 2 tbsp fish sauce, 2tbsp oil and sugar.
Add black pepper, rock salt and the lime mixture to the salad and mix gently with your hands.
Fry the chicken in a wok or frying pan. When done dress the plates and sprinkle with some rice crackers (small parts).

recipes: Spicy meatballs

Ingredients: minced meat (beef) 400 gr, 1 egg, breadcrumbs 70 gr, sambal oelek 2 tbsp, dark soy sauce 2 tbsp, fish sauce 2 tbsp, 2 shallots, pepper & salt, parsley. butter

 

Chop the shallots very fine and fry them in a little butter until soft. Leave them to cool down.

Chop the parsley fine, you will need about 4 tbsp. Add all the ingredients (except the butter) in a bowl and mix well. Easy on the salt because the fish sauce is already salty.  Roll small meatballs and fry in butter. Serve as a snack with dip sauce (sweet chili sauce, peanut sauce, ...) or use in a dish.