Friday, April 01, 2011

Grapefruit and fig salad

Ingredients:

Mixed baby greens – 1/3 lbs. (150g)
Figs - 4 pcs.
Pink Grapefruit - 2 pcs.
Mango juice - 0.5 cups
Lemon - 2 pcs.
Hot pepper - 1 piece
Grated ginger root - 1 tablespoon
Ground cayenne pepper, salt - to taste
Olive oil - 3 / 4 cup

Grapefruit and fig salad

How to prepare:

Clean grapefruit clean, remove the white membrane and broke to segments, and slice figs. In salad bowl, lay out the greens and a slices of grapefruit and figs put on top.

Sauce:

The mango juice, grated ginger root, squeezed lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, olive oil and red chili pepper (without seeds ), also  can add a pinch of sugar to taste put into the blender and blend until it becomes a homogenous mass.

Bon Appetit!

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Apple strudel

Apple strudel is traditional Austrian pie and a correct name is Viennese strudel. A main point of strudel is very thin, so tiny, that can read a newspaper via layer. (It's not a joke!)Strudel
Ingredients:
wheat flour: 1/2 lbs (250g)
butter: 2 tbsp.
egg yolks: 2 pcs.
salt: pinch

For the filling:
apples: 2 - 2.2 lbs(1 kg)
sour cream: 1/3 lbs(125g)
fresh white bread crumbs: 1/5 lbs(100g)
butter: 1/5 lbs(100g)
raisins: 1/5 lbs(100g)
sugar: 1/5 lbs(100g)
almonds, chopped: 1/8 lbs(75 g)
cinnamon: 1 tsp.
powdered sugar: 2 tbsp.

How to prepare:
Mix flour, salt, 125 ml of warm water, egg yolks and melted butter kneaded dough. Roll it into a ball, brush with oil, wrap in foil and leave for 1 hour.

Clean apples, slice it?? and mix with lemon juice, raisins and almonds. Fry crumbs of bread in 1 tbsp. of butter.


Throw out the dough on the floured surface. Heat oven to 200 ° C. Melt the remaining butter.

Roll out the dough on a floured kitchen towel to very thin layer (very important!). Grease the dough by half of the butter, then sour cream, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, spread the filling.

Sprinkle with cinnamon mixed with sugar. Roll the dough by a towel to roll. Put the strudel on the oiled baking sheet, brush the remaining butter.

Bake in preheated oven for about 45 minutes. Get out, slightly cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve.