Potato, Egg And Pea Salad

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Potato, Egg And Pea Salad

This salad is very simple, just cooked potatoes, peas, carrots and eggs spiced with mayonnaise, lemon juice and sour cream dressing. Besides being healthy, tasty and easy to prepare, this salad is quite practical because it can be served hot and cold as well. I usually like to serve it as cold side dish for fish. Nice, simple and refreshing. 

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Ingredients:

·         4 medium sized potatoes, peeled

·         3 eggs, hard boiled, diced

·         ½ cup frozen peas, thawed

·         2 onions, sliced thinly

·         2 small carrots, peeled and cubed

·         1/3 cup mayonnaise

·         1 tablespoon sour cream

·         ½ lemon, juiced

·         3 tablespoons mustard

·         1 tablespoon olive oil

·         Black pepper

·         Salt

Directions:

1.    Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water, add 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium and cook potatoes for 10 min until tender.

2.    Add peas and cubed carrots and cook for 2 min. Drain vegetables.

3.    To make salad dressing - combine in a bowl mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, olive oil and mustard. Mix and add pepper and salt in a bowl.

4.    In a large bowl combine cooked potatoes, peas and carrots with eggs and onions. Gently stir in salad dressing until blended. Refrigerate until chilled and serve.

Calories: 240

Preparation time: 10 min   |   Cook time: 12 min   |  Serves: 4

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Cucumber Fritters

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Cucumber Fritters

Cucumber is an ideal summer food, has a large water content and its taste is almost neutral. When combined with flour and eggs, you will get nice cucumber fritters that are crispy and delicious. Everyone can make plain fritters with eggs and flour, so this recipe with cucumbers is easy as well. Cucumber fritters are great when you want a quick breakfast and you're tired of scrambled eggs and toast. You can also make them as a side dish for lunch or dinner. They are also excellent as a quick snack if you're craving for something salty. Try and see how easy it is to make it.

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Ingredients:

·         3 large cucumbers

·         3 eggs

·         Butter, softened 1 tablespoon

·         A pinch of baking soda

·         Buckwheat flour 1 cup

·         Black pepper

·         Salt

·         Olive oil for frying

Directions:

1.    Peel and grate the cucumbers, press out and discard the juice.

2.    In a large bowl combine eggs, butter, baking soda and flour. Mix well and stir in grated cucumbers. Add enough flour to make a soft batter (like thick pancake mix). Season with salt and pepper.

3.    Drop a spoonful of mixture in hot oil and fry on high heat. You can fry 5-6 fritters at a time. 

4.    Place fritters on paper towel-lined plate.

Calories: 280

Preparation time: 10 min   |   Cook time: 15 min   |  Serves: 20

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Mini Cornbread Muffins

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Mini Cornbread Muffins

Everyones favorite muffins, so easy to make, and very lovely looking for serving at any occasion. It’a a great snack for work, frends gathering or to bring for a picnic…

This is my basic recipe, and if desired you can add varios additives in the dough, for example cheese, dried tomatoes, ham, beef jerkey or any dried meat, and whatever comes to your mind. Since I like sesame with almost every muffin recipe, I added that on top, and muffins looked great.

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Ingredients:

·         2 eggs

·         Milk 2 cups

·         Oil ½ cup

·         All-purpose flour 2 cups

·         Cornmeal 2 cups

·         Cheese 50g /1.7 oz/

·         Baking powder 12g /2 teaspoons/

·         Sesame 50g /1.7 oz/

·         Salt

·         Butter 20g /0.7 oz/

                           

Directions:

1.    In a large bowl combine eggs, flour, cornmeal, baking powder, oil, milk and mix until blended. Stir in cheese and salt.

2.    Preheat the oven at 160 degree C /320 F/.

3.    Grease muffin cups with softened butter to avoid sticking. Pour mixture into muffin cups making them two-thirds full. Sprinkle sesame on top of each muffin.

4.    Bake in the oven for 20 min until golden, brown color.

Calories: 130

Preparation time: 10 min   |   Bake time: 20 min   |   Serves: 40

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Coconut Crescent Rolls

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Coconut Crescent Rolls

I finally caught a bit of time to try this recipe which I found in an old, dusty cookbook. Don’t know exactly to whom from my family it belonged to, but there are couple of recipes which I wanted to try out, with some changes of course. So I baked these coconut rolls, which don’t reguire for the dough to rise, and they came out soft and sweet, just like they should be.  

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Ingredients:

·         2 eggs

·         Butter 250g /1 cup/

·         Coconut powder 150g /5.2 oz/

·         Sugar 100g /3.5 oz/

·         All-purpose flour 500g /3.5 cups/

·         1 baking powder /2 teaspoons/

·         Milk 100ml /0.4 cup/

·         Sugar powder for dusting 50g /1.7 oz/

Directions:

1.    In a large bowl combine eggs, butter, sugar and baking powder and stir.

2.    Add flour, coconut powder and milk and knead the dough well for 10 min until compact and smooth mass.

3.    Divide the dough into 3 parts and place on lightly floured surface. Roll each portion into 1cm /0.3 inches/ high circle, and cut each into 8 wedges.

4.    Roll up wedges from the wide end and place on greased baking sheet. Curve ends to form crescent shape. Leave for 15 min to rise.

5.    Bake in preheat oven at 200 degree C /392 F/ until golden color. Sprinkle with sugar powder.

Calories: 150

Preparation time: 40 min   |   Cook time: 15min   |   Serves: 50

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Baked Pasta With Mushrooms

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Baked Pasta With Mushrooms

If you need to save up a little, than this inexpensive dish is a good choice for lunch or dinner. Baked pasta is a meal that everyone will know how to prepare. It’s easy, just parboil pasta, perhaps seashell or penne, and add cooked mushrooms, eggs and cheese. You’ll need 30 min only. Mix everything up and it’s ready for baking in the oven. Although when you make this dish often, after a time you can get bored with it. Change the recipe than. Instead of mushrooms add minced meat, or some different vegetables. I like to make this pasta with zucchinis, or just with cheese. In any case it’s a pretty cheap meal that tastes good.   

Ingredients:

·         Seashell pasta 500g /1 pound/

·         Mushrooms 1 kg /2 pounds/

·         4 eggs

·         Milk 500ml /2 cups/

·         Cheese 250g /7 oz/

·         Oil 5 tablespoons

·         Salt

Directions:

1.    Put pasta in boiling water and add 1 tablespoon salt. If you don’t want your pasta to stick, add 3 tablespoon of oil in water. While pasta is cooking prepare the mixture.  

2.    In a bowl whisk 4 eggs, milk and cheese. Add half teaspoon of salt.

3.    Add little oil in the pan and fry the mushrooms.   

4.    When mushrooms get golden color remove the pan from the heat. Stir in fried mushrooms with pre-made mixture. ​

5.    When pasta is cooked, strain it unwashed, and pour into a deep baking tray. Pour mixture over pasta.

6.    Bake it in oven at 200C /390 F/ for 25 min.

Calories: 310

Preparation time: 15 min  |  Cook time: 30 min  |  Serves: 6 

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Simple Cheese Pie

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Simple Cheese Pie

Love everything that has cheese in it, pies, tarts, cakes, dishes, but my favorite is cheese pie. Never liked to complicated meals which take hours to make, I preffer to cook quick dishes with no fuss. For this pie you need 25 min, few ingredients and that’s all. One of the easiest pie recipes in which I used phyllo sheets. Whenever I have little time for cooking I choose this pie for lunch, dinner or snack. Its well moistened, easy and tasty cheese pie.  

Ingredients:

·         9 phyllo sheets

·         Cheese 250g /7 oz/

·         Sour cream 100ml / ½ cup/

·         Butter, softened 100g /1/3 cup/

·         3 eggs

·         Baking powder 2 teaspoons

·         Milk 100m / 1/3 cup/

Directions:

1.    Whisk in a bowl eggs and milk.

2.    Mix together sour cream, cheese and oil. Add baking powder and salt. This mixture can be hand-stired.

3.    Preheat the oven at 170C /340 F/.

4.    Take a large oiled baking tray. Develop and place the phyllo sheets in the tray. Pour the mixture over the sheets and cover with another layer of phyllo sheets. Bake it in oven for 25min until the pie is golden brown.

Calories: 250

Preparation time: 25 min   |   Cook time: 25 min   |   Serves: 6

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Vegetarian Beer Rolls

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Vegetarian Beer Rolls

I made this recipe now for the first time. I tried it a couple of nights ago at my friends and I really liked it, although this recipe is my variation. The rolls are light and doesn’t take that much to bake them in the oven. The preparation is always longer than baking, but it’s worth it. Beer gives great taste to the dough and grated lemon gives a little sour taste. Filling with marmalade is a great contrast to beer taste, the mixture will surprise you. And than sprinkle with sugar, which gives perfect taste to the rolls. Beer rolls are nice for dessert or snack.  

Ingredients:

• Beer 250ml / 1.1 cups/
• All-purpose flour 7 cups
• Oil 200ml /0.8 cup/
• Grated lemon crust
• 1 Baking powder 12g /2 teaspoon/
• Marmalade 100g /3.5 oz/
• Powdered sugar 50g /1.7 oz/
• 1 dry active yeast 7g / 0.2 oz/

Directions:

1.    Combine in a large bowl oil, yeast, beer, baking powder, grated lemon, and flour.

2.    Mix everything well, and knead the dough until it gets smooth. The dough shouldn’t stick to a bowl.

3.    Divide and form the dough into few pieces. Cut each peace into 8 parts. Smear marmalade over each piece equally and roll the dough.

4.    Place rolls in an oiled baking tray and bake it in the oven at 390 degree for 25 min. Sprinkle rolls with sugar powder.

Calories: 160

Preparation time: 30 min  |  Cook time: 25 min  |  Serves: 50

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