Pasta salad is a well-known crowd pleaser, especially when you plan a large and spontaneous party outdoors. And it goes without saying that two pasta salads are better than one! Try them both before your family guests finish them.
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Kentucky Fried Chicken – 2 Healthy Ways
If you are a KFC addict, you will duly appreciate these two recipes. You don’t need to be Colonel Sanders to cook the legendary Kentucky Fried Chicken right in your kitchen! Try these two healthier variations and choose your favorite one.
Mushroom And Ricotta Quiche
Mushroom And Ricotta Quiche
2017-01-17 10:36:22
You're probably already familiar with quiche recipes. Quiche is the perfect make-ahead dish for company, whether it's for brunches, lunches or dinners. This ricotta and mushroom quiche is delicious and easy to prepare!
Ingredients
- Frozen shortcrust pastry 2 sheets
- Ricotta 240g
- Parmesan 25g
- Button mushrooms 200g
- Swiss brown mushrooms 200g
- Eggs 3
- Olive oil 1 tbsp
- Butter 50g
- Onion 1
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Flat-leaf parsley 1/2 cup
- Nutmeg 1 pinch
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Saute the mushrooms, onions and garlic together.
- Stir in seasonings and cook for 2 minutes until liquid is evaporated.
- Let cool for 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs; add salt, pepper, nutmeg and grated parmesan cheese and stir well.
- Add the ricotta cheese and thickly sliced mushrooms, mix gently.
- Place the shortcrust in a 9 inch oven pan.
- Pour the mixture into the crust and fold the edges.
- Place into the preheated oven and bake for 40-50 minutes.
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5 Useful Tips to Cook Tender Pork Chops
Some of you might have given up cooking pork chops because they often turn out to taste like shoe leather. Have you ever thought about why it happens? In most cases, amateur cooks overcook the meat so that it loses its tenderness. Here we share five secrets of cooking juicy, tender pork chops that you […]
Juicy Beef Stew Recipe
Beef Stew Recipe
2016-12-13 11:20:18
Take your time to prepare a beef stew – it will take quite long (be patient!) but the result is definitely worth the effort. Minutes into cooking, you will smell the delicious meat with vegetables and soon all the members of your family will gather in the kitchen waiting for the dinner to be ready.
Ingredients
- Beef 2 lb
- Flour 2 tbsp
- Olive oil
- Garlic cloves 2
- Stemmed celery 2
- Carrots 4
- Thyme
- Tomatoes 4
- Red wine ¾ cup
- Beef broth 500 ml
- Bay leaves 2
- Worcester sauce
- Salt
- Pepper
- Onion 1
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Instructions
- Heat the oven to 320°F.
- Peel the onion, carrots and garlic cloves. Slice the carrots, chop the onion and the garlic, coarsely chop the celery.
- Dice the meat, roll it in flour and leave it for a while.
- Fry the meat in a big stew-pan with some olive oil for 5 minutes until it gets a brown crust. Put the meat into a bowl.
- Pour some more oil into the pan and fry the vegetables with thyme for 10-15 minutes until they are soft.
- Put the meat back into the stew-pan and add peeled and sliced tomatoes and wine. Wait for a few minutes and pour the broth (or water), bay leaves and some worcester sauce.
- Add some salt and pepper and leave the mixture in the oven for 3-4 hours. The meat should become very soft.
- Serve the stew with mashed potatoes. A glass of red wine will also pair with it perfectly!
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Easy Italian Meatball Recipe
Meatball Recipe
2016-12-09 13:03:28
Pizza and pasta are the most popular Italian meals that almost everyone can cook. But did you know that Italian meatballs can be made even easier? Follow these 8 steps and you will get a delicious dinner for your family or friends!
Ingredients
- Minced beef 1 lb
- Garlic cloves 2
- Onion 1
- Egg 1
- Oregano dried 1 tsp
- Fresh parsley 1 tuft
- Parmesan cheese 2 tbsp
- Fresh bread crumbs 4 tbsp
- Canned peeled tomatoes 1 lb
- Cream 100 ml
- Salt
- Pepper
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Instructions
- Mince an onion, parsley and garlic. Beat an egg. Put the minced meat in a bowl and mix it with onions, garlic, parsley, bread crumbs, parmesan, oregano and an egg. Add some salt and pepper.
- Gently mix the ingredients.
- Make 9 or 12 meatballs from the mixture. Put the balls on an oiled baking sheet.
- Bake the balls in the oven for 20 minutes at 320°F.
- While the balls are being baked, blender the tomatoes.
- Pour the tomatoes in a deep sauce-pan. Add cream, salt and pepper.
- Carefully put the balls in the sauce and stir them for 20 more minutes until they are ready.
- The meatballs are perfect with mashed potatoes and slices of avocado. Enjoy your meal!
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Perfect Lasagna Recipe Tested by Experienced Amateur Cooks
Lasagna Bolognese Recipe
2016-11-25 13:22:54
Yields 4
Are you still hesitating to make a lasagna? You’d better make up your mind to it right now!
We tried to elaborate an ideal recipe of lasagna bolognese tested by many experienced amateur cooks – and here it is! When talking about the Italian cuisine, it is the lasagna what immediately comes to mind. Lasagna is one of the most popular Italian courses known throughout the world. It has hundreds of variations and each person makes it differently. Though lasagna recipes are quite sophisticated it is definitely worth trying to make it – no doubt that all of your guests will be extremely delighted with such a dinner.
Ingredients
- Pasta sheets 10-12
- Minced beef 0.6 lb
- Tomatoes 4
- Carrot 1
- Garlic cloves 2-3
- Onion 1
- Parsley 0.5 tuft
- Stemmed celery 0.5 tuft
- Dill 0.5 tuft
- Olive oil 3 tbsp
- Butter 0.1 lb
- Milk 0.5 liter
- Flour 1-2 tbsp
- Heavy cream 100 ml
- White wine 100 ml
- Parmesan 0.2 lb
- Salt
- Pepper
- Dried species
- Nutmeg
- Sugar 2 tbsp
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Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large stew-pan and fry the minced beef for 4-5 minutes.
- Peel an onion, garlic, carrots and celery. Grate the garlic and chop the vegetables. Add them to the beef and continue frying.
- Add chopped parsley, salt, pepper, sugar and white wine. Boil the ingredients, cover the pan and leave them stimmer.
- Scald the tomatoes with boiling water and peel them. The tomatoes have to be really ripe. Grind them up with a blender into puree. Add the puree to the stew-pan and pour some hot water (½ cup maximum).
- When the sauce boils up, add some dried species. Italian species such as basil, thyme and rosemary will suit perfectly. Pour ½ cup of heavy cream into the stew-pan.
- Stew the sauce on the lowest heat possible for 2 hours. You can add some more salt, pepper, sugar or species if you like. After that the bolognese is ready!
- To make bechamel melt butter (do not use any spreads or margarine) in a separate pan. As soon as the butter melts and begins to bubble, add flour and stir the mixture with a wooden spoon, make sure that there is no lumps in the mixture! Pour cold milk little by little while stirring the sauce. Boil the sauce on low heat for 10-12 minutes. You can add some nutmeg or pepper to make bechamel a little bit more spicy.
- Butter the baking dish and spread 2-3 tablespoons of bechamel on its bottom. Put one layer of pasta sheets and spread them with bechamel. Add some bolognese and cover it with more pasta sheets. The next steps are easy: pasta sheets – bechamel – bolognese. Repeat them until you get 5-6 layers of pasta. The last layer of pasta sheets is to be spread by bechamel only.
- Sprinkle the lasagna with parmesan and bake it in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 400°F.
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Creamy lemon chicken
Creamy lemon chicken
2016-10-31 12:20:31
Looking for a fantastic chicken recipe? Look no further! Lemon, cream and crock-pot work miracles – this is probably to most tender chicken in the world!
Ingredients
- Boned chicken thighs 1 lb.
- Oil 1 tbsp.
- Onion 1 small
- Garlic powder ½ tsp.
- Dried mixed herbs 1 tsp
- Salt
- Pepper
- Chicken stock 1 ½ cup
- Cream ½ cup
- Lemon 1
- Cornflour 1 tbsp.
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Instructions
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and roll in garlic and herbs.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and gently fry the onion until golden. Remove the onion from the pan and fry the chicken until golden.
- Put the chicken and onion in the crock-pot. Add the stock liquid. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours. Do not remove the lid whilst the dish is cooking.
- Remove the chicken and keep warm. Add the cream, 1 tsp grated lemon zest and 2 tbsp. of lemon juice to the crock-pot.
- Dissolve the cornflour in a little cold water and transfer the contents of the stock pot to a saucepan. Add the cornflour liquid and cook until the sauce thickens.
- Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve with rice.
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3 budget-friendly crock-pot recipes
@photo What could be better than coming home after a hard day at work to the aroma of slow-cooked savoury food which has been cooking happily in the crock-pot while you were out? One of the things you’ll love about your crock-pot is that it allows you to use cheaper cuts of meat without compromising […]
Kid-Friendly Chilli Recipe That Tastes So Good
Kid-Friendly Chilli Recipe
2016-10-18 10:29:42
Yields 5
For most kids, the strong flavours of adult chilli-con-carne will be off-putting. So why not give this delicious, kid-friendly chilli recipe a try? It’s less spicy than most chilli recipes and contains fewer kidney beans, the texture of which some little ones are not too keen on. The addition of sweetcorn adds a splash of colour and means that you won’t have to serve it with vegetables on the side.
This recipe is guaranteed to become a family favourite. The bright, contrasting colours in this dish look great and the flavours combine to create something really special. As your kids get older you can try increasing the quantities of chilli-powder and cumin, and doubling the quantity of kidney beans.
Ingredients
- Cooking oil 1 tbsp
- Lean minced beef 1 lb.
- Onion (peeled and chopped) 1
- Red pepper (de-seeded and chopped) 1
- Mild chilli powder ½ tsp
- Ground cumin seeds ½ tsp
- Tomato puree 2 tbsp
- Tin tomatoes 1 lb.
- Beef stock 1 cup
- Kidney-beans (drained and tinned) ½ lb.
- Sweetcorn kernels 1 small tin
- Salt
- Pepper
- Chopped fresh parsley or grated cheese to garnish (optional)
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Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add the chopped onion and cook until the onion softens and begins to brown. Add the chopped red pepper and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon.
- Remove the onion and pepper with a slatted spoon and now fry the mince until browned all over.
- Add the cooked onion and pepper, the chilli powder, cumin, tomato puree, tomatoes and beef stock. Season with a little salt and pepper and bring to simmering point.
- Simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add the drained tinned kidney beans and sweetcorn and cook for a further 10 minutes.
- Serve with plain boiled rice or with wraps. If using the parsley garnish, allow the kids to sprinkle their own chopped parsley on top. Fussy eaters might prefer a little grated cheese on top, or nacho-chips on the side.
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