Thursday, 25 February 2016

EASY PEASY PANCAKES



EASY PEASY PANCAKES


Ingredients:
2 eggs
220 ml of milk
100 g of soft butter
200 g of flour
¼ tsp of salt
Butter or any oil for frying



1.     Mix together all the dry ingredients.
2.     In another bowl mix together eggs, milk and butter. Add to it dry ingredients and combine together.
3.     Leave it aside for 10 minutes.
4.     On a hot pan heat up a spoon of oil/knob of butter, then pour the pastry – approx. 4 tbs for 1 pancake.
5.     Fry 2-3 minutes on each side.
6.     Serve with your favourite jam, honey or spread.


Based on a recipe from http://whiteplate.com/
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Sunday, 31 January 2016

Homemade “Lazy” Pasta



Homemade “Lazy” Pasta


Ingredients:
200 g full fat cottage cheese
1 free range egg
Half cup of flour
15 g of vanilla sugar
Pinch of salt

1.     Mix the egg until egg yolk and egg white combine together.
2.     Smash the cottage cheese through the fork, add the flour, the egg and the vanilla sugar.
3.     Knead the dough.
4.     Form slim “strings” and cut into small pasta 2-3cm thick. See on the photo.

5.     Boil the water with a pinch of salt. Add the pasta, mix to separate them from each other and boil for approx. 2 minutes until they appear on the surface of the water.
6.     Serve while still warm.  You can serve with a bit of butter.

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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

HOMEMADE WHOLEMEAL BREAD



HOMEMADE WHOLEMEAL BREAD



INGREDIENTS:
 
500 g wholemeal flour
8 g of dry yeast OR 25 g of fresh yeast
2 cups of warm water
1 tbsp of salt
1 tsp of sugar

1.      Mix together flour and yeast, salt and sugar.
2.      Add water and knead the dough for a while.
3.      Cover and leave in warm place for 1h.
4.      Transfer the dough to baking tin, greased and layered. You could you 1 big loaf tin or two 8x22cm).
5.      Leave it in warm place for another 30 minutes.
6.      Preheat the oven to 220 degrees.
7.      Before putting the tin to oven sprinkle the top of the dough with water.
8.      Reduce the temperature to 200 degrees and bake for 1 hour.

Based on recipe from http://www.jestrudo.pl/
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Homemade Baps




Homemade Baps


Ingredients:
380 g of flour
¾ cup of warm water
30 g of fresh yeast
3 tbs of olive oil
1 tsp of salt
½ tsp of sugar

1.      Mix together fresh yeast, warm water, sugar and 1 table spoon of flour. Combine it together and leave on the site for 15minutes.
2.      In a big bowl mix the rest of the flour, olive oil and salt and mix from point 1. Knead it for a while until dough is smooth, then cover the bowl with a clean towel and leave it in a warm place for 15 minutes.
3.      Divide the dough into small balls ( 4 if you want big baps, 6 for medium and 8 for small). Make a round, ball shape, wet it on top and sprinkle with the flour before putting on a baking tray layered with a baking paper.  Leave it aside for another 15 minutes.
4.      Meanwhile preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
5.      Bake the baps for approx. 20 minutes.

Based on the recipe from http://www.bistromama.pl/
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