Showing posts with label haricot verts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haricot verts. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Middle Eastern Style Salad with Pork


Middle Eastern Style Salad with Pork

Ingredients
1kg Potatoes
600g Pork
350g Cabbage
75g Feta Cheese
150g Tomatoes
100g Onions
75g Haricot Verts
40g Raisins
½ Pot of Dill
Olive Oil
Butter
Salt
Pepper
Lemon

Course of Action

1. Salad: Boil 1 liter of water in a pot. Cut the cabbage in 3 cm wide strips. Add the cabbage and the haricots verts into the boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Remove the water. Chop the onion and the dill. Cut the tomatoes into cloves. Mix the vegetables with the crumbled feta cheese and the raisins.

2. Rinse and boil the potatoes.

3. Cut the pork into slices. Spice it up with ½ tsp of salt and a pinch of pepper. Melt 1 tbsp of butter and fry the pork on medium temperature setting for 5 minutes per side. While the pork is in the pan, start making the salad dressing.

4. Dressing: Mix 1 tbsp of olive oil, the juice of 1/4 of a lemon, ½ tsp of cumin, ½ tsp of sugar, a pinch of salt and pepper. Pour it over the salad.

5. Serve the pork and salad with the boiled potatoes.


Boun Appetite!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Chicken "Hurry Curry" for 3 People

Chicken "Hurry Curry" with Rice for 3 people


Ingredients
600g of boneless chicken
4 servings of rice
300 grams of tomatoes
200 grams of red onions
1 trough of haricot verts
1 dl creme fraiche
0.5 dl tomato puree
35 grams of baby spinach
0.5 tablespoon of chicken broth powder (or half a cube)
1 tablespoon of curry
1 teaspoon of ginger
0.5 milliliter of cayenne pepper

Course of Action

1. Cut 1 trough of haricot verts (150g) in 2cm big pieces

2. Boil rice for 3 people, lets the haricot verts boil with the rice the last 3 minutes.

3. Roughly chop the red onions and the tomatoes. Cut the chicken in 1 cm strips.

4. Heat up 1 tablespoon of oil in a pot. Add 0.5 dl tomato puree, 1 table spoon of curry, the red onions and the tomatoes. Fry on high temperature setting for 2 minutes.

5. Add 1 dl of water, 1dl of creme fraiche, the chicken broth powder, the ginger, a pinch of salt and the cayenne pepper and mix it slightly with a hand blender.

6. Put the pieces of chicken into the pot and let it simmer for 12 minutes. Stir every now and then.

7. Remove it from the stove and add the baby spinach.

Serve the chicken with the rice and haricot vertes!
Another easy recipe from a farang in Thailand!