Monday, May 31, 2010

Pasta with broad bean pesto

I know I will repeat, but I love broad bean.
Here you have very nice recepie from another web page "Kwestia smaku".
Delicious!


Ingredients:
- pasta- broad beans- basil leaves- pine nuts- olive oil- parmesan cheese- garlic- salt and freshly ground black pepper


Preparation:
Beans cook and peel. Cook the pasta in salted water, drain, preserving 1 / 2 cup water.Half of the cooked and peeled beans put into the blender container, add the basil and pine nuts, leaving part of the decoration. Pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil, add grated Parmesan cheese, garlic, freshly ground black pepper. Mix add enough water from pasta to obtain dense pesto. If necessary, season with salt. The second half of the beans mixed with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil. Pasta mix with pesto. Put into deep plates, add beans postponed with olive oil, garnish with basil and pine nuts.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Sorrel soup


I love sorrel soup, most of my grandmother
. I didn't find sorrel in Turkey, so I am bringing from Poland:)


Ingredients:
- sorrel- carrots- parsley- potatoes- cream- hard-boiled eggs- butter- dill- bay leaf- bouillon or stock cube instant


Preperation:

To the pot with water put bay leaf, parsley and diced carrots. When water will boil add bouillon.Cook over low heat about 20 minutes, added the potato (or you can cook them seperate)
Wash the sorrel, remove hard stems, cut and fry in butter.When potatoes are almost tender, add sorrel and dill. Simmer for about 10 minutes.In the end add chopped hard-boiled eggs.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Broad bean soup

I love broad bean a lot!!!
In Turkey I can find it only in season...NOW! Fresh, great green broad been!
My brother-in-low made one soup with beijing salad, broad been and green beans.
Taste amazing!




Ingredients:

- broad bean
- beijing salad
- green pea
- carrots

- parsley
- stock cube
- dill
- cream
- salt and pepper

Preperation:

Wash and clean all ingredients. To the pot with water put  cut in to cubes vegetables, but broad bean cook seperate with salted water.
When the vegetables start to boil add stock cube and cooked broad bean peeled from the shell. Cook a bit more add dill, salt and pepper in the end cream.

Very tasty!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Young beet soup

I always plan to make beet soup, in Turkey you can find young beet,
what is much better cause they taste better then old beet:)
Today is a day to try something new, for me is a Young Beet Soup.
I found very nice and easy recipe in internet.


Ingredients:
-  celery
- parsley
- carrots
- onion
- pore
- potatoes, 
- a bunch of young beets with leaves
- vegetable stock cube
- salt
- pepper
- sugar
- citric acid
- sour cream
- hard-boiled egg
- flour

Preparation:

Wash vegetable, then you need to peel them. Cut greens and potatoes in cubes, onion leave whole.
Greens plus onions and stock cube, water pour over the potatoes and cook vegetables until tender.
Wash beets, cut the bulbs in small cubes, add to the already cooked vegetables and cook until beets are soft. Add spoon of sugar, pinch of citrin acid, salt and pepper and cook 5-10 minutes more.
Then 2-3 tablespoons cream mess with the flour, pouring into the hot soup and pour everything into the pot, stirring - wait until boiling. Seasoning according to taste. At the plate, we cut in quarters boiled egg, pour soup and sprinkle with dill.