Spicy vegetable chicken!!! Yummie!!!

Spicy vegetable chicken

Great spicy dish!!! If you don’t like it sharp, don’t use too much chili!!!

ingredients:

– 400 gr chicken breast, cut into smal dices
– green asparagus, thiny ones, cut into 5 cm pieces
– 2 spring onions, sliced I also use the green part
– 3 cm fresh ginger, very finely chopped
– 3 garlic cloves, very finely chopped
– 10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced
– 3 fresh chili pepper (or to taste) finely chopped
– fresh coriander, roughly chopped
– extra virgin olive oil
– ground white pepper
– pinch of sea salt

marinade:

– 4 tablespoons light soy sauce
– 4 tablespoons dry sherry
– 2 tablespoons sesam oil

directions:

– Mix the marinade ingredients. Put in the diced chicken breast, cover with plastic foil
and leave it marinade (outside the fridge) for about 30 minutes

– heat a large pan with 4 tablespoons of olive oil. As soon as you reache high temperature, put in the sliced shiitakes. They absorp lots and lots of olive oil so wenn necessary add more olive oil. Wenn they are almost ready, add the chopped garlic and half of the green onions, stir well for about 1 or 2 minutes, make sure you don’t burn the garlic! Put this into a large nice bowl and set aside.

– heat some more olive oil in the same pan, once the oil is hot, put in the green asparagus and season with grounded white pepper and some sea salt. They are soon ready (2 or 3 minutes)
Put them in the same bowl as the shiitakes.

– take the chicken out of the marinade, drain well and throw the marinade away. Stir the chicken with the chopped chillies in the same large pan until ready.

– add the remaining sliced spring onions, stove for 1 minute, add the shiitake and green asparagus and toss well. Taste if it needs some more salt or pepper.

– top with fresh coriander

Delicious!!!!

Easy delicious avocado salad!

Easy delicious avocado salad

This is probably the easiest avocado salad recipe! Ideal with so many dishes or just as a starter. Very healthy!!!

ingredients:

– 1 avocado, pitted, peeled, and cut into slices
– 1 lime
– olive oil
– ground black pepper
– pomegranate seeds
– coriander leaves

directions:

– lay the avocado slices on a nice plate
– top with black pepper, drops of lime juice and olive oil and some coriander leaves.
– decorate with the pomegranate seeds

This is so easy and so healthy!!! We have our own pomegranate tree in the garden. Beautiful and tasty!!!

Funny fruit party with our Swiss friends!!!

Funny fruit party with the sieger family

Such a great night!!! Our Swiss friends came over for a late lunch… And no surprise, it ended in an early birthday morning!!! Congratulations Salomé!!!
So much fun making little creatures out of fruit in the early hours… Probably too much wine????? Or just Spanish fun???

The best green bean salad recipe from my good friend Agathe!!!

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This recipe I got from my good friend Agathe. Waauw taste so good with so many things!!! Here it was served with some great pata negra and a nice glass of rosé! Viva el verano!!!

ingredients:

500 gr green beans

dressing:

– juice or 1 lime
– 2 tablespoons of tamari soy sauce or light soy sauce
– 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
– 1 onion, finely chopped
– 10 cherry tomatoes, finely diced
– pinch of ground chili pepper
– fresh coriander leaves

directions:

– wash the fresh green beans
– remove the woody stem end, this can be done by snapping it off or simple by using a knife
– steam the beans or cook them in salted water untill done for about 4 minutes, they have to be tender but still crunchy
– put alle the ingredients from the dressing together
– pour the dressing over the green beans and serve

Delicious!!! Thanks Agathe!!!

Delicious mini zucchini pizzas!!!

Mini zucchini pizzas

This is another easy appetizer!!! So good and so healthy!!! You can top the pizzas however you like. I always use the same basic ingredients.

ingredients:

Basic ingredients:

– 1 zucchini, very well cleaned
– red pesto sauce (I don’t like the green pesto, it tastes to strong) or double concentrated tomato paste.
– ground black pepper
– gratex cheese au gratin or grated mozarella cheese

Toppings:

– white mushrooms, cut into very thin slices
– cherry tomatoes, cut into thin slices
– pine nuts
– basil leaves

– small pieces of good canned tuna fish
– some good quality anchovies, cut into little pieces
– capers

These are my 2 favourite toppings

directions:

Preheat the oven 200 degrees

– slice the zucchini (NOT peeled) into 3mm slices
– brush the red pesto on each slice
– cover with the toppings. I like to combine the mushrooms with the slice tomatoes, pine nuts and basil leaves. My other topping are the tuna with anchovies and capers.
– cover with the grated cheese

Put the mini pizzas in the oven for about 10 minutes. Remove and serve them. These are always a succes!!!

 

Mini zucchini pizzas with falco

 

Delicious stuffed mushrooms. Hmmm!

Stuffed mushrooms with text

Another summer topper!!! 10 minutes preparation, 40 minutes in the oven… Easy peasy, lets eat!!!

ingredients:

– 12 fresh white mushrooms
– 200 gr cream cheese (philadelphia)
– 1 medium onion, very finely chopped
– fresh herbs: coriander, basil, mint
– ground white pepper

directions:

– remove gently the stalk from each mushroom,,the head should stay intact
– stir the cream cheese with the chopped onion and fresh herbs
– fill the mushroom heads with the stirred mixture
– place the mushrooms into a baking tray and put in the oven
– bake for about 40 minutes 200 degrees
– remove and serve on a nice plate

Delicious!!!

 

Mushrooms in the oven

spicy cold paprika soup with pernod

Spicy cold paprika soup with pernod

This is an appetizer or a starter, I made it so many times this summer. It’s easy to make and the best thing is, you can prepare it ahead. If you have some soup left, you can easily freeze it!!!

ingredients:

– 3 red paprika (bell pepper, capsicum)
– water
– 1 vegetable stock cube (groentebouillon blokje)
– pernod (pastis, ricard,…)
– pinch of ground cayenne pepper (ground chili pepper)
– 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
– olive oil

directions:

– wash the paprika, remove the seeds and cut into pieces
– put some olive oil in a large pot together with the paprika and stew it for a couple of minutes
– cover the paprika completely with water
– add the stock cube and ground white pepper
– bring it to boil and leave it boiling for at least 30 minutes
– mix very well with immersion blender (staafmixer)
– pour it through a fine sieve

Now you can serve it as a nice warm soup topped with a pinch of cayenne pepper and some drops of extra virgin olive oil. But if you like something special:

– put it in the fridge to cool down
– just before serving add some pernod, a pinch of cayenne pepper and top with some olive oil.

serve it in a nice glass with a small straw. Yummie!!!

Delicious mini tuna vol-au-vent!!!

Mini tuna vol-au-vent

Looking for a different appetizer, I came to this solution. A must try!

ingredients:

– 12 mini puff pastry (vol-au-vent)
– 110 gr canned tuna in olive oil, drained
– 130 gr cream cheese (philadelphia)
– juice of 1/2 lemon
– onion, cut into small pieces
– 1/2 tablespoon ground sweet pepper (paprikapoeder, pimenton dulce)
– 1/2 tablespoon ground italian herbs
– 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, finely chopped
– sliced limes and capers to decorate
directions:

– preheat oven at 180 degrees

– place the mini puff pastry for 10 minutes in the oven

– prepare the filling, stir all ingredients together:
Tuna, cream cheese, lemon juice, onion, sweet pepper, italian herbs and fresh parsley

– fill the puff pastry with the mixture and serve on a nice plate with some capers and sliced limes.

I tried them also in the oven already filled with the mixture, 10 minutes 180 degrees, tasted completely different but delicious too!!! You should give it a try!!!

mangosnow with strawberry and cinnamon

mangosnow with text

This is probably the easiest dessert but sooooo good!!!

ingredients:

– 200 gr greek yoghurt (or fresh cream), I prefer greek yoghurt
– 1 fresh mango, peeled and cut into little pieces
– ground cinnamon
– strawberries
– mint leaves
– pomegranate (optional)

direccions:

– mix yoghurt and mango in a blender or simply us an immersion blender (staafmixer)

– pour it into small glasses

– cover with plastic foil and leave it rest in the fridge for at least 1 hour

– top (just before serving) with grounded cinnamon, 1 small mint leave, 1 little strawberry.

It’s lovely to put the mangosnow on a plate and decorate it with some strawberries and pomegranate seeds.
We have our own pomegranate tree in the garden, taste so good, it would be a shame not to use it!!!!

No problem to make it a day ahead! Even more delicious!!!