Please post here easy, simple and if possible, fast to make recipes. Add also picture of foods if you can. Let me start with few my own.
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Pasta salad by pictures, step by step
As one picture tells more than 1000 words...
1: put to bowl some green lettuce, add a little olive oil, pinch of salt and pepper and mix. Put slices of tomato to bowl as picture.
2: add cooked pasta on lettuce.
3: add grated carrots and mushrooms (you can cook them few minutes in oil if you like and spice as you like).
4: add sliced cucumber and corn.
5: put on salad 2 boiled eggs, each cutted to 4 parts, add some salt and pepper (or other spices&herbs you prefer).
As you can see, salad is very simple but looks nicer when different incredients are layered by they own. And of course, using different vegetables you will get again new kind of salad.
One of these days i am having guests so after they have left i will in'sha'Allah try to bake the bread again. I am trying slowly to change habits in this case making own bread. To lay certain foundation one should not rush it, but be determined to do so. With it, by taking your time you can reflect every action done when experimenting with it, so you do not have a habit that is not solid (bread that has no taste or force the habit while the heart has not accepted it yet. This being you rejecting it.).
I don't know about the types of flours they have where you live, but if you have strong flour (also called bread flour), you should try that first. You will make great bread. Otherwise use plain flour (also called all purpose flour) which is also good for a beginner. Once you achieve that, then you can start mixing whole wheat or other types of flour/grains into it. I've baked bread a lot so inshallah I'll try to get pics and better directions the next time I make it.
I don't know about the types of flours they have where you live, but if you have strong flour (also called bread flour), you should try that first. You will make great bread. Otherwise use plain flour (also called all purpose flour) which is also good for a beginner. Once you achieve that, then you can start mixing whole wheat or other types of flour/grains into it. I've baked bread a lot so inshallah I'll try to get pics and better directions the next time I make it.
Well I'm tying up the knots to be honest. To meet all my promises I have made to any one here on the forum or in general..also with bread. I'm planning to close my account. So in'sha'Allah within 2 weeks actively do what needs to be done with baking bread.
I made up a recipe for pasta. Cook 1 pound of pasta (.5 kilos) of pasta. Fresh is best!
For the sauce: In a blender put 3 pounds of roasted red peppers, about 1/3 cup basil pesto, a generous helping of garlic paste or fresh minced garlic and about 3 ounces of torn fresh basil leaves. Add some sea salt, ground pepper and olive oil. Puree. Wilt 1 pound of fresh spinach in a skillet, and then add to blender and puree. Add the sauce to the pasta in a large pot and stir. Add about 1/2-3/4 cups of sour cream to the pot and stir in. This is a family favourite and halaal as well.
New update. The Ipraq/Dolma using Sumaq, not the ones that have been grinded. Just the ones that have been taken off the tree and like that. My sister said put them in water and slowly "massage" them so they can release their taste in to the water. She said the water with the sour taste, pour it with the ipraq/dolma..not too soon but also not to late. A bit in between. The rice needs to be cooked.
125 g butter
1,5 dl sugar (150 ml)
1 egg
1,5 dl wheat flour (150 ml)
1 dl potato flour* (100 ml)
1 teaspoon baking powder
(1 teaspoon vanilla sugar)
500 ml mashed gooseberries*
sugar (springling to the berries if needed)
Quark filling:
250 g quark*
0,5 dl milk or cream (50 ml)
o,5 dl sugar (50 ml)
1 egg
*Notes: You can also use only wheat flour (2,5 dl/250 ml). Potato flour makes your cake softer.
Quark is typical for the Nordic and the East European cuisines. Cream cheese or ricotta-type soft cheese might be suitable susbtitutes if quark ("rahka" in my language) is not familiar in your kitchen.
You can use what ever berries you like. Also sliced apples with cinnamon go well.
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the egg. Mix the flour, baking powder together and add to the mixture. Cut a disk of parchment paper and place on the bottom of a cake pan (diameter about 20 cm). Using your hands, lightly press the soft dough onto the bottom and the sides of the pan. .
Add mashed gooseberries. Pour quark filling over the berries. Bake at +225 C/+392 F for 30 minutes.
Oke, the final update about baking bread. I had baked the bread and gave it time to rise also the second time, the first time indeed the result of the final baked bread was better as it had risen to the sides and had the typical sides of a English bread, however it had not risen high enough in height. I thought maybe it was because of the yeast being older than a year. Tried with new bought yeast and indeed everything went oke. Thank you guys for for your shared knowledge and shared experience.
My Samboosas. Not claiming they are authentic, but they are nice.
Samboosas
-10 medium sized dates
-20 wonton wrappers
-125 g goat's cheese
-1 large handful of roasted pine nuts
-2 dessert spoons honey
-Sprig of lime juice
-Handful of thinly chopped fresh mint
Halve dates and remove stones. Chop into thin strips.Mix everything in a bowl with a fork except the wonton wrappers.
Put a teaspoon of filling on each wrapper. Wet edges with water. Fold into a tiny package (should be bonbon sized). Brush top with a bit of water. (You can brush with oil if you don't want to keep it low fat)
Put into oven on hot air on 200 celcius for 20 mins. Let cool. Enjoy the smell of your kitchen meanwhile
Salams all, iv recently discovered this thread and its really good so far! However i was wondering, if any of you know some quick easy recipies for inexperienced and generally not very good at cooking teenagers like could yall share? Im interested in learning how to cook!
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
Maybe more helpful if you define what you consider as healthy
Walaikumasalaam,
Don't tempt me sis! lol.
All the things we know we should eat but don't eat.
Lol how's that for a definition?
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
All the things we know we should eat but don't eat.
Lol how's that for a definition?
loool well like my little sister for example, I'll ask her what her favorite vegetable is and she'll say potatoes
Anyways, something I've fallen in love with is zoodles or zucchini noodles. I cook them until they caramelize a bit and add spices, parmesan cheese, and homemade tomato meat sauce. Sometimes I just stir fry it for a few minutes instead of waiting for it to caramelize or I'll cook it into the meat sauce. If it's too much veggie for you, you can use half spaghetti noodles, half zoodles. Other things I like are eggplant or zucchini boats (lots of recipes for those online..I just make it my own). I love carbs so i try to replace them with healthier alternatives when I can .
My sweet tooth told me to come here to this topic again, after a quite long absence. At the last posts before I noticed that someone asked me some healthy food recipes but well sometimes we just need something sweet right?
Chocolate treats
Bottom: almond paste from shop
Make from almost paste little round cakes, about 0.5 cm thick. Bake them in the oven at +175 celcius degrees for 5 minutes.
NOTE: You can also use some of your favorite cookies as bottom part if you like.
Filling:
150 g butter
1,5 desiliter powdered sugar
2 egg yolks
2 tea spoons cocoa powder
2 table spoon water
Beat the room temperature ingredients into a fluffy foam. Keep in the fridge half hour. Pipe the foam over the almond paste bases. Put treats to the freezer for 25 minutes.
On the top:
200 g dark chocolate
2 table spoon coconut butter
Melt in a water bath and dip the well-cooled cakes into the melted chocolate mixture. Chill in the refrigerator.
Last edited by sister herb; 10-14-2023 at 08:02 PM.
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