22 June, 2010

Fur Coat Salad

Fur Coat Salad is very healthy in every season and especially, in the summer when we want to loose our extra weight, but same time stay healthy .

Ingredients:

Beet root 3pcs;
Carrot 5pcs;
Potato 2pcs;
Egg 4pcs;
Sour Cream as much needed;
Fennel 1 bunch;
Smoked Herring 1pcs;
Salt;
Black Ground Pepper.

For Designing:

Radishes 1/2 bunch;
Parsley 1/2 bunch.

All ingredients has to be cut into small and same size shape. Beets, carrots, potatoes, eggs have to boiled and cooked well, but keep their shape, then all ingredients have to be cool down. Take any flat big plate and start from herring to make one layer, then with order potato, fennel, carrot, salt, pepper, beets, sour cream, then continue with same order until finish all your vegetables and on top cover with additional sour cream . For desining cut cleaned and washed radishes into circle shape and design around salad. Cut parsley in mid size and design top of salad.

Keep it in refrigerator about 2 hours, then serve.

Bon Appetite!

19 June, 2010

Dolma with Grape Leaves

   Dolma With 
            &
  Without Sauce


















    Dolma is Azerbaijan national food, you can cook it in any season, but mostly spring, summer and autumn with fresh leaves, but winter with canned leaves. We have a 3 kinds of  Dolma, and here is one of them.

For Dolma we need:

- 1pcs Vidalia or Red Onion;
- 1 bunch of Fennel;
- 2lb/1kg Canned or Fresh Grape Leaves;
- 1/2lb/250gr Rice;
-1lb/500gr Ground Beef;
-1/2lb/300gr Ground Lamb Meat;
- Salt;
- Olive Oil;
- Black Ground Pepper for Taste.

For Sauce:

- 3 cloves of Garlic;
- 1/2lb/300gr Yogurt;
- Salt.

Dolma's ingredients has to be cut into small pieces and mix with ground meat, and add its salt and pepper. Grape leaves has to cook separately 5 minutes. After everything is ready need to fill each grape leaves with ingredients and wrap them in the shape of fat pen, but short and accurately, after arrange them inside pot, then add approximately 300gr water and olive oil, and cook it in low temperature on stove.

For sauce garlic need to squash and mix with salt and yogurt.

Nush Olsun!!!

18 June, 2010

Capital Salad

My dear readers,

Capital salad actually is Russian salad, but some years before Azeris began to make it too, but they'd changed few ingredients to make it more delicious and healthy for all seasons.

Ingredients:

- Fresh Cucumber 6pcs;
- Pickled Cucumber 5pcs;
- Canned Green Peas 300gr;
- Potato 2pcs, but if its big only 1pcs;
- Carrot 6pcs;
- Fennel 1 bunch;
- Spring Onion 1bunch or Vidalia Onion 1pcs;
- Egg 5pcs;
- Chicken (breast meat only) aprx:2 full breast without bone and skinless;
- Sour Cream 1.5lb/680gr;
- Yogurt 1/2lb/200gr (just who wish to make it lighter and juice a bit);
- Salt;
- Black Ground Pepper.

All ingredients has to be cut into same small shape and size. Only carrot, potato, egg and chicken has to be boiled and cooked well but with one condition that vegetables not to get mashed. When cooked vegetables are ready take it out of water, and let it get cold then mix all cut ingredients and add salt, pepper, sour cream and yogurt. Food has stay in refrigerator 5-6 hours before serving, then enjoy your tasty, healthy salad with your family or with your friends!

15 June, 2010

AzerIra Soup

It was night and I'd decided to prepare lunch for next day for my husband. While I'm preparing lunch I saw in storage container some remain parts of vegetables, which was washed and cut before, but wasn't used for food as they were less, and I decided to use them to make a soup for dinner and I created this soup.



- Oat (100gr);

- Yellow Split Peas (50gr);

- Potato (1pcs);

- Chicken Wings (2pcs);

- Onion(1pcs);

- Garlic (2teeth);

- Vine Tomatoes (3pcs);

- Carrot (1pcs);

- Egg (1pcs);

- Coriander (how much you wish);

- Sweet Red Pepper (1/2pcs);

- Salt (1tbs);

- Red Pepper Powder (hot (1ts));

- Olive Oil (2 tbs);

- Dried Lime (2pcs);

- Laurel/Bay Leaves (1 leaf).



I just cut ingredients into small pieces except chicken wings and added water, then boiled it until fully cooked, then added coriander.



This portion is for 4 persons. Bon Appetite! How we say in Azeri "Nush Olsun!" or in Farsi "Nushe Jan!".


16 January, 2010

Fried Duck Giblets with Potato









Necessary Ingredients:

- Duck gizard (2lb/1kg);
- Duck heart (2lb/1kg);
- Idaho potatoes (2lb/1kg);
- Canola oil;
- Salt;
- Black ground pepper.

First need to clean and wash gizard, heart and potato, then add salt on it and mix and leave it for a while until its water gone, after that add canola oil to fried pan and fry them by shift first gizard and heart, then potatoes. When finishing frying mix all of them and add black ground pepper on it and its ready to serve.

Enjoy Your Fried Heart Healthy Food!

Green & Red Salad

It is delicious and healthy salad. You've to try it!

Ingredients:

- Lettuce (1 bunch);
- Grape tomatoes (1/2lb);
- Pickled cucumber (5pcs);
- Spring onion (1/2 bunch);
- Pure grape seed oil (2tbs);
- Fresh cucumber (1/2lb);
- Salt;
- Black grounded pepper;
- Any kind of crisps bread.





Enjoy Your Meal!

01 January, 2010

Suyugh (Boiled and Steamed Greens with Rice)

Everybody knows that greens are very healthy, but some people can't eat just row greens and here is secret of healthy and delicious food, which came from our ancestors!!!

Dear ladies, if you want your skin always smooth, shining and brighten, so don't miss it and read carefully!

Suyugh is an Azeri food made of several kind of greens and rice. It's easy to prepare, to cook and it meets everybody's taste. In Azerbaijan they cook this food mostly spring and autumn seasons, because our body in these seasons need more vitamins. Here is recipe:

For Sauce:

4 cloves of garlic;
300 gr yogurt;
Salt.

For Food:

1 bunch spinach;
1 bunch spring onion;
2 bunches dill;
2 bunches coriander;
1 bunch mint;
1 bunch parsley;
1 cup rice (200 gr);
100 gr olive oil;
Salt & Black pepper.

All greens have to be cleaned and washed, then cut same size in small pieces. Add olive oil to pot, then one cup of water and add washed rice. Let it be boiled in 5 minutes, then add all cut greens, salt and black pepper for taste. It has to be cooked in 20 minutes.

Separately, we make sauce in one plastic bowl. Squash garlics with salt, then add yogurt and some water and mix it very well. Keep it in refrigerator 30 minutes before serving.

Serve Suyugh to shallow plate and add sauce on the top with rounded motion and enjoy your meal!

Bon Appetite!

Please, check my other advises and recipes too!!!