Veal in marsala with mixed mushrooms

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

  • 500 g Veal escalope or topside
  • Flour
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 50 g Butter
  • Olive oil
  • 1 dl Marsala
  • 200 g mixed mushrooms
  • 4 sprigs Oregano
  • 4 sprigs Parsley

Instructions
 

  • Cut the meat into 5 mm slices and flatten them with a cleaver between two sheets of foil. Mix the flour with salt and pepper and coat the veal steaks in the flour.
  • Melt the butter over medium heat and add some more pepper and olive oil. Fry the veal steaks on high heat for 2 minutes per side. Add the marsala and heat for a few more minutes until the meat is tender. Then put them away and keep warm under aluminum foil on a warm plate.
  • Then put the mushrooms in the pan and fry them on high heat. Let them simmer with the lid on the pan until they have lost their moisture. Then remove the lid and turn the heat to high to allow the liquid to evaporate and the sauce to thicken.
  • Then put the meat on the plates, spoon the mushrooms on the meat, pour the sauce over the meat and some next to it. Top with parsley and oregano. Serve quickly before it cools.
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Éclairs with mocha glaze

Course Pastry
Cuisine Frans
Servings 20 Pieces

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 100 g Flour
  • 100 Ml Water
  • 100 Ml Milk
  • 0,5 tsp Salt
  • 100 g Butter diced
  • 4 Pieces Eggs

Fill

  • 500 g Pastry cream

Glaze

  • 250 g white fondant
  • 50 Ml Water
  • 0,5 Cup Espresso coffee

Instructions
 

Dough

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bring the pan with the milk, water, butter and salt to the boil. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the flour. Put back on the heat and let the mixture cook for 1 to 2 minutes while stirring. Remove the pan from the heat again and stir in the eggs 1 at a time, until they have been absorbed and a nice smooth and flexible batter has been created. Fill a piping bag with an 8 mm nozzle with the batter and pipe sausage sized moulds of 10-12 cm on a baking paper-lined and lightly greased floured baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Leave them to cool on a grid.

Fill

  • Beat the pastry cream with a whisk until smooth.
  • Cut them open on 1 long side and fill a piping bag with the cream and fill the éclairs.

Glaze

  • Heat the fondant with the water to 40ºC, stirring constantly, and mix in the coffee. You can cover the glaze on the èclairs with a spoon or you can pass them through the glaze. Let them stiffen and serve.

Notes

This dough is used for baking puffs and puffs, profiteroles, éclairs, moorheads, croqu-and-bouche, cheese puffs.
With one quantity of dough with 3 eggs you make 20-25 middle large puffs, enough for 6 portions for a dessert.
If you pipe the puffs, use a piping bag with a round nozzle of 1 – 1.25 cm diameter diameter.
Bake the puffs in a preheated oven at 200C for +/- 20-25 minutes. If you fry the dough for fritters, fry them in fat of 190 C for ± 3 – 5 minutes.
Golden rules for baking puffs:
Never let the water boil until the butter has melted - the water evaporates, causing the quantities no longer are right.
Bake the puffs on a water-moistened baking tin, so they rise better. Instead of a piping bag you can also place the puffs on the baking tin with the help of 2 tea spoons. Leave space between the puffs because of the rising.
Puffs should be nice in color, they often look overcooked before they are really crunchy. To maintain the crispiness, prick a small hole when cooked and put them back in the oven (with the oven door open) to give the steam the chance to escape. If you do not do this, there is a good chance that the puffs will collapse if they are finished.
The puffs are the best when they're fresh. You can also put them in the oven to pep them up. Always store the puffs in a can that is airtight.
Variations
Gougère: add 50 grams of cut cheese to the dough and make small piles on a baking tin. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the preheated oven.
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Réunion

Crème brûlée with passion fruit and vanilla

Course Dessert
Cuisine Frans
Servings 6 Persons

Ingredients
  

  • 5 Dl Room
  • 1 Pieces Vanillestokje
  • 4 Pieces Egg yolks
  • 65 g Suiker
  • 2 Pieces Passion fruit
  • Rietsuiker for the caramel

Instructions
 

  • Pour the cream into the pan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and add in the cream with the stick. Bring the cream to the boil gently and leave a few minutes of simmering. Remove the pan from the heat and leave for a few minutes.
  • Preheat the oven to 150 °C. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the white sugar into a creamy substance. Then slowly add the hot cream and stir well. Then remove the vanilla pod.
  • Scrape the passion fruit with a spoon and stir the pulp through the cream. Mix over crème brûlée in the bowl and put them a baking tray. Pour in warm water so that half of the bowls are underwater. Bake the custard for about 45 minutes. It's got to be a little soft in the middle.
  • Let it cool down. Put them in the refrigerator until further use.
  • Sprinkle the top of the crème brûlées with some cane sugar and spread it over the custard. Then caramelise with a gas burner and let the custard get cold again.
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Cannoli with ricotta

Course Pastry
Cuisine Italian
Servings 12 pieces

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 150 g Bloem
  • 2 tsp Cacaopoeder
  • 1 tsp Oploskoffie
  • 1 Tablespoon Suiker
  • 20 g cold unsalted butter diced
  • 1 tsp dry marsala
  • 3 Tablespoon dry white wine
  • 1 Ei Beaten
  • Olie om te frituren

Fill

  • 300 g Ricotta
  • 150 g Suiker
  • 0,25 tsp vanilla extract
  • 0,5 tsp Citroenrasp
  • 1 Tablespoon Sukade Chopped
  • 6 Pieces bigarreaus in pieces
  • 15 g pure chocolade Grated
  • Poedersuiker

Instructions
 

Dough

  • For the dough, mix the flour, sugar, coffee and cocoa powder in a bowl. Work the butter through it and then the wine and the marsala wine, and mix everything until you have a loose, cohesive dough. Place the dough on a floured worktop and knead it lightly; some flour when needed. Place the dough in a plastic wrap for about 30 minutes in a cool place.
  • Lightly flour the worktop and roll out the dough into a sheet of approximately 32 x 24 cm. Cut the edges and then cut it into 12 squares of 8 x 8 cm. Grease cannoli tubes lightly with oil. Fold to each cannoli tube diagonally a square of dough and stick it with beaten egg. Press the edges firmly.
  • Heat the oil in a frying pan to around 180°C, or so hot it is a piece of dough crispy and golden brown in about 15 seconds. If smoke comes from the oil, it's too hot. Put the cannoli in it, a fewat a time, and fry until golden brown and crispy. Remove them with pliers and drain them on kitchen paper. Let the tubes get loose as soon as they are cooled down enough, slip and leave the cannoli on a grid to cool well.

Fill

  • For the filling, mash the ricotta with a fork. Mix the sugar and vanilla extract through it and then the lemon zest, the sukade, the bigarreaus and the grated chocolate. Fill the cannoli with a Tblsp or with a piping bag. Place them on a platter and pollinate them with icing sugar. The cannoli should not lie for too long once they are filled, because then they become soft.
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Susciello

Baked sausages in tomato sauce

Course Side dish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 6 pax

Ingredients
  

  • 75 g Pancetta diced
  • 1 Pieces Onions roughly chopped
  • 1 Pieces fresh sausage
  • 75 g Soppressata Dry Sausage
  • 0,5 Can Tomatoeds
  • 6 Pieces Eggs
  • Pepper
  • Sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over low heat. When the oil is hot, add the pancetta and cook for about 10 minutes until the fat has melted. Then add the fresh sausage and soppressata and bake for about 5 minutes. Break the sausage stirring. Then add the tomatoes, add some salt and simmer for 15 minutes. The sauce needs to be thickened. If the sauce is too thick, add some water to it.
  • Break the eggs and let them slide into the sauce. Heat until the eggs are solidified and the egg yolks still liquid. Then serve up right away.
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U’ Cutturidd

Lamb stew

U' Cutturudd'
Course Main course meat
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 pax

Ingredients
  

  • 1,5 Kg Lamb shoulder
  • 2 Tablespoon Olive oil
  • 1 Clove Garlic
  • 1 Pieces onion roughly chopped
  • Sea salt
  • 1 Pieces Red bell pepper
  • 3 Pieces Bay leaves
  • 240 Ml White wine
  • 0,5 can tomatoes
  • 2 Liter lamb or beef stock
  • 6 Twigs Parsely
  • 1 Bunch wild fennel or a small fennel thinly sliced and on ice.
  • Pepper

Instructions
 

  • Cut the lamb into cubes of about 5 cm. Fry in the olive oil brown, all around. All the meat should hit the bottom, if necessary you fry it in multiple portions. Then remove the meat from the pan and set aside.
  • Bake in the same oil the garlic and onion with some salt, over low heat. Then add the red bell pepper and bay leaf and bake for a minute. Extinguish with the wine and scrape the bottom loose with a flat spoon. Then put the meat back in the pan and add the tomatoes with the broth, the meat should be just under. Add salt, place the lid on the pan and simmer for 1.5 hours over low heat. Just before serving stir in the parsley and fennel. Serve at room temperature with ciabatta bread.
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Focaccia Pugliese

Course Bread
Cuisine Italian
Servings 3 focaccie

Ingredients
  

  • 350 Ml water
  • 200 g Flour
  • 300 g farina di semola Durum wheat
  • 100 g potato puree
  • 2 g dry yeast or 3x as much fresh yeast
  • 12 g Sea salt
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 160 Ml Olive oil
  • 500 g Cherry tomatoes
  • 30 Pieces black olives
  • 1 Tablespoon Oregano Dried

Instructions
 

  • Mix all the flour, potato puree salt, yeast, sugar and 1/3rd of the olive oil in a bowl or by hand. Knead the dough until soft.
  • Put the dough on to a floured worktop. Cut the dough into three equally large pieces. Make a ball of this and put them in three different deep plates, cover with olive oil. Brush the dough with olive oil and cover it with plastic wrap. Set the plates aside at room temperature to make it rise. It should be about three times the size.
  • Put two tblsp of the olive oil in a pan about 30 cm in diameter. Put one of the dough balls in the pan. Push with your fingers and gently pull it in the shape of the pan but don't let it tear.
  • Divide the cherry tomatoes, that have been halved, with the cutting edge down on the dough plus about 10 olives. Cover the pan with a cloth and set aside for another 20 minutes to rise.
  • Preheat the oven to 220 °C.
  • Put the pan on the heat and heat moderately. Bake the focaccia as the oil heats up for another 3 minutes. The bottom should turn deep gold brown.
  • If the oven is raised at temperature in the dough, the pan is in the oven. Sprinkle a tblsp salt and oregano over the dough. Sprinkle approximately one Tblsp of the oregano and some salt over the dough. Sprinkle a Tblsp olive oil over the dough.
  • Then put the pan in the oven and bake the focaccia for about 17 minutes until it has a deep brown crust. Let it cool down for a few minutes out of the pan. You can eat it hot or cold.
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Pissaladiere

Servings 4 persons

Ingredients
  

Preparation of the dough

  • 300 g flour
  • 20 g baker's yeast or 1/3 dry yeast
  • 2 cl olive oil
  • 3 g salt

Preparation of the filling

  • 500 g white onions
  • 8 pcs anchovy fillets in salt
  • 5 twigs thyme flower
  • 1 leaf bay leaf
  • 10 pcs black olives from Nice
  • 1 pinch oregano
  • 5 cl olive oil
  • Salt flower
  • Freshly ground pepper

Instructions
 

Preparation of the dough

  • Dissolve the yeast with 5 cl of lukewarm water. In a cap, form a ring with the flour and salt. Add 2 cl of olive oil and the yeast. Work the dough with your fingertips, pouring in about 20 cl of water in a trickle to obtain a supple and soft dough. Work the dough by stretching it for 5 minutes. Cover it with a damp cloth and let it grow in a warm place. It should reach between 3 and 4 cm in height.

Preparation of the filling

  • Peel the onions, cut them in half, remove the root in the heart, then finely slice each half onion, from top to bottom.
  • Heat 3 cl of olive oil in a sauté pan. Sweat the onions without coloring for 5 minutes. Add the oregano, bay leaf, fleur de sel and freshly ground pepper. Cook covered for 30 minutes, stirring frequently. The onions must remain transparent.
  • Rinse the anchovy fillets under running water, pat dry. Add them to the onions, let them melt. Remove from fire. Remove the bay leaf.

Making the pissaladière

  • Preheat the oven to 260°C.
  • Quickly rework the dough to make it fall. Oil a baking sheet. Place the dough on the baking sheet and spread it over the entire surface with your fingers. Distribute the onion fondue evenly over the dough up to 1 cm from the edges. Drizzle with 2 cl of olive oil.
  • Put the pissaladière in the oven and cook for 25 minutes at 240°C. Sprinkle with the thyme flower and add the olives a few minutes before the end of cooking.
  • The pissaladière is cooked when the edges are golden.

Finishing and presentation

  • Cut the pissaladière into pieces.
  • Serve hot with seasoned mesclun.
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Bouillabaise

Servings 6 persons

Ingredients
  

Preperation

  • 2 kg of various rock fish moray eel, conger eel, gurnard, whiting, monkfish, scorpion fish, girelle, saint-pierre, vive, etc.
  • 2 pcs onions
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 2 pcs small leeks
  • 3 pcs tomatoes
  • 1 pcs fennel bulb
  • 1 leaf bay leaf
  • 1 sprigs thyme
  • 1 pcs dried orange peel
  • 2 pinch saffron pistils
  • 8 cl olive oil
  • 1 pcs baguette
  • pcs pepper
  • Salt flower

Rouille

  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 2 pcs fresh red peppers
  • 1 pcs small potato of 50 g
  • 1 pcs egg yolk
  • 1 pinch saffron pistils
  • 12 cl olive oil
  • fine salt
  • Freshly ground pepper

Instructions
 

  • Clean, scale and top all the fish. Cut them into large pieces, leave the small ones whole. Bring 3 liters of water to a boil in a pot.
  • Peel the onions, 3 cloves of garlic, the leeks and the fennel. Wash the leeks and fennel, mince them. Chop the garlic and onions. Peel the tomatoes and crush them.
  • In a large casserole dish, put the onions, garlic, leeks, fennel, tomatoes, bay leaf, thyme, orange peel, saffron, salt and pepper. Add the fish, pour in 4 cl of olive oil and turn the casserole dish in all directions so that everything mixes and the fish soak up the different flavors.
  • Pour the boiling water over the fish and cook them over a very high heat for 5 minutes. A violent and brief boil should combine the oil and water. Lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Adjust the seasoning, which should be well seasoned.

Rouille

  • Wash the potato. Cook it the English way, with its skin on, in a little Russian. Drain it, peel it and crush it.
  • Peel the garlic, remove the germ and chop the cloves. Chop the peppers. Place the garlic and peppers in a mortar. Add 1 pinch of fine salt, the egg yolk and the potato. Crush the mixture, then gradually incorporate the oil, always turning in the same direction, as with mayonnaise. Take some of the liquid from the hot bouillabaisse. Dissolve the saffron in it and add it. Mix carefully to obtain a thick paste. Pepper in the mill.

Finishing and presentation

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C. Cut the baguette into 1 cm slices and dry them in the oven without toasting them. Peel 2 garlic cloves, cut them in half, degerm them and rub the baguette slices. Drizzle them with olive oil. Arrange all the pieces of fish in a soup tureen. Drizzle with the broth. Present the rust separately in a gravy boat. Place the bread in a basket.
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Daube de boeuf

Servings 8 persons

Ingredients
  

marinated beef

  • 1/2 oxtail
  • 500 g beef
  • 500 g chuck
  • 4 pcs carrots
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 2 pcs white onions
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 pcs untreated orange
  • 15 corns peppercorns
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 1 bottle red wine

Cooking the stew

  • The pieces of beef marinated in their bowl
  • 3 tbsp. flour
  • 1 liter chicken broth

Instructions
 

Marinade

  • Cut the meats into 2 to 3 cm cubes by the butcher. Degrease them.
  • Then prepare the marinade. Peel and wash the carrots, the celery stalks, and cut them into whistles. Peel the onions and garlic cloves: cut the onions into small wedges and crush the garlic cloves. Cut the orange into slices. Collect all these products in a bowl. Add the peppercorns and thyme. Pour in the red wine and marinate for 48 hours in the refrigerator.

Cooking the stew

  • Heat the oven to 150°C. Drain the meats and put aside. Filter the marinade directly into a colander placed on a saucepan. Boil the wine from the marinade for 2 minutes, skimming it carefully.
  • In a cast iron casserole dish, heat a drizzle of olive oil and brown the meat cubes on all sides. Stir them several times. Then remove them with a skimmer and put the aromatic garnish instead, but without the oranges. Stir well for 2 minutes then sprinkle the flour and let it cook. Lower the heat and stir again. Return the beef pieces and orange slices to the casserole dish. Pour in the marinade wine, then the poultry broth at height: the liquid should just cover the meats. Salt lightly and boil, skimming well. Then cover the casserole dish and bake for 3 hours.
  • Take out the casserole dish. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Serve the stew in its casserole dish or dress it in a deep dish.

advice

  • If the sauce is too long, put the casserole dish on the heat and let it reduce. Otherwise, add what you need of poultry broth.
  • With the leftovers of this stew, you can prepare, for example, whole pasta in a casserole dish. Or ravioli.
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