Saturday 1 November 2014

Fay's potato salad


5-6 potatoes
2 Lebanese cucumbers sliced
4 sticks of fresh celery chopped 
3 spring onions chopped 
1/4 cup olive oil
1 large lemon
Salt and black coarse pepper
1tbs dried oregano 

Method 

Wash and cut potatoes.
Place potatoes in a pot in salted water and Boil until just done
Drain water and add all other ingredients mix well add salt pepper and the juice of the lemon taste and add more seasoning if needed. 






Monday 27 October 2014

Orange syrup pie



Ingredients 

corn oil: 1 cup 
Sugar: 1 cup 
baking powder: 1 sachet
vanilla: 2
yoghurt: 1tab of low-fat 250g 
Eggs: 3
orange: zest of 1
Crust: 1packet of   Philo pastry 
For the syrup
Water: 3 cups
Orange: 1, peels and a few drops of juice
Sugar: 2 glasses of water

Method 
In a bowl add all the ingredients except the pastry and mix well until all ingredients are incorporated 
Shred the Philo  into small pieces with your hands,  (after you have thawed and kept at room temperature), and incorporate into the mixture, stirring well. Spread a 35ari pan well with oil and pour the mixture through you prepared.
Bake at 180 ° C until golden brown on top (about 35). Prepare the syrup by boiling together all ingredients and stir until thickened. Allow the cake to cool and then pour the syrup. Allow the cake for 5 minutes so that the syrup to go everywhere and then cut it. Optionally, you can serve it with a ball of ice cream.


Lamb kapamas (Lamb in red wine sauce)

1kg lamb into portions
1/2 cup olive oil
A little flour
1 brown onion diced
2 cloves of garlic diced 
½ cup white wine
2-3 ripe tomatoes or 1tin of diced tomato 
1 tbs of tomato paste
2 tbs of chicken stock powder 
Salt and pepper
Cinnamon wood
4-5 balls of Allspice
Mash the tomatoes  onion and garlic in a food processor.

Wash the pieces of lamb and pat dry.
The salt and pepper and the flour well. 

 In a deep pan, add the olive oil to burn 
and saute the pieces of meat,
until browned on all sides.

 We withdraw meat from the pan and pour into  a hot pot. 
In the same  oil pan, add the wine and after 2 minutes and add minced tomatoes,onion and garlic let it sauté a bit then
Mix salt, pepper, cinnamon and cloves
and allow the sauce to boil for 3-4 minutes.

 Then pour into the hot pot with the meat, 
add a cup of hot water,
lower the heat and let the meat simmer on low for 4-6 hours
until tender and sauce thickens.

 This food was eaten traditionally with pasta, or fried Chips Enjoy! 





Beef youvetsi me kritharaki (Recipe by Sylvia Lambrinidis)



1 kilo stew beef - whole steaks
1 jar raguletto garlic red wine tomato sauce
250 grm krithapaki (manestra)...
1 small oinion sliced thinly
8 balls Allspice 
Bay leaves
1 table spoons cinnamon
4 table spoons olive oil
2 table spoons margarine
Salt pepper
6 cups hot water

Use a pot you can fry and bake in the oven
Heat oven at 180 degrees whilst you prepare pot on the stove
Add olive oil to pot
Add sliced onions and braise
Add meat
Once browned
Add tomato sauce
Stir until heated add water
Once it starts to boil add all the seasoning
Let it cook for 10 mins then add krithapaki (manestra)
Transfer to oven - make sure you bake with a lid to keep moisture in.
Bake for 45 mins let it sit for 10 mins - serve hot