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Freitag, 23. Januar 2015

Spring Rolls

From an Asian supermarket I got rice paper circles and filled them with the following ingredients.

Spring Roll filling:
1 carrot, grated
1 small cucumber, grated
1 green onion, cut into small rings
1/4 red onion, cut into small cubes
chicken (optional)
mushrooms, washed and halved
2 tbsp peanut satay sauce
1 tbsp cream cheese
paprika, pepper, salt
Melt some butter in a pan, add spices. Place green onion, red onion, chicken (optional) and mushrooms an in the pan. Cover and let sit at medium heat for about 5 minutes. Turn over the chicken if necessary. When chicken and mushrooms are almost done, take them out of the pan and add satay sauce and cream cheese to the remaining onions.
Soak the rice paper circles in water for about 5 seconds, then fill them with carrot, cucumber, chicken (optional) and mushrooms. Top with sauce before rolling them up.
Makes about 5 spring rolls, enough for 1 meal or a snack for 2.

The result was very tasty. And I assume, once I get a bit better at rolling them it will also be quite a fast recipe as the cooking doesn't take too long and most of the ingredients are raw. With the sauce inside instead of on the side it's also a perfect finger food for work!




Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014

Russian Salad "Olivier"

To go with the leftover Tarte Flambee from yesterday I made:

a Russian salad with the name of "Olivier"
3 big potatoes, cooked and diced
4 eggs, cooked and diced
4 carrots, grated
1 cup of corn
1 cup of peas
1 cucumber, diced
1 pickled cucumber, diced
1/2 onion, chopped in the food processor
quite a bit of mayonnaise
a bit of mustard
salt and pepper
Mix everything together in a big bowl or pot. Enjoy for the next couple of days :)

I used fresh carrots and grated them instead of slicing and dicing them. It seemed like less work, I wonder if I could even chop them in the food processor like I did with the onion.
The mayonnaise turned out to be much saltier than I was used to, so I will need to either not add any salt at all or add it right at the end.