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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Caramelized Australian Lamb Chops With Morel & Shiitake Mushrooms Infused With Rosemarry


Ingredients

Lamb

12 lamb shoulder chops

Marinade

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce (or red wine vinegar)
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons honey mustard
1 tablespoon lemon juice
5-6 stalks of rose marry

Mushrooms

1 tray each morel & shiitake mushrooms , trimmed
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, finely chopped
2 tablespoons currants
Salt and pepper, to taste
Preparation

Combine the marinade ingredients in bowl and brush over all sides of the lamb chops. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes for flavors to infuse.

Drain excess marinade and cook lamb on medium high heat, turning frequently, about 10-12 minutes for medium or until cooked as desired. Transfer to a plate, cover with foil and let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
To prepare the mushrooms, place all ingredients in plastic bag and toss. Wrap in foil and place on the grill with the lamb, turning pouch occasionally until mushrooms are cooked as desired.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

CRÈME BRULÉE À LA VANILLE

Crème brûlée, also known as burnt cream, crema catalana, or Trinity cream is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel. It is normally served cold; it is sometimes served warm in North America.
The custard base is traditionally flavored with vanilla, but is also sometimes flavored with lemon or orange (zest), rosemary, chocolate, coffee, liqueurs, or other fruit.

follow this recepie and i assure you the best Crème brûlée.

Ingredients

Custard
250 ml /1 cup milk
750 ml / 3 cups cream
½ tsp vanilla extract
160 g / 5.3 oz granulated sugar
12 egg yolks

Caramelisation
100g / 3½ oz brown sugar (demarara)

Method

Preheat the oven to 210ºF.

Line a deep baking pan with paper toweling and arrange the ramekins making sure they do not touch.

Make the custard:

Heat the milk, cream, half the sugar and the vanilla together over medium heat until it comes to a boil. Remove from the heat. In a mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks and remaining sugar until light yellow and thick. While whisking, gradually incorporate the hot milk. Strain through a fine sieve back into the pan and place back onto the heat.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the custard mixture in a figure eight pattern. Cook while stirring constantly until the mixture coats the back of the spoon and leaves a trace when you run a finger through. DO NOT ALLOW IT TO BOIL.
Fill the ramekins with the finished custard mixture.

Cooking the crèmes brûlées:

Place the baking pan in the oven and carefully fill it with hot water 2/3 of the way up the side of the ramekins. Close the oven door and bake for approximately 45 minutes. Check to ensure that the oven is not too hot. If the crèmes begin to color around the edges, reduce the heat by 10 degrees. To test the crèmes for doneness, pierce with the tip of a small knife. It should come out with some traces of the cooked custard, but not completely coated. Continue baking for a further 5 minutes and test again.

When the crèmes brûlees are cooked, carefully remove the baking pan from the oven. Transfer the ramekins to a cooling rack. When the crèmes brûlees reach room temperature, place them in the refrigerator until cold, approximately 1 hour or overnight.

To serve: sprinkle the crèmes brûlees with the sugar, tap off the excess and caramelize the surface of the crèmes with a blowtorch, or under a hot broiler. Serve immediately.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Wine Poached Mussels Infused with Lemon Balm & Dry Chilli


Ingredients:
1 dozen green mussels
250 ml water
500 ml dry white wine
5-6 lemon balm leaves
4 thai red chilli (dried)
2 teaspoons fish sauce
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper.

Method:

> Clean Mussels and rince in water.

> Take a sauce pan with water and simmer add leamon balm, chilli and mussels, cover and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes or until shells open, shaking pot several times.

> When shells open, transfer to a bowl, reserving liquid in pan.

> Reduce the liquif by boiling.

> After the liquid has reached to half its volume add wine and recuce heat add the fish sauce, pepper and mussels.

> Simmer again for 5 minutes. don't over cook the mussels.

> Remove to serving platter, spoon remaining liquid over mussles if desired :)

*TIP: To Clean Mussel, Remove beards on mussels, and scrub shells well with a brush.
Discard opened or cracked mussels, or any heavy ones (they're filled with sand)

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Za'atar Crusted Hammour Fillet with Beet Pure & Peppers in vinaigrette Salad


it will take
•1 fillet of hammour roughly 250 gns
•3 tablespoons butter
•1 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
•4 tablespoon fresh zaatar
•2 cloves garlic, minced
•lemon pepper and salt to taste

for the pure
•3noz Fresh Beet roots
•500ml Fish/Chicken Stock
•200ml Fresh cream extra virgin olive oil
•2tablespoons fish sauce
•2 cloves garlic, minced

for vinaigrette
•1/2 tsp salt
•1 pinch black pepper
•1/2 tsp sugar
•1/2 tsp dijon mustard
•2 tbsp red wine vinegar
•6 tbsp oil of choice
Blend all these to get a classic vinaigrette.

Start with the Pure.
- boil the beets in the fish stock for 7 min. Strain
- roughly cut the boilled beets and blend with the other ingredients until u get a thick fluffy texture add a little fish stock if too thick.

for the fish
- marinate the fillet with salt pepper lemon juice and minced garlic and let it rest for 30 min.
-melt the butter in a shallow frying pan.
-spread the zaatar on a plate . take the fish and crust it with the zatar on one side and grill in the pan for 4 min each on both sides.

for the Salad
- cut the peppers (Bell Peppers) and toss in vinaigrette


Serves 1.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Grill Fish With lime & Parsley Sauce


Get:
50gm butter
Fresh lemon juice of 2 lemons
1 tbsp. chopped fresh dill, parsley ,chopped ginger
1/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
500gm fresh salmon, cod, Sword fish or hamur steaks.

Start off by,
Melting butter in small saucepan. Add leemon juice, herb, salt, ginger and pepper for Herb-Butter Baste.its a kind of sauce too.

Place fish on well-oiled wire grilling rack.
Brush fish with herb butter. Grill about 4-6 inches from gray-ashed coals 6-8 minutes. Baste with herb butter. Carefully turn; baste again.
Cook another 6-10 minutes or until fish flakes when tested with a fork.

Remove to serving platter, spoon remaining herb butter over steaks. Garnish as desired or fried slices of potato, and lemon slices, if you wish.
serve with buttered brown rice.
enjoy

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Chilled Cucumber Parsley & Yogurt Soup


You'll Need:
*3 cucumbers, peeled, seeds scooped out
*2 cloves garlic, peeled
*1 cup yogurt
*4 tablespoons roughly chopped parsley
*2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
*1 tablespoon olive oil
*Salt and Pepper to taste





Directions:

I would like u guys to, Place first three ingredients in a blender or food processor.
Blend until smooth. Add herbs, vinegar and olive oil and blend until smooth.

Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper to taste.
Chill in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Garnish with chopped cucumber and parsley sprigs.
enjoy..

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Brownies


You'll Need:

*1/2 cup flour, sifted before measuring
*1/4 teaspoon baking powder
*1/8 teaspoon salt
*1/2 cup butter, room temperature
*1 cup sugar
*2 eggs
*2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
*1 teaspoon vanila extract
*1 cup chopped wallnuts

Just do it. You'll need to grease and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.Into a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. In a mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar, and eggs together until light and fluffy. Beat in melted butter and chocolate; stir in flour mixture then fold in the chopped nuts. Spread the batter in a baking pan ; bake brownies at 325° for 25 to 30 minutes. Cut brownies in squares while still warm; cool brownies completely in pan. You're gonna be making around 16 chocolate brownies. So watch on the quantity..

Note: Instead of choco bar u can use 1 cup Coco- powder

To get high add sum Rum after adding wallnuts into the batter..

I admit, I like my sweets, especially chocolate. But I needed to know...would I die for these sweets.. I dont think sooo..