Rabbit in the oven with potatoes

RABBIT IN THE OVEN WITH POTATOES

Recipe for six people

Ingredients

1 rabbit 1300-1500 grams

5 large ripe tomatoes

Salt, pepper, oregano, savory

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1 tablespoon black pepper grains

1 tablespoon coriander grains

1 cup olive oil

2 kilos potatoes

The juice of one large lemon

Instructions

Ask the butcher to cut the rabbit into 13 portions. He will cut 4 portions from the feet, 8 portions from the body and 1 portion from the animal's head.

Put on the meat salt, pepper, oregano, savory, coriander and ground cumin.

Put the meat in a deep pan with dimensions 31CH41CH5 centimeters.

Smear with oil the meat from all sides.

Wash the tomatoes and cut them in the blender.

Spread the grated tomatoes all over the meat. The tomatoes cover all the surface of the meat like a red wrapping.

Add water in the pan until it covers the 2/3 of the meat.

Put the pan in the oven on the first scale from the bottom.

Cover the pan with non stick baking paper.

This paper protects the surface of the meat from burning.

Bake at 250 K degrees for 1 hour.

Peel the potatoes and put them in a bowl with water.

Wash them well and cut them into pieces with the size of a walnut.

Pour the remaining oil over the potatoes and stir them until all get smeared with oil.

Put the potatoes in the pan with the meat and cook them together for one hour.

With a long fork check, if the meat is tender.

If the meat is undercooked, cook it longer until tender.

When the meat is soft and tender, take it off the pan and put it on a platter.

Cover again the pan with the non stick baking paper.

Bake the potatoes for an hour.

After that time uncover the potatoes and turn them upside down. This way the potatoes from the bottom come to the surface.

Take off the wax paper and let them to cook until brown.

Shortly before the finish, spread the lemon juice over the potatoes.

When the potatoes are ready, put again the rabbit in the pan over the potatoes.

Turn off the oven but leave the food inside covered with wax paper to keep warm.

(Sometimes I invite a lot of people at home. In these occasions I bake two rabbits.

The potatoes are cooked separately from the meat because they don’t fit into the same pan.

First I cook the meat then I take it off and put it on a platter. Then I put the potatoes in the pan and cook them separately).

Small shrimp pies fried

SMALL SHRIMP PIES FRIED

Ingredients

1/2 pound large shrimp gross, fresh or frozen

2 medium ripe tomatoes

1 sachet of dry yeast

110 ml warm water

70 g flour

2 tablespoons olive oil + 120 ml oil for frying

Instructions

Rinse the tomatoes and cut them in the blender into small pieces.

Pour lukewarm water in the blender.

Beat the tomatoes and the water together.

Pour the tomato juice in a bowl.

Add in the bowl some salt, two tablespoons of oil and the dried yeast.

Stir with a spoon to dissolve the yeast.

Put the flour into the bowl and mix.

You are trying to make a batter not too thick.

If the batter you have made is very thin, add some flour and stir.

If the batter seems too thick, add water and dilute.

Rinse the shrimp well. With the scissors cut all the legs and the antennas.

If you won't cut them they will stick to your mouth.

Keep for decoration of the dish five whole shrimp.

With kitchen scissors sever the heads of the remaining shrimp. You will fry them later.

With scissors cut the shell of each shrimp in the middle of the back in its entire length.

Remove the shells and throw them in the trash.

With a sharp knife scarify every shrimp along the back.

Open the skin and try to find the gut along its back, which is usually black.

With the tip of the knife remove it carefully.

It is necessary to remove it because otherwise the food will have sand.

Cut each shrimp into 5 pieces. 

Add the pieces of the shrimps in the batter.

Mix well so the pieces of the shrimp will disperse evenly in the batter.

Put a nonstick skillet over medium heat.

Pour half the oil in the skillet and let it warm up.

Take a tablespoon batter with three or four shrimp pieces and pour it into the hot oil.

A small circular pie is immediately created.

Repeat this process until the pan is full of small pies.

Take care that there is space between the pies and the don’t touch one another.

Let them cook well on one side and form a red-brown crust and then turn them to the other side.

When they are well cooked on both sides, take them with a fork and put on a dish cover with a layer of kitchen napkin.

The napkin absorbs the excessive oil.

When the oil is reduced in the skillet, pour the rest of it in it..

Dip one by one all the heads of shrimp into the batter and fry them.

Dip the shrimps you kept for decoration into the batter and fry them.

You will easily understand it that they are cooked, because their color changes to red.

A few minutes of cooking is enough.

Decoration

Put in the middle of the platter the small shrimp pies.

All around them put the fried shrimp heads and the whole shrimps.

This dish is a delicacy, Do not eat too much of it because it is heavy.

Cheese cake with strawberry jam

 Cheese cake

Ingredients

30 g all purpose-flour

340 g biscuits for the base

1 teaspoon honey

180 g sugar

100 g melted margarine

1 vanilla bean

200 g whipping cream 30% fat

800 g Philadelphia cream cheese

400 c yoghurt

3 tablespoons lemon juice

4 large eggs

1/2 cup strawberry jams

How to make the strawberry jam

Ingredients

5OO grams fresh strawberries

50-60 grams of sugar (or more if you like the jam very sweet)

Instructions

Thoroughly wash the strawberries and remove the stalks.

Leave 20 strawberries whole. 

Put the remaining strawberries in a food processor and mash them.

Put all the strawberries with the sugar in a small pot and boil them for 10 minutes.

Remove the pot from the heat and let it at the edge, to cool.

You will use it when you will decorate the cake.

Cake

Instructions

Put the vanilla bean into whipping cream.

Preheat the oven to 180 C degrees.

Smash in a food processor the cookies.

Pour the melted margarine over the smash cookies and mix them.

With this mixture you will create the base of the cake.

Grease an ovenproof dish or pan dimensions 25CH35CH6 cm.

Strew the mixture of biscuits on the baking pan and create the basis of the cake.

Pressing the mixture of biscuits with your hands, you make a thin sheet that covers the bottom of the pan.

Put the pan in the oven at the first rack from the bottom and cook the sheet exactly for five minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven and leave it to cool.

Put in the bowl of the mixer the cream cheese and the sugar and beat them for 4 minutes.

Stop the mixer and put into the bowl the flour and mix with a spoon.

Add the whipping cream and beat at medium speed for 3 minutes.

Add the yoghurt, with a spoon, little by little in the mixer bowl, while beating.

Add the eggs, one by one, in the mixer bowl, while beating.

Add the lemon juice and the honey and continue beating.

Let the mixer beat all the ingredients together for 2 more minutes.

Remove the bowl from the mixer.

Pour the mixture over the base of the cookies and spread it evenly.

Put the pan in the oven first rack from the bottom and bake at 180 C degrees for 40 minutes.

As soon as the 40 minutes pass, remove the pan out of the oven and garnish it.

With the syrup of the jam, form on the surface of Cheese Cake irregular shapes, like water waves.

Or create with the whole strawberies and the strawberry jam shapes of imaginary flowers, or any other shape that pleases you.

Put the Cheese Cake back in the oven and let it cook another 8 minutes.

Turn off the oven and leave the cake inside it for 10 minutes.

Take the cake from the oven and leave it on the edge to cool.

It is necessary to be completely cold before you attempt to cut and serve it.

This cake is sweet, fluffy and extremely tasty, when you serve it at room temperature, before putting it in the freezer.

When you put it in the freezer, it will loses some of its taste.

But, if it is impossible to consume the whole cake in one day, then it is necessary to freeze it to maintain it.

                                                                                                                                                     

Posted by Katy hat-Kotsovinos at 3:52 a.m.