Πέμπτη 22 Οκτωβρίου 2015

Omelet with cheese



OMELET WITH CHEESE

200 grams of soft cheese (or Gruyere cheese or semi-hard)
4 large eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions
Beat the eggs lightly with a whisk.
Smear a nonstick skillet 22-23 cm in diameter with the oil.
Place the skillet over very low heat.
If the biggest indication of the cooker is 6, turn the switch to 2.
When the oil warms up, pour in the eggs.
Spread the eggs on the entire surface of the skillet.
Cover the pan with a lid.
Leave the omelet to be well cooked from the one side.
Wait for the omelet to be cooked and simultaneously grate the cheese in a blender.
Once the omelet has been cooked on the one side, turn it over to get cooked and on the other.
Put the grated cheese on the cooked side of the omelet
Cover the omelet with a lid.
In a few minutes the omelet is cooked underneath, while the cheese melts and spreads throughout the upper surface.
Remove the omelet from the heat and leave it to cool slightly.
Once cooled, melted cheese begins to solidify again. 
Then you can cut the omelet into pieces and to serve it into dishes.


Salad with various kinds of beans




SALAD WITH VARIOUS KINDS OF BEANS

Ingredients
200 g. of black butter beans (black large kidney beans)
180 g. of white medium kidney beans
150 g. of purple beans
200 g. husked wheat
2 red peppers sweet pepper  
1 large green pepper
4 medium dry onions
10 cloves garlic
2 TBs vinegar
80 g. of olive oil

Instructions
 
Generally all kinds of beans generate gases, which are annoying.
To avoid the gases from beans you should put them in a pot with plenty of water and to boil them for some time.
Then remove them from the heat and strain them.
Wash the beans with clean water.
Put them in the pot again and pour water over them until it covers them.
Place the pot again over high heat. 
Repeat this step 2 more times.
So you have to boil, to strain and to wash the beans three times.
Then put the beans again in the pot and for the fourth time pour water over them until it reaches 3 cm above them.
Put the pot over high heat and boil them.
Boil each type of bean separately.
Boil them until they are tender but not to chelate.
Boil in a small saucepan the wheat separately.
Boil it until it becomes soft and tender.
Put in another pot the oil and place it over medium heat.
Cut the onions into thin slices and pour them into the pot.
Mince the garlic and pour it into the pot.
Mix the onion and the garlic and let them to cook for a few min.
Wash the red peppers and the green pepper and cut them into small pieces.
Pour those pieces into the pot and stir.
Wait until all veggies inside the pot become soft and tender..
Add beans and stir.
Add the wheat and mix again.
Pour into the pot the vinegar and the salt.
Try the taste and if it is necessary add a little more salt or vinegar.
Let the pot on the heat for five more minutes. 
All this time you should stir to prevent the sticking of the beans and the wheat.
Remove the pot from the heat and leave it to cool.
Serve the salad when it is almost cold.


Τετάρτη 21 Οκτωβρίου 2015

Chickpeas with white sauce, or with rice




CHICKPEAS WITH WHITE SAUCE, OR WITH RICE

Ingredients
400 g. dried chickpeas
3 large dry onions
120 ml of olive oil
1 bay leaf
40 g. all purpose-flour
The juice of 1 lemon
Salt
Half a square cm of red hot chili pepper

Instructions
Overnight put the chickpeas in a pot and cover them with plenty of lukewarm water.
The next morning strain the water.
Put the chickpeas in a bowl. Put in the chickpeas a handful of coarse salt
Rub with both hands the chickpeas to peel.
Rinse them with plenty of lukewarm water and strain.
Repeat the rubbing and the washing two times. 
Put the chickpeas in a pot and put water until it goes two cm above the chickpeas.
Place the pot over high heat and wait to boil.
As soon as it starts boiling decrease the heat to medium.
Add a pinch of salt, little hot pepper, the bay leaf and the onions chopped.  
Let them to simmer until they chelate.
After they become soft you can decide if you want to make all of them with white sauce, or if you want to put in the pot rice, or if you want to divide them into two parts.
You can make half of them with the white sauce and the other half with rice.

Chickpeas with a white sauce
Leave half of the chickpeas and half of their broth in the pot.
The other half put it in another saucepan.
To make the white sauce you must take some broth from the pot and to put it in a deep dish.
Leave it to cool. Pour 40 g. of flour in the dish and mix it well to dilute into the broth thoroughly.
 Pour the broth with the flour into the pot of chickpeas and mix.
Add the lemon juice.
 Put the pot over medium heat and boil the chickpeas for two min.Remove the pot from the heat.

Chickpeas with rice
Put the remaining chickpeas and their broth into the saucepan and put it over medium heat.
Let them boil for 2-3 minutes and then remove them from the heat.
Wash 100 grams of rice and pour it into the saucepan with the chickpeas.
Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir well to prevent rice from sticking.
Leave the rice to boil about 10 minutes, or as long as it is necessary to soften.
Put a tablespoon of the food in a small saucer and taste it. If you don’t like its taste, you should correct it.
Add little more salt or some lemon juice.