Cold Almond Souffle Recipe

How to make Cold Almond Souffle Recipe

Cold almond soufflé is an elegant dessert for a birthday or other celebration. The Danes use almonds in many of their desserts.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz almonds

200 g/7 oz sugar

9 medium-sized egg whites

Butter for greasing

100 g/4 oz milk chocolate cut into small pieces

Fresh fruit salad to serve

Vanilla ice cream, softened, or Cultured cream

For decoration

Walnut halves

Blanched almonds

Marzipan leaves or crystallized violets

Chopped hazelnuts, toasted

Preparation method

1. Heat the oven to 200C/400F/ gas 6. Stir the ground almonds, sugar and 3 of the egg whites in a saucepan over low heat until the mixture is slightly brown. Remove from the heat and allow the mixture to cool.

2. Whisk the remaining egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold them into the almond mixture.

3. Generously butter a 1.1 L/2 pt savarin mould and spoon in the mixture. Put the mould in a baking tin and fill the tin with warm water to come one-third up the savarin mould. Bake for 30 minutes.

4. Remove the souffle from the oven, cool it for 10 minutes and turn it out on to a serving dish. Allow the soufflé to cool for 2 hours, cover and refrigerate overnight.

5. The next day, melt the chocolate pieces, in a bowl or pan over hot water. When melted, spread the chocolate over the soufflé with a palette knife.

6. Decorate the cold almond souffle with walnut halves, blanched almonds and marzipan leaves, or crystallized violets, and toasted hazelnuts.

7. Serve the soufflé with fresh fruit salad in the centre and with the vanilla ice cream or Cultured cream

Preparation time

35 minutes plus 3 – 4 hours chilling

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Enriched White Bread Recipe

How to Make Enriched White Bread Recipe

Ingredients

Make 2 plaits or 12 roll

450/1lb strong plain white flour

1 tsp salt

15 g/ ½ oz fresh yeast or

7 g/ ¼ oz dried yeast

1 tsp sugar

250 ml/8 fl oz warm milk

50 g/2 oz butter, softened

1 egg, beaten

Egg wash

1 egg, 1 tbsp water, 1 tsp sugar

Preparation method

1. Weigh out 100 g/4 oz flour and keep on one side. Sieve the remaining flour and salt into a bowl. Add the fresh or dried yeast to the sugar, lukewarm milk and reserved flour and mix well to form a batter. Leave to stand for about 20 minutes in a warm place until frothing vigorously. Add to the flour with the butter and beaten egg, and mix well. The dough will be quite soft. Turn on to a lightly floured board and knead for 10 minutes or 2 – 3 minutes with a dough hook on an electric mixer. Form into a ball and put into a bowl. Cover and leave to prove for 45 minutes.

2. Heat the oven to 190 C/375 F/gas 5.

3. Knead the dough again and shape into two plaits or 12 rolls. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Make the egg wash by beating the egg with the water and sugar. Brush all over the surface of the dough. Cover and prove for 30 minutes. Bake loaves for 45 minutes, or rolls for 15 minutes, until the base sound hollow when tapped. Cool on wire rack.

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Health and Nutritional Benefits of Oranges

Oranges have many health benefits. Oranges are full from different kind of vitamins, menials, electrolytes, dietary fiber etc. Which basic need for our body it is help us to maintain good healthy life. Oranges rich from more than 60 flavonoids and 170 phytonutrients and they have anti-tumor and anti-oxidant anti-inflammatory properties and protect our body from many disorder.

A medium size orange have lots of vitamins, mineral, fiber and have low calories. You can eat whole fruit and also drink its juice. The juice also full from nutrients and famous killer for thirst, but you miss out the fiber so it is better to eat whole fruit. Orange wedges also used in grilled chicken salad and many other cooking recipes. Here some good effects of orange in our body in following.

Health benefits for oranges

Reduce risk of liver cancer

Oranges are contain from carotenoids this component protects liver from cancer, so those people who eat orange regularly they can reduce risk of liver cancer.

Control cholesterol level

Oranges are full from soluble fiber. As we know that soluble fiber is good substance to control cholesterol level in body.

Reduce the heart problem

Since oranges full from potassium, magnesium and other electrolysis, hence this electrolyte mineral necessary for better heart function. When potassium level is very low it can be develop an abnormal heart rhythm it also called arrhythmia.

Fight against cancer

Oranges are content good amount from citrus limonoids, which fight against various types of cancer like skin cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer and colon cancer.

Prevents kidney form disease

Oranges juice also help to prevents kidney disease and reduce risk of kidney from stones so drink the oranges juice with regular base and protect your kidney from stones.

Protect body from diseases.

Oranges full from vitamin C, as we know vitamin C is good antioxidants which protect our body from ageing and also boost the immunity system so oranges also protect our body from many diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis asthma, bronchitis, rheumatism etc

Fight against viral infections

Orange good is a good source of polyphenols and research show that it prevents body from many kind of viral infection. 

Relieves the constipation

Oranges are full from dietary fiber which help to relieves the constipation, so oranges are useful for those people who suffering from chronic constipation.

Help to maintain good vision

Oranges also a good source of carotenoid compounds. This compound converts to vitamin A in our body. Vitamin A helps prevent eye macular degeneration and maintain good vision. So those people who eat oranges with regularly they also have good and sharps vision.

Maintain normal blood pressure

Orange rich from flavonoid hesperidin and magnesium, these two components help to maintain normal blood pressure.

Protects skin from ageing

Oranges are rich from beta-carotene and Vitamin C. These two components powerful antioxidant and protect the skin from free radicals. As we know these free radicals produce premature aging, so oranges also help to protect skin from the sign of aging. 

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Chicken Lasagna Recipe with Mushrooms

How to Make Chicken Lasagna Recipe with Mushrooms

Ingredients
Serves 4
350 g /12 oz chicken
10-12 sheets / 175 g/6 oz lasagna
 3 ¼ cups 900 ml boiling water
2 tsp oil
3 tbs / 40 g butter
1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 cups/ 100 g/ oz mushrooms, sliced
1 tsp dried basil
6 tbs / 40g flour
450 ml/ 3/4 pint milk 1 chicken stock (bouillon) cube
 salt, freshly ground black pepper
 40 g/1 1/t oz Edam cheese, grated
 spring of fresh basil

Chicken lasagna preparation method

1. Place chicken in a shallow dish. Cover and cook for 7 minutes, turning once. Allow standing, covered, for 4 minutes. Remove skin and bones and chop meat.
2. Place the lasagna in a large oblong dish. Cover completely with water and add salt and oil. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Allow standing, covered, for 15 minutes. Drain and lay out on a clean tea towel.
3. Place butter in a bowl and cook for 1 minute. Stir in onion, garlic, mushrooms and thyme and cook for 2 minutes.
 4. Stir in the flour and gradually add the milk, stirring. Crumble in the chicken stock (bouillon) cube. Cook for 4 minutes.
5. Stir in the chicken and season with pepper. Cook for 3 minutes.
6. Layer the lasagna and chicken sauce in the casserole dish, staring with a layer of lasagne and ending with a layer of sauce. Top with grated cheese. Cook for 1 - 2 minutes.
7. Brown the lasagna under the grill (broiler) and garnish with springs of fresh basil.

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How to Make Seafood Paella Recipe

Ingredients for paella 

1 large onion, chopped 

3 cloves garlic, chopped 

1 tbs olive oil 

1 cup / 225 g long-grain rice 

a few strands of saffron or 1 tsp turmeric 

750 ml/ 1 1/4 pint hot chicken stock 

salt/ freshly ground black pepper 

100 g/4 oz frozen peas 

150 g/ 6 oz cooked prawns or shrimps, shelled 

175 g/ 6 oz cooked mussels 

175 g/ 6 oz cooked clams 

100 g/ 4 oz cooked chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces 

Lemon wedges 

How to make paella recipe?

 1. Place onion and garlic in a large bowl, pour over oil, stir, cover and cook for 3 minutes. 

2. Stir in rice, saffron or turmeric, chicken stock and seasoning. Cover and cook for 10 minutes, stirring twice. Set aside.

 3. Place peas in a bowl, cover and cook for 3 minutes. Reserving some seafood in shells to garnish, stir in prawns or shrimps, mussels, clams and chicken, cover and cook for 6 minutes. 

4. Drain. Stir into rice and garnish with remaining seafood and lemon wedges.

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Borscht Soup Recipe

How to Make Borscht Soup Recipe

This is a delicious summer soup which can be prepared in minutes with a food processor. If grating the vegetables by hand, it takes a little longer.

 Ingredient for borscht

 Serves 4
 4 medium beetroot, wished
3 shallots
2 potatoes, peeled
2 courgettes (zucchini)
1 bouquet garni
1 bay leaf salt and pepper
1 ¾ pt vegetable stock
125 ml/ 4 fl oz yogurt
1 lemon
1 tbsp chopped chives

 How to make borscht

1. Trim the beetroot and remove any damage skin. Arrange in a circle in a casserole, cover with water and cook on full power for 10 minutes. Allow to stand for 2 minutes. Cool.
 2. Chop the shallots and grate he carrots and potatoes coarsely in a food processor. Grate the cooked beetroot.
3. Put all the vegetables in a large bowl or casserole with the bouquet garni, bay leaf and seasoning. Add the stock, cover and cook at full power for 15 minutes.
4. Slice the courgette into thin strip, add to the soup and cook for a further 10 minutes. Test the vegetables and cook for a longer time if they are still too raw. Server either hot or cold.
Garnish with yogurts flavored with lemon juice and chopped chives.

Note: this soup was tested with young, garden-fresh vegetables. If using shop-bough vegetables, the cooking time may take a further 10 minutes. This soup freezes well but is best served hot, after freezing. Sour cream can be used in place of yogurt.

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Orange Twists Recipe

 How to Make Orange Twists Recipe

Ingredients 

Makes 40

450g / 1lb strong plain white flour 

1/2 tsp salt 25 g/ 1 oz fresh or 15 g / 1/2 dried yeast 

225 ml/8 fl oz warm milk

 225 g/ 8 oz butter 1 egg 1 egg yolk. 

For Filling

 175 g/ 6 oz ground almond grated rind and juice of 1 orange 

2 tbsp orange liqueur 

25 g/ 1 oz chopped candied orange 

1 egg white 

For Glaze 

40 g/ 1 1/2 oz icing sugar 

1 tbsp orange juice 

50 g/ 2 oz toasted flaked almonds.

 How to make orange twists

1. Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Mix the fresh yeast with the sugar and add to the lukewarm milk or sprinkle the dried yeast on the milk with the sugar and leave until frothy. Melt 50 g of the butter and add to the flour with the egg and knead to smooth dough. Cover and leave to prove for 15 minutes. 

2. Knead again and roll out to a rectangle 14 × 8 inches. Dot half the remaining butter over the top two-thirds of this rectangle. Fold up the bottom third, and turn the top third down on this. Press the edges, give a quarter-turn to the dough and roll out to rectangle again. Repeat the process once more with the remaining butter, and then again without any butter. Fold in three again without any butter. Fold in three again, and then roll out to a rectangle 20 × 16 inches. Heat the oven to 220 C 450 F or mark 7.

 3. Mix the ground almonds, oranges rind and juice, liqueur, peel and egg white. Cut the dough into four 20 inch strips, then each strip into five pieces, giving twenty 4-inch squares. Cut each square across to make two triangles.

 4. Place a little almond filling in the centre of each one and roll up from the long side. Place on greased baking sheets, curving slightly to give a crescent shape. Cover and leave to prove for 15 minutes. Brush with beaten egg yolk and bake for 15 minutes. While still warm, glaze with the icing sugar mixed with orange juice, and sprinkle with almonds. Leave to cool.

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Mackerel Fish Recipe with Oranges

How to make Mackerel Recipe with Oranges 

Ingredients 

Serves 4

4 mackerel, cleaned

150 ml/ ¼ pint oil

150 ml/ ¼ pint oranges juice

Grated rind of orange

A few drapes of Tabasco sauce

Salt/freshly ground black paper

50 g/2 oz olives

Thin orange slices

Preparation Method

1. Make slanting incisions with a sharp knife across both sides of each fish. Place in a large shallow dish

2. Mix together the oil, oranges juice, rind and Tabasco and season with salt and pepper. Pour the marinade over the fish and marinate for 2 hours, turning occasionally.

3. Baste the fish and cover with cling film (plastic wrap) slit in 2 or 3 places. Cook for 2 – 3 minutes.

4. Turn fish over, baste and return to oven, giving dish a half turn. Cool for a further 2 – 3 minutes, depending on the size of fish. Spoon marinade over fish and serve garnished with olives and orange slices.

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Kedgeree Recipe with Smoked Haddock Recipe

How to Kedgeree Recipe with Smoked Haddock Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 6

450 g/ 1 lb smoked haddock fillets

350 g/ 12 oz long-grain rice

750 ml/ 1 ¼ pint hot fish or chicken stock

15 g/ 1 ½ Oz butter

1 small onion, chopped

2 hard boiled (cooked) eggs, chopped

2 tbsp cream

Salt/freshly ground black pepper

Cayenne pepper

1 hard boiled (cooked) egg, sliced

Tomato slices

Parsley

How to make Kedgeree

1. Place fish in shallow dish. Cover and cook for 5 minutes turning once. Flake fish, discarding skin, and set aside.

2. Place the rice in a large bowl and pour over the hot stock. Cover and cook for 12 minutes. Leave to stand for 5 minutes. If the stock has not been absorbed, drain rice.

3. Place butter in a small bowl and cook for 1 minute. Mix onion and cook for 2 – 3 minutes.

4. Place fish, rice, and onion, chopped eggs and cream in large bowl, stir well and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 4 minutes, stirring once.

5. Sprinkle with cayenne pepper and garnish with sliced egg, sliced tomato and parsley sprigs.

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Neapolitan pizza recipe

How to make Neapolitan pizza recipe

Neapolitan pizza is a type pizza which originated in Naples and Italy. Neapolitan pizza is very famous pizza. Today I want to tell you how to make this pizza. We will use sample ingredients like cheese tomatoes and anchovy fillets for this recipe.

Ingredients for Neapolitan pizza

450 / 1 lb risen whole-meal dough

Or white dough

Olive oil

For filling

350 g/ 12 Oz mozzarella cheese, sliced

450 g/ 1 lb fresh or canned tomatoes, sliced

1 tsp pizza herbs (or a mixture of marjoram, basil and thyme)

A few anchovy fillets

Black olives

Black pepper

Prepretion Method for Neapolitan pizza

1. Heat the oven to 230 C/ 450 F or mark 8.

2. Roll out the dough into the required number of pieces: This amount of dough will make four 18 cm or 7 inch pizzas. Brush sandwich tins, square or rectangular tins, or metal pie plates with olive oil, and put in the dough. Brush again with olive oil.

3. Cover the dough with alternate layers of cheese, tomato and seasonings, finishing with the cheese. Decorate with a lattice of anchovies and olives. Leave to stand in a cold place for 30 minutes. Bake for 30 minutes and serve hot.

4. To obtain the best results, slice the meat, cheese or vegetables thinly, and season well with herbs, salt and pepper. Mozzarella cheese is traditionally used as it melts quickly and smoothly, but several other cheeses may be used, such as cheddar, Emmenthal, Gruyere and Bel paese. The pizza always looks better if the cheese sliced rather than grated. For convenience of serving, it may be easier to make square or rectangular pizzas.

A pizza may be topped with tomatoes, herbs, cheese and olives in its most simple form. More elaborate fillings are made by adding ham, salami, fish, mushrooms or onions, according to taste.

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