You will want to eat it every day of Hanukkah and beyond! The most comforting, satisfying and easy to make dish. There is no strict
Category: Easy
Potato Pancakes (Latkes)
Ingredients:
- Potatos (starchy) – 4 medium Yucon Gold
- Eggs – 2
- Shallot or small onion (optional)- 1
- Garlic (optional) – 2 cloves
- Salt 1/2 tsp, pepper 1/4 tsp
Directions:
- Peel and grind potatoes
- Add eggs
- Add finely chopped shallot and garlic
- Add salt and pepper
- Mix everything well with fork
- Potato will release a lot of water, don’t discard it! Instead – mix it in every time you spoon your pancakes!
- Heat non stick or stainless steel pan to little under medium high
- Pour 2 tbsp of vegetable oil into a pan, add 1/2 butter
- Measure pancakes with tablespoon.
- Fry for about 3 minutes (or until golden brown) on each side.
- Taste for salt and adjust as needed
- Maintain heat under medium high so that the potatoes cooks through before burns outside.
- Add oil and butter as you go
Good Tuna Salad
The salad is good, but there must be good tuna. If you have really good Spanish or Italian tuna in olive oil, this would be
Simple and Spicy
You can spice your meat, chicken or fish meal with this 3 ingredients condiment:
Ingredients:
- Jalapeno (jalapeƱo) peppers
- Garlic
- Olive oil
Directions:
- Grill (better) or roast peppers till skin blisters
- Let them cool
- Peel the skin and remove seeds
- Finely chop peppers
- Finely chop (almost to a paste) fresh garlic
- Mix peppers and garlic together, add olive oil and salt
- Optional – several drops of balsamic vinegar
Real Babaganaush
Has to be with tahini, not mayonnaise, not yogurt.
Ingredients:
- Baked or grilled eggplant
- Tahini
- Olive oil
- Garlic
- Lemon juice
- Cilantro
Directions:
- Grill or bake eggplant till fully cooked and soft
- Let it cool completely, peel the skin and drain extra liquid
- Put on the board, chop finely, put in the bowl
- Add tahini paste, olive oil, lemon juice, smashed garlic
- Add salt, pepper and finely chopped cilantro (optional)
- Mix well, taste
Spinach patties
It’s a one super healthy, super easy breakfast/lunch/side dish made of spinach, eggs, a little whole wheat flour and ricotta cheese. Form patties and fry
New Soup is born
I am always in a quest of new soup recipe. This one is a cross of broccoli cheddar and kale potato soup. Took 20 minutes
Octopus Salad
Super simple, with 2 of my favorite Spanish products – octopus and paprika. They are great together! Ingredients: Directions:
Spring Salad
Made of rainbow carrots shaved with vegetable peeler. Dressing – tahini, olive oil, lemon juice. Whisk well! Garnish – feta cheese, roasted sliced almonds. All
Fish – fast and fabulous!
Food has to be tasty! The same applies to healthy food – it’s not necessarily steamed vegetables. These are several variations of fish – all
