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
Category: Recipies
Simple and Spicy
You can spice your meat, chicken or fish meal with this 3 ingredients condiment:
Ingredients:
- Jalapeno (jalapeño) 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
Tataki Tuna
I never thought it’s so easy to prepare! Just needs sushi grade log of tuna, sesame seeds, black pepper and optional ginger. Pat dry your
Roasted Turkey Breast
Great substitute for store bought cold cuts, but much better. No additives, preservatives – just pure delicious.
Ingredients:
- Turkey breast (bone and skin removed)
- Marinade
- Spice Mixture
- Butter – 2 tbsp
For marinade:
- Water – ~1.5 liter/32 ounces, maybe a little more, just to cover turkey breast
- Juice of half lemon + optional orange or grapefruit juice
- Garlic – 3-4 cloves (smashed)
- Ginger – 1 inch piece, sliced
- Salt – 1/4 cup
- Sugar – 1 tbsp
- Apple cider vinegar – 1/4 cup
For spice mixture:
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Black pepper – 1/4 tsp
- White pepper – 1/4 tsp
- Paprika – 1 tsp
- Cayenne – 1/4 tsp
- Cinnamon – 1/4 tsp
- Cumin – 1tsp
- Dry garlic – 1tsp
Directions:
- Pour water into a deep pan
- Add salt, sugar, vinegar, make sure salt and sugar dissolves
- Place turkey breast into a pan
- Squeeze lemon juice into the marinade, add garlic and ginger
- Let it marinade in the fridge for several hours or overnight
- Mix your spices
- When it’s marinated (after several hours or overnight) – pat dry turkey breast
- Place on a rack over deep baking sheet
- Massage turkey breast with the spice mixture
- Pour 3-4 cups of hot water into the baking sheet, so the turkey breast remains moist, but it shouldn’t touch it.
- Add couple of bay leaves and all spice to the hot water
- Preheat your oven to 275-300 °F
- Place baking sheet into oven and roast 2-2.5 hours
- After an hour baste the breast with melted butter to develop stronger crust
- Add more hot water in case it evaporated.
- Repeat basting couple more times till fully cooked
- Let it cool down
- Serve cold or room temperature
