Baked hake with red shrimps



Ingredientes:
  • Hake
  • 2 Red shrimp
  • 1/2 red bell pepper
  • 1/2 green pepper
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tomato
  • 2 clove garlic
  • 200 ml white wine
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • Black pepper


Preparación:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
  2. Slide the onion and the peppers into thin strips.
  3. Chop the galic and cut the tomato in half.
  4. Place the onion on an oiled baking sheet and then sit the hake with the skin down.
  5. Cover it with the peppers and the tomato.
  6. Sprinkle with the garlic.
  7. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with oil.
  8. Bake it for 20-30 minutes.
  9. Pour the white wine on the fish, then return to the oven for 10 minutes more.
  10. Meanwhile, heat oil in a large pan over medium heat.
  11. Add the red shrimps and cook them until they are pink and opaque. Stirring frequently.
  12. And serve.


Y a disfrutar!!

Baked apples


Ingredients:


  • 6 reinette apples
  • 100g sugar
  • 150g raisins
  • 100g of butter
  • 125ml water




Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
  2. Wash the apples and scoop out their cores from top of the apples.
  3. Give a horizontal cut in the center and around the apple with a sharp knife, without elaborating, only the skin. This is necessary before grilling to prevent bursting and spoil the presentation.
  4. Mix raisins with sugar.
  5. Grease a baking dish with a little butter and place the apples.
  6. Fill in the gaps of hearts with the mixture of raisins to overflowing.
  7. Add in 125ml water in a bowl on the baking dish.
  8. Sprinkle apples with the remaining butter in small portions.
  9. Introduce them in the oven for 40-55 minutes, depending on the size of apples.
  10. Serve hot or slightly warm.


And enjoy!!

Tiramisu... Improved!


Ingredients:

  • 6 eggs
  • 500g mascarpone cheese
  • 100g sugar
  • 1 cup Cacaolat
  • Cocoa powder
  • 200g ladyfinger cookies


Directions:

  1. Separate the whites from the yolks, and reserve the whites in the fridge.
  2. Soak the ladyfingers into cacaolat and arrange half of them in bottom of a dish.
  3. Whisk the yolks, the cheese and the sugar until smooth.
  4. Beat the egg whites until snow.
  5. Slowly whisk the yolk mixture into the egg whites snow.
  6. Spread half of this last mixture over the ladyfingers, another soaked ladyfingers layer and another mixture layer.
  7. Sprinkle a lot with the cocoa powder in the top.
  8. Cover and refrigerate around 5 hours.

And enjoy!!

Pastry cream in the microwave

Ingredients:
  • 500ml milk
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 3 tbspoon cinnamon
  • 50g cornstarch

Directions:
  1. Add the milk, the egg yolks, cinnamon and cornstarch in a microwave safe bowl.
  2. Stir well until no lumps.
  3. Cook it on maximum power microwave, stirring every 30 seconds. If not, it will burn.

And it's done!

Cherry coca (Catalan cherry brioche)


Ingredients:
  • 500g flour
  • 25g fresh baker's yeast
  • 150 ml milk
  • 50g butter (room temperature)
  • 4 eggs
  • Sugar
  • Salt
  • 500g cherries aprox.
Preparación:
  1. Warm the milk and disolve the yeast.
  2. Add flour, 80g of sugar, 3 eggs and a pinch of salt.
  3. Mix well until it is a dough based. You can use a electric mixer.
  4. Roll out the dough (1 cm thick) with rounded shape top of vellum on the baking sheet. You decide if you want individual coques or a large one.
  5. Place cherries, washed and dried, on the top. Put them very close next to each other and press them well . Remove the bone or not is up to you. The traditional recipe doesn't pit the bone and then eat carefully! hehehehe.
  6. Cover with a cloth and let it rest at room temperature for 1 hour. It will double its size.
  7. Whisk and paint the surface with the remaining egg.
  8. Sprinkle liberally with sugar
  9. Preheat the oven to 180 ºC and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the cocque is golden brown. 
  10. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.
And enjoy!!

Puff pastry


Ingredients:
  • 250 gr. flour 
  • 75g. lard 
  • 75g. butter 
  • 90 ml of ice water. 
  • l0 ml lemon juice 
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Directions:
  1. Break the lard and butter into small pieces and reserve in the fridge. 
  2. Sift the flour with the salt and put in a cold bowl, add the butter, lard, water and lemon juice. 
  3. Work the ingredients with fingertips until a you have a firm rough dough.
  4. Stretch with the roller onto a lightly floured board to forming a rectangle.
  5. Fold the dough into three parts, helping with both hands; joining the edges slightly pressing with a finger. 
  6. Give the dough a back turn and stretch the dough again forming another rectangle, folded into three parts and join the edges as before. 
  7. Place dough in a bowl and introduce in a plastic bag. 
  8. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. Stretching, folding and joining the edges twice. 
  9. Chill in the fridge for another 30 minutes before rolling to use.


                                                                                 

Chocolate syrup



Ingredients:

  • 250g cocoa powder
  • 375ml water
  • 375g sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla flavor.


Directions:

  1. Combine the ingredients (less the vanilla) together in a saucepan over low heat.
  2. Whisk constantly until the mixture thickens and begins to simmer. 
  3. Remove from heat and stir the vanilla into the sauce. 
  4. Serve warm or cover and refrigerate until serving.
And enjoy!!