French toast - transylvanian style

Romanian

INGREDIENTS: -3-4 slices of one day old bread -3 eggs -2 tablespoons yogurt / sour cream -100 g grated cheese (Romanian cheese = telemea) - oil for frying

French Toast - Transylvanian style ;)

Mix the eggs with yougurt/sour cream and the grated cheese. Take a pan, and put soem oil in this pan.Dip the slices of bread in the eggs mixture and then fried on both sides. Put them on absorbent paper.

Tip: for step by step recipe click here.

Bonne appetite!

 

Lollipops

Română

INGREDIENTS: -3 small potatoes -3 slices of bacon -3 skewer sticks

Lollipops

Peel the potatoes and wrap each potato with a slice of bacon.Fix the bacon with a skewer stick. Wrap each "lollipop" in aluminium foil, and bake in preheated oven at 200 Celsius degrees for 30 min.
Tip: Before use, keep skewer sticks in water for 15 minutes.

Bonne appetite!

Delicious yogurt sweet pie

Română

INGREDIENTS: -1 package of phyllo pastry leaves -7-8 eggs -900g yogurt -15g of baking powder -100 ml oil -7 tablespoons sugar -grated zest of 1 lemon and/or 1 orange -3 sachets of vanilla sugar -200 g raisins -1 teaspoon of rum essence -1 tablespoon of semolina -1 tablespoon vanilla powder pudding (or amindon/maizena)

Delicious yogurt sweet pie

Put yogurt to drain the whey, and then mix the egg yolks with the drained yogurt. Beat firmly the egg white with a pinch of salt. Sprinkle 7-8 tablespoon of sugar over the firmly foam, and then add the grated zest of lemon and/or orange. Mix together the egg withe foam with the egg yolk cream. Add semolina, the vanilla powder pudding and the baking powder. Sprinkle rum essence over raisins.

Take a round pan and sprinkle it with oil (it is better to use a spray or a brush). Then put into the pan 2 sheets of phyllo. Spray with oil each sheet. Add a generous layer of eggs and yogurt cream. Add some raisins. Next add another 2 oiled phyllo, another layer of eggs and yogurt cream, raisins etc. The top layer must be an eggs and yogurt cream.

Bake it in preheated oven, at 200 Celsius degrees for 45-50 minutes.

Tip: For step by step recipe click here.

Bonne appetite!

Walnut Hearts

Română

INGREDIENTS -200 g butter -100 g caster sugar -1 tablespoon of honey -250 g flour -100 g walnuts -15 g of baking powder -1 teaspoon rum essence -100 g sugar for caramel -100 g grated coconut

Walnut Hearts

Mix together the butter with powdered sugar, honey and rum. Add the flour, baking powder and the walnuts broken into small pieces. Put the dough into fridge for an half an hour. Then cut the dough into the shapes. Bake the dough hearts in preheated oven at 180 Celsius degree for 7-8 minutes. Meanwhile melt 100 g of sugar until it became a caramel fluid. Put half of each heart cookie into this hot caramel, and then pass it through the grated coconut. Place each cookie to dry, and then preserve them in cans.

Bonne appetite!

Fragrant cookies

Română

INGREDIENTS: -1 egg and one yolk -100 g caster sugar -1 tablespoon honey -100 ml oil -250 g flour -15g of vanilla sugar -15g of baking powder -200g apricot jam -spices (vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel, orange, etc.) -200 g grated coconut

Fragrant cookies

Dough

Mix the caster sugar with egg, the egg yolk, honey and 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar. Add the oil, spoon by spoon. Sprinkle the flour mixed with the baking powder. We will obtain a dough that is not too hard, but it can be easy modeled in 1.5 cm diameter ball shape. Prepare the pan with baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 7-8 minutes, or until you notice that the dough is well risen, is slightly cracked and dry. 

Frosting

Place the apricot jam in a saucepan. Then place the saucepan at low heat as to "dilute" the jam. Add spices: cinnamon, clove, vanilla, grated lemon peel.

Tip: If the jam is not very "fine", blend it softly.

Assembly

Soak the hot balls into the hot frosting, and then put those frosty balls in a bowl with grated coconut. Store cookies in cans. To be consumed next day.

Bonne appetite!

Baked Chicken Livers

Română

INGREDIENTS: 500 g chicken liver, 500 ml milk, 1 onion, 1 pepper, 1 carrot, 4-5 tbs of Oil, 1 knob of garlic, 3 tbs of sour cream, salt, pepper

Baked Chicken Livers

Place liver in milk for 1 hour. Meanwhile, cut an onion, a pepper and carrot into thin slices. After 1 hour, remove the liver from milk. Place the chicken liver and sliced vegetables in a baking dish. Sprinkle with 4 or 5 tablespoons of oil. Season the liver with pepper and garlic. Bake for 25 minutes at 200 Celsius degrees.

Serve with garlic sauce: smash a knob of garlic with 1 teaspoon of salt and 3 tablespoons of sour cream.

Good appetite!

Zuppette

Româna

INGREDIENTS: For the dough: - 6 eggs - 150 g sugar - 150 g flour For vanilla cream: - 4 egg yolks - 500 ml milk - 30 g flour - 150 g sugar - 100 g butter - vanilla - a pinch of salt Pastry -2 sheets (2x400g) of pastry

Zupette

For the dough:

Beat the eggs with sugar until they turn white and volume triples. Pour the flour 'in the Rain' over custard. Bake this in a baking tray covered with parchment paper, in a preheated oven at 180 Celsius degrees about 30 minutes. Tip: You can add some chocolate chips. 

For vanilla cream:

Mix yolks with sugar until blanched, then gradually add the flour and the warm milk. Boil over medium heat until the custard cream became thick. Do not forget stirring constantly. Add vanilla and then let it cool. Foam 100 g butter and add one by one tablespoon of custard.

Pastry:

Bake the two sheets of pastry in preheated oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.

Tip: make small holes with a fork, and sprinkle the pastry with granulated sugar.

Assembly

Lay one sheet of pastry and place a layer of custard cream. Then add the backed dough and another layer of custard cream. The top layer of this cake is the last backed sheet of pastry. Place a weight on top of cake (a wooden board, for example). Refrigerate overnight.

Tip: You can moist the dough with some sugar syrup, or with a little warm milk

Bonne appetite!

Orange zest jam

Română

INGREDIENTS: 4 oranges, 1 l water, 200 g sugar, 4-5 walnuts, 2-3 cloves 1-2 sachets of vanilla sugar

Orange zest jam

We need 4 big oranges' zest. Prepare the zest as follows: cut the zest into half an inch wide strips. Roll the zest and fix it in this form with a toothpick (or they can be strung on a thread using a needle). Keep these rolls of orange zest for two days in a refrigerator in a bowl with water. Change the water 3 times a day. 

In the 3rd day prepare the sugar syrup: boil together 1 l of water, 200 g sugar and the juice from 2 oranges.  Add 4-5 the walnuts, 2-3 cloves, 1-2 lemon slices and 1-2 sachets of vanilla sugar.  Add the rolls of orange zest and cook until they become glassy. Remove the toothpick from each orange zest roll. Put de hot jam in a jar.

Good appetite!

Pepper with cabbage

Română

INGREDIENTS: 6 peppers, 200 g sausages, 300 g sauerkraut, 1 carrot, 1 onion, black pepper, salt, thyme

Pepper with cabbage

Cut peppers in half and remove the seeds. Place in each half of pepper a layer of meat from a sausage. Cover with another layer of sauerkraut mixed with carrot and onion. Sprinkle with spices: black pepper, salt, thyme. Bake in oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

Serve with sour cream and jalapeno chillies.

Bonne appetite!