Food Recipes – Tips and Ideas for Cooking

Author: Joel Burton

Omelet wrap with spinach

Preparation Heat a little oil or margarine in a pan and fry the mushrooms for a few minutes. Add the spinach and let it shrink. Season this vegetable mixture with a little pepper and salt. Mix the eggs in a bowl with a splash of milk. Heat a little oil or margarine in a frying pan and pour in half of the egg mixture. Bake the omelet for 2 to 3 minutes on one side and then turn it over and bake the other side for another minute. Repeat this with the rest of the egg mixture and make a 2nd omelet. Spoon some of the vegetable mixture onto the omelet in one line. Put some strips of grilled bell pepper on top and crumble some feta over it. Roll the omelet and place on a plate with some arugula and serve with the tzatziki.… Read more

Omelet roll with spinach

Preparation Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Put the eggs and milk with a pinch of pepper and salt in a bowl. Beat it up. Heat a butter or margarine in a medium-sized (ovenproof) frying pan and pour the egg mixture into it. Divide the spinach and the cherry tomatoes cut into quarters. When the top is almost completely solidified, you can fold two sides inwards with a spatula so that a kind of folded roll is created. Sprinkle with cheese and put the pan in the oven for another 5 minutes. Tip: do you not have an ovenproof frying pan? Then add the lid to the pan after adding the cheese and let it melt for a few minutes on low heat.… Read more

Mini wrap cones with salad

Preparation Cut the avocados in half and remove the kernel and skin. Finely chop the flesh of the avocado with the juice of the lime, pinch of chili pepper and salt and pepper. Spread the mini wraps with the avocado mixture, and keep 1 cm from the edge. Roll the wraps in the shape of a cone and secure them with a pin. Fill the cones with some lettuce, corn, pieces of cherry tomato and finish with a spoonful of sour cream.… Read more

Green asparagus with potatoes and egg

Preparation Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Wash the potatoes and cut large potatoes once so that they are all about the same size. Mix a dash of oil with Italian herbs and a pinch of pepper and salt. Spread the potatoes on a baking sheet with baking paper or in a large roasting tin and sprinkle with the herb oil. Bake the potatoes in the oven for 25 minutes or until done. Meanwhile, cook the eggs in a pan with water, about 7 to 8 minutes for a hard-boiled result. Heat a grill pan and brush the asparagus with a brush with a little olive oil. Grill the asparagus in the pan for 4 minutes and sprinkle with a pinch of pepper and salt. Rinse the eggs under the cold tap and peel them. Divide the lamb’s lettuce over 4 plates. Put some green asparagus on top and add some potatoes. Sprinkle with pine nuts, Parmesan cheese and some basil leaves and serve immediately.… Read more

Healthy pasta salad

Preparation Cook the pasta until done. Slice the zucchini with cheese slicer or mandolin and grill it in a (grill) pan with a pinch of pepper and salt. Mix the ingredients for the dressing together. Cut the tomatoes in half. Halve the avocado, remove the peel and kernel and cut the flesh into slices. Rinse the pasta with cold water. Mix the pasta with the dressing, tomatoes, grilled zucchini and arugula. Tear the mozzarella and add to the pasta salad. Finally add the slices of avocado. Garnish the healthy pasta salad with fresh basil and pistachio nuts. This is a vegetarian pasta salad, if you want to add some meat you can use smoked chicken, for example. View all salad recipes here… Read more

Healthy lime avocado cake

Preparation Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Remove the peel from the avocado and remove the kernel and cut the avocado into pieces. Put the avocado together with the eggs and honey in the food processor and mix until smooth. Cut open the vanilla pod, scrape out the marrow and add it to the batter. Take a bowl and sift in the spelled flour. Then add the baking powder and add it to the avocado mixture in the food processor. Squeeze the limes above. Mix again until smooth. Cover a cake pan with baking paper and pour the batter into it. Bake the cake for 30 minutes. Always check with a skewer whether the cake is cooked. Sprinkle the cake, if it has cooled, with powdered sugar before serving. Also check the basic recipe for regular cake… Read more

Healthy banana bread

Preparation Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the dates in hot water for 5 minutes to soften them, remove the kernel and cut into pieces. Put 3 bananas with the eggs, cinnamon and dates in a food processor and mix until smooth. Put this in a bowl and fold in the spelled flour and baking powder. Pour the batter into a cake pan and place a halved banana on top. Bake the banana bread in the oven for about 50 minutes. Then check with a skewer if the healthy banana bread is cooked. Keep the banana bread covered with foil or freeze into slices. Tip: you can also add raisins, nuts and / or fruit to the batter.… Read more

Pea soup with chicken

Preparation Bring 1.5 liters of water with the stock cubes, split peas and bay leaf to the boil. Let this simmer for about an hour, stirring occasionally. In the meantime, peel and cut the carrot, potato and celeriac into pieces. Chop the leek into rings and wash it well. Peel the onion and cut into fine pieces. Finely chop the celery. Cut the smoked chicken into cubes or strips. After about an hour the split peas start to fall apart and a green mass is formed. This can take a little longer or shorter. Add the sliced vegetables, potato and chicken to the pea soup. Save some chicken to garnish. Let the soup simmer for about half an hour. Season the soup with possibly a little pepper and salt. Let the soup simmer gently for another 10 minutes. The soup is often thicker the next day and tastes even better.… Read more

Couscous salad with mint

Preparation Mix the ingredients for the dressing together in a small bowl. Finely chop the mint and also add to the dressing. Cut the tips of the snow peas and if necessary remove the wires attached to it. Cook the snow peas for 5 minutes with a pinch of salt and then drain and rinse with cold water. The couscous according to the packaging. Cook the peas well. Scoop the snow peas through the couscous together with peas and radish slices. Add the dressing and mix in. Serve the couscous salad with the goat cheese and pistachio nuts. This salad with couscous is tasty hot or cold! View all vegetarian recipes here… Read more

Zucchini spaghetti with vegetable balls

Preparation Stir the courgettes through the spirelli or use ready-made courgette spaghetti. Finely chop the onion and garlic and fry in a (wok) pan. Add the tomato puree and bake for 3 minutes. Then add the tomato cubes, season the tomato sauce with some pepper, salt and basil and let the sauce simmer gently. Fry the mushrooms and vegetable balls in a different pan for a few minutes. Then add it to the pan with tomato sauce. Bake the zucchini spaghetti in the empty frying pan for a few minutes until it starts to shrink slightly. Serve the zucchini spaghetti over 2 or 3 plates. Scoop some of the tomato sauce with vegetable balls and mushrooms on top and garnish with some fresh basil and pine nuts.… Read more