Quick and Easy Recipes by Ella

How many times did you feel like having a light, delicious dessert, but you never had time to prepare those complicated cookies and sweets you can get in a restaurant? Well, I have a recipe which has at least two qualities: it is delicious and fast. Try it and please let me know how you liked it.

Ingredients for two:

• 400 g. of very thin pasta
• 400 g. of whey cheese
• 2 eggs
• 250 g. of currant
• 100 g. of sugar

How To Cook It:

1. Boil the pasta; take them up and clean it with cold water.
2. Grate the whey cheese and mix it up with the eggs, the currant and the sugar.
3. Mix up the pasta with the rest of the ingredients.
4. Take a Jena vessel; put a little bit of oil and pour the composition.
5. Leave it in the oven, at a medium temperature, for 20 min.

You can serve it hot, but it is also good when it gets cold. For variation, try to put on it some quince jelly, Maple Syrup or some sour cream. You’ll love it.

Ingredients for two persons:

• 350 g. of potatoes
• 4 eggs
• 200 g. of pressed cheese
• 2 onions
• 1 pepper
• 100 g. of sour cream
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil 3 eggs for 5 min. Slice them.
2. Slice the onion and boil it for 3 min. Then, fry it in olive oil with the sliced pepper for 3 min. Salt them.
3. Grate the pressed cheese.
4. Slice the potatoes 1 cm thick. Fry them for 3 min on each side. Salt them. Add pepper.
5. Put 1 row of potatoes on a pan with olive oil in it.
6. The second row will be the onion and the pepper.
7. The third row, the eggs. Put pressed cheese on top.
8. Repeat the alignment until you finish all ingredients.
9. Put the pan in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
10. Mix up the sour cream with the remaining egg. Add salt and pepper.
11. Take out the pan from the oven; pour the mixture on top and put it back. Leave it in the oven for 10 min.

Ingredients for two portions

• 500 g. of chicken breast
• sesame
• 2 eggs
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Steps:

• Cut the chicken breast in strips. Salt and pepper them.
• Put the sesame on a plate and mix it with the scrambled eggs.
• Roll the strips through the sesame.
• Put the chicken-sesame strips in boiled oil and turn them to be fried on both sides.

Serve hot, with fried potatoes and green salad.

Ingredients for two persons:

• 500 g. of chicken hearts and gizzards
• 1 garlic
• 100 g. of milk
• 100 g. of flour
• vegetable oil
• salt

How To Cook It:

• Grate the garlic. Salt it.
• Boil the chicken hearts and gizzards, at a medium temperature, for 10 min., and throw away the water.
• Continue to boil them in clean boiling water until they are ready. Keep the remaining water.
• Put the garlic in the vegetable oil, at a medium temperature, for 2 min. Add 10 spoons from the remaining water.
• Warm up the milk.
• Add 1 spoon with flour. Stir. Add 5 spoons from the remaining water. Stir.
• Add 1 spoon with flour. Stir. Add enough milk for the flour not to stick. Stir.
• Repeat until you finish the flour.
• Put the boiled chicken hearts and gizzards. Stir for 2 min.
• Leave it for five minutes in the pan before eating.

Ingredients for two persons

• 1 cauliflower
• 2 eggs
• 1 lemon
• dried crust
• oil
• pepper, salt

Cooking:

• Detach the cauliflower’s bouquets.
• Boil them up to the point when they are ready to be eaten, but not too soft. Put them on a plate to chill up. Add the salt and pepper.
• Take each cauliflower’s bouquet and cover it with dried crust.
• Lubricate it with the eggs.
• Put it in boiled oil and turn it to be fried on each side.
• Put them on a plate and pour the lemon juice.

Tip from the chef:

The same recipe can be done with garlic sauce instead of lemon.

Ingredients for two portions:

• 300 g. of chicken liver
• 400 g. of long sliced bacon
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking process

• Boil the chicken liver. Salt it and leave it to chill up.
• Put each chicken liver on a slice of bacon and roll it.
• Keep them together with one tooth-pick at each end.
• Put it in boiling oil and turn it to be fried on both sides.

Serve them with pilaff or with mashed potatoes.

Ingredients:

• 2 celery roots
• 3 eggs
• dried crust
• vegetable oil
• salt

Cooking Process

• Cut the celery in slices and boil them up to the point when they are ready to be eaten, but not too soft.
• Put them on a plate to chill up. Add the salt.
• Sift the dried crust on a plate.
• Take each slice of celery and fill it with dried crust.
• Lubricate it with the eggs.
• Put it in boiling oil and turn it to be fried on both sides.

Serve hot.

Ingredients

• 500 g. of big mushrooms
• 100g. of parmesan
• 100g. of smoked bacon
• olive oil
• pepper, salt

Cooking Process

• Peal off the mushroom skin; take their tail ends, cut them in small cubes.
• Stuff the mushrooms with the tail ends, put them on a tray with a little bit of water and olive oil and put it in the oven, at a medium temperature, for 20 min.
• Grate the parmesan and mix it with the smoked bacon cut in cubes, with the salt and pepper.
• Put them on top of each mushroom and leave them in the oven for 10 min.

Serve hot. It’s so easy to prepare, that all you’ll have to do is wait for the dinner party gifts from your guests.

Ingredients for two persons

• 400 g. of pasta
• 200 g of red bell peppers
• 2 medium onions
• 300 g of pork and cow minced meat
• 4 big tomatoes
• 150 g. of mushrooms
• olive oil
• pepper, oregano, salt

Cooking Process

• Boil the pasta; take them up and rinse with cold water.
• Boil the meat and throw out the remaining water.
• Cut the onions, the tomatoes, the mushrooms and the bell peppers in cubes.
• Put them in olive oil with 100 g. of water and stir for 5 min. at a medium temperature; add the ready cooked meat, the spices, and stir for another 5 min. at the same temperature.
• Mix together the pasta with the composition and stir for 2 min.

Serve hot. Ideally, you would want to use one of those delicious pasta sauce recipes to make a sauce for your dish, but you can very well do with an inexpensive bottle of ketchup or some spicy salsa.

Ingredients for two persons

• 1 cauliflower
• 300 g. of cheese: goat or cow
• 150 g. sour cream
• 2 eggs
• pepper, oregano, salt

How To Cook The Cauliflower Souffle

• Detach the cauliflower’s bouquets.
• Boil them up to the point when they are ready to be eaten, but not too soft.
• Mix up the cheese with the eggs, the cream, the pepper, the oregano and the salt.
• Take a Jena vessel; put a little bit of oil and the ready cooked cauliflower. Pour the mixture on top of it.
• Leave it in the oven, at a medium temperature, for 20 min.

Special note from the cook:

The same recipe can be done with vegetable marrow instead of the cauliflower. The vegetable marrow should be cut in medium cubes.