Quick and Easy Recipes by Ella

Ingredients

For the meatballs:

• 500 g. of pork and cow minced meat
• 3 potatoes
• 1 small carrot
• 2 eggs
• flour
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

For the sauce:

• vegetable concentrates or boils vegetable: 2 carrots, 1 parsnip, and 1 parsley root
• 2 onions
• tomato sauce
• few laurel leaves
• 1 spoon of flour
• paprika
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

How to prepare the meatballs:

1. Grate the carrots and the potatoes very small. Salt them.
2. Squeeze them to remain dry.
3. Scramble the eggs. Add salt and pepper.
4. Mix up the minced meat with the carrots, the potatoes and the scrambled eggs.
5. Take bit by bit from the mixture and make round meat balls.
6. Then press them, to be 1 inch thick.
7. Fry them for 3 min on each side.

How to prepare the sauce:

1. Grate the onions big. Add salt.
2. Fry them in vegetable oil for 3 min.
3. Boil the vegetables concentrate in 250 g. of water (or grate the vegetables and boil them in ½ l. of water, at medium temperature, for 20 min.)
4. Pour 1 cup of it on top of the onions and boil for 10 min.
5. Add, bit by bit, flour and water from the boiled vegetables.
6. Pour the tomato sauce.
7. Put the ready cooked meatballs in the sauce.
8. Add the laurel leaves and put the food in the oven, at medium temperature, for 15 min.

Ingredients

• 800 g. of pork brains
• 3 eggs
• dried crust
• 400 g. of potatoes
• butter
• parsley

For the salad:

• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• vinegar
• olive oil
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

How To Cook It

1. Scramble the eggs. Salt and pepper them.
2. Pass the brains through the dry crust.
3. Then, pass them through the scrambled eggs.
4. Put them in a pan with hot vegetable oil.
5. Fry them for 3 min. on each side.
6. Cut the potatoes in medium cubes.
7. Boil them until they are ready.
8. Put them on a plate. Salt and pepper them.
9. Put butter on top.
10. Cut the parsley small.
11. Put the parsley on top of the buttered potatoes.

Make the salad:

• Cut the tomatoes and the cucumbers.
• Mix them up with the olive oil, the vinegar, and the salt.

Serve the brains with the boiled potatoes and the salad.

Ingredients for 6 persons

• 600 g. of pork sirloin
• 4 eggs
• bread crumbs
• 500 g. of potatoes

The salad:

• 1 small cabbage
• 4 tomatoes
• dill
• salt, pepper

Cooking procedure

1. Scramble the eggs.
2. Slice the pork sirloin 1 inch thick.
3. Beat it on each side.
4. Salt and pepper it.
5. Pass it through the bread crumbs and then through the scrambled eggs, while turning on each side.
6. Put it in hot oil, 3 min. at each side, at medium temperature.
7. Slice the potatoes. Salt and pepper them.
8. Fry them.
9. Grate the cabbage. Salt and squeeze it.
10. Cut the tomatoes and the dill.
11. Mix them up.

Ingredients for 6 persons

• 1 kg. of leek
• 300 g. of cow cheese
• 200 g. of goat cheese
• 4 eggs
• dill
• olive oil
• pie leaves
• salt, pepper

Cooking procedure

1. Cut the leek 2 inch thick. Salt it.
2. Fry it in olive oil with 1 cup with water until it becomes soft.
3. Strain the leeks.
4. Cut the dill.
5. Scramble 3 eggs.
6. Grate the cheese.
7. Mix it up with the eggs, the leeks, the dill, salt and pepper.
8. Separate the pie leaves in half.
9. Lubricate the pie leaves with olive oil.
10. Put the mixture in the middle.
11. Scramble 1 egg and pour it on top of the pie.
12. Put the pie in the oven for 30 min., at medium temperature.

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If you don’t know how to cook salmon, you definitely have to learn the secret. Salmon makes a great dish and it can be cooked in so many ways that cooking almost becomes an art. The best salmon recipe I’ve ever tasted was a smoked salmon one, but I’ve also eaten good grilled salmon. I’m not even mentioning here the salmon caviar which is absolutely delicious.

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Ingredients for two persons

• 600 g. salmon
• 400 g. asparagus
• 300 g. tomatoes
• 100 g. leek
• 40 ml. balsamic vinegar
• 50 g. rucola
• 20 g. fresh basil
• 10 g. fresh mint
• salt, pepper

The basil sauce:

• 80 ml. oil
• 400 g. sour cream
• 1 lemon
• 120g. butter
• 1 orange for decoration

Salmon Cooking Procedure

1. Put the salmon in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
2. Turn it on both sides.
3. Fry the tomatoes. Peel them off and cut them in thin blades. Leave part of them for the salad.
4. Cut the leek on its length in thin slices. Leave part of it for the salad.
5. Add the tomatoes and the leek with the salmon.
6. Put it in the oven for 15 min.
7. Blend the asparagus.

For the basil sauce:

1. Melt the butter.
2. Add the cream and the lemon juice. Stir.
3. Leave it to diminish for 5 min.
4. Cut the basil.
5. Add salt, pepper and the basil.

For the salad:

1. Cut the rucola, the mint and the basil.
2. Mix the up the slices of the tomatoes and the leek.
3. Add balsam vinegar.

On a plate put:

• The asparagus.
• On top the salmon.
• On top the sauce and the salad.
• The slices of orange, round about.

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Ingredients for two

• 750 g. of chicken breast
• 200 g. of black olives
• 2 potatoes
• 3 tomatoes
• 1 onion
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the chicken breast, the potatoes, the onion and the tomatoes small.
2. Salt and pepper them.
3. Fry the chicken breast, the potatoes and the onion in olive oil for 3 min., then add 1 cup of hot water and continue to stir for 5 min.
4. Add the tomatoes and the olives.
5. Put the food in the oven, at medium temperature, for 15 min.

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Ingredients for two

• 600 g. chicken chest
• 1 spoon vegetable oil
• 12 wood sticks
• salt, pepper
• 300 g. of cucumbers
• vinegar
• olive oil

For the sauce:

• 125 g. peanut butter
• 20 ml. soy sauce
• 20 g. chili pepper paste
• 2 spoons pea butter oil
• 7 green onions
• 200 ml. coco milk
• ½ green lemon
• 1 tea spoon black sugar
• 1 part from the garlic

How To Cook This Chicken Recipe

1. Cut the meat big enough so you can stick it.
2. Salt and pepper the meat.
3. Fill the wood sticks with the meat.
4. Fry the meat on the grill or on a pan, in olive oil. If you have a Stainless Steel Grill, use it, because it is the perfect option for grilling chicken meat
5. Sprinkle from time to time with olive oil.

The cucumber salad:

1. Slice the cucumbers. Salt them.
2. Add vinegar and oil. Mix up.

The sauce:

1. Fry the green onions and the chili pepper paste, in the peanut oil, for 2 min.
2. Add the coco milk, the garlic, the pea butter and the soy sauce.
3. Stir for 3 min.
4. Add the half-green lemon’s juice.
5. Stir for 2 min and leave it to chill up.
6. Pour it over the meat.

Serve with the cucumbers salad. If you want a variation, you can try to use chicken and rice with all the above ingredients. Just make sure you boil the rice separately and throw away the water.