Gourmet recipes - Leek dish with chicken legs

Continuing in the spirit of cooking healthy foods I want to introduce you to this one of my gourmet recipes. The reason of cooking this gourmet recipe is simple – I had the exact products. This recipe is not from the easiest to cook but have a try with it and you will see it is worth doing so.

Recipe products

4 chicken legs
250-300 g leek, chopped into 2 cm stripes
80 g carrots, chopped into thin circles
250 g canned sliced tomatoes
500 ml cold water
20 g flour
1 tablespoon red pepper
2 bay leaves
2 grains allspice
5-6 grains of pepper
Salt to taste
Flour for ovalling the legs
80 ml vegetable oil for frying

Bake the flour until it begins to change its color. Oval the legs in flour and bake until red. Take the legs out of the vegetable oil and put the leek and the carrots in it to stew them. Add salt, cover and leave them to stew until they are completely soft. Remove the cover and cook unil greasy. Add red pepper, stir nad pour the tomatoes in. Leave to boil for 2-3 minutes and pour the flour, diluted in the cold water. Stir. Add spices and the fried legs. Leave to boil up then decrease the temperature of the hot plate and cook for another 10 minutes.

Gourmet recipes - Pumpking-pastry with caramelized syrup

Recipe products

400 g puff pastry
900 g grated pumpkin
80 ml vegetable oil
1/2 packet of cinnamon
100 g white raisins
1 coffee cup of sugar

For the syrup:

1/2 coffee cup of sugar
1 coffee cup of water

Directions:

Caramelize the sugar for the syrop. Add water and leave to cool down. Leave the pumpkin to fry in grease. Add the sugar and the raisins. The sugar makes the pumpkin emitting a juice. Fry until it boils up and a thick creamy mixture is obtained. Arrange in a greased with vegetable oil tray in the following order: pastry-mixture, pastry mixture… Smear the last pastry with some oil. Slice into triangles. Bake in preheated to 180 degrees Celsius(356 degrees Fahrenheit) oven, middle grate, 40-45 minutes. The inner pastry should turn browny. Put out to cool down(it should be warm, not hot). Pour with the cold syrup. Serve the meal only when it is completely cool.

Gourmet recipes - Winter salad

This is a gourmet recipe for really lazy gourmets or people with limited time. There is nothing hard in prepare this gourmet recipe if you know how to use a knife.

Recipe products

1 big-sized boiled potato
2 pickles
2 soused red peppers
10 cm leek
3-4 full tablespoons cooked corn
2 tablespoons strained yogurt
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 stick of dill

Slice the products into small cubes. Add corn, mayonnaise, strained yogurt and dill, sliced into small pieces. Stir well and serve.

Gourmet recipes - Whole grain bread with and spices

Here is yet another one of my healthy gourmet recipes. This time I added more spices to achieve more tasty bread then ever. Enjoy this gourmet recipe every time of the day.

Recipe products

300 g whole grain flour + 50 g for additional kneading
200 g sample flour
6 g dry yeast
80 g grated carrots
300 ml lukewarm water
1 teaspoon dry hogweed
1 teaspoon dry celery
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
Butter for smearing the bread pan
1 tablespoon olive oil for smearing the bread

Sift the flours and add with yeast and salt. Stew the carrots with the olive oil for 1-2 minutes. Leave to cool down. Add celery and hogweed to the carrots and stir. Add to the flours. Begin to knead the dough in the water. When the dough becomes sticky flour the broad board on which you are kneading it for additional kneading. Do this 2-3 times until no flour remains on the broad board. Cover the dough with folio and leave to rise. Knead on floured broad board as soon as the dough volume increases with a half. Divide into 3 wicks which I interweave to a rope. Put the dough in smeared with butter rectangular bread pan. Leave to rise again. Smear with olive oil before baking. Bake in preheated to 210 degrees Celsius(410 degrees Fahrenheit) oven, middle grate, 30 minutes.

Gourmet recipes - “Eights”

I want to introduce you to this attractive gourmet recipe. It is kind of sweet bread with interesting shape. With the products shown below you can produce eight “Eights” :).

Recipe products

500 g white flour + 80 g for additional kneading
3 eggs
8 g dry yeast
50 g sugar
40 g butter
Grated peel of 1 lemon
0.2 g vanilla
150 ml lukewarm fresh milk
1 yolk for smearing
Sugar for sprinkling
Chopped walnuts for sprinkling

Sift 500 g flour. Sprinkle with yeast, sugar, vanilla and lemon peel. Cut the butter above. Beat the eggs and add the milk. Knead the dough using spoon. Put 80 more grams of flour when the rest of the flour is consumed and knead until smooth and soft dough. Cover and leave on heat until doubling in a volume. Knead again and divide into 8 balls. Shape them into wicks with width of around 15-20 cm. Shape into eights and arrange in a tray with baking paper. Cover to rise again. Smear with yolk diluted in vegetable oil when they are ready. Sprinkle lavishly with sugar. Sprinkle with some chopped walnuts. Bake in preheated to 180 degrees Celsius(356 degrees Fahrenheit) oven. They will be ready in around 20-25 minutes.

Gourmet recipes - Biscuits

This nutritious gourmet recipe I picked up for you in order to show you that tasty and healthy can be easily combined. These easy for cooking biscuits are perfect for small launches.

Recipe products

300 g white flour
100g white whole grain flour
50 g oat flakes
Peels of half a lemon
220 g brown sugar
4 middle-sized eggs
125 g butter
0.3 g vanilla
4 g ginger
3 g baking soda

Sift the flours. Add ginger, soda, vanilla lemon peels. Sprinkle with sugar and oat flakes. Chop the butter above. Rub with hands until crumbs are obtained. Add the eggs one by one while kneading the dough. Thick sticky mass is obtained. Arrange in covered with baking paper tray using spoon. Bake on 2 levels at 180 degrees Celsius(356 degrees Fahrenheit) oven with fan on. Take out when they begin to brown from the upper side( around 10-12 minutes).

Gourmet recipes - Cream “Vanilla”

Cream “Vanilla” is pretty useful gourmet recipe. This cream can be directly consumed or used in sweets. It takes some time to be cooked but once it’s ready you will see that it’s worth the effort.
(more dessert gourmet recipes)

Recipe products

1 l fresh milk
3 whites of egg
4 yolks
200 g sugar
100 g flour
20 g butter
0.6 g vanilla
Sticks for decoration

Beat the whites of egg with some of the sugar and leave aside. Put aside ¼ of the milk. Beat the yolks with the flour and fill up the ¼ of the milk until thin mess obtained. Heat the rest of the sugar and the milk on the hot plate. Add the yolk mixture with continuous stirring before it boils up. Put the butter when the mixture begins to thicken. Stir constantly until the mixture become thicker. Put in the vanilla before putting away from hot plate. Leave to cool down completely. Put the yolk mixture with stirring in the whites of egg mixture as soon as it cools down until homogeneous mixture is obtained. Put in appropriate cups and decorate with chocolate sticks. It can be served with topping of your choice. I use this cream on biscuit cakes.