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Saturday, 23 March 2019

Andorran cream

                                                                               Receta en Español

Andorran cream has some similarities to catalan cream, the difference is that andorran cream has some whisked egg whites on top of it.

Andorran cream



Ingredients (for 4 people):
  • 1 liter milk.
  • 250 grams de sugar.
  • 25 grams cornstarch.
  • 7 eggs.
  • lemon zest.
  • Water and 100 grams sugar.
  • Haslf a stick cinnamon.

Method:

1-  Separate yolks from egg whites, whisk egg whites with a little sugar until you get stiff peaks
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2-  Mix 750 ml milk with 125 grams sugar , put into a boil and add the whisked egg whites, stir until you see that they are cooked (about 10 minutes).


 3-  Take out the cooked whisked egg whites.

4- Add the lemon zest, cinnamon and the remaining sugar to the milk , put it on a boil, once it has reached boiling point, turn off the heat and let the milk get cold.



5-  Put some sifted corn starch in a bowl.


6-  Add the remaining milk into the bowl with the corn starch.

7-  Mix well.


8-  Add egg yolks.



9-  whisk until everything is homogenous.



10-  Take the milk you have cooked at step number 4, take out the lemon zest and cinnamon. Pour inside the mix (milk, corn starh and eggs) mix well.



11-  Put on a low heat and stir constantly until you get a consistency like custard, then turn the heat off and let it get cold.



12-  Present the cream with the whisked egg whites and some liquid caramelon top of it.



Crema a la Andorrana










Andorra


Saturday, 9 March 2019

Andorran trout

                                                                           Receta en Español

Andorran trouts are wonderfull, the recipe I present today depicts the way andorrans cook their typical trouts:

Andorran trout


Ingredients:
  • 1 trout.
  • flour.
  • 2 slices of Serrano ham.
  • oil.
  • Salt.
  • Pepper.

Method:

1-  Clean the trout and sprinkle some salt and pepper on both sides.



2- Put some flour over both sides of the trout:


3-  Pour some oil into a frying pan, once it is hot add the trout and fry well both sides.

4- Use the same oil to fry the ham, just very litlle.

5- Put the ham slices on the trout and eat it inmediately.




My Comments to the recipe:


A very easy recipe, the mix ham and trout is wonderfull.






Andorra

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Armenia

Geghama Mountains MEDIACRAT [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Armenia (orthographic projection) By kentronhayastan, Ssolbergj (Ssolbergj's work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons



Recipes from Armenia that I cooked::




Bulgur Pilaf






Dolma





Cheese Kadaif











Armenia