Arabian Masala

 Masala means spice, Indian masala is well known but there also exists the arabian masala consumed in the Middle East countries.

Here you have the recipe, this masala will be used for the recipe I will publish next week.

You can use less quantity of each spice but you should keep the proportions.

Ingredients:

- 100 g cumin seeds.

- 50 g coriander seeds.

- 75 g fennel seeds.

- 100 g green cardamon.

- 20 g clove.

- 40 g black pepper.

- 4 chili .

- 5 bay leaves.

- 5 star anise.

- 3 black cardamon seeds.

- 2 dried lemons.

- 100 g turmeric.

Method:

1- Cook all the species but the turmeric in one pan without oil. Put it on a low heat.

2- When you start to smell the scent of the spices turn off the heat and add the turmeric. Mix well.

3- Put the mixture in a spice grinder and grind. That's all!

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

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Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:  

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zucchini wraps.

  Here you have a tasty recipe that will allow you to eat healthy : zucchini wraps. They can be filled with multiple possibilities ,I filled them with mushrooms, prawns and cheese.

Ingredients:

- 1 Zucchini 

- Thyme.

- Salt.

- 100 g mushrooms.

- 100 g prwans.

- Cheese.

Method:

1- Cut mushrooms into little slices, fry in oil for 10 minutes, then add the prawns, salt, thyme and cook for ten more minutes, medium heat.

2- Cut the zucchini into thin slices.

3- Take two zucchini slices and create a cross. Put the filling in the middle, put some cheese over the filling.

4- To make the wraps do as you see in the pictures.

5- Put the wraps in an ovenproof dish. Cook them for 40 minutes at 200ºC haet up and down. You can add some cheese over the wraps if you want.

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Colombia

 

Recipes from Colombia that I cooked::

Sancocho

 

 Empanadas from Colombia

Aborrajados from Colombia

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Aborrajados from Colombia

Aborrajado is a typical Colombian dessert , original from the Cauca Valley.

This dessert has received the influence from the african gastronomy.

It was the XIX century when african slaves started to use smashed plantain as a wrapping for the food , they started to wrap pork meat, this is known today in Cali as 'Marranitas'.

It was in the Cauca Valley where they started to fill the plantain with farmer cheese and bathed it in a mixture of flour and egg to fry them after that.

Today they add guava paste to the filling as well.

You can use mozzarella cheese or a type of cheese that melts well.

aborrajado can be eaten accompanied by milk, like a side dish or tapa.

The key point is to use ripe plantain  (those who have almost black skin), these plantains are the sweetest.

Ingredients:

- 2 ripe plantains.
- 200 grams mozzarella cheese.
- 200 grams guava paste.
- 6 tablespoon flour.
- 2 eggs.
- 4 tablespoon milk.
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar.

Method:

1- Peel and cut the platains in 4 or 5 pieces.

2- Fry the plantain in not too hot oil, let it get cool on an absorbent paper to get rid of the oil.

3- Take a bowl, put 2 eggs inside and whisk. Add milk and mix well.

4- Add sugar ,a pinch of salt and whisk until the sugar is dissolved.

Add the flour little by little and mix well.

5- Cut cheese and guava paste:

6- Cover a piece of plantain with transparent film, smash it with the help of a dish.

7- Put some cheese and guava paste in the center of the smashed plantain, wrap it and make a ball.

8- Bathe every ball in the dough made of egg and flour. Fry in hot oil.

9- Put on an absorbent paper to get rid of the oil. You should eat them while they are hot.

 

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Sancocho

Sancocho is a staple dish in Colombia, it is also very common in Venezuela, Panama ,Ecuador ,Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Replubic.

This is a stew made from meet or fish and different types of tuber.

I present you the meat Sancocho, with a mix of different types of meat.

Ingredients:

- Spring onion or chive.

- 1 plantain.

- 2 onions.

- Garlic.

- 1 cob of corn.

- 1 yucca.

- 1 potato.

- 1/4 de pumpkin.

- Coriander.

- 3 tomatos.

- Cow meat and chicken .

- Thyme.

- Cumin.

- Oregano.

- Ground garlic.

Method:

1- Cook the meat with some water and salt using a pressure cooker, cook for 15 minutes.

2- Cut the onion and garlic in little pieces, fry until they are soft.

3- Cut chive and coriander.

4- Cut pumpkin and tomato into pieces.

5- Put inside one cooking pot, add meat, salt and the spices thyme, cumin, oregano and ground garlic. Pour some water until all the ingredients are covered. Cook on a medium heat, cover with a lid.

 

6- Cut the plantain in pieces, do not use one knife, use your hands.

7- Cut the potato and yucca, cut the corn cob into two pieces. Put inside the pot , cook until the tubers are soft.

Now the sancocho is ready, serve with white rice or avocado.

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You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Colombia