Flowers from Extremadura

Flores or floretas are a very typical dessert in the Spanish regions of Castilla la Mancha and Extremadura.

It is a fried dough in the shape of a flower, done with the help of a special mold, they are usually sprinkled with sugar or bathed in honey, it depends on the area.

There is also a similar dessert in Colombia called "solteritas" and in Mexico they also make something similar.

In Extremadura, most of the recipes I have seen have been made with honey, this is the recipe I present today, you have to use a good honey and the flavor is spectacular, much better than with sugar.

Ingredients:

- 3 eggs.

- 220 g flour.

- 300 ml whole milk.

- a tablespoon of anisseed.

- Lemon zest.

- Honey.

Method:

1- Infuse the milk with lemon zest and aniseed. To do this, pour the milk into a saucepan along with the lemonzest and aniseed, put it over medium heat until it starts to boil, and then take away from the heat and wait for it to get cold.

2- Once the milk is cold, strain the milk.

3- To make the dough, put the eggs in a bowl along with the flour and then add the milk step by step and mix well each time you add the milk. You can also add water when the milk runs out and the dough still does not have a good consistency. just as you see in the photos. Keep in mind that the dough does not contain sugar.

4- We look for a frying pan or casserole where the flower mold fits well, fill the frying pan with oil. Heat the oil.

5- We put the mold in the dough being careful to leave part of the mold outside the dough. Then put the mold in the frying pan, you will immediately see that the dough can come off the mold easily and we let the flower brown a little more.Then you take the flower out of the oil and put it to dry on an absorvent paper, put the flowers upside down so that the oil does not remain in the folds of the flower.

6- We put the honey in a casserole and turn on the heat until the honey becomes liquid, then you turn off the heat and put half of each flower in the honey, put them face down in the honey and then put them in a dish face up so that the honey stays in the folds of the flower.

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Pork Stew from Cáceres

 The recipe I bring today, pork stew, is very typical in Cáceres, together with the lamb stew.

This is a traditional stew that you can eat every day or in special days.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilo pork meat cut into cubes.

- 2 onion.

- 2 carrots.

- 1 green pepper.

- oil.

- 2 potatoes.

- Salt.

- 1 Glass of water.

- 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce.

- 1 choricero pepper.

- a dash of red wine.

- Black Pepper.

- Thyme.

- Paprika.

Method:

1- Cut the green pepper and the onion into cubes, sautée in a frying pan with some oil until the onion is done.

2- Add the meat, salt, paprika ,pepper and the meat cook at medium heat until the meat changes the colour.

3- Add the tomato, chiricero pepper and water.

Add a dash of wine and the carrots cut into 1 cm slices. Cook for half an hour at medium heat without a lid.

4- Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes, fry in a pan with a little oil and salt.                                                                  

5- Turn off the heat of the casserole with the meat, add the fried potatoes over the meat, mix well , with the heat of the stew the potatoes will soften.

Now you can serve and taste!

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Zorongollo from Extremadura

Zorongollo is a roasted pepper and tomatos salad, very famous in Extremadura, La Vera region is the place were this salad is well known. This salad is consumed as a side dish that accompanies meet ,specially 'lamb or pork caldereta'.

This is super easy and tasty.

Ingredients:

- 1 Red Pepper.

- 1/2 onion.

- 2 small tomatos.

- 1 garlic clove.

- oil.

- vinager.

- Salt.

- 1 egg.

Method:

1- Sprinkle some oil and salt over the surface of the pepper and tomatos, roast in the oven together with the clove of garlic.

I used the microwave function roast + micro , 25 minutes are enough.

Let get cool.

2- Cut the onions , put it in a bowl with water, this will soften its taste.

3- Peel the pepper and tomatos, cut the pepper in slices, get rid of the pepper and tomato seeds, put both in a dish , add the garlic cut in little pieces and the onion into strips.

Add a boiled egg as you can see on the picture:

4- Now it is time to prepare the dressing , put the liquid of the roasted peppers in a bowl, add oil, salt and vinager, mix well and pour the dressing over the salad.

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