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Recipes from Nauru that I cooked: 

Kerikeri Salad

Rosemary Lamb

Lamington

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Lamington from New Zealand

 Lamington is a dessert typical from New Zealand and Australia.

Lamington was governor of Queensland ,Australia between 1896 and 1901.

Some people says that it was the chef from the governor Lamington, Armand Galland, who invented this recipe.

Armand Galland needed to prepare a special meal for some unexpected guests.

To make something quick, he thought on using the remainings of a vanille sponge cake done the previous day. He cut the sponge cake into little pieces and bathed it in chocolate and grated coconut.

This dessert was a success , the recipe was published in several newspapers. 

Some people say that the Lamington are a copy of an older dessert called Wellington.

Ingredients for the sponge cake (25 pieces):

- 125 gr. butter.
- 150 gr powder sugar.
- 2 eggs.
- 230 gr flour.
- 2 teaspoon chemical  yeast.
- Salt.
- 1 tea spoon vanilla extract.
- 100 ml. milk.
- 200 gr. grated coconut.




Ingredients for the topping:

- 400 gr. sugar powder.
- 4 tablespoon  cocoa powder (100%).

- 25 gr. butter.
- 100 ml. de milk.

Method:

First prepare the sponge cake:

1- Mix butter and sugar,

2- Add eggs one by one, mix well.

3- Take other bowl and mix flour, yeast and salt, sieve.

4- Mix the mixture from step 3 with the sugar, butter and eggs from step 2.

5- Take other bowl and mix the milk with vanilla, add half of the mixture from step 4, stir well. Then add the rest of the mixture from step 4 until everything is well mixed.

6- Take an oven proof dish 20x20 ,oil the dish and preheat at 180ºC.

7- Cook in oven at the same temperature for 30 - 45 minutes.

To know if it is well cooked, poke the cake with a knife , the knife should come out clean.

8- Let cool and then cut into little cubes.

Prepare the topping:

9- Sieve the sugar and cocoa , add butter and milk , mix well. 

10- Bathe every lamington into the cocoa mixture.

11- Put grated coconut in a dish, put lamingtons in the dish so the grated coconut sticks on the lamington surface.

¡Here you have the lamingtons!:

Receta en Español

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Here you have my  favourite cooking tools: https://viaja-en-mi-cocina-english.blogspot.com/2023/05/shop.html

New Zealand

Rosemary Lamb from New Zealand

Lamb is very common in New Zealand, They are not original from the country but they adapted to the environment very well and today they outnumber three times the humans.

Rosemary lamb is the most common way to cook the lamb at New Zealand , eaten for special occassions even Christmas or New Year's Day

Ingredients:

- 1 leg of lamb.
- 6 garlic cloves.
- 3 potatoes.
- 1 sweet potatoes.
- 2 lemons.
- dried figs.
- Chives.
- little onions.
- One piece of pumpkin .
- 100 grams of mushrooms.
- Radish.
- 1 tablespoon rosemary.
- 1 tablespoon parseley.
- Salt.
- Pepper.

Method:

1- Peel and cut all the vegetables in little pieces (Potatoes, sweet potaoes, pumpkin, mushroom, radish).

2- Peel the lamb leaving a little layer of fat.

3- Pour some oil in a oven proof dish, put all the vegetables inside.

4- Add the little onions, dried figs and chives.

5- Put the lamb leg on top of all the vegetables , cut garlic cloves in half ,make some cuts along the leg's lamb and place the garlic cloves into each cut.

6- Make the sauce with 2 lemons' juice, a tablespoon rosemary, a tablespoon pearsley, salt and pepper. Mix well and pour over the lamb.

7- Preheat the oven to 200ºC, cook at the same temperature for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

To see if the lamb is well cooked poke the meat with a knife.

Let cool for 10 minutes and serve accompanied by meant, currant jam or rosehip.

Receta en Español

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Here you have my  favourite cooking tools: https://viaja-en-mi-cocina-english.blogspot.com/2023/05/shop.html

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Kerikeri - Salad from New Zealand

 Kerikeri is a salad very typical of the Maori people, the natives from New Zeland.

The main ingredients are corn and green peas. It is very healthy and easy to prepare.
¡This is a vegan dish!.

Ingredients (3 people):

- 150 grams corn.
- 100 grams green peas.
- 1 cucumber.
- Half an onion.
- 1 garlic clove.
- Oil.
- Vinegar.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
- Cayenne.

- Chives.

Method:

1- Cook the green peas with water and salt. If they are frozen you can cook them 10 minutes in boiling water.

2- Cut the cucumber into little cubes.

3- Cut the onion, garlic and chive in pieces.

4- Mix the corn, green peas, cucumber and chives.

5- Take a jar, put inside the onion, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and a bit of cayenne. Close the jar and shake well.

Pour the jar content on the salad.

Recipe in English

You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:

Here you have my  favourite cooking tools: https://viaja-en-mi-cocina-english.blogspot.com/2023/05/shop.html

New Zealand

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