Beef and mushrooms Parisian cafe style

250g Fresh mushrooms

300g beef *

2 Cloves Garlic

Coconut milk

Indian Zaffran

Parsley

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Start by washing the mushrooms and cut in ¼, slice two cloves of garlic. On a medium size wok or pan put some olive oil and the garlic until it start to fry and add the mushrooms. Let it cook until almost all water is gone, season with salt and pepper.

Slice the beef in stripes. In the same pane, put the cooked mushrooms aside add more oil and garlic and cook the meat in medium heat, in the end mix the mushrooms add two soup spoons of Indian zaffran and the coconut milk (tea cup), taste and season. Add sliced parsley, let it cook for 10 min

Serve with steamed white rice.

* Two person portion

Spicy chili-pepper's sauce

1 hand of spicy chili’s
2 cloves of garlic
Dried oregano
Olive oil ( virgin )

Start by choosing a small jar to keep the sauce.
Slice the chili’s and the cloves of garlic and fill the small jar. Add the oreganos and fill with olive oil until all is covered. Leave it for one week before use!
Depending on the chili pepper's it can get more or less spicy sauce.
Great for grilled fish meat or sea food!! Just try it ;)

Chinese style egg noodles

4 egg noodle nest's

1 onion

¼ Savoy cabbage

250g mushrooms

2 carrots

2 eggs

Pumpkin or sesame seeds

Peanut oil

Pepper

Soy sauce

Start by putting to boil the noodles on plenty of water.

Slice thinly the onion the cabbage and the mushrooms, Use a medium wok with some peanut oil and start stir fry the sliced vegetables, season with pepper and stir for 10/15 min, add the scrapped carrots and soy sauce, continue to stir for 5 min more. Drain the water from the boiled noodles and add it to the wok, mix it and set aside.

In the wok open the eggs in medium heat and wait until the whites start to cook then stir with wooden chopsticks or spoon until the eggs are mixed and completly cooked.

Serve a portion in a bowl, add the eggs and some seeds on top and its ready to eat ;)

Vegetable stew with mushrooms and beans

¼ Large Cabbage (Savoy)

1 can White Beans (boiled) 

2 Carrots

250g Mushrooms (you can use a mix of fresh 

mushrooms like white, Portobello, shitake or pleurotus) 

1 Onion

2 Garlic

Olive oil

Paprika

Pepper

Cumin

Salt

First start by slicing the onion and garlic and also the cabbage and carrots.

On a large pan add the olive oil onion and garlic and give a light fried then add the cabbage and carrots, a glass of water and season with pepper, paprika and a salt at taste, reduce temperature and close the pan letting the vegetables to stew for 25/30 min. Add the beans to the stew and stir then the mushrooms (you can cut them in ½ or 1/4 depending the size), again close the pan and let it stir for 15 min more.  Rectify the seasoning if needed and add the cumin.

Serve with dry white rice and enjoy ;)

Vegetable quiche without cream

Ingredients:

5 eggs
corn flower (1/2 tea cup)
low fat milk (1 tea cup's) (can replace with oat milk or other at choose)
100g soft cheese or cream cheese
salt/pepper and herbs

1 base pastry (shortcrust)

vegetables:
carrots
spinach
lentils
mushrooms
co flower
cherry tomato
...

Start by steaming some of the less tender vegetables like the carrots and lentils. Slice all the vegetables as you please and keep aside.
In a large bowl mix the eggs, flower, milk and condiments. Add the cheese .
Start by extending the pastry (shortcrust) in the tart form and adjust sides. Add the vegetables to the quiche and in the end the liquid mix.
Put it in the oven with circular heat at 200º for 30 min and its done !!

Octopus rice : Phase two

As promise the octopus rice recipe step by step !

This is phase two, the first was to boil the mollusk and you can find it here boiled octopus

the main ingredients: octopus, water (used to boil), onions, garlic, tomato and rice. 

missing in the picture the parsley and the olive oil.

An important choice is the rice variety to use. In this recipe i use the parboil but normally we use the long (agulha) or small (carolino). Its possible to use other like the basmati but never the sushi or risotto or even the integral.

shopped octopus

The four steps, first fries onions and garlic with olive oil, second add tomato and fried a little more then add the octopus and mix, add the rice and mix again and for last add the water that was used to boil the octopus (if not sufficient add more clean water).

About how much water? the answer is : it depends if you want a dry or moist rice.

For dry rice use two measures of water for one of rice, and for moist use one additional measure of water.

Taste it after this steps, you may want to add salt and pepper

 When the water starts to boil just reduce temperature and let it go slowly closed. You may supervise if water is needed.

The final result

To accomplish I add a south African dry apple cider (bitter) but it would be fine a good beer or even better a white green wine from my home town, Amarante.

Hope i could help, please try, in case of doubts call the Chef

Boiled Octopus with potatoes

Today I made boiled Octopus, at first it was to be octopus rice but i had no time so i just boiled it and add some potatoes. Just keep this in mind because this is the 1º step to make the rise, and i will teach it when i have the time !

Well, how to do it? It's Easy, just gather some ingredients, the octopus an onion,garlic, parsley some grains of black pepper if you have and a pinch of salt. My secret is to add some white wine i found that it makes it more smooth

Just put all together in the pan and add boiling water

The octopus take time to boil so close the pan and let it go for 30-40 min . In the end save the water its going to be of use in the rice recipe

This is the simple way, i guess to be Galician style just add a pinch of paprika and you get the 

pulpo a la gallega