Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 500 grams potatoes (grated)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a frying pan on medium high heat, add oil.
- Squeeze out as much moisture as you can from the grated potatoes.
- When the oil in the pan heats up to the point of shimmering, add the grated potatoes and spread with 1 cm thickness.
- Add some salt and pepper to taste.
- Continue cooking until golden brown on both sides.
Quick Notes
Dry the potatoes as much as you can else you will end with a mushy texture instead of crispness.
Variations
Go well along fried eggs, hams, and a biscuit.
Cooking time (duration): 15
Diet type: Vegetarian
Number of servings (yield): 4
Meal type: breakfast
Culinary tradition: USA (Southern)
My rating:5 stars: ?????
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 tsp double-acting baking powder
- 1/4 tsp of baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees C.
- Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl with fork.
- With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; add buttermilk.
- Mix, quickly, JUST until mixture forms soft dough that leaves side of bowl.
- Place the dough on a lightly floured surface, knead about 6 strokes to mix thoroughly.
- Use a biscuit cutter, using a straight downward motion, w/o twisting.
- Press dough trimmings together and cut, to use all the dough.
- Place them all on a non greased baking pan.
- Bake 12-15 minutes, or until golden.
Cooking time (duration): 40
Number of servings (yield): 4
Meal type: breakfast
Culinary tradition: USA (Southern)
My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★
Ingredients
- 1 cup hot coffee
- 2 tbsp chocolate syrup
- 1 tbsp cherry juice
- Whipped cream
- Chocolate shavings (White or Black)
- cherries compot (if available)
Instructions
- In your BEST mug, mix coffee, syrup and cherry juice.
- Stir well then top with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and cherries.
Cooking time (duration): 5
Number of servings (yield): 1
Meal type: breakfast
My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★
Summary: healthy snack during your day
Ingredients
- 200 grams thick, strained yoghurt
- 20 grams of honey (or enough to your taste)
- 10 grams of chopped mixed nuts
Instructions
- Place the yogurt in your favorite bowl.
- Pour the honey over it.
- Sprinkle nuts on top.
Quick Notes
refreshing snack yet low in calories for those bad days.
Variations
you can replace nuts with chocolate.
Cooking time (duration): 5
Diet (other): Low calorie, Reduced fat, Gluten free
Number of servings (yield): 1
Meal type: snack
Culinary tradition: Middle Eastern
My rating:4 stars: ★★★★☆
Ingredients
- 3 cups of Kishk
- 12 cups of water
- 500 grs of meat (qawarma if available)
- 2 clove of garlic
- salt to taste.
Instructions
- melt the meat or qawarma and then add garlic cloves and fry lightly.
- Add the kishk and saute for several minutes, stirring constantly. Add the water and salt to taste. Boil and stir until the desired porridge consistency is reached.
- Serve hot.
Quick Notes
*Kishk is a powdery cereal of burghul (cracked wheat) fermented with milk and laban (yoghurt). It is easily stored and is valuable to the winter diet of isolated villagers or country people. Kishk is prepared in the early Fall when the wheat crop is harvested. Milk, laban and burghul are mixed well together and allowed to ferment for nine days. Each morning the mixture is thoroughly kneaded with the hands. When fermentation is complete the kishk is spread on a clean cloth to dry. Finally it is rubbed well between the hands until it is reduced to a powder and then stored in a dry place.
Variations
You can prepare the dish without adding the meat for a veggie dish.
Cooking time (duration): 15
Diet (other): Low calorie, Reduced fat
Number of servings (yield): 6
Meal type: breakfast
Culinary tradition: Middle Eastern
My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★