Recipes for Meals

Title: Baked Empanadas
Cook Time: 1 hour
Level: Medium
Serving: 20

The “Empanadas” are a recurrent figure in almost all cuisines of Latin America, having come from the eating habits of the conquerors. They are in the family that receives the generic name of pasties (a type of cake) or dumplings. These packages of pasta filled with a number of variations. These pastries are obtained by wrapping a mass or paste filling, sealing edges and frying or baking as prescribed.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups flour
• 4 tablespoons margarine
• 150 GS butter or oil (to taste)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 onions
• 1 green chili pepper
• 1/2 kg beef
• 1/3 cup seedless grapes
• 1/4 cup olives, finely chopped
• 1 bunch green onions, chopped
• 2 boiled eggs and chopped
• pepper and salt
• red pepper

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Title: Babarroisse of Mandarin
Cook Time: 2 hour
Level: medium
Serving: 4

French desserts have transcended the boundaries are achieved anywhere in the world. On this occasion we will prepare a delicate and elegant dessert with mandarins.

Ingredients:

• 250 gr. sugar
• 85 gr. granulated gelatin mandarin
• 2 eggs, egg whites until stiff peaks
• 2 eggs, yolks
• 1 cup milk
• 25 gr. mandarin
• 250 gr. whipped cream
• 25 cc. tangerine juice

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Title: Buding Fish
Cook Time: 1 hour
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

The Budding is a dish made with savory or sweet ingredients, the beaten eggs are added and cooked in a double boiler pan. Can be served cold or hot. the following recipe is a delicious fish budding from Spain, a perfect  dish for  a holiday celebration.

Ingredients:

• 1 k. clean white fish cooked (can be frozen)
• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 3 sticks of crab
• 1/2 k of prawns or shrimp (can be frozen)
• 6 eggs
• 1/4 of cream
• Mayonnaise
• Bread crumbs
• salt and butter
• Curly endive

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Title: Lemon sorbet
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

For Christmas dinner I like to serve this refreshing lemon sorbet recipe for the menu of this celebration, to lighten the palate between courses, a custom inherited from the Victorian era, when great feasts were served with many dishes. Thus, the straw clean our taste buds and prepares us for a new dish.

Ingredients:

• 4 lemon juice
• 200 g sugar
• 1/2 liter of water
• 2 egg whites
• A grated rind of 1 lemon
• 1/2 stick of cinnamon or mint leaves
• 1 pinch of salt

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Title: Chocolate Mousse
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

The ideal chocolate confectionery should be bitter and contain no less than 50 percent cocoa. The best usually contain 70 per cent and more. Dark chocolate may be substituted 3 tablespoons cocoa, too bitter, mixed with 1 1/2 tablespoon melted butter and the paste is 30 g. chocolate bars.

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces of chocolate
• 25 grs butter or margarine
• 6 eggs
• 6 tbsp sugar

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Title: Chocolate sponge cake
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

The following dessert is made with one of my favorite flavors, “chocolate”. I will give below some tricks to keep it better. Should keep the chocolate in a dry and fresh and never in the refrigerator.Remember that all chocolates are sensitive to heat and cold, so a neutral environment is best for its proper preservation.

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 300 g flour
• 150 g sugar
• 100 g butter
• 1 cup milk
• 100 g of cocoa
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 packet yeast

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