Recipes for Meals

Title: Potato Tortilla
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Level: Medium
Serving: 4

Potato tortilla is one of the most classic preparations of Spanish cuisine can be found in almost any bar or restaurant. Is a dish of eggs and potatoes. The name comes from the way cake. This recipe can be serve at room temperature as an appetizer for a Spanish meal or lunch.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup olive oil
• Four large potatos (peel and cut in circles about 2 mm thick)
• Salt to taste
• 1large onion thinly sliced
• 4 large eggs

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Title: Scallops Galician Style
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

Scallops or oysters shellfish are a family, closely related to clams and oysters. They live in deep water in most of the seas, on sandbars and cleaner strong near the coast, up to 100 meters deep.  In Spanish cuisine is located in Galicia, where it is typical to find them cooked in the oven covered with bread crumbs, onion confit.

Ingredients:

• 6 large scallops
• 4 green onions
• 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic
• nutmeg
• parsley
• pepper and  salt

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Title: Potato  and yogurt salad
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

The potato is a tuber of Andean origin. There are many varieties of potatoes in the world, for example, in Peru there are more than three thousand varieties discovered so far, what makes the potato a food very interesting to study. Potatoes are, as we all know, a very rich and perfect food to join thousands of dishes. Even not only as complement, but as the main basis of the richest culinary feast.

Ingredients:

1/2 kg small potatoes
2 cucumbers
2 yogurts
2 onions
1 garlic cloves
Vinegar
Salt and Pepper to taste

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Title: Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

Mushrooms are edible fungi that can be found throughout the year. They are a good food for the athletes because they provide protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals with few calories (20-34 Cal/100g) without fat or cholesterol. They are known as “vegetable burgers” because they contain all the essential amino acids and are a good substitute for meat in some recipes (lasagna, chopped, moussaka, bolognese sauce).

Ingredients:

• 1 finely chopped chives
• Olive oil
• Black pepper
• 4 cloves garlic chopped giblets
• 1 pound mushrooms cut into sheets
• 1 pound cream cheese
• 1 liter of milk
• 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
• Salt to taste

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Title: Rioja’s potatoes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

Tapas are from Spain and in that Iberian country are one of the most popular customs. Tapas are small portions of Sausages, cheeses and other products, served in small plates, as if it was a tasting. One of the most common is the Spanish tortilla and the Galicia’n octopus, but the truth is that there are a lot of tapas dishes.

Ingredients:

1 kg de potatoes
½ chopped onion
2 garlic cloves
2 chili
Small bunch of parsley
250g red sausage
Sweet red paprika
Salt

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Title: Torrijas
Cook Time: 1 hour
Level: Easy
Serving: 10

The Torrijas is a traditional sweet of  Carnival and Lent, wich consists of a slice of bread (usually several days) that is soaked in milk or wine, and after being coated in egg, fried it in a skillet with oil; eventually flavored to taste, with various ingredients such as cinnamon or liqueur, and sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar. Its association with Lent may be due to the necessity to use bread that as long as they could not eat meat in the fifteenth century.

Ingredients:
1 loaf of bread a day earlier
1 liter of milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 lemon peel
6 tablespoons sugar
2 eggs
Olive oil or canola

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