Khachapuri.

    Our friend Tako natural Georgian girl, that’s why she has a big talent in cooking. Even if she cooks something for first time, it always comes out perfect J.

This time Tako baked Khachapuri and we got real masterpieces.
Here is her recipe:

She used for 4 people:

For Dough:

Flour – almost 1 kg.

Milk – 1 glass.

Yeast – 2 tab.

Olive oil – 1 tab.

Salt.

Sugar.

Warm water.

Filling:

Feta cheese – 250 gr.

Mozzarella – 250 gr.

Cottage cheese – 250 gr.

Milk – 50 ml.

Tako's method:

To make the dough, sift the flour into a large mixing bowl. Warm up a glass of milk, put 2 teaspoon of yeast, 1 teaspoon of olive oil, salt, and sugar, mix everything. Make the well in the center of the flout and add the milk mix. Add enough warm water to make a dough. Let stand for 1 hour in warm environment.

Divide the dough into four equal parts. 

Flat the parts into oval-shape. To make the filling, mix 3 cheeses (grate them) and about 50 ml of milk. Put some cheese in the middle of it, leaving free edges (about 3 cm.), the edges should be closed about ¼ part of dough from every side. 

Roll the edges to the center, till the cheese starts. The middle of Khachapuri should be open, but not too loose and too open, because the cheese might melt and come out.

Heat the oven up to 350C and place Khachapuri there for about 30-45 minutes. Check the color, when they are almost ready put one egg into every piece and add small piece of butter. Leave it in the oven for 2-3 min, the egg should be "sunny side" cooked. 

The method of eating:

Mix melted cheese and egg. Tear off peaces of dough and and dip them in the mix. 

Bon Appetite!!!

Tako's salad ;)

    It’s always great to get together with friends, even better cook with friends, and share cooking experience and food in the end. We just love this kind of meeting.

    You already saw some recipes from our gathering, Makiko’s ratatouille for example. Today we would like to share with you Tako’s recipe of salad, which she created personally and we proudly named it after her! We all love it, because it’s fresh, juicy and nourishing.

    We need for 4-5 people:
Avocado – 2-3.
Smoked mozzarella – 0.60 lb.
Mix Cut Romaine lettuce - 2-3 stems.
Caesar croutons - as you like.

 Dressing:  olive oil, balsamic vinegar, black pepper, salt.

    Easily cut,simply mix and after this enjoy with friends! 

Ratatouille ;)

It's an easy cooked, light and delicious dish, which my friend Makiko showed me.

You can choose any kind of vegetables and any quantity of them, depending on your taste and a size of a baking dish.  

 

You may need more or less time, check the color time to time.
After 30 minutes in an oven:

Enjoy! 

Golubcy (stuffed cabbage)

 We need:

1 big cabbage
1 onion 
1 carrot 
3 cloves of garlic
200 gr. mushrooms
300 gr. ground-meat ( you cam mix any kinds of them)   
300 gr. half cooked rise

for sauce:
8 sp. tomato sauce
2 sp. mayonnaise
2 sp. sour cream
water  

Put chopped onion and mushrooms, grated on a large grater carrots in the pan. Saute for 5-7 minutes.

Then mix everything with ground-meat and rice.

Boil cabbage until it can be separated into individual sheets.

Place a small amount of stuffing on the cabbage sheet and wrap it. 

You will have different quantity of golubcy, depends of cabbage size. Put them in a pan and prepare a sauce. Sauce should cover them as in the picture below. Сook 1-2 hours on low heat, until the cabbage become tender.

Eat hot with cold sour cream!

How to cook Quinoa

  First of all we need to keep proportion 1:1,5 (1 cup of Quinoa: 1,5 cup of water). In general you could cook Quinoa in any way: sweet, spicy, plain, with nuts, raisin etc.. I'll share with you the simple recipe which I use most of the time. 
   
 Ingredients: 
Quinoa - 1 cup
Water - 1,5 cup
Frozen green pees - 1/3 cup
Salt - 1/2 tea spoon
Chicken soup - 1 teaspoon

Direction:

 1. First you need to wash and soak Quinoa in water for 5-10 min. 
**The soaking is needed to break down the outer shell of the grains and prevent slightly bitter taste of it which may occur if soaking is skipped. 
 2. Bring water with green pees to boil and add Quinoa, salt and chicken soup in it. 

 3. Wait till water start to boil and keep it like this for 2-3 minutes, after this reduce fire to minimum. Cover the pot and let it stay like this (over a small fire) for 20 minutes.
 4. Switch off the fire and let it sit for 5 extra minutes covered. 
P.S. When Quinoa is ready you will see that it double its size and each grain have a little white tail:) That's the sign.. Ready!

Enjoy.

   Quinoa is a great addition to many dishes. Very healthy grain, which benefits I'll share in next post;)

Easy potato casserole

We need:
Potato  - 7
Carrot  - 1
Onion - 1
Green onion - a little
Parsley - a little
Tomato - 1
Boiled egg - 5
Chopped meat - 300 gr.

Cut eggs, onions, parsley, tomato, grade carrot.

    Put onion on the pan for first 3 minutes, add carrot for the next 3 minutes, add meat for 6 minutes, after these add tomato for 1 minute. Use medium heat for frying.

After frying place everything in the baking-form.

Put aggs in the middle.

Boiled, smashed potato put on the top. Place everything in the owen for 20-30 minutes. 

Chicken rolls with cheese filling.

We need:

5 medium pieces of chicken
1/2 bunch of green onion 
1 medium size of yellow sweet pepper
300 gr different cheeses, which you like 
salt, pepper

Preparation: 

1. make a chop of chicken meat 
2. cut pepper and onion, grate cheeses  
3. add soft cheese and mix everything together



 4. wrap the stuffing in the meat
 5. smear the rolls with mayonnaise 
 6. put the rolls in a steamer for 40 minutes

Voila! ;) 

How to cook Oatmeal

Remember, when you cook oatmeal you need to keep proportion 3:1 (3 cup of liquid and 1 cup of oatmeal)

Ingredients:
Oatmeal - 1 cup
Water - 2 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Honey - 1 table spoon
Salt - 1/2 tea spoon
* Granola - if you want - 2 table sp.

Direction:

Boil water and milk together (you can also do it on water only), add salt and honey. 

Place oatmeal and granola into cooking pan.
Bring to boil.

Cover with top and let sit for 10-12 min.

Enjoy:)

Papper with Feta Cheese

This recipe is very easy and fast to do. Coming out delicious!

Ingredients: 

 1. Feta cheese - 1 pound (or less)
 2. Paper - 3 (medium size)
 3. Egg - 1
 4. Dill - 1 bunch

Direction:

Place feta cheese, dill and egg in mixing bowl.

Mix well

Cut peppers in half, clean inside and fill them up with Feta mixture. Place in baking pan and put in the oven on 350 F. You need to cook them at least 30 minutes. But your indicator is light brown color of the feta cheese.

..Bon Appetite..

Salad with chicken, beans and cheese.

We need:

Boiled white chicken’s meat – 300 gr.

½ can of kidney bean.

½ can of sweet corn.

3-4 marinade cucumbers.

3 pieces of fried black bread.

1 clove of garlic.

Solid cheese – 150 gr.

Small bunch of dill.

Salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

Cut chicken, bread, cucumbers on small cubicles, grade cheese and mix everything together. 

Enjoy!