Cooking and Eating

We are now in strawberry season, (March to July), and we can enjoy its flavor and combinations that they can do to dessert time, (if they are rich with cream, dare to try them with strawberry jelly or irrigated with melted chocolate).

Today, from saborgourmet.com, we bring you the very simple recipe for homemade strawberry jam made with the microwave, you'll love for sure, but above all it will do to children.

- Ingredients for 4:

• 1 / 2 kilo of strawberries.
• 230 grams of sugar.
• 1 / 2 lemon juice.

- Difficulty:

- Preparation:

1. First and foremost seek wash the strawberries and remove all the stalk and upper leaves.
2. Then pouring it into a bowl and adequate microwave, and pour over both sugar and lemon juice.
3. Set the microwave at medium power and enter into the container of strawberries. Leave there for about 15 minutes but not forgetting to remove every 3 or 4 minutes to prevent sticking.
4. Once you have removed the container from the microwave, pour its contents into a glass high and beat until smooth as possible. (If you choose to prepare it in a pot, the cooking time on low heat will be approximately 30 minutes).
5. Serve cold.

* If you want to give a different touch Toss a few mint leaves.

Today will offer "Pasta with cream of broccoli." A delicious way to combine pasta with vegetables.

This time we chose the "broccoli" which is a member of the cabbage family or cabbage. And does best in cool seasons of the year. It is a plant that allows us many easy ways of cooking.

And as if that were not enough, it contains more nutrients than any other vegetable. Since it has large amounts of vitamins A, D, C and beta carotene are important antioxidants.
By eating foods high in antioxidants, reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease. It is important to know the food, to learn to choose.

Yes, now get to work! ...

- Ingredients (4 or 5 servings)

• 600 g cooked pasta al dente
• 1 broccoli (flowers only)
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons oil
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 chile or chilli, seeded, finely diced
• 250 g cream cheese
• ½ cup milk
• Salt and pepper to taste

- Preparation

In a saucepan with water and some salt, cook broccoli florets. Drain and reserve. Bring a saucepan heat oil, add garlic, chili pepper and broccoli florets, and sauté for 2 minutes.

Add cheese and milk and season with salt and pepper. Mix the sauce with pasta and serve immediately.

... Bon appetit! ...

Image: Clarin

What we know as Toffee is only one kind of candy made primarily from butter, sugar and almonds and, of course, can become a real defect in the evidence. Some prepares harder, and somebody puts other types of nuts, but always tends to be delicious.

The secret to make it more or less difficult is the temperature at which you take the candy, ideally it reaches 150 º C. The lower the temperature, will be softer.

Today we bring you Toffee recipe that includes chocolate. I shall count us what you think:

- Ingredients:

• 170 gr mildly bitter chocolate.
• 200 grams of sugar.
• 80 grams of chopped almonds.
• Vanilla extract.
• Sal
• 225g butter or butter.
• Parchment paper.

- Difficulty: Medium.

- Preparation:

1. In a pot deep enough to melt, over low heat, butter with sugar and a tablespoon of water.
2. When everything has melted, increase heat, stirring constantly. Once the fluid has disappeared, the mixture will thicken. Leave a little closer to the fire, (you know that the ideal is to reach 150 º C) and then away.
3. Now add a teaspoon of vanilla extract and a pinch of salt, and mix thoroughly.
4. Place on a flat surface and butter paper on the extended mix it with a spatula.
5. Aside go melting the chocolate in double boiler. Then spread it over the caramel layer before it cools.
6. Lastly, drop or sprinkle on two layers of chopped almonds.
7. Let cool to room temperature and then put in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
8. Cut into pieces before serving.

Via: www.elgranchef.com

The tempura is the name under which the estate is called, so the fish coated in batter, meat or vegetables. Its origin is uncertain, because although he believes that initially there was Portuguese, apparently was the Japanese who took their recipe. However, the Japanese, so fond of stories and legends, say the tempura recipe is much older, dating back to the years when Marco Polo came to China.

There are almost as many recipes as chefs may have to cook tempura. In fact the last time I could read even the flesh of sweet potato mixture for coating fish. However, the simplest formula is one that flour and cornstarch mixture in equal parts, it includes an egg yolk, water, gas and sometimes rice wine.

- Ingredients:

• 125 gr. flour
• 125 gr. cornstarch
• 1 cup very cold sparkling water (you can also use ordinary water, but still very cold)
• 1 egg yolk (although some people use the clear instead of the bud)
• 1 tablespoon sake (rice wine)

- Difficulty: Easy

- Development:

1. Mix flour with cornstarch
2. Add the yolk or the white and the water
3. We beat with a mixer, but the straw
4. Add the sake

Once we have the tempura, we cut the food that we will batter into cubes that can take a single bite. Especially because we have to take into account that after frying in vegetable oil should be hot, but for just about 3 minutes, thus the larger the cuts oil since we have left. is the ideal oil for sesame and also acquire the appropriate texture.

It is also important not salt the tempura, as the flavor it should give the sauce that accompanies the food and the tempura batter. Most commonly used tentsuyu sauce, made from broth, soy sauce, mirin and ginger.

As for the food they can cook with this method is largely used among vegetables, cauliflower, asparagus, green beans, peppers and mushrooms, but above all, is widely used for fish such as hake, sea bream , trout and squid.