Sunday, February 7, 2010
GF WF Thai Chicken and Basil Stir Fry
Ingredients (serves 2):
2 chicken breasts sliced into thin strips
1/2 packet of frozen green beans
1/2 red pepper, cut into slices
2 cloves garlic chopped finely
1 handful of fresh basil
1 tsp five spice powder 1 large onion sliced
2 Tbls GF oyster sauce
1 Tbls GF soy sauce
1 chilli (optional)
handful of roasted cashew nuts
Method:
Heat a little oil in a large wok
add the sliced chicken and stir fry until it turns white and is nearly cooked
(about 3 -5 minutes) then add the garlic, five spice, onion, and green beans.
Stir-fry together until the beans are soft and cooked through
add the red pepper and chilli
lastly add the GF oyster sauce and GF soy sauce.
Once it has all been mixed together chuck in the fresh basil and cashew nuts and you’re ready.
Serve on a bed of steamed rice.
Friday, January 29, 2010
GF WF Roasted vegetable macaroni
Ingredients:
2 large courgettes, diced
1 large aubergine, diced
1 sweet potato, peeled and diced
1 large onion, roughly chopped
1 Tbls olive oil
400g small GF macaroni or other small GF pasta shapes
500g jar Dolmio original sauce for bolognese
1 ltr hot GF vegetable stock
Method:
Preheat the oven to gas mark 7 or 220°C.
Toss together the diced vegetables and olive oil and tip into a large baking dish.
Roast for 15 mins until softened and golden.
Lower the oven to gas mark 6 or 200°C.
Stir the GF pasta, sauce and GF stock into the dish.
Cover with foil and bake for 20 mins or so, until the GF pasta is tender.
Serve at the table directly from the baking dish.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
GLUTEN AND DAIRY FREE WAFFLES
Ingredients:
2 cups rice flour
2 tablespoons of aluminum free baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil or extra virgin olive oil
2 eggs or egg substitute
3/4 cup rice, soy or almond milk
3 tablespoons honey (optional)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
Directions:
Combine dry ingredients in one bowl
Mix together
Add wet ingredients and mix well
Fluffy waffles depend on the consistency of the batter
Add more flour for thicker batter to make a fluffier waffle
Use waffle iron to make the waffles, it should take about 2 minutes
Top with my apple compote
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Potato Waffle with Caramelized Apple Cake
House Speciality
Hotel-Restaurant Georges W
"2, rue de la gare&qu
Le Noirmont
Cooking Recipe Ingredients:
Waffle:
3.5 oz. puree'd potato
0.7 oz. butter
0.88 oz. flour
1 egg
1.4 tbsp. milk
1 oz. sugar
1 lemon peel
Apple cake:
4 apples
3.5 oz. caramel
1 oz. sugar
0.7 oz. butter
1 lemon juice
Small rectangular forms, 3.2 x 1.2 in
Ice-cream:
1.1 cups milk
4 yolks
2.1 oz. sugar
0.42 cups crème fraîche (thick sour cream)
1.4 tbsp. Damassine (or plum)
Cooking recipe preparation instructions:
Waffle:
Prepare a potato puree (potatoes cooked with skin).
Melt some butter. Mix all the ingredients to obtain semi-liquid dough.
Pour it in the waffle iron until you obtain a nice, colored waffle.
Store aside.
Apple cake:
Peel and prepared the apples.
Cut them into thin slices.
Stew the apples in butter with sugar and lemon juice until the liquid is evaporated.
Pour some caramel at the bottom of the forms.
Then, cover with the apple slices. (About 1.2 in height.)
Let it cook for 12 minutes at 392 degrees.
Remove it from the form and put it on a serving dish to let it drain before you serve it.
Ice-cream:
Cook the milk.
Beat the yolk and sugar until they blanch.
Pour the milk over the eggs and put the whole in a saucepan.
Reheat on a small flame (around 190 degrees F).
Stir continuously.
End the cooking by adding the crème fraiche.
Let it cool down and put it in the ice-cream-freezer with the alcohol.
Presentation:
Place the apple cake in the middle of the dish.
Add the ice-cream and warm waffle.
Decorate with a dried apple slice and pour some caramel over it.
Decorate with some mint and drops of reduced apple juice.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Mushroom Risotto
Italian Food: How To Make Mushroom Risotto
Ingredients:
750 ml GF chicken stock , or GF vegetable stock
2 tbsp olive oil
45 g butter
200 g mixed fresh mushrooms, roughly chopped
half onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tbsp thyme, chopped
250 g short grain rice, like Arborio or Carnaroli Italian rice
4 tbsp Madeira wine (optional)
3 tbsp sherry (optional)
2 tbsp crème fraiche , (optional)
2 tbsp parsley, chopped
25 g parmesan , shaved
salt and pepper
Needed:
2 saucepans
1 wooden spoon
1 ladle
Method:
Place a pan under a medium –high heat and add the GF stock.
Bring to the boil and once boiling remove from the heat and place on the back burner to keep warm.
Place the second pan on the same hot ring and add the olive oil and butter.
Mix them well together, then add the mushrooms and stirring, allow them to brown.
Once browned add the onion, stir them in and let them sweat for a couple of minutes. Then add the garlic, stir in and add the thyme, then season with salt and pepper.
Add the rice and using your wooden spoon mix it in very well. Pour in the (Optional)Madeira wine and the sherry.
Stir them in and cook for a few minutes allowing them to soak in and evaporate.
Once the wine has evaporated add 2 ladles of the stock and stir it in.
It is very important that before adding anymore stock the previous stock has been absorbed.
Keeping it moist but not too wet, add another 2 ladles and stir in.
TIP:
The wilder the mushroom the better the flavour! For example porcini, chanterelle or black trumpets are the most flavoursome and will give the risotto a richer, deeper flavour.
You can also use the dried versions and add the water that they soak in to give the risotto a more fulsome flavour.
Repeat the ladling process until all the liquid has been used.
The cooking process should take around 15-20 minutes.
When all the liquid has absorbed, remove from the heat, after making sure that the rice is thoroughly cooked but still has a tiny bite to it.
Into the cooked risotto fold in the (Optional) crème fraiche.
As it has some acidity it cuts through the richness of the risotto and gives it a sharper flavour.
After mixing in well add the chopped parsley
To serve, spoon a generous helping into the centre of a large serving plate.
Then place some shaved parmesan on top.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
ALMOND ORANGE CAKE
Ingredients:
2.5 Cups Blanched Almonds
1.5 Cups Sugar
3 Large Navel Oranges
6 Eggs
1 Large Pinch Salt
1.5 tsp Baking Powder
1.5 tsp Almond Extract
Method:
PRE-HEAT OVEN TO 375
GREASE AND FLOUR 10 INCH SPRING FORM CAKE PAN
IN A FOOD PROCESSOR GRIND TOGETHER ALMONDS AND SUGAR UNTIL THE ALMONDS ARE STILL A BIT CRUNCHY
BOIL THE THREE ORANGES WHOLE FOR 30 MINUTES THEN LET COOL AND QUARTER
REMOVE SKIN FROM FLESH AND PUREE COMPLETELY INCLUDING SKIN IN FOOD PROCESSOR
BEAT THE EGGS UNTIL THEY ARE FLUFFY AND LIGHT IN COLOR
ADD THE SALT, BAKING POWDER AND ALMOND EXTRACT TO THE ALMOND/SUGAR MIXTURE THEN FOLD THE PUREED ORANGE MIXTURE THEN FOLD THE EGGS INTO IT
POUR ENTIRE MIXTURE INTO THE SPRING FORM PAN
BAKE ONE HOUR
LET COOL THEN SPRINKLE WITH ICING/CONFECTIONER'S SUGAR
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Chocolate Fondant
Chocolate : How To Make Chocolate Fondant
Ingredients:
3 Eggs
100g Dark chocolate
50g GF Plain flour
100g Sugar
some Fresh mint
100g Butter
some Cocoa powder
Needed:
6 aluminium pudding tins
2 bowls
1 baking tray
1 electric/handheld mixer
1 knife
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350F GasMark 4
Brush the insides of the aluminium pudding tins with soft butter, then spoon in some cocoa powder.
Turn the tin in a circular motion and tap until the inside surface is fully covered with the cocoa powder.
This will prevent anything sticking later.
Place the chocolate and butter in the heat-proof bowl, and place it over a pan of boiling water.
Leave it to melt.
Beat the eggs in a separate bowl.
Slowly incorporate sugar.
Mix until airy and fluffy.
Sieve the GF flour into the melted butter-chocolate mixture.
Mix until no flour crumbles are seen.
Now add the egg mixture into the chocolate-butter mixture so they are both in the same bowl.
Pour the mixture into the prepared aluminium dishes.
Place into the oven for 6 minutes.
Serve with ice cream.
Garnish with a sprig of mint and a sprinkle cocoa powder
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