Some Spanish Recipes

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Some Spanish Recipes
1. Starters
2. Main Courses

• 3. Desserts

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1. STARTERS

• Potatoes Omelette
• Bread with ripe tomato
• Green Salad
• Baked Vegetables

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TORTILLA DE PATATAS Potatoes Omelette

• INGREDIENTS
• 3 eggs
• 2 potatoes
• olive oil
• salt

• UTENSILS
• a plate, a spoon,
• a whisk, a pan,
• a bowl.

• HOW TO PROCCEED
• Whisk the eggs together. Cut the potatoes into
  pieces (dices) and wash them. Put the potatoes in
  a pan and fry them with olive oil and some salt
  until they become soft and a bit brown.
• Put the fried potatoes into the whisked eggs and
  mix them together.
• Pour the mixture in a pan with oil and fry the
  mixture until it is golden brown from both sides.
• (Use a plate to turn over the omelette).

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PAN CON TOMATE BREAD WITH
RIPE TOMATO

• INGREDIENTS
• 2 slices of bread
• 1 ripe tomato
• some olive oil
• salty ham
• UTENSILS
• a plate
• a knife
• napkins

• HOW TO PROCEED
• 1st - Cut the tomato in the middle, so you have
  two halves.
• 2nd - Rub one half of the tomato on one of the
  sides of each slice.
• 3rd - Pour some olive oil on the slices of the
  bread.
• 4th - Put a slice of salty ham on each slice of
  bread.
• And now, eat it !!!!!!!!!

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Where does this ham come from?
Heres the answer, look at the picture
below
It belongs to a pigs leg. That sort of glass
container is called porró and it is used to
keep wine, specially red wine. People drink
straight from it , wine comes out through a small
hole in one of the porró glass arms
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ENSALADA VERDE Green Salad

• INGREDIENTS
• lettuce onions olives
• tomatoes red pepper tuna fish
• carrots cheese some
  corn
• dressing salad olive oil, vinegar and
• salt

• UTENSILS
• a knife, a fork, a plate, a tin opener.

• HOW TO PROCEED
• 1- Wash all the vegetables in water . Soak the
  lettuce for some minutes (15), then cut each
  leaf into small pieces. Grate the carrots, cut
  the onions and the red pepper into very thin
  slices and the tomatoes into sections.
• 2- Place the vegetables in a plate , add the
  corn, tuna fish, olives and some slices of
  cheese.
• 3- Everyone at table will dress their salad with
  olive oil, vinegar and salt , depending on their
  tastes.

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ESCALIVADA Baked
Vegetables

• INGREDIENTS
• 2 red peppers olive oil
• 1 onion salt
• 1 eggplant
• some black olives
• UTENSILS
• 1 dish a roasting pan
• 1 knife a plate

• HOW TO PROCEED
• 1- Grease all the vegetables with olive oil
  and then put them in a roasting pan.
• 2- Put the roasting pan in an oven which has
  been already heated.
• 3- Let cook the vegetables till their skin
  turns into a dark colour, it blackens (turn them
• over from time to time).
• 4- Finally , peel the vegetables and cut them
  into smaller pieces. Put the pieces on a dish,
  add
• some black olives and pour some olive oil
  and salt. Before eating it you have to wait till
  
• the vegetables cool down.

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2. MAIN COURSES

• Mixed Paella
• Rabbit in Sauce
• Sausages with Dried Beans.
• Hake and clams

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PAELLA MIXTA MIXED
PAELLA

• INGREDIENTS
  . UTENSILS
• 6 shrimps 1 red pepper
  a casserole dish
• 150 g. clams 100g. peas
  spoons and knives
• 6 mussels 2 onions
  some plates
• some squid rings 400g. rice
  a pan
• cuttlefish crushed tomatoes
• a quarter of chicken salt and olive oil
• 100 g. stewing meat saffron

• HOW TO PROCEED
• 1- After cleaning the cuttlefish, cut it into
  small pieces. Put some olive oil in a pan and fry
  it together with the squid rings, add some salt.
  Then fry the shrimps both sides, add some salt.
  Keep this shellfish in a plate.
• 2- Cut the chicken and the stewing meat into
  small pieces, add some salt and fry them (use new
  olive oil). When it is golden brown take the
  whole out, keep the oil and fry the onions in it
  until they get a golden colour (onions should be
  chopped ). Afterwards add the crushed tomatoes
  and let it fry together for some minutes in the
  casserole dish.
• 3- Right away, put the shellfish, all meat , a
  red pepper (into small pieces) , the peas, the
  rice and the saffron in the casserole. Stir them
  together. Let it warm on the burner for 5 . Add
  boiling water (about a litre), stir it very
  carefully and let it boil (lively) about 20.
  Eat it after 5 or 10 minutes!!

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Conejo en Salsa Rabbit in
Sauce

• Ingredients Utensils
• a rabbit in quarters a
  casserole dish
• almonds a
  spoon
• tomatoes a
  knife
• onions and garlic a pan
• a little of brandy
• olive oil, salt and pepper

• How to proceed
• Fry the rabbit in a pan with olive oil till it is
  really golden brown. Chop the onions and garlic
  and fry them in the same oil as the rabbit .
  Add the tomato sauce, salt, a bit of black pepper
  powder, the chopped almonds and the brandy. Pour
  two glasses of water and then put the fried
  rabbit in this sauce. Let it boil for a quarter.
  You can serve the rabbit with chips.

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MONGETES AMB BOTIFARRA DRIED BEANS WITH
SAUSAGES

• INGREDIENTS
• 4 sausages 2 black (made with pigs
  blood)
• 2 white (just
  pigs meat)
• half a Kg. dried beans
• olive oil
• salt

• UTENSILS
• a bowl , a pan, spoons , a plate, a pot

• HOW TO PROCEED
• 1- Put the dried beans in a bowl filled with
  cold water , add some salt and leave it all night
  long.
• 2- Pour some olive oil in a frying pan and then
  fry the sausages, turn them over from time to
  time.
• 3- Drain the beans and pour them into a pot
  filled with boiling water. Let them boil till you
  believe they are ready to eat, 30-40 aprox.
• 4- Finally drain them. Put the beans in a plate
  and the sausages around the beans. Pour on the
  beans the oil where you fried the sausages.
  Better to eat it hot!!

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Lluç amb cloïses Hake and
clams

• Ingredients . Utensils
• slices of hake plates,
  spoons, forks
• some clams a frying pan, a
  casserole dish.
• baked pepper
• onions and garlic
• Martini, broth
• olive oil, salt
• flour

• HOW TO PROCCEED
• Cover the slices of hake with flour. Fry them in
  a pan with olive oil. When they are golden brown,
  put them aside. Steam the clams and keep them.
  Chop up the onions and garlic and fry it, then
  add some Martini and salt. Pour some broth into
  it to make the sauce.
• Finally put the fried hake, the clams and the
  baked pepper in this sauce. Let it boil slowly
  for 10.

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3. DESSERTS

• Fruits Salad
• Cheese and honey
• Panellets
• Turrones
• Catalan Cream

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MACEDONIA
FRUITS SALAD

• INGREDIENTS
• 1 banana 1 glass of
  orange juice
• 1 pear 1 kiwi
• 1 peach 10
  strawberries
• 2 slices of pineapple a little of
  sweet sherry
• 10 cherries in syrup a bit of
  cherries syrup
• 1 apple 1 full
  soup-spoon of sugar

• UTENSILS
• a knife , a bowl, a plate, a spoon.

. HOW TO PROCEED 1- Peel all the fruits and
then cut them into small pieces. Wash the
strawberries and cut them into small
pieces. 2- Open a cherries jar and put some
cherries in a bowl with the other fruits and
the strawberries. 3- Pour over a little of
sweet sherry, a bit of cherries syrup, a glass of
orange juice and a soup-spoon of sugar.
Carefully, stir the mixture. 4- Finally leave the
fruits salad in the fridge for some hours and
then it is ready to eat.
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MEL I METÓ
Cheese and honey

• Ingredients
• 15 l. goat milk 1 glass of water
• special herbs honey

• Utensils
• a glass a piece of cloth with a nice pattern
• a plate a colander a bowl

How to proceed Put some herbs in a bowl
which is full with water. Boil the goat milk for
5 or 6 minutes, then let it aside for a while.
Put the softened herbs into the hot milk and let
the milk thicken. Spread a piece of cloth inside
the colander and pour the thickened milk in
it. Let all the water, from the milk, fall out
the colander. Wrap the thickened milk (now
already cheese) with the cloth and after half an
hour you can put it in a plate and eat it. You
can eat this cheese with honey or sugar. People
usually eat it with honey
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PANELLETS All
Saints day cakes

• Ingredients
• 1/2 kg. sugar 400g. almonds
• 100g. boiled potatoes vanilla powder
• 1egg yolk

• Utensils
• a mixing bowl a spoon a whisk a
  roasting pan

How to proceed
Chop the almonds
up and put them in a bowl, add the

sugar, the boiled potatoes, one spoon of vanilla
power, and the egg yolk. Stir repeatedly the
mixture till it gets homogeneous. Take some of
the mixture and make small balls. Decorate them
as in the picture with dried fruits, almonds,
pine seeds , chocolate, cherries.... . Put them
in a roasting pan and let them cook in the oven
at high temperature for 10-15.
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TURRONES A CHRISTMAS DESSERT

• Ingredients
• Usually almonds, sugar, eggs, and honey .

There are many kinds of turrones depending on
the ingredients Chocolate, yolk, fruits,
almonds, nuts, coffee, ...
People do not prepare them at home they buy
turrones at the pastry shops or at the
supermarkets.
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CREMA CATALANA CATALAN CREAM

• Ingredients
• 3 eggs
• 2 full spoons of sugar
• 1/2 l. of milk
• a small branch of cinnamon
• some a lemon

Utensils 1spoon 1whisk 1pot
HOW TO PROCEED 1- Whisk the eggs together and
keep them. Put the milk in a pot and heat it. Add
a piece of cinnamon branch and let it boil inside
the milk for some minutes, then take it
out. 3-Add the sugar and stir it until it
dissolves in the hot milk. Very slowly pour the
whisked eggs into the milk and stir the new
mixture continuously till it starts boiling
again. 3- After boiling for 3 minutes, pour the
cream into small bowls. Finally let them cool
down and then put the filled bowls into the
fridge. After some hours it is ready to eat.