Showing posts with label fennel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fennel. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2013

Clams with creamy Fennel and Parsnip sauce

This one i made yesterday for the first time. I really like Clams, but i have never made them myself like this before. This is really fast and traditional recipe, exept i made my own little twist on it.

Here's how to make this:
  • One bag of clams 
  • About 4-5 dl cream
  • About 1 dl white wine
  • One bunch of Fresh parsley
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Half small Fennel
  • One Parsnip
  • One small Onion
  • 3 Cloves of Garlic
  • Olive oil 
First wash the Clams well. Soak and twirl them in cold water for a while so that the sand will get well off from the Clams. Then Cut the onion, garlic, parsnip and fennel to small pieces. Pour some oil on a hot deep pan and add the veggies to the pan. Fry the mix until veggies look soft. Add some white wine on the pan, put the heat a bit down. Add cream, salt and pepper. Spice up the broth until you think it's tasty enough. Add the parsley. And last add the clams. Shake the pan that the clams get mixed well with the broth. Cover with lit and let it boil on a small heat for about 3-4 minutes until the clams have opened up. Serve with some fresh white bread and enjoy!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Tofu steaks, Creamy Garlic Potatoes & Fennel sauce

I was on a experimental mood couple days ago. So i wanted to try out to make my own recipe of tofu steaks. I also love the taste of fennel so i decided to try out to make a sauce by using it, and damn it was good! Here is a recipe how to make this delicious dish:

Tofu Steaks
  • 1 packet of Tofu ( i used the ready marinated one)
  • About 3 dl Frozen Spenach
  • 3 cloves of Garlic
  • 1 Onion
  • 2 eggs ( i used one for these, but i think it wasn't enough)
  • About 1 dl bread grumps
  • About 2 dl Flours
  • Olive oil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Chili powder
  • Santamaria Roasted Cummin-Pepper mix
  • Santamaria Garlic & Pepper mix
First chop the tofu on small cubes and  melt the spenach. Chop the Onions and garlic too. Add everything in a big bowl. Use Hand plender to chop the mix down to almost like a puree. Add the spices and eggs. Mix with using a spoon. Add the bread grumps and the flours (not all at one time) and some olive oil (about 1/2 dl). Mix until it comes more stiff. Add more flours, if it looks too soft. Add some Olive oil on pan and heat it up. Make flat handsize steaks with your hands and put them on the hot pan. Fry both sides until the steaks get colden brown. Ready to serve!

Fennel Sauce
  • About half of the Fennel
  • Half Onion
  • 4-5 dl Cream
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Santamaria Cummin-Pepper mix
  • About 2 tablespoons of flours
  • Olive Oil  
Chop the fennel and onions in to a small cubes. Pour some olive oil on a pot and heat the fennel-onion mix in it. Let it cook until the fennel gets smooth and soft. Put the heat down to smaller heat and add the cream. Mix the flours with a hint of cold water in a mug, until it's liquid. Pour it into the the pot. Sterve well until the the sauce starts to get thicker. Add a hint of salt and pepper( I use mixed black and white pepper roast). Add also some roasted Cummin ( I used Santamaria Roasted Cummin-pepper mix). Ready to serve!

Creamy Garlic Potatoes
  • About 10 potatoes
  • 5 Cloves of Garlic
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Olive Oil
  • Santamaria Garlic-Pepper mix 
  • Santamaria Barbeque & Grill mix
  • About 4-5 dl cream
Peel the potatoes and chop them into small cube shaped slices. Heat up the owen to 225 degrees. Pour some olive oil on a flat oven bin. Add the potatoes, chopped garlic and spices. Mix well and then last add the cream. Let it cook in the oven about 30-40 minutes, until the surface looks colden brown. Ready to serve!