Croque Monsieur
Croque Monsieur is a French ham and cheese sandwich with béchamel, Gruyère and crispy roasted bread. It is baked golden brown in the oven.
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Recipes
Croque Monsieur is a French ham and cheese sandwich with béchamel, Gruyère and crispy roasted bread. It is baked golden brown in the oven.
Ratatouille is a Provencal vegetable dish with aubergine, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic, olive oil and herbs.
Boeuf Bourguignon is a classic beef stew with red wine, bacon, mushrooms, carrots and onions. It is cooked slowly until the meat is tender.
Coq au Vin is a French stew with chicken, red wine, bacon, mushrooms, onions and herbs. The sauce takes time to make it dark and round.
Spring rolls with vegetables need a dry, short-fried filling of cabbage, carrots, mushrooms and glass noodles. This is the only way to make the shell crunchy.
Wantan soup consists of filled dough bags in clear broth with ginger, spring onions, Pak Choi and sesame oil. The Wantans are gently cooked.
Dim Sum Dumplings succeed with juicy filling of pork chops or shrimps, cabbage, ginger, spring onions and finished dumpling dough leaves.
Chow Mein with vegetables are fried egg noodles with crisp vegetables and a short sauce of soy sauce, oyster sauce or vegetarian alternative and sesame oil.
Mapo Tofu is cooked with soft tofu, doubanjiang, fermented black beans, minced meat, chilli oil and Sichuan pepper. The sauce should taste spicy and slightly numbing.
Fried rice succeeds with cold rice from the day before, egg, vegetables, soy sauce and high pan heat. The rice should fry, not steam in the wok.
Som Tam is a Thai green papaya salad with lime, fish sauce, palm sugar, chilli, garlic, green beans, tomatoes and peanuts. It is only slightly on the mortar.
Tom Yum soup is spicy and clear: shrimps, mushrooms, lemon grass, galangal, makrut lime leaves, chilli, lime and fish sauce give her the typical Thai taste.
Tom Kha Gai is a mild, aromatic Thai soup with coconut milk, chicken, galangal, lemongrass, makrut lime leaves, mushrooms, lime and fish sauce.
Pad Thai is a Thai rice noodle dish with tamarind, fish sauce, egg, tofu or shrimp, soy sprouts, lime and peanuts. The balance of sour, salty, sweet and nutty is decisive.
Kimchi pancakes are hearty Korean pancakes with kimchi, kimchi juice, flour, starch and spring onions. In plenty of oil the edges become particularly crispy.
Tteokbokki is Korean street food with soft rice cake in a sweet-sharp Gochujang sauce. Fish cake, spring onions and boiled eggs make the pan filling.
Onigiri are Japanese rice balls made of short sticky rice, salt and fillings such as salmon, tuna mayo, umeboshi or sesame. Nori comes just before the meal.
Miso soup consists of Dashi, Miso paste, Tofu, Wakame and spring onions. Miso is not boiled bubbling, but in the end is dissolved in hot broth.
Ramen is a Japanese noodle soup with strong broth, tara, ramen noodles and toppings such as egg, spring onions, mushrooms, nori and chicken or tofu.
Sweet and sour chicken is prepared with crispy fried chicken, paprika, pineapple and a sauce of vinegar, sugar, ketchup, soy sauce and starch.
Mediterrane One-Pot-Pasta succeeds when pasta, tomatoes, broth and spices are boiled together and the spinach is only submerged at the end. Thus the sauce remains ally and the vegetables fresh.