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Meat recipes with beef, pork, poultry, lamb and mince for the frying pan, oven, grill and casserole.
Pasta and noodle recipes for quick sauces, bakes, salads, Asian-style dishes and easy one-pot meals.
Rice recipes for curries, bowls, risotto, fried rice, salads, side dishes and creamy desserts.
Potato recipes for crisp roasts, pan-fried potatoes, mash, soups, salads, gratins and versatile side dishes.
Approachable fish recipes with salmon, cod, pollock, trout and more for the pan, oven, grill or pot.
Seafood recipes with prawns, mussels, scallops and squid for pasta, rice, soups, grills and starters.
Fruit recipes with apples, berries, pears and citrus for breakfast, cakes, desserts, drinks and savoury salads.
Seasonal vegetable recipes for quick skillets, oven dishes, soups, salads, curries and filling meat-free mains.
Recipes with lentils, beans, chickpeas and peas for curries, soups, salads, spreads and vegetarian mains.
Cheese recipes for pasta, potatoes, bakes, salads and snacks, from creamy sauces to crisp gratinated toppings.
Recipes
Chicken pieces are marinated with lemon, garlic, paprika and olive oil, sprinkled and grilled all around in direct heat. Cook equally large pieces of meat at the same time; the marinade must not hang drip-wet on the meat before grilling.
Short pasta is cooked with a bite and mixed lukewarmly with tomatoes, olives, mozzarella and balsamic dressing. Do not deter the pasta cold; lukewarmly take on the dressing, Rucola and basil are added only before serving.
Watermelon and cucumber are mixed with feta, mint and lime vinaigrette and sprinkled with roasted pine nuts. Let the melon and cucumber drain well and salt only shortly before serving, otherwise too much liquid accumulates.
Cold cucumber soup with dill is a light summer soup without stove. Cucumber, yoghurt, dill, lemon and olive oil are finely pureed and served well chilled.
Tomato Gazpacho is a cold summer soup made of ripe tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, olive oil, sherry vinegar and some white bread. It is pureed, well chilled and served freshly tasted.
A simple strawberry tiramisu in glass with mascarpone, quark, spooned biscuits, orange juice and fresh strawberries. The dessert is without egg, easy to prepare in advance and ideal for summer.
The meat is ready when it dissolves slightly from the bone; the sauce is only reduced and tasted after the taste has been tasted.
Vanilla cream is bound with gelatine, filled in glasses and served after cooling with a fresh strawberry sauce. Gelatin must not cook; the strawberry sauce comes only on the fully gelled cream.
Spring onions and goat cheese come to the tarta bottom and are baked with egg-sah cast, thyme and little honey. The soil remains crisper when the spring onions are short-sweated and the casting is not filled to the edge.
A soft yeast dough is rolled out after rising, filled with quark, apricot jam and almonds, rolled up and braided to the wreath. Do not paint the filling to the edge and cool the roll before cutting for a short time so that the wreath keeps its shape.
wild garlic is finely cut and mixed with cream cheese, yoghurt, lemon and olive oil to form a spread that can be spread spread. wild garlic does not process warm and let the spread be pulled short before after salting, because cream cheese already brings seasoning.
Smoked salmon is served with cucumber and lemon, plus an emulsified sauce of dill, mustard, honey and olive oil. The sauce should be sweet, sour and sensitively balanced; take the salmon out of the cooling just before serving.
Young potatoes are cooked in the shell, marinated still warm with vinegar-mustard dressing and later mixed with egg, radishes and herbs. Warm potatoes take on the dressing better, while eggs and radishes are added only after cooling.
grated carrots are stirred with eggs, oil and sugar, flour, almonds, cinnamon and baking powder are only taken short and baked as muffins. Raz the carrots finely and stir the dough not long after adding the flour so that the muffins remain loose.
Pre-cooked white asparagus is wrapped in ham, poured with a mustard-and-sacre sauce and garnished under Gouda. The asparagus should drain well so that the sauce does not water and the cheese actually browns.
Leaf salad, radishes, cucumber and boiled eggs are served with a vinaigrette of oil, apple vinegar and mustard. Salad and vegetables must be dry and the dressing is only added immediately before serving.
A yeast dough made from flour, milk, yeast, sugar and butter is kneaded with raisins and orange, formed after walking time and baked with almonds. Use milk only lukewarm and dry raisins well; the dough needs sufficient walking time before and after forming.
Carrots, onion and ginger are sautéed, softly cooked in broth and finely puree with coconut milk. Dose ginger sparingly at first and balance the sweetness of the carrots with lemon juice and salt at the end.
The lamb leg is seasoned with garlic, rosemary and lemon, slowly cooked with a stock and finished with rosemary potatoes. A meat thermometer and the rest time after the oven are more reliable than a rigid minute indication.
Quicheteig is covered with green asparagus and spring onions, covered with egg-and-cream cast and baked under mountain cheese. Cook asparagus and onions briefly and leave them to steam dry to make the soil crispy and the cast cut.
Hard boiled eggs are halved, the egg yolks are stirred creamy with mayonnaise, yoghurt, mustard and herbs and filled back into the egg white halves. The filling is smooth when the egg yolks are finely crushed; dose lemon juice and salt only afterwards.
Rasped carrots, walnuts, oil and a seasoned stirred dough are juicyly baked and coated with fresh cheese frosting until completely cooled. Frosting remains firm when cakes and cream cheese are cool and the powder sugar is only stirred for a short time.
Eierlikör-Tiramisu is a creamy Easter dessert without baking. Mascarpone, quark, egg liqueur, espresso and spoon biscuits are layered and put cold for several hours.
Lamb chops are sautéed hot, filled with a crust of herbs, garlic and crumbs and cooked briefly in the oven. After cooking, the meat needs a few minutes of rest to preserve juice and pink seeds.
Flammkuchenteig is thinly smeared and baked very hot with asparagus, red onion and goat cheese. Thin pieces of asparagus and a completely preheated sheet ensure that dough and surface are cooked at the same time.