Briam – Greek roasted vegetables
Briam slowly roasts potatoes, courgettes, eggplants, tomatoes, onions and garlic with plenty of olive oil, parsley and oregano.
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Recipes
Briam slowly roasts potatoes, courgettes, eggplants, tomatoes, onions and garlic with plenty of olive oil, parsley and oregano.
Giouvetsi stews beef in an aromatic tomato sauce and then cooks Kritharaki directly in the casserole until the pasta absorbs the meat juice.
For Kleftiko, lamb, potatoes, onions, garlic, lemon and oregano stew for several hours in a tightly closed baking paper package.
Greek Keftedakia are small, juicy minced meat balls with soaked bread, onion, garlic, parsley, mint and oregano.
Dolmadakia yalantzi are delicate vine leaves with a meatless filling of round grain rice, onions, dill, mint, parsley, lemon and olive oil.
Cretan dacos fills moistened barley baking with ripe tomatoes, mizithra or feta, olive oil, oregano, capers and olives.
Frankfurt's green sauce combines seven fresh herbs with savoury, yoghurt, vinegar and oil and is served classically cold with potatoes and eggs.
Heaven and earth combine potato puree from the earth with apple compote from the sky and serve fried blood sausage and roasted onions.
Bavarian pork shaxe cooks slowly on onions and spices, is watered with dark beer and finally crispy all around at high heat.
Rheinischer Döppekooche is a hearty potato cake made from raw grated potatoes, bacon, onions, egg and soaked bread.
Pepper Potthast is a Westphalian beef and pork stew with beef, pork, many onions, generous black pepper, capers and a fresh lemon finish.
The Mecklenburg fish pan cooks a whole fish on layers of potatoes, carrots, onions and bacon with horseradish, dill and parsley.
Classic Leipziger Allerlei combines spring vegetables, morchels, crayfish tails and small bread dumplings with melted butter.
Hamburger Franzbrötchen consist of soft yeast dough, plenty of butter and cinnamon sugar; the typical pressure in the middle widens the layers.
The Breton Galette complète fills a thin buckwheat flannel with ham, full-flavoured cheese and an egg with still slightly soft egg yolk.
Steak fries combines briefly fried beef steak with double fried fries and a creamy sauce made of shallot, green pepper and beef fond.
Moules marinières are mussels that are steamed in a few minutes with shallots, garlic, dry white wine, butter and parsley.
Pot-au-feu cooks beef, bone marrow, root vegetables and leek slowly in a clear broth and serves broth and inlay separately or together.
For Confit de canard duck clubs are cured with salt and herbs, slowly cooked in duck fat and only browned crispy before serving.
Blanquette de veau is a light calf sragout with mushrooms, pearl onions and a velvety sauce of cooking fond, cream, egg yolk and lemon.
Cassoulet combines white beans, duck confit, Toulouse sausage and pig belly to form a slowly stewed classic from southwest France.
Roasted bagel, crispy bacon, fried eggs, cheddar and cream cheese make a hearty breakfast, which is ready in 25 minutes.
Creamy risotto gets a light summer note through lemon, peas and basil. Parmesan and cold butter bind the rice grains only after cooking.
Large summer tomatoes are filled with lemon couscous, paprika, feta and many herbs. In the oven they remain juicy while the surface is slightly browning.
Zucchini, cherry tomatoes, feta and herbs make this frittata a fast summer meal. It is started in the pan and cooked gently in the oven.