Cooking Workshops

POLAND: Celery Chips

Ingredients:

1 celery

olive oil

salt, pepper

favourite spices

Preparation:

   Peel a celery and cut it into the chips shape. Spread olive oil over them and add spices. Chips prepared this way should be put on a cookie sheet, covered with bakery paper. Bake them in the oven in 180° for 25-30 min.

Serve it with yoghurt and garlic dip :

Garlic dip:

 Ingredients:

garlic

yoghurt

dill leaves

Preparation:

 Add squeezed garlic and dill leaves to yoghurt . Stir all the ingredients carefully.

 

 

 

 

 

“Quick Salad”

Ingredients:

5 eggs hard boiled

canned green pea

5 pickled cucumbers

yoghurt

 1 spoon of mayonnaise 

salt, pepper

Preparation:

   Cut eggs and cucumbers into small cubes. Add pea , yoghurt , mayonnaise and spices. Stir all the ingredients carefully. The salad is ready.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyprus: Sweet flags - Pudding rice - Rizogalo

Rice pudding – Rizogalo

Ingredients

1/3 glass rice

1 glass water

3 glasses milk

4 tablespoons blossom water

1 vanilla

2 tablespoons corn flour

3 – 4 tablespoons sugar

Cinnamon

For decoration

20 strawberries

1 pomegranate

1 package coconut 

4 banana 

Preparation 

Boil the water and add the rice.  Cover and simmer,  stirring occasionally. When it is nearly cooked, pour in 2 ½ glasses milk, add the sugar and the corn flour, dissolved in the remaining ½ glass milk. Stir constantly until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in, the blossom water. Serve ryzogalo into individual small bowls or in a big bowl. Leave it to cool and then chill. Before serving sprinkle with cinnamon (Sandri Lisandrou recipe - Cooking for friends).  Instead of cinnamon we decorated rizogalo with fruits and coconut to create the flag of Romania and Slovenia.

Cyprus: Vegetable flags and village salad

Vegetable flags

Ingredients

4 Red peppers

1 package Corn

3 small Onions

3 Beetroots

1 big Cauliflower

15 Small tomatoes

3 Carrots

Parsley

Cut the vegetables into slices (beetroots, onions)

Cut the vegetables into stripes (red peppers)

Cut the vegetables into small pieces (cauliflower)

For the carrots use a grater

Combine the correct vegetables/colours in order to create Cyprus, Spain, Poland and Latvia flags. Afterwards, mix some of these vegetables (tomatoes, onions, peppers, parsley) in a big bowl, add cabbage, coriander, celery, lettuce, olives, green peppers and feta cheese to have a salad.

Salad

Village salad – Salata choriatiki

Ingredients

2 glasses cabbage, finely sliced

2 glasses lettuce, shredded

1 ¼ glasses rocket, finely chopped

1 ¼ glasses coriander, finely chopped

1 ½ glasses celery heart, finely sliced

½ glass spring onions, finely chopped

4 (350g) cucumbers, sliced

4-5 (400g) small and firm tomatoes, sliced or cut into pieces

2 (200g) large green peppers, deseeded and finely sliced into rings

1 glass green crushed olives, rinsed and drained

5-6 tablespoons capers, drained

¾ -  4/5 glass fetta cheese, cubed

 For the dressing

4/5 glass olive oil

5 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon salt

Preparation

Place the cabbage, lettuce, rocket, celery, coriander and onions in a big salad bowl and toss. Spread over the green peppers and garnish the salad with the cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, capers and feta cheese. Prepare the dressing 15 – 20 minutes before serving. Mix the salt, lemon juice and olive oil in a small bowl stirring occasionally so that the salt dissolves. Just before serving pour the dressing over the salad (Sandry Lisandrou recipe - Cooking for friends). 

Cyprus: Funny and healthy sandwiches / Healthy breakfast

Ingredients

White and whole-wheat bread

Turkey slices

Cheese slices

Olives

Cucumbers

Carrots

Lettuce

Tomatoes

Peppers

Take a slice of bread and choose from the ingredients whatever you like.  Use  your imagination and create a funny, healthy sandwich!

Cyprus: Yoghurt with fruits and honey

Yoghurt with fruits and honey – snack

Ingredients

Strained Yoghurt

Strawberries

Banana

Honey

Cut the fruits into small pieces, add yoghurt and honey. 

Latvia - ABC salad (Burtu salāti)

Ingredients:

• 500g pasta with ABC 
• 250g sausage
• 200g radishes
• 2 tomatos
• 500g corn
• small peace leek
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• Parsley

Preparation:

Cook  pasta according to package directions. Drain pasta and allow to cool.
Cut into small pieces sausage, radishes, tomatos, leek and parsley.
In a large bowl add all ingredients and mix togeather.