Donughts

Cover the donughts with sugar.

Finnish donughts or whatever donughts may not be healthy but they are good :) I usually make donughts only once a year because cooking them takes so long time.

You should get around 30-40 donughts with this recipe:

50 g yeast
5 dl milk
2 eggs
2 dl sugar
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cardamom
14-16 dl flour
1,5 dl oil or softened butter

Warm up the milk to your hand temperature and mix the yeast in it. Then mix the eggs, sugar, salt and cardamom in the milk. Finally start adding the flour until you get the desired consistency. Then add the oil or softened butter and mix well.

Let the dough to double its size.

Let the dough to rest until it has doubled its size. Bake small balls from the dough and make a hole in the middle. Let them rize again.

Make small balls from the dough.

Heat up the cooking oil and cook the donughts in the oil until they are golden brown.

After you have made a hole in the middle you can
cook them in oil.

Place the donughts on a paper so the oil soaks in the paper.

Cover with sugar and enjoy :)

Bread with linseeds

Bake the bread in the oven for about an hour.

I have made bread rolls before but not a whole bread. I thought the bread would rise a bit more but maybe next time :)

Anyways, here is the recipe for two loafs:

500 g rye flour
500 g flour
1 dl linseeds
2 tbsp oil
2 tsp salt
50 g yeast
5 dl sour milk
3 dl water

Mix the yeast to the water that is you hand temperature. Add the sour milk, salt and linseeds. Mix well. Mix the rye flour and flour together and start adding the flour mix to the liquid. Finally add the oil.

Mix the dough for 5-7 minutes and let it rest for 30 minutes.

Mix the dough about 5-7 minutes and let it rest about 30 minutes.

The dough should double its size.

After this put the dough in two loaf casseroles. Sprinkle some water on top and cover with plastic. Let the dough pieces to rest about an hour.

Let the dough to rest in the loaf casseroles under plastic foil.

After 1 hour the dough should double its size again.

Bake the bread in 200 °C for 45-60 minutes.

Tagliatelle with scampi and lemon

Tagliatelle with scampi and lemon.

A good pasta can be with a tomato-based sauce but why not with sour cream. This recipe is one of my favorite pasta recipes because it is tasty and fast to cook.

For 2-3 persons:

7 rolls of whole wheat tagliatelle
10-15 scampis (peeled and clensed)
2-3 dl crème fraîche
2 garlic cloves
1 shallot
half a red chili pepper
0,5 lemon
parsley
salt
pepper

Cook the pasta according to the instructions in the package.

Peel the scampis, mince the garlic, slice the chili and shallot. Put everything on a pan and let them simmer until scampi is orange on both sides.

Cook the scampi on both sides until orange.

Pour the crème fraîche on scampi and mix well. Grate some lemon zest in the mix and add some lemon juice. Mix again and season with salt and pepper.

Mix the sauce with pasta and then add generously some parsley.

Stewed berries

Stewed berries or as I would say berry soup is my favorite from my childhood. You can use what kind or berries you wish. I don't cook the berries because I want to preserve the vitamins. Heating destroys the vitamin C.

Here is the recipe:

mixed berries
2-3 l water
1-2 tbsp potato flour
0,5-1 dl sugar

Add the sugar in water and cook the water to boil. Mix the potato flour in a glass of cold water. Pour the potato water in the boiling water and mix all the time. Take the casserole from the stove when the first bubble appears on the surface.

Add the berries to the base. I used frozen berries for this recipe.

Spring rolls with peanutbutter chicken

This weekend I made spring rolls for the first time. I improvised the filling and did not use minced meat but instead I used chicken.

3 chicken breast fillets
handfull of Chinese black mushrooms
2 large carrots
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp peanut butter
soy sauce
hoisin sauce
fish sauce
pepper
chili or sriracha sauce
spring roll pastry

Defrost the spring roll pastry. Put the black mushrooms to the water for 30 minutes if you are using dried mushrooms.

Cut the chicken meat into small pieces and fry golden brown on a pan. Add minced garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the peanut butter and according to your taste a bit of soy sauce, fish sauce, hoisin sauce and sriracha. Season with black pepper.

Slice the carrots into thin slices. Slice the soaked mushrooms into slices.

Place the pastry sheets so that one corner is towards you. Place some chicken, carrot and mushroom slices on the pastry. Now roll the corner closest to you over the filling, then roll the corner on the right over the roll and then the left corner. Now you can roll the spring roll over the last corner. On the last corner I used some egg so that the rolls would not open.

Cook the rolls in oil. Dip the rolls in sweet chili sauce and enjoy!