Grilled fruits with chocolate

Grill for 5 minutes. Try also with white
chocolate.

This recipe is actually called Gino but it should be with white chocolate. Accidently I bought dark chocolate so I am not sure whether I can call this gino but the taste was really good.

For 2-3 people you need

2 bananas
2 kiwis
1 orange
grapes
200 g chocolate

Pre-heat the oven with the grill function to 250 ºC. Slice the fruits and place on an oven pan. Put the crashed chocolate on the fruits and grill it for 5 minutes.

Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Naan bread

I have started to make more and more Indian dishes like in my previous posts you may find the butter chicken and dahl. This naan bread recipe is a perfect match to butter chicken or even dahl. The bread pieces taste so good when dipped in to the butter chicken sauce for instance.

The recipe makes 2 large naan breads:

1,5 dl warm milk (37 ºC)
2 tbsp sugar
25 g yeast
9 dl flour
0,5 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp oil
1,5 dl natural yoghurt
1 egg
a bit of clarified butter (ghee)

Mix the yeast with milk and sugar. Leave the milk for 15 minutes until bubbles appear.

Mix in another bowl flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the milk. Add also oil, yoghurt and egg. Mix it to smooth dough. Put a plastic foil on the dough and let it double its size during one hour.

Preheat the over more than 250 ºC. Put the oven sheet to the oven to be pre-heated.

Divide the dough to two or more balls and bake the balls to flat tear shaped breads.

Place the breads to pre-heated oven sheet and bake in oven for 3 mintues.

After you have taken the breads out from the oven brush them with ghee.

You may also add minced garlic or chilantro to the dough for vary the taste.

Pancakes with spinach

Cook on a pan on both sides.

I don't if this is very Finnish or if other countries eat this as well but pancakes with spinach are so good.

Recipe:

150 g frosen spinach
8 dl milk
4 dl flour
2 eggs
oil
salt

Thaw the frozen spinach and mix it with all the ingredients. Let the batter to stand for minimum 15 minutes so that the flour can swell. Add some oil to the batter so you do not need that much when cooking the pancakes.

Cook normally like any other pancakes on both sides.

Yummy!

Mango with chili

Did you know that chili works perfectly with sweet things too?

Take one ripe mango and dice it. Add dried red chili flakes and enjoy :)

Pan-fried octopus

Octopus is one of the creatures of the sea I just love! By accident I found some octopus at a fish shop and I just had to buy some home.

First you need to clean the octopus: remove the thin skin, pull the head carefully out and remove the bones etc. Finally wash under cold water. There are many videos on Youtube how you clean the octopus and it is easy!

Check videos on Youtube for the cleaning.

Marinate the octopus in olive oil with salt and pepper for about 10 minutes.

After marinating is done fry the octopus
pieces on a frying pan.

Fry the octopus pieces on a frying pan until caramelized.

Cook until caramelized golden brown.

Croutons

I have never made croutons but now when I dried to make caesar salad for the first time I tried to make croutons as well.

You can use old dry toast or then fresh one. Have four pieces of toast and remove the outsides of the bread (or then use the whole bread). Dice the bread slices and fry them in butter and olive oil on a frying pan until golden brown.

Let the bread to dry on a kitchen paper.

Dressing for caesar salad

Ingredients for the caesar dressing.

Caesar salad is one of my favorite salads. There are many recipes for the dressing but I prefer the following one:

1 can anchovies (about 79 g)
2 cloves minced garlic
3 egg yolks
1 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp olive oil
1,2 dl oil
2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese

Mince the garlic and mix it with a fork with anchovies until it is a smooth paste.

Mix the egg yolks in a separate bowl and add the mustard. Mix well. Whisk the anchovies paste in to the egg mix. Add the lemon juice whisking at the same time.

While whisking the mix pour carefully in a thin stream the olive oil in to the mixture. Whisk for couple of minutes until the dressing thickens.

While whisking slowly pour the oil. After all of the oil is streamed whisk for one more minute.

Finally add the parmesan and serve immediately. The dressing lasts for one day.

Serve with romaine lettuce, croutons and parmesan cheese.

Serve the dressing with crispy croutons, parmesan
cheese and romaine lettuce.