Oven baked aubergines

Perfect for Sunday lunch.

You don't always need meat to have a tasty lunch or dinner. This aubergine wonder is really tasty. I had one aubergine per person but for some it could be too much :)

Simple ingredients.

1 aubergine
tomatoes
mozzarella
feta cheese
thyme or rosemary
salt
pepper
olive oil

Cut the aubergines lengthwise. Fill in the cuts with tomato and mozzarella slices. Sprinkle feta cheese on top. Season with salt, pepper and thyme. Pour some olive oil on top.

Cut the aubergines lengthwise and fill in
the cuts with tomatoes and mozzarella.

Remember to put some oil in the oven casserole.

Bake in the oven for 30-45 minutes in 200 ºC.

I made 2 aubergines for lunch.

Hasselback chicken with spinach and feta cheese

This is going to be my new favorite dish!

With the sweet potato fries a perfect match is hasselback chicken with feta cheese and spinach filling. The filling can be basically anything but I chose to use these ingredients. For instance instead of feta cheese you can also use ricotta.

For 2 persons:

2 filets of chicken
200 g spinach
50 g feta cheese
salt
pepper
paprika powder

Make small cuts to the chicken. Add salt and pepper, make sure you also have salt and pepper in the cuts.

Make sure the salt and pepper also goes in the cuts of the
chicken.

Cook the spinach in olive oil. Notice that the spinach will shrink so it is up to you to decide how much spinach you will use. Add the feta cheese to the pan and cook as long as the cheese has melted with the spinach.

Spinach will shrink when cooked.

Cook as long the cheese melts and you can mix the ingredients
together.

Stuff the spinach-feta mix into the cuts of the chicken. Have some paprika powder on top. Finally have cheese on top. I used gruyère in this recipe but you may also use white cheddar or similar.

Cook in 200 ºC for 30-35 minutes.

Cook the chicken in 200 ºC for 30-35 minutes.

Serve with sweet potato fries and yogurt dip.

Sweet potato fries

From one medium sweet potato there is enough for 2 people.

  This recipe is just wonderfully easy! All you need is a sweet potato and it is enough for 2 persons.

Fries:
1 sweet potato
1 tbsp rosemary
olive oil
salt
pepper

Yogurt dip
2,3 dl greek yogurt
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp fresh chives
salt
pepper

Cut the sweet potatoes and put into a bowl. Add some olive oil and then rosemary, salt and pepper. Mix well.

Place the sweet potatoes on an oven tray and cook the fries for 25 minutes or more in 220 ºC.

Leave some space between the fries.

For the yogurt just cut the chives and mix all the ingredients together. Let the yogurt to be in a fridge about an hour.

Enjoy :)

So tasty with chive yogurt dip.

Chili-salsa

And the dinner continues and what would tortillas be without a good salsa?

With right ingredients homemade salsa is the best.

One pot of chilantro
3-4 tomatoes
0,5 - 1 red onion
1 green pepper
2 red chilis (fresh or dried)
2 limes
olive oil

Cut the tomatoes in half and press the juice out of them. Dice the tomatoes, onion and green pepper. Cut the chilantro and chili. Mix all the earlier mentioned ingredients in a bowl and press lime juice on it. Pour some olive oil and season with salt.

To prevent the extra liquid in salsa remember to press the
juice out of tomatoes.

Pickled red onion

Home-made pickled red onion are easier than you think.

As I had authentic Mexican dinner for my friends, of course, I had to serve pickled red onion with tortillas.

2 red onion
0,5 dl vinegar
1 dl sugar
1,5 dl water
5 slices of unpeeled ginger

Cook quickly vinegar, sugar, water and ginger and then pour it on the sliced red onion. Let the onion to pickle over night.

Serve on top of a tortilla.

Achiote marinated pork

Authentic Mexican tacos, so good :)

This recipe I got from a friend of mine who also loves Mexican food. First I had a problem if I could find achiote paste in stores but luckily I found a little shop selling Mexican ingredients for cooking. They even had stuff for tamales which I am gonna try in future.

I had dinner for 4 people and there for I only had 1,2 kg of pork shoulder:

1,2 kg pork shoulder
3 tbsp achiote paste
2 tbsp chili powder or chili flakes
1 tbsp minced garlic or garlic powder
1 tbsp oregano
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp pepper
2 dl vinegar
2,5 dl pineapple juice

Slice the pork shoulder. Mix all the ingredients well together and pour on the meat. Marinate minimum of 2 hours. I had the meat in marinate over night.

Pile the meat on top of each other and place pineapple rings on top. Cook in the oven for about 2 hours in 150 ºC.

Cook in low temperature for about 2 hours.

Cut the meat in small pieces so it fits your tacos or tortillas.

Hot sauce from Aji Mirasol

I wanted to make New Mexican red chili sauce but found only Aji Mirasol from the local store. Here I have combined a New Mexican chili sauce recipe with a Aji Mirasol sauce recipe I found on Internet. The fresh chili is calledd Aji Amarillo and they come from Peru.

Ingredients for the sauce.

This recipe will give you 0,5 l of chili sauce:

20 dried pods of Aji Mirasol
3 cloves of garlic
half large onion
7 dl water or vegetable buillon
1 tsp dried oregano
0,5 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp vinegar

Remove the stems and the seeds from chili pods. Pour the water in a casserole and add the chilis, garlic, onion and oregano. Boil the mix on low fire for 15 minutes. Let it sit for 10 more minutes.

When the chilis look like this you can put them into a mixer.

Put everyhing into a mixer with cumin and vinegar and mix it to a smooth chili sauce. Season with salt.

Wonderful chili sauce for instance to use in tortillas.