Monday 10 February 2014

Healthy and tasty food - recipes from France


Pancake with ham and cream



Recipe ingredients :

For 4 people

• pancake
o 125 g flour
o 2.5 dl milk
o 30 g melted butter
o 2 eggs
o 1 pinch of salt
• 8 slices of ham
• 20 cl cream
• 30 g of butter
• 100 g of grated cheese
• fine salt, pepper

 Preparing the batter:

1 . in a bowl, make a well in the flour
2 . add the beaten eggs to the center with salt
3 . gradually incorporate the flour to the eggs with a whisk
4 . gradually add milk
5 . mix until the batter is smooth
6 . add melted butter
7 . mix

Cook pancakes:

1 . put a small knob of butter
in a pan
2 . pour a little batter with a ladle
3 . let it brown
4 . return
5 . let it brown again
6 . repeat the process to get 2 pancakes per person

 
Make pancakes with ham and cream:

1 . place a slice of ham
on each pancake
2 . sprinkle with grated cheese
3 . roll pancakes
4 . place in a baking dish
5 . cover with cream
6 . sprinkle with grated cheese

 
Cook pancakes with ham and cream:

1 . preheat oven to 180 ° C
2 . bake
pancakes with ham and cream for 20 minutes

 
Serve pancakes with ham cream right out of the oven.




Potato gratin


For 7 people

2 kg potatoes
1 clove of garlic
35 cl of cream
35 cl of milk

Preparation:

- Peel the potatoes and cut into thin slices (you can use a robot).
- Wash with water to remove starch and dry as much as possible   
   (optional).
- Preheat oven to 180 ° C.
- Put the crushed garlic in the bottom of dish.
- Then put the potato strips.
- Mix the cream and milk and cover the potatoes.
- Add salt and pepper.

Bake: 60 minutes.





                               Yogurt cake


List of ingredients:

- 1 yogurt
- 1 jar of oil
- 2 jars of sugar
- 3 pots flour
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- a pinch of salt

The steps:

- Preheat oven to 200 ° C (gas mark 6)

- Pour the yogurt
in a bowl
 
- Add over 2 pots of sugar and 3 pots of flour

- Add the oil

- Break 3 eggs and add them

- Add half a packet of yeast, sugar and vanilla

- Mix together with a whisk until smooth and homogeneous paste

- Prepare your mold (cake or pie mold) by buttering well , for easy removal after cooking.

- Spread the batter into the pan and bake for 30 minutes!

- Look occasionally if the cake is cooked, because according to the ovens the duration is different. To do this, after twenty minutes, press the tip of a knife in the middle of your yogurt cake . If it emerges without batter stuck, then it's done!