Steamed veggies with flavored rice and homemade tomato salsa (vegan)

This is something that I wanted to test out, it turned out great! This is what you need 

broccoli

cauliflower

carrots

chili

soy-beans

rice

salt

thyme

lemonjuice

Start with putting the rice to boil. I added thyme and a bit of lemon juice to the water along with some salt. Then just follow the instructions on the package for how to boil the rice. Peel the carrots and cut them up to your liking and put them in your steamer together with the rest of the veggies. cut the chili into pieces, removing the seeds and place them with the rest of the veggies in the steamer over some boiling water with salt. Let them steam for about 10-15 minutes depending on how soft you want the carrots and the other veggies. 

To make the salsa you need 

1-2 tomatoes

spring onions

salt

pepper

a tiny bit of sugar

lemon juice

and olive or any other vegetable oil

Cut the tomatoes and the spring onion into small pieces and put them in a bowl together with the restof the ingrediens and then mix well.

Place the rice and the steamed veggies. I places the chili on the rice for some garnish and to add flavor. Add the salsa to the plate and enjoy a fully vegan dinner.

Super yummy!

Sweetpotato and chicken wrap

This recipe started out as an experiment, I'm just happy I shot the pictures so that I could post this right away. I wanted to make a wrap, but while I was making this I was thinking to myself that... naah this can't be a wrap because it's basically like a regular meal? But then I did some more thinking and thought that regular wraps that you buy off the store is like a sallad wrapped in a bread of some sort. Anyway, this is what you need: 

1 tortillia bread or any other bread you'll like

1 chicken breast

½ sweet potato

½ tomato

1 avocado

cucumber

orange paprika

lime juice

greek yoghurt

spring onions for garnish

Start by slicing everything into thin slices, season the chicken or marinate it if you want to, depending on what kind of flavour that you'll want. I decided to marinate mine for about 10 min with some soy, oil, hoisin sauce and some spices like black pepper and chili. When you've done that fry the chicken in some oil until it's done, mine took only a couple of minutes on medium/high heat. 

After that add some more oil to the pan, you don't have to clean it in-between since the spices of the chicken can give some seasoning to the potato as well. Add the potato to the oil and fry them on medium/high heat as well. If you cut the slices too thick you might have to blanch them for a minute or so before doing this, otherwise they won't be cooked through

After that just add everything onto your flat bread of choice and mash the avocado on top, add some yoghurt and and garnish with some spring onion. Enjoy a fresh really tasty and healthy wrap! 

Creamy pasta with pesto

This was a request from a friend of mine! I posted a picture of this the other day and I decided why not, it's a really simple recipe! This is what you need: 

2-3 mushrooms, depending on size

2 tbsp crème fraiche

2 tbsp pesto

pasta for one

butter

pepper

thyme

Begin with putting some water in a pot on the stove for the pasta, and then boil it following the instructions on the packet. Slice the mushroom after your taste and then fry them in a pan with some butter on medium/high heat. 

When the pasta is done boiling, and drained of  water and the mushroom has been fried according to your taste add them into the pot with the pasta and along with the creme fraiche, pesto and spices.  

Stir it and heat on log heat and then serve! It's super simple and super tasty! 

Poor Knights

It's the end of the month and your bread is stale and you only have a few things and low on cash. In Sweden this dish is called fattiga riddare, direct translation is poor knights. This is what you need: 

a few slices of bread, stale and dry doesn't matter

milk

eggs

sugar

cinnamon

raspberries

How much milk and eggs you need is depending on the amont of breadslices. 2 eggs and 2 dl of milk works batter for about 4-5 slices of bread.

Start by mixing milk and egg in a bowl or alike in which you can dip the bread. I decided to gut the edges off of my bread and make breadsticks out of them. Dip the edges in the batter so that they are completely soaked. Place them in a pan with some butter and fry them for about 2-3 min or until they get some nice color all over, remember to flip them so all sides get some heat. 

When they are done roll them in some sugar and cinnamon and you can have them as a sweet dessert later on.

After that it's time to do the poor knights. Dip the edgeless slices of bread into the batter until they are completely soaked, and then put them in a pan on medium high heat. Fry them for about 3-5 min on each side so that they get some nice color. When they are done plate it and serve with some frozen or fresh berries of some kind! 

I chose raspberries but you can easily take any other berry or maybe some jam!

Enjoy

Quick avocado and tomato salad with feta

Avocado is one of the most delicious things I know of. It's got a lot of healthy oils, creamy and easy to pair with a lot of things. So today I decided to make a super easy avocado and tomato salad that can be served as a nice starter or an easy lunch. The things you need are:

a handful of cherry tomatoes

1 avocado

~ 75g feta

lime juice

pine nuts

parsley

green part of a spring onion

Start by putting some pine nuts in a dry pan. You're going to roast these off on medium/high heat until they get some color. You don't need to add any extra oil an these are really great if you are allergic to nuts because they are actually a seed. 

Once the pine nut is in a pan, they only need about a minute or two. Start cutting the tomatoes. I cut them in halves because I think that is enough but you can cut them into quarters if you want smaller pieces. Continue with the avocado and slice it into cubes, and then do the same with the feta. Chop up the parsley and the green part of the spring onion. This part has a mild flavor and is a great thing to use in a dish like this. 

Add it all into a bowl with some lime juice and, if you want, some salt, add in the pine nuts and give it a mix. You can eat it directly out of the bowl but I decided to plate it so it would look a bit nicer. 

Enjoy a healthy avocado and tomato salad with some feta and pine nuts!

Pesto and cheese filled chicken

This is a dish that you can play two ways, either you eat it with a nice salad or if you want to be a bit unhealthy you can eat it with fries or something along those lines. In any case this is for two people because I need lunch tomorrow :)

This is what you need

2 chicken filets

1 pack of bacon (~140 g)

2 tsp Philadelphia (cream cheese)

6 tsp pesto 

2 cloves of garlic

grated cheese

parsley

salt

oil

Start by mixing the cream cheese, pesto and grated cheese together in a bowl with a little salt. Slice an opening into the chicken and fill it with the pesto mix.

When  you've filled the chicken as much as you want wire the bacon around the filled chicken. Smash the garlic and slice it up a tiny bit. Place the chicken in a pan with a tiny splash of oil  and fry it on medium heat for about 15-20 min, flipping them over a few times so that they get fried on both sides. 

When the bacon and chicken is starting to get some color and you think that it's starting to get done you can slice in the thicker parts of the filet to see if its done. Remember any piece of chicken should never be pink when you've cooked it.

Serve it with a nice salad or what you prefer! 

Super easy nachoplate

I'm sorry for being absent for a week but school is really catching up on me, and since I am a student, school always comes first. However I'm coming back with a really simple recipe. Nachos are the best, the combination of everything is so tasty and this one is super simple, this is what you need

~200 g minced meat

1-2 avocados depending on size

2 tomatoes

salad

1 clove of garlic

1 shallot

nacho chips

grated cheese

sour cream

lime juice

Staart by putting the meat in a pan to fry it off. While that is getting fried you can start on the guacamole. Mince the shallot, garlic and one of the tomatoes and add it into a bowl together with the mashed avocado and lime juice. Add about 1 tablespoon of sour cream and some salt. Blend and you have an easy guac. When the meat has been cooked, add any flavor you like, I used a premixed blend for taco meat.

Arrange some nachos to cover a plate, spread out some meat and some grated cheese and put in a microwave for 2 minutes or until the cheese has melted. 

After that just tare some salad leaves apart, slice up the other tomato and add it onto the plate together with some sour cream and also some guacamole. Serve it and enjoy a super easy nachoplate!

3 sweet yummy smoothies

Since I've been away for a bit and not uploading so much I decided to make it up to you by uploading three recipes in one. All of these three are yummy smoothies that are somewhat healthy! The three different ones are Mango-Orange-Mint, Kiwi-Cucumber-Lime and lastly Papaya-Orange-Lime

All of these three are really yummy and the ingredients are: 

Mango-Orange-Mint:

1 mango 

½ orange

some mint leaves

½ dl milk

2 tablespoon scoops vanilla ice cream

Kiwi-Cucumber-Lime

2 kiwi fruits

¼ cucumber

½ lime

½ dl milk

2 tablespoon scoops vanilla ice cream

Papaya-Orange-Lime

½ papaya

1 orange

½ lime

1 dl milk

2 tablespoon scoops vanilla ice cream

For the Mango-Orange-Mint one start by peeling the mango and remove the stone, slice it into smaller pieces. Peel the orange, make sure there are as little of the white part left of the orange. My recommendation is that you use a knife to slice it. Tare some mint leaves in half. I used about 5-6 leaves, but it is a bit depending on how strong you want the flavour of them to be.

Add it all into a blender, together with the milk and the ice cream and blend until smooth! Serve with a sprig of mint and enjoy!

For the Kiwi-Cucumber-Lime one start by peeling the kiwi, I know that you can eat the peel, but it doesn't taste so good in the smoothie. Cut the kiwi fruits into smaller pieces. Continue doing the same with the cucumber, only you don't have to peel that one.

Add it all into a blender together with the juice of ½ lime and the milk and the ice cream and blend until smooth. Since the kiwi seeds are going in there as well the drink might be a bit grainy but that doesn't change the wonderful fresh taste. Serve with a lime wedge and enjoy! 

For the last, Papaya-Orange-Lime one start by cutting the papaya in half, you can store the other half in some cling-film in the fridge for 1-2 days. Cut the papaya into smaller pieces. Peel the orange, as previously mentioned it might be easier using a knife.

Put it all into a blender together with the lime juice of ½ lime. Lime and papaya works wonderfully together since papaya only has a mild flavor. The lime helps bring that flavor out. Add the milk and the ice cream and blend until smooth. Since papaya is quite a hard fruit the drink might turn out slightly grainy, however, the tropical flavour of the drink is well worth it. Serve and enjoy

Eomuk bokkeum - Stirfired fishcakes

One of the things you can use the fishcakes for is this recipe, it's really tasty and simple, quick to make. This is what you need.

3-5 fishcakes, depending on size, mine were kind of small so I used five

1 medium sized carrod

½ onion

1 clove of garlic

½ tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp oil

1 tbsp sugar

chili powder

(thai basil - optional)

Start by slicing the fishcakes into slices. Peel and cut the carrot into slices as well and also cut the onion into thin slices. Put some oil into a pan and heat up on medium/high heat. Put all of the sliced goods into it together with a finely chopped garlic clove.

Season with soy sauce, and sugar, add the chili powder depending on how hot you want the dish to be. The sugar will help the dish to get a bit of glaze and also sweeten it up a bit of course. This is optional but if you want to you can add some thai basil chopped finely, last just to add some extra flavor. Serve it with some rice and I added some salad leaves on the side. 

Enjoy!