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Mediteranean recipes

Some of our own invented summer recipes.

Pork with apricots and almonds (main dish, 4 persons)

- nice piece of pork fillet for 4 persons (also possible with chicken)
- grill herbs
- 120 grams of rasped, roasted almonds
- ½ package of dried, cut apricots
- 1,5 dl medium dry sherry
- 200 ml cream
- 2 x garlic

Marinate pork with herbs and some oil and leave in fridge for some time. Fry the meat, add the sherry. Add garlic, apricots, almonds and cream and cook until the alcohol is vaporised. Nice with, for example, broccoli and rice or pasta.

Sweet empanadas (snack or starter, 8 persons)

- 8 leaves of puff pastry
- 250 grams of minced beef
- 1 x garlic
- 1 onion, cut
- 1 tea spoon cinnamon
- 1 tea spoon paprika powder
- 2 table spoon hot sauce
- ½ banana
- Hand full of raisins
- Salt

Fry the onion and garlic with the minced beef and add the ingredients. Divide the substance over the leaves and make triangles by wetting the sides of the dough and use a fork for pressing the sides together. 10-15 minutes in an oven on 180 degrees until the empanadas are brown.

Rocket pesto (snack, 6 people)

- Bag of rocket salad
- 1 dl good olive oil (extra vierge)
- 1 bag of pine nuts (not roasted)
- 100 grams Parmesan cheese
- ½ x garlic
- Pepper and salt

Put everything in the blender and blend…Nice with fresh ciabatta bread

Spanish chicken (main dish, 4 people)

- 4 chicken legs (also possible with filet) & chicken spices
- 1 can of tomato cubes
- 200 ml of strong bouillon of ½ cube
- 1 aubergine, 1 courgette, 1 tomato, 1 onion
- Lemon rasp of ½ lemon (wash well first)
- 1 cut Spanish pepper
- 3 x garlic
- 1 table spoon thyme, 1 x oregano, ½ x rosemary
- Hand full of green olives (without stone)
- 4 table spoons of olive oil

Marinate chicken and brown quickly in pan. Put everything in a large pan and leave for 40-50 minutes. Nice with mashed potato.

Mediterranean filled eggs (snack, 4 persons)

- 4 hard boiled eggs
- 3 anchovies filets
- ½ table spoon of lemon juice
- 50 grams black olives without stone
- 1 table spoon capers
- 1 table spoon Parmesan cheese
- 1 table spoon olive oil
- 1 table spoon cut fresh basil

Divide the eggs in 2 and take the yolk out. Mix everything with a blender and refill the eggs. Decorate with fresh basil and slice of black olive.

Spanish salad (starter or lunch, 4 persons)

- Bag of salad
- 100 grams of Serrano ham
- 1 Galia (or cantaloupe) melon, cut in pieces
- Handful of roasted almonds
- 1 cut sweet pepper
- 50 grams of soft goat cheese or Manchego
- Dressing: 1/3 olive oil, 1/3 fresh orange juice, 1/3 sherry vinegar, pepper & salt

Nice with bread and aioli.

Mousse of mackerel (snack or lunch, 4 persons)

- 100 grams of smoked mackerel
- 125 grams of crème fraiche
- ½ Spanish pepper, cut
- 1 table spoon of lemon juice
- ½ x garlic
- Sea salt

Clean the fish and blend everything in the blender. Nice with bread and ice berg lettuce.

Mediterranean fish rolls (main dish, 4 persons)

- 4 pieces of white fish without bones
- 100 grams of Serrano ham
- (Tomato) tapenade

Spread the tapenade on the fish, roll it up and cover it with the ham. Put the fish in the oven in a bowl with some oil (200 degrees) for around 20 minutes until the ham is crispy. Nice with pasta and rocket salad, cherry tomatoes, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese.

Summer drink

- Cava
- Mint liquor
- Lemon sorbet ice

Put 2 cm of the liquor in a champagne glass, add a bole of sorbet ice and fill it up with cava. Serve with a spoon.

Cold blue cheese soup with Pedro Ximenez

- 100 grams of blue cheese (Cabrales)
- 1 dl of cream
- 1 dl of milk
- 1 dl of Pedro Ximenez sherry
- 1 leaves of gelatine
- 1 leek
- 1 ripe pear

Blend the cheese with the cream and milk and put in the fridge. Put the gelatine leave in cold water and when they are soft, squeeze the water out. Heat 2 table spoons of the PX sherry and poor them over the gelatine. Put it in a flat bowl and put it in a freezer to make it more stiff and then cute cubes of 1 x 1 cm. Cut the leek into small bars (lengthways) and roast them in a 150 degree oven until they are crispy (it becomes a little bitter). Cut the pear in small cubes. Put all the ingredients in a soup bowl and add the cold soup. Delicious!!