Tzatziki

Tzatziki rolled in cucumber

I love Tzatziki, I could eat it every day with everything, you can make it as a salad, with roughly chopped cucumber, or as a dip or sauce with grated cucumber.


Here's how I make my Tzatziki salad:

Ingredients

1 Cucumber chopped
Mint leaves
3 cloves of garlic
Yoghurt
Olive oil
Lemon juice
Salt & Pepper

Cut cucumber into chunks, and sprinkle salt over to draw out water, and leave for a couple of minutes.

Add chopped garlic and mint into a bowl and add yoghurt, lemon juice, olive oil and drained cucumber.
Add seasoning and season with salt and pepper and mix.

Fancy Fish Cakes

Ingredients

4 small potatoes
1 onion
1 egg
handful of parsley
5 crab sticks
250 g of hake
a drop lemon grass oil
a drop of soya sauce
Sesame seeds

Peel, boil and mash potatoes
Steam hake and flake (make sure there is no skin and bones)
Chop crab sticks, onion, parsley.

In a large bowl mix mash, hake, crab, onion, parsley, and egg together, and mix well.

Season with lemon grass oil, soya sauce and pepper.

Mould round cakes from mixture and roll in sesame seeds.

Grill on 200 degree celcuis for 15 minutes until goden brown.
I served it with Tzatziki, or you can serve it with a salad of your choice.

The fish caked also go well with sweet chilli sauce.

Enjoy xxxx

Scrumptious Salmon Croustades

I saw these pastry shells in the frozen section at the shop, and got all inspired to fill them with something... but what ...

This is what I came up with... and WOW, they were so scrumptious!!!

Ingredients

12 Pastry Shells
Egg
Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese
Smoked Salmon
Cucumber to garnish
Pepper

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
Place Pastry Shells on a non stick baking tray and brush with egg.
Bake for 15 minutes and allow to cool.

When the pastry shells are cooled, pipe smoked salmon cream cheese into pasty shells, add salmon and cucumber garnish and season with pepper.

Haloumi, Mint and Watermelon Salad

Growing up, we always had Haloumi cheese in the house, coming from a "Cypriot"-South African family, and living amongst a mixture of nationalities, it was not a common food, but it soon became a hit with our friends, we used to grill it and serve it with tzatziki and a wedge of lemon, my dad on the other hand used to eat it uncooked with watermelon and bread, which is also yummy, and when I tried to get my Dutch boyfriend to taste it that way, he really didn't like the taste of the "Raw Haloumi" (his words) and also wasn't sure of the combination with the watermelon, so I decided to try and come up with something to sway his taste buds a bit...  and it worked with this recipe... 


Ingredients

Haloumi cut into thick strips
Watermelon
Sugar Snap Peas
Lettuce

For Dressing:

Olive Oil
Lemon Juice
Mint Leaves
Salt and Pepper

Fry Haloumi on a non stick frying pan (no need to put oil in the pan)
Cool Haloumi

Add Lettuce, Sugar Snap Peas and Watermelon together, when Haloumi has cooled place on top of salad, and add dressing.


Simple as that and enjoy ;)

Johnny's Seared Tuna

Seared Tuna is so yummy, I cant take the credit for this one, My boyfriend Johnny spiced it and seared it to perfection, it was so Delish, that I had to post it.

Ingredients

Yellow Fin Tuna

Searing Spice (Nanami Togarashi) - You can buy this at a Chinese Deli

Sesame Seeds

2 teaspoons of Olive Oil

Wasabi

Pickled Ginger

Soya Sauce

Rub Tuna with Olive Oil, Searing Spice and Sesame Seeds.

Heat pan until quite hot, and sear Tuna on each side (about 1 minute each side depending on thickness)

Take off heat and set aside to cool

Cut it into slices (Sashimi)

Serve with Wasabi, Pickled Ginger and Soya Sauce

Garnish with fanned Avo