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Showing posts with label popular. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Russian Cuisine

Russian food is a pretty impressive food in the world: it combines both European and Asian food elements, some food elements are easily to be find in European and Asian countries, however, it has some special traits, it's time to introduce it in the following time.

Shashlik
Shashlik is a meat bunch which is made by lamb, it is quite common and popular in Eastern European countries, the most important issue for cooking Shashlik is not lamb: Lamb is quite easy to buy and cook; the most essential part is sauce.

To prepare sauce for Shashlik, you should use vinegars, wines, fruit juices and herbs, it is a very time-consuming process that needs lots of time and energy to do it.
When you have competent sauce, just roasting those lamb with the tradtional method for bunching, then enjoy it!


Kvass
Kvass is a kind of fermented drinking( in fact, it is a kind of soft beer), due to it is made by some grains, it is also be called liquid bread.
Kvass is made by wheat, rye,even sometimes bread directly. It is always served without filtering, due to this, it has a high content of Vitamin B.


Shchi
Shchi is a kind of soup which is made by cabbage. The flavor of Shchi is quite various: it can be sour or spicy.

Snails in French dishes

Snail is a kind of insect, however, there is an incredible fact that it appears in French recipe and it's quite popular!
Let me introduce this to you!


Escargot is an alternative word for snail in French, it is a quite famous and delicious cuisine.
How to prepare Escargot?

At the beginning, snails should be killed and purged from its shell, then using some ingredients(such as garlic butter, chicken stock and wine) to cook it. After that, put those snails into their shells again, so you can enjoy it with butter or other saulty sauce.Anyway, there is no restriction to kinds of snail: anykind of snail is acceptable!

Snail is not only a delicious dish, but also is quite beneficial to health; it has a high proportion of protein and low percentage of fat, so you can enjoy it without worry about obesity.In general, snail is estimated contains 80% water, 15% protein and 2.4% fat.




At the beginning, people in other countries are reluctant to eat it: they cannot image how to eat a kind of insect! However, after a short and quick suspection, almost everyone likes its delicious and tasty flavor!

Monday, September 30, 2013

Spicy Cabbage in Korea

  Kimchi is a traditional and popular food in Korea, its another name is spicy cabbage.
 
  Spicy is not the only trait of Kimchi, in fact, it is a very healthy food. Koreans prefer to eat Kimchi everyday( on average 40 pounds per person each year). It contains lots of different kinds of Vitamin( such as vitamins A, B, and C), especially, it contains a very beneficial bacteria which is called lactobacilli, this bacteria is useful and beneficial to people's digestion system and reduce the probablities for cancer.

 How to prepare Kimchi?

 Ingredients:
 3 teaspoons sea sault
 1 cup of radish
 2 lbs cabbage
 1 cup of minced garlic
 1/4 cup of Korean ground dried hot pepper
 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger


Firstly, dissloving sea sault in water, and cut off cabbage, then pour the saulty water over the cabbage, then put it for 12 hours. After that, draining those cabbage and put it and other ingredients in a closed jar for several months, then you can enjoy the spicy and delicious Kimchi!

Tip: don't forget to store Kimchi in the refrigerator.

Kimchi not only can be eaten separately, but also is a significant ingredient in BBQ, soup and noodles, it has colorful ways to enjoy it!