Wholemeal rolls

Very easy, very tasty, very quick and healthy! :) And, what is a big advantage, it is possible to heat them up in a microwave before eating or freeze :) And they're absolutely mouthwatering after a short meeting with microwave... Recipe from: http://www.kwestiasmaku.com/domowa_piekarnia/buleczki_razowe/przepis.html

Ingredients:

• 2 boiled and smashed potatoes
• 420 g of wholemeal flour
• 1,5 teaspoon of salt
• 2 and 1/4 teaspoon of instant yeast (or 14 g of fresh yeast)
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 1/2 glass of milk
• 40 g of butter
• 3/4 glass of milk
• 1 egg - separately egg yolk and white

Additional ingredients:

• 4-6 tablespoons of favourite grains
• poppy - to sprinkle the tops

Preparation:

1. Peel and boil potatoes. Smash, take 3/4 glass of them, put aside.
2. Take a big bowl, put flour, salt, yeast, sugar and 1/2 of milk inside. Stir.
3. Take a pot, put 3/4 of milk and butter inside. Boil on a low heat till the butter melts (it needs to be warm, not hot, not 100C). 
4. Prepare a clean surface - sprinkle it with flour.
5. Make some empty space in the middle of the bowl, put milk with butter inside and add potatoes. Stir. Add egg yolk and grains. Knead the dough (it will be sticky).
6. Put the dough on a spinkled surface and knead for another 10 minutes (it is highly probable that some more flour will be needed) till the dough is smooth, flexible and not sticky. 
7. Put it in a bowl, cover with clean cloth and put aside for 1,5 hours.
8. Take a baking tray, grease it and put a baking paper all over it. 
9. Start preheating the oven to 175C.
10. Take the dough, start forming rolls in a desired size* and put on a baking tray.
11. Beat the egg white and put some of it on every roll. Sprinkle every roll (for example) with poppy.
12. Put the baking tray with rolls in the middle height of the oven, bake for 30 minutes.
13. Take out from the oven, wait for 5 minutes and separate the rolls. Cool down.
14. Bon appetit! :)

* They shouldn't grow much which is why I advice making 6-10 bigger rolls

Home-made bread with thick, crunchy skin

A very tasty bread and a very good recipe. I guess it is impossible to fail... :) The only disadvantage is time, which is why it is good to prepare the dough in the evening and bake it the next day, in the afternoon/evening.

Recipe comes from this website.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of flour
• 100 g of wholemeal flour
• 1,5 teaspoon of salt
• 20 g of fresh yeast (or 1 teaspoon of instant yeast)
• 300 g of cold water

Optional ingredients:

• wholemeal flour or bran or poppy to sprinkle the top of the bread
• a handful of pumpkin or other seeds to 'upgrade' the bread :) 

Preparation:

1. Put the flour in a big bowl. Add salt, crumbled yeast and stir using a spoon. Add water and stir again(quickly, shortly, so that all the ingredients link).
2. Cover the bowl with foil and put aside for 12-14 hours in a room temperature (it grows).
3. Sprinkle the kitchen surface with flour, put the dough on it. Fold it 3-4 times, using your hands.
4. Take a clean cloth, sprinkle it with flour, put the dough on it. Cover the dough using the same cloth and put aside in a warm place for another 1-2 hours (it grows again).
5. After 1,5 from these 2 hours in point 4, put the oven's lattice on the lower part of the oven (1/3), take a clean casserole (with its lid) and put it in the oven. Start preheating the oven to 240-250C.
6. When these 2 hours end, take out the casserole from the oven (be careful it will be very very hot!) and put the dough inside it (sprinkle your hands with flour, it is easier to move the dough then).
7. Cover the casserole with its lid and bake for 30 minutes. 
8. After 30 minutes, take of the lid and bake for another 15-30 minutes. Advisably, after 5-10 minutes, cover the top of the bread with foil.
9. Take out from the oven, cool down.
10. Bon Appetit! :)

Spicy pasta with chicken

This is my old idea of making a delicious dinner out of simple ingredients! And, what is more important, with that dish, everyone will find something suitable for themselves, for example: 

For children - there is pasta, which, if they are faddy - might be served only with chicken or with butter+sugar. 

For vegetarians: just take away the chicken.

For those on a diet - no mushroom sauce and no cheese.

Perfect!

The recipe is mostly mine, I took the recipe for the sauce from this website.

Ingredients:

• 500g of chicken breasts, chopped
• 1 packaging of wholemeal Fusilli pasta
• 100-200 g of cheese, grated (or some slices to put on the top)
• 1 onion, chopped
• pepper, salt, cayenne pepper (be careful with cayenne, it is spicy)
• parsley - leaves, to sprinkle the top

Mushroom sauce:

• around 1/2 kg of mushrooms (penny buns)
• 1 small onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 50 g of butter
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 125 ml of 30-36% cream 
• pepper, salt
• 2-3 tablespoons of fresh, chopped parsley

Optional sauce ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons of beer or white wine

Preparation:

Pasta:

1. Take a bigger, clean pot, pour water and a pinch of salt inside. Put on a stove, boil on a middle heat. When it reaches 100C, add pasta, stir, change the heat into low. Boil  for 7-12 minutes. Stir from time to time*.
2. When it's done, put the pasta on a colander and pour cold water on the pasta.**

*It is important, because pasta tends to stick to the bottom of the pot and burn as well as it tends to boil over.

** This is a good way to avoid sticky pasta.

Meat:

1. Chop into pieces, season with salt and pepper and cayenne.
2. Take a very big frying pan, grease it a little bit with oil. Turn the heat on.
3. Put the chopped chicken on the frying pan and fry for 10-15 minutes.

Mushroom sauce:

1. Clean the penny buns very precisely using a knife or a brush. If necessary - clean them quickly under cold water. Dry on a paper towel. Chop.
2. Chop the onion and garlic.
3. Take a frying pan, put 30g of butter and 1 tablespoon of oil on it. Add chopped onion and fry for 5 minutes on a middle heat. Add garlic and fry for another 1-2 minutes on a low heat. It needs to be gold, not burnt.
4. Add optional ingredients. Boil till water evaporates and a thick substance appears.
5. Add the rest of the buter and the oil. When it starts frying, add penny buns and fry on a high heat for around 6 minutes, stiring from time to time. 
6. Take the cream, add 2-3 tablespoons of sauce from the frying pan, stir. Pour everything on the frying pan and boil on midle heat. Season with salt (1-2 pinch(es)). Stir. Boil for around 2 minutes so that the sauce has a chance to get thicker. At the end, add parsley and season with pepper. Stir, turn the heat off.

1. Take the sauce and pour it on the frying pan with meat. Add pasta, boil for few minutes, stiring. Turn the heat off.
2. Bon Appetit! :)

Honey Cinn Breakfast

I've read some articles about healthy lifestyle. It appears that among many different spices chilli, pepper, ginger, etc. which are very important) there is also a place for cinnamon with its magical powers to strenghten the immune system, improve health, help with losing some weight, regulate the amount of sugar in our blood and much much more! You can read a lot about it on the Internet, obviously, on trustworthy pages.

So here is another breakfast idea. I do enjoy it as I am a cinnamon fan. There is no sophisticated recipe, as you probably guess. I believe everybody knows how to prepare a decent sandwich ;)

Ingredients:

• bread
• butter (optional)
• honey
• cinnamon