Poisson Cru, Polinesia Fish Salad

Almost in every country have a national dish. This is no exception in French Polynesia. If you are on vacation in French Polynesia, in addition to the beautiful coastline you will find a delicious food. This is a Poisson Cru (raw fish literally), a national dish made from pieces of fresh fish marinated with lime juice, coconut milk and other ingredients.

Fish is commonly used tuna, halibut, Kingfish, snapper, and generally served with a variety of raw vegetables including cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, as well as various spices such as onion and garlic to taste more fresh.

And here’s how and materials necessary to make the Poisson Cru for you to try at home.

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg of fresh tuna
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 8 limes
  • 3 small green onions
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 small cucumber, grated coconut cream is pressed one

How to make:

  1. Cut the tuna in cubes and rinse with salt water.
  2. Let the fish soak in salted water in the refrigerator with the clove of crushed garlic, half an hour.
  3. Roughly grated or cut vegetables.
  4. Drain the fish, then cover with the juice of lemon, which allows the fish to ‘cook’ for about five minutes in the lime juice.
  5. Drain and discard lime juice.
  6. Add coconut cream to the vegetables and fish.
  7. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  8. Mix well and serve cold.
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Potato Donut

Donuts made from potato has a softer texture and sweeter flavor than the donuts are made from wheat flour. However, potato donuts can not be durable and should be eaten immediately after cooking is complete.

Potato donut-making process is actually not much different from a donut-making process in general. Here is how and materials that can be used to make 12 donuts potatoes for you to try.

Ingredients:

  • 500 g flour
  • 50 g milk powder
  • 11 g instant yeast
  • 250 g potatoes, steamed, mashed and cooled
  • 100 g powdered sugar
  • 75 g butter
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 100 ml cold water

Complement:

  • Powdered sugar for donuts
  • melted chocolate

How to Make:

  1. Mix together flour, sugar, milk powder, and instant yeast, mix well.
  2. Enter a smooth potato mix.
  3. Add egg yolks and cold water, stir the mixture until blended.
  4. Give butter and salt, continue to knead until smooth elastic. Rest 15 minutes.
  5. Divide dough into 12 circles.
  6. Let stand 20 minutes, until fluffy.
  7. Punch a hole through the middle with two index fingers.
  8. Fry in hot oil over medium heat until a lot of golden yellow.
  9. Remove and drain.
  10. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate with chocolate.
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Romanian Traditional Cake

Have you ever tasted the real Romanian cake? If not, here is the recipe for making curly cake (Kurtoskalac), one of the famous traditional Romanian cake with a distinctive flavor and taste.

The process of making Romanian curly cake is very easy. The first thing you do is prepare the cookie dough is cold, then the form of ‘stripe’ on the pasta machine rollers or the size of a thin layer of approximately 2 mm. After that, round ‘stripe’ is on the christmas tree while smeared with palm oil. Next step is to bake until browned and sugar into caramel. And the last is the topping on the cake to give it to suit your taste.

And for more details, here’s how and materials needed to make this cake.

Ingredients for dough:

  • 2 eggs
  • 500 g flour
  • 50 g sugar
  • 500 g butter, melted
  • 250 ml of warm liquid milk
  • 20 g yeast

Ingredients for topping:

  • 250 g butter, melted
  • 20 g sugar
  • 50 g walnuts, roughly mashed

How to make the dough:

  1. Dissolve yeast and 3 tablespoons of flour in warm milk, and add a teaspoon 1/2 sugar. Leave for half an hour.
  2. Meanwhile, mix eggs and butter, stir the mixture into the remaining flour, and let rise for an hour.

How to make topping

  1. Mix all ingredients topping on a tray.

How to make a long strip of dough:

  1. Apply a thin layer of oil or butter for baking equipment and dough strip wrapped around it.
  2. Tuck in the ends and press together slightly with the palm of the hand, so it will not unroll.
  3. Grill it over low-medium heat.
  4. Brush with melted butter while grilling.
  5. When it was half finished with a golden color, walnut and roll in sugar and grill until golden brown in color.
  6. When finished press the tool on a hard surface with a sharp edge to the bottom and the cake will slide off.
  7. Cake ready to serve.
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Red Guava Juice

Guava is a fruit that is green on the skin and white or red on the inside. If it is ripe, the fruit will taste sour-sweet, and contain lots of vitamins A and C. Even on red guava known beneficial treat some of these diseases.

On red guava, there is lycopene. This is very useful as an antioxidant and nourishing the male reproductive system. In addition, fruit and guava leaf extract can also increase the thrombocytes to strengthen the immune system.

Given the importance of nutrition available in guava, there is nothing wrong if we ate the guava every day. And here’s a recipe for making red guava juice with fresh aroma that would like your family.

Ingredients:

  • 3 red guava fruit
  • 10 tablespoons frambozen syrup
  • 5 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 400 ml of water

How to make:

  1. Wash red guava using clean water, then cut into several pieces.
  2. enter the red guava that has been cut into the blender and add 200 ml of water.
  3. Guava Blend until completely smooth.
  4. After that in a container, pour the guava juice through a sieve to separate seeds.
  5. Enter sugar and frambozen syrup, blend again until well blended.
  6. Add remaining water to reduce the viscosity of the juice.
  7. Blend again a few minutes.
  8. Finally pour the guava juice in the glasses and put them in the fridge.
  9. Let stand for several hours until they are really cool and fresh.
  10. After several hours in the fridge, red guava juice can be enjoyed as a healthy beverage.
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Spinach Soup

Spinach is very popular as a vegetable rich in vitamins. Easily accessible, highly nutritious, inexpensive and easy way of presentation is the reason why spinach is preferred. This plant is known as the vegetables are important sources of iron, and this is a rich source of minerals, vitamins, pigments and phytonutrients.

To make these vegetables into a healthy menu, here’s a simple recipe for those who want to create your own spinach soup with a few other ingredients added.

Ingredients:

  • 2 bunches spinach, wash and remove stems underneath quotes
  • 1 young corn, cut into four
  • 2 squash, peeled and chopped
  • 1 liter of water
  • 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
  • salt to taste

Spices:

  • 5 red onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 white onions, thinly sliced
  • 5 cm fingerroot, mashed

How to make:

  1. In a saucepan, cook water to boil, then enter the corn until the pre-coocking.
  2. Put all the seasonings and cook a few minutes.
  3. Enter the squash, sugar and salt.
  4. Finally enter the spinach, cook until spinach is wilted and remove from heat.
  5. Pour in serving bowl.
  6. Serve the soup while still hot with rice and some side dishes like fried tempeh and fried tofu.
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Sweet Corn Sausage

It is presented as a choice for a family breakfast. A mix of sweet corn, and beef sauce is full of nutrients the body needs to run a solid activity. And here’s how and materials needed to make this food.

Ingredients:

  • 1 tablespoon margarine
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3 beef sausage, sliced
  • 1 sweet corn, boil and remove from stems
  • 25 g of grated cheddar cheese
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon pepper

How to make:

  1. Heat the margarine with the oil, saute onion and garlic until fragrant.
  2. Enter the beef sausage, sweet corn, add grated cheese, salt and pepper and stir well.
  3. Prepare a plate and serve warm.
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Hainanese chicken rice

Hainan is an island which is also the province of the People’s Republic of China. This is the unique province of China of the tropical sea, natural resources have the advantage of abundant, heavy feeling of national minorities romantic, special local economy to insist on opening and reform, to express the characteristics of Hainan dishes are: fresh, natural; special, and abundant.

The introduction of some special features food and food for everyone. And one of them is a popular Hainanese chicken rice. It is based on a famous dish called Hainan Wenchang chicken, since its roots in Hainan cuisine and is set by the overseas Chinese population in Hainan Nanyang area.

Hainan chicken prepared in the traditional method which involves boiling the whole chicken in a broth of pork and chicken bones, reusing the broth over and over, thus creating a more delicious dish. In general, served with a sauce, chili sauce and ginger including ground. It is common in Hainan also offers a third sauce involving oyster sauce mixed with garlic.

For those of you who are curious and want to try making your own food, here’s a simple recipe to make Hainanese chicken rice mixed with mushrooms and teriyaki sauce that uses cooking oil garlic fries. This menu will surely become your family favorites.

Ingredients:

  • 1 chicken cut into two parts
  • 4 cups rice, washed
  • 1 ½ liters of water
  • Oil 1 tablespoon chicken broth
  • 5 tablespoons cooking oil garlic
  • 2 tablespoons butter

Seasonings:

  • 2 tablespoons fish ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons salty ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons sesame oil
  • 1 white onion
  • 1 onion
  • 1 vertebra ginger
  • Salt to taste

Complement:

  • Cooked carrots
  • Boiled Beans

How to make:

  1. Boil chicken, ginger, garlic, leeks and onions on high heat until the chicken becomes tender.
  2. When the boiling, season with  fish ketchup, salty ketchup, salt and a little sesame oil.

Hainan rice:

  1. Heat the butter, 1 tablespoon oil or chicken broth, ginger slices and stir-fry garlic until fragrant.
  2. Enter the rice and season with fried garlic oil, sesame oil and fish ketchup, put used water boiled chicken, and cook until rice is cooked.
  3. Once cooked rice, served with carrots and green beans that have been previously boiled.
  4. Please try, you can add toppings to suit your taste.

 

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Arepas Venezolanas

In Venezuela, what is the most famous addition to Hugo Chavez? And the obvious answer is arepas venezolanas. Arepas are the dishes made from precooked cornmeal batter popular in Venezuela and other South American countries that speak Spanish. This is similar to a gordita Mexican and Salvadoran pupusa.

Arepas were originally made by native Venezuela and Colombia, and you can find it in the form of roasted, baked, or fried. In general there are two ways to prepare the dough. In the traditional method is made with grains of corn to be soaked, then peeled and ground in a large mortar, known as a Pilon.

The most popular method today is to buy cooked arepa cornmeal or flour. The flour is mixed with water and salt, and sometimes oil, butter, eggs and milk. They can be eaten as a side dish or paired with hot chocolate for afternoon snack. And if you want to make their own food, here’s how and materials needed to generate it.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups precooked cornmeal
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 cups hot water
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil

How to make:

  1. In a large bowl, stir cornstarch and salt.
  2. Pour in 2 1/2 cup boiling water and stir with a wooden spoon to form clots.
  3. Cover with a towel or plastic wrap and set aside to rest for 5 to 10 minutes.
  4. Using moistened hands, form balls of dough about 1/4 cup of dough and press to form a cake about 3 inches and 3/4 inch thick.
  5. If the dough cracks in the mix, the edge of the water a little more and then form a cake.
  6. Heat oil in a saute pan or skillet over medium-high heat.
  7. Saute bread, a few at a time, to form a brown crust on one side, 5 to 6 minutes. Flip and brown on other side.
  8. When all the bread has been browned, transfer them to a baking sheet and bake in oven for 15 to 20 minutes at temperatures up to 400 º F, or until they sound hollow when tapped lightly.
  9. Serve immediately.
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Orange Passion Fruit Drink

Passion fruit is a fruit native to Latin America, this plant can thrive in the lowlands and highlands in the tropics. Once the benefits of this fruit that makes it have a high commercial value. On a passion fruit contained nutrients such as beta carotene, potassium, fiber, and vitamin C. In fact, the fruit is believed to relieve high blood pressure.

With the benefits and the freshness of taste, nothing wrong with passion fruit into a fruit is a popular community. Currently, passion fruit cultivated in many countries of the tropical. In addition to direct consumption, passion can also be cooked into a syrup and other soft drinks.

Not much different from the passion fruit, citrus fruit that is also a well-liked by many people. And yellow tennis ball-sized, orange gives a refreshing taste sensation.

If both pieces are combined then be refreshments are very rich in nutrients. And here is how to make a fresh drink of the fruit.

Ingredients:

  • Juice of 2 oranges sunkist
  • Juice of 1 passion fruit
  • 250 ml passion fruit syrup
  • 300 ml of sweetened soda
  • 5 mint leaves
  • ice cubes to taste

How to Make:

  1. In a large glass, combine the Sunkist orange juice, passion fruit juice, mint leaves, and passion fruit syrup, stirring until blended.
  2. Insert ice cubes and pour the sweet soda.
  3. Serve.
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Green Tea Pudding

These foods are known to have many health benefits. In cooking, the pudding is processed with special techniques to maintain the nutrient content in the pudding. For those of you who want a dessert, green tea pudding is the right choice, light and healthy. And here’s how and materials required in making these foods.

White pudding:

  • 1 packet of jelly white
  • 500 ml of liquid milk
  • 125 g sugar

Green pudding:

  • 400 ml of liquid milk
  • 250 g sugar
  • 1.5 packet of jelly white
  • 2 teaspoons powdered green tea
  • 150 g of whipped cream whipped

How to Make:

White pudding:

  1. Mix all ingredients and cook while continuing to stir until boiling.
  2. Lift and pour the pudding into a container, allow it to harden. Set aside.

Green pudding:

  1. Combine milk, sugar, jelly white, and green tea powder, and cook while continuing to stir until boiling.
  2. Raise heat, stirring constantly until the steam is lost and cold.

Cooking together:

  1. Pour the pudding over the green and white pudding.
  2. Let stand until hardened them.
  3. Place on a small plate and serve.
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