Saturday, August 8, 2015

Sautéed tofu and vegetables with chilli sauce and sweet basil.

Time : 16 minutes






Ingredient for one person

Rice
Tofu
1 piece of courgette
1 onion
1 or 2 garlic cloves
3 chillies (if they are not too strong, if you use Thai chilli, one is enough according to my level of tolerance)
Fresh sweet basil
A few garden orache leaves or spinach if you can´t pick any garden orache.
Salt
1 small piece of ginger
1/2 tea spoon of curry powder (turmeric, coriander, cumin)
1 small piece of cucumber
Some lettuce or other kind of greens
Oil

Preparation

While boiling the rice, grind the chilli(es), garlic and ginger in a mortar, add some oil (olive oil or whatever you like) and salt.

Slice all vegetables and the tofu, stir fry it first and when it becomes a bit crusty, and the courgette and onion, fry a few minutes.
When the vegetables are a bit soft, add the garden orache, chilli paste with the sweet basil (I use the leaves and stems), some salt if needed, quickly mix, fry two or three minutes.

Serve with some cucumber slivers, lettuce and a dressing you like.

Strawberry, banana, peanuts, sesame ice cream.

Time : 7  minutes




Ingredient for one person

2 bananas
10 to 15 strawberries depending on the size (and your taste)
1 spoon of raw black sesame seeds (or other sesame seeds if you want)
1 handful of raw peanuts
2 to 4 spoons of water

Preparation

Before preparing the ice cream, you need to slice the banana and deep-freeze them and deep-freeze the strawberries as well. Prepare a bunch of them if you want to make more ice cream and feel free to try with other fruits !

Put all the fruits and seeds in a blender with, add some of the water, blend (you need a good blender that crushes ice), usually, depending on the strength of the machine, you might have to press and stop several times, add more water if needed but not too much as you´ll then get a smoothie !

Enjoy !