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Tuna cake
Hello,
This is a recipe suitable to use as an appetizer for a picnic journey or to bring to work on a tupper.
Ingredients:
- Tuna
- Muscles
- Eggs
- Surimi
- Tomato sauce
- Mayonnaise
- Soy sauce
If you want to use your own mayonnaise on a blender cup add one egg, a few drops of vinegar or lemon juice, a pinch of salt and sunflower oil. With a hand mixer start to mix with the blades at the bottom, after 10 seconds start moving the mixer up and down and add more sunflower oil very slowly without stopping the up and down move.
On a blender cup start to add the ingredients: surimi, about 160 gr of preserved tuna, preserved muscles, 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise, a bit of soy sauce, 2 whisked eggs, salt and pepper. Mix well.
Put the mix on a mold and bake in the oven at 350ºF (180º F) for 30 minutes.
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Paella
Hello,
Paella is one of top typical dishes in Spain, present in lots of menus each thursday (thurday it’s like the paella day in Spain). It’s so spread it is difficult to find something like the “original paella recipe”, so it’s cooked on slightly different way on each kitchen. This is only one more possibility to cook the paella, hope you enjoy:
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 400 gr rice
- 2 onions
- 8 garlic cloves
- 2 carrots
- Thyme and rosemary
- 2 sepia (cuddlefish)
- 12 muscles
- 12 prawns
- 5 small radishes
- Saffron
- 1 lemon
Peel the prawns and place the heads and skin on a big pot, add also one onion in quarters, 2 carrots, thyme, rosemary, 5 garlic cloves, 5 small radishes and 2 sepia. Add salt and olive oil, cover with cold water and let boil for about an hour. On this way you will obtain a nice broth and the cuddlefish will be tender. You can also add more vegetables to the broth, like pumpkin, celery, leek … the more ingredients the more taste.
Once the water has been boiling for an hour remove the sepia and drain to obtain the broth. Chop one onion. Add 3 garlic cloves on a blender cup, olive oil and parley and mix with the blender. Add this oil to a pan. When oil is hot add chopped onion, salt and move it; cook it for about 10 minutes. Then add the muscles (discarding those already open, because should be unhealthy), add also sepia cut in small pieces and the peeled prawns. Move frequently and cook until almost all muscles are open.
Add the rice, the saffron and mix it well. Now add broth to cook the rice, the rice must be cooking for 15 minutes until it gets tender. Add broth more times if needed; also taste it to check if you need to add more salt. You can server some lemon with it so people can squeeze it; lemon it’s a nice partner for paella.
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