Recipes from Ingredient: butter
Skate Fish Wings Sautéed with Herbs
Skate fish wings are delicious, meaty and easy to cook. Once cooked, they are flaky and have a nutty flavour like crab meat! It’s one of my husband’s favourite fish!
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Smashed Potatoes, My Way
You will love these potatoes. They are crispy, garlicky, buttery, peppery and damn delicious! And they are perfect to accompany any main dish. The addition of shredded mushrooms will add more umami and crisp to this dish.
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Knefeh – Lebanese Cheese Dessert
Knefeh, Knafeh or Kunafa is a baked cheese dessert made with a vermicelli-like phyllo pastry also known as shredded phyllo dough or Kadaifi/Kataifi. It’s popular across the Levant region (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan), Turkey and Greece. The recipe here is the Lebanese version which is made with Akkawi cheese – ...
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Coq au Vin (French Braised Rooster or Chicken)
Coq, in french, means rooster. In the old times, this recipe was applied to cook a rooster (tough bird) by braising it in red wine. But you can make it with any poultry, most commonly chicken. Standard recipes call for red wine but white one can be used at a ...
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Rice with fried Vermicelli
Once you taste this Lebanese style rice, you will be addicted to it. The fried vermicelli gives it a great nutty taste and aroma. If the vermicelli you bought is long, break it into smaller pieces before using it.
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Fattet Batinjen – Eggplant with Yogurt and Pine Nuts
This is a classic Lebanese recipe. It is appetizing, distinctive, delicious, healthy and, last but not least, vegetarian. Since it involves frying the eggplants, I would suggest the use of an air fryer. With an air fryer you only coat the eggplants with very little of oil ! And you ...
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Choucroute Garnie – Cooked Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut means sour cabbage in German and while it is considered a German staple, it is also popular in neighbouring countries such as France (specifically the Alsace region), Poland and other Eastern European countries. You can buy fermented Sauerkraut in any supermarket, or make it yourself. A good reference is ...
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Moussaka (Eggplant and minced meat casserole)
Moussaka is a traditional Greek recipe, quite tasty and rich. It needs 3 stages: fry eggplant, simmer meat & tomato and finally cook the béchamel sauce. In this recipe I use only eggplants but you can also add fried slices of potatoes and alternate with the fried slices of eggplants. ...
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