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Rugelach Recipe – Laura Vitale – Laura in the Kitchen Episode 848

To get this complete recipe with instructions and measurements, check out my website: http://www.LauraintheKitchen.com Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/LauraintheKitchen Laura's Style/Beauty Channel: http://www.YouTube.com/VitaleStyleChannel Twitter: @Lauraskitchen Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mrsvitale

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Salmon Sweet Potato Tagine Recipe – CookingWithAlia – Episode 352

Let's make a tagine of salmon and sweet potatoes Moroccan style! WRITTEN RECIPE: http://goo.gl/0iQIAt INGREDIENTS: 2 Salmon fillets 2 sweet potatoes 1 onion A samll bunch of fresh cilantro Juice of 1 lemon 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons honey 2 teaspoons ras-el-hanout Large pinch of saffron threads 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon water 1/4 cup of raisins

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Easy Chocolate Sauce Recipe – Easy Turkish Recipes

Today you will see how easy is it actually to make chocolate sauce! This is the basic and classic chocolate sauce recipe you ever need. Even more delicious with the butter and dark chocolate in it. We prefer to prepare our chocolate sauce at home, since it is much more hygienic and healthy. We use it for cakes, ice cream and cupcakes. Or just to dip in cookies. Directions for chocolate sauce: Transfer the sugar into a sauce pan over medium heat Add starch and cocoa Gradually add in the milk as you keep stirring Keep cooking and stirring until it gets thicker When starts simmering, turn the heat off and add in unsalted butter and dark chocolate When both chocolate and butter melts, this sauce can be used in any kind of dessert you desire! Ingredients for fudge chocolate sauce recipe: 2 cups milk 2 tablespoons of cocoa 1 tablespoon cornstarch 80g dark chocolate 4 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon butter

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Moroccan tagine recipe

Chef Leo is going to show you how to cook a moroccan tagine. Enjoy! Here is the recipe: Cooking Time: 2 hours Preparation time: 20 min Serves: 4 Ingredients · 2 pounds lamb meat, cubed · 4 pears - peeled, cored and cubed · 1 tsp ground black pepper · 2 onions, peeled and sliced · 1 tsp ground cumin · 1 tbsp olive oil · 1 tsp ground ginger · 1 tsp ground coriander seed · 1/2 cup golden raisins · 1/2 cup blanched slivered almonds · 1 tsp ground cinnamon · salt to taste Instructions In a nonstick pan, heat the oil and fry the onions for 2 minutes. Stir in the lamb and brown them.Add the coriander, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, salt and pepper.Stir for 1 minute and pour in the water covering the meat.Cover with lid and simmer for about 2 hours on low heat. Take off the lid and stir in the pears, almond, and raisins. Cook for another 5 minutes and serve hot with rice.

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Parmesan Sauteed Mushroom Recipe – Laura Vitale – Laura in the Kitchen Episode 842

To get this complete recipe with instructions and measurements, check out my website: http://www.LauraintheKitchen.com Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/LauraintheKitchen Laura's Style/Beauty Channel: http://www.YouTube.com/VitaleStyleChannel Twitter: @Lauraskitchen Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mrsvitale

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Turkish Butter Cookies – Nightingale’s Nest Dessert Recipe

Nightingale’s Nest dessert is English for Bülbülyuvasi in Turkish. Very delicious moist butter cookies recipe. Can be made with phyllo dough or home made dough. Here, we prepared the dough at home, to make it easier for our foreigner followers to make it at their homes. So this is a bit different from the original Turkish Nightingale’s Nest dessert. This is very similar with söbiyet and baklava. Among most important ottoman desserts made with phyllo pastry and pistachios. To make the dessert a bit different, we also used walnuts and hazelnuts. You can also use almonds if you wish. Directions: Transfer melted unsalted butter into a large bowl Add vegetable oil Add yogurt and an egg Add powdered sugar Add sifted flour and baking powder The dough will be soft and unsticky Divide in equal pieces and start rolling Cut out circles of about 2.5 inches in diameter (bunu ekle yuvarlakların kesildiği yere) Place half on the baking tray For the rest, use a smaller circle to cut out the middle Brush egg white on top Place a circle on each piece Brush egg yolk on top Decorate with desired nuts Bake for around 25 minutes or until golden brown on 180 C (360 F) For the syrup, transfer water into a large pot over medium heat Add sugar When starts boiling, add lemon juice and turn the heat off When both the pastry and syrup is warmed down, pour the syrup on the pastry Before you serve, wait at least an hour for pastry to soak up the syrup! Bon Appetit! List of ingredients: For the pastry dough: 250g (2 sticks) unsalted butter ½ cup vegetable oil 2 tbs yogurt 3 tbs powdered sugar 1 tbs baking powder 1 egg 5 cup flour For the syrup: 4 cups granulated sugar 3 ½ cups water 3 tbs lemon juice For the top: 1 egg Walnuts, pistachio and hazelnuts

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Custard Recipe with Mastic Drops – Turkish Pudding

There are many types of custards in Turkish Cuisine. In this one here we used mastic drops to garnish the classic custard recipe.( Turkish pudding) Which adds an amazing flavor to the milky desserts. This custard also includes starch, different from some other Turkish custard recipes. Wheat starch helps the custard have a thick texture, also adds an extra flavor the taste. You can garnish this milk custard with biscuits or cakes, or if you want you can even use it as filling for cakes and cookies. Kids love this recipe as well! Also, you can decorate your cups before you serve, with dark chocolate drops or cinnamon! Directions for Turkish Custard: Take 3 cups milk and sugar into a large pot on medium heat Add a tea spoon of mastic tears In three minutes, when the milk warms up, add unsalted butter Keep stirring as it is cooking Meanwhile, mix starch and rice flour with a cup of milk Make sure it combines well Combine two mixtures when mastic pieces completely melt Keep stirring until it starts boiling! When it is still hot, pour into the serving cups You can garnish with chocolate drops or cinnamon 4 cups milk 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 tablespoons rice flour 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon of mastic Decorate the pudding: Drop chocolate and cinnamon

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