Recipes

Hot and Sour Shrimp Soup – Tom Yum Goong

Peel crab tails and remove shells, leaving tails whole. Heat oil in a large saucepan, add the shells and heads of the crab tails, and sauté over medium heat for 10 min, turning throughout, until shells and heads are deep red. Add water (I) and the curry paste, make 5 min until the liquid has … Read more

Chips Curry Balls

Chop up chips (this is best done by placing chips in a freezer bag and rolling over them with a pasta walker). Separate the onion from the skin and cut it off. Knead mince together with peanuts, chips, onion, egg, curry, salt and pepper. Arrange small balls of mince mixture with moistened hands. Heat oil … Read more

Beef Soup

For beef soup, wash the vegetables and clean or peel them if necessary. Cut the onion in half and brown the skin on the cut surface (this gives the soup a nice golden color). Add cold water, add the meat and bring to the boil. Skim off the rising foam with a sieve ladle. Add … Read more

Apricot Cake

For the apricot cake, grease a springform pan (26 cm diameter) with butter and sprinkle with flour. Preheat oven to 170° C top/bottom heat, wash apricots, pat dry, halve, core and cut into wedges. Sift flour with cornstarch and separate eggs. Mix yolks, vanilla sugar, 1 pinch of salt, grated lemon peel and grated marzipan … Read more

Saechsicher Rauchermod – Potatoes with Curd

The Erzgebirge variant of a former poor person’s meal, as it is found in many regions of Germany. The potatoes make you full, and the curd gives the body fat and protein. First you cook cooked, peeled potatoes: scrub the potatoes heartily under running water and make them in salt water until they offer no … Read more

Holler Milk

For the elder milk, cut the elder flowers fresh and pour out vigorously so that there are no more insects in them. Put in a pot with the cold milk and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and stir in the honey. Leave to infuse for 5-10 minutes, then strain and season to … Read more

Finanziera at Albese – *

Have fun preparing this mushroom dish! (*) Stew of various offal Albesian style. In Alba it is impossible to imagine a financiera without peas. I season it with a dash of vinegar and Marsala and let it simmer for a short time. The Finanziera should be eaten hot.

Garlic Chicken United Nations I

Clean the animal (amputate the neck, giblets and rump) and secure the liver. Stir the balsamic vinegar, 2/3 of the oil, the mustard, salt and pepper to make a vinaigrette-like soup, finally add the cornstarch and 2 cloves of pressed garlic. Stir again heartily. There should be a certain viscosity, because now the bird is … Read more