Aromatic Pickled Caper

We meet the plants of Caper to grow freely in nature. It is a magical plant that grows in places full of sunshine and hot to very hot summers and in very poor soils almost without water. But it insists on being and giving its little flowers -her immature buds- to become the Golden Apple of Discord among humans, birds and ants.
In order to make pickles, we collect, with respect to the plant, its flowers when they are small before they are blooming, its tender leaves and its fruits, and those small, tender, crisp, which are created after the flower is fertilized & inside there are the seeds of the plant.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

very easy:

Sweet & Spicy Apple Chutney

Chutney or Chatni is a sauce/spicy jam from Kitchens of India, which can vary… One offshoot has rooted in Anglo-Indian cuisine to gain even as many variations and adapt to another flavor culture.
It is usually with vegetables and fruits, such as onion, garlic, rhubarb, apples, peaches, orange, plum, etc. with which one can make a milder pickle. Add vinegar or apple cider vinegar in recipes of Chutney English style, aimed traditionally give long life, so as to maintain for use throughout the year. Brown or dark sugar (usually Demerara to replace the jaggery in some Indian sweet chutney) and spices, which are usually used, fenugreek, coriander, cumin, cinnamon.
The whole produces a sweet and spicy pickle, with sweet and fruity flavors, with a strong presence of ginger, but a softer product, which in Western Kitchen is built to accompany savory dishes. Usually eaten with Cheddar cheeses or cured meats and poultry, usually in cold meals a pub.
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εργασία: 15′

χρόνος: 30′

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Savory Torte

Green and red colors, are festive, for Christmas and Official Days on this cake, Savory Salad Cake without cooking. The delicious and popular ingredients make it impressive, but hearty and very tasty. Bread, cheese, ham, pickled peppers, cream cheese and others are the ingredients that compose it.
For gourmet selections in crowded festive dinner parties, together with a sparkling wine and a simple white sec demi wine is the best company that we can enjoy.
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Keep cooking and enjoy it!

work: 45′

time: 1h:00′

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Octopus Carpaccio

The term Carpaccio refers to an Italian dish, which includes almost transparent thin slices of raw or poorly cooked beef or fish. Consumed seasoned with olive oil, lemon, parmesan flakes, spices and sometimes with white truffle (mushroom).
Also the term Carpaccio is often used to include recipes cooked. This is the case, for example, of Octopus Carpaccio. The recipe involves cooking the octopus before the Carpaccio process of production/cut.
I suggest you try to build and serve a dish of octopus meze, tasty and with interesting visual effect. With our classic snack with octopus in vinegar it will not leave many untouched. A delicious snack …
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The recipe

Octopus Carpaccio

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

wokr: 45′

time: 12h:45′

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Olives in Vinegar

The most delicious olives that we have ever tasted. The reason is very simple, it is the homemade olives we have built ourselves, with our hands, very easily.
With simple procedures starting from the selection of olives -best if we have our own- even after the scribe, we add the oil, vinegar, herbs and orange slices. Do not miss, giving them the ethereal aroma. In a few days they are ready to enjoy.
This is all, a little bit to domestic self-sufficiency!

work: 1h:00′

time: 10 ημέρες

very easy:

Watermelon Rind Pickles

Peel sweet watermelon in spicy pickle!
It's very simple to do, using the peel of watermelon, which we throw.
Is very special sweet and spicy at the same time because of the spices with a little bite of chili pepper in the aftertaste.
If you are interested in new dimensions in taste, dare to try even a small amount, just to test!

work: 40′

time: 3 days

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