FOOD TIME
SUMMER RECIPES
During the summer I am not so into warm soups or stoves. Food during
warm summer days should preferably come from the grill and should be easy
to digest. So what is better, if you want something tasty but at
the same time “light” and “cooling”, than trying
out some Asian summer food. I love Asian food but my severe handicap is that
I rarely
make it myself. Therefore I had to go and find great recipes
for Asian “chill” dishes online. Here is what I found:
There is Satay and then there is Thai chicken satay. The
recipe for this delicious meal can be read in full at www.thaifood.about.com.
Chicken Satay also makes great party food.
Vietnamese Fresh
Spring Rolls are perfect if you don’t feel like eating
something fried or grilled and a great vegetarian option. The important
thing is to have a tasty dipping for example Hoisin Peanut dipping. The
sauce becomes a kind of “must have” to the spring rolls and
the dish is highly addictive.
How to make Vietnamese Spring Rolls: www.cooking.com and how to make dipping sauce: http://rasamalaysia.com/
vietnamese-spring-rolls-goi-cuon-with/.
Since we are in Asia, we can’t forget China. It is not so seldom that
I eat Chinese food and once in Lyon I ate a fresh and very tasty Chinese
Chicken Salad: www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1739,149176-224196,00.html,
and here they reveal that the secret to this tasty salad is all about the
chicken and the lettuce. You simply have to cook the chicken with a little
teriyaki sauce „ it adds a little zing to the salad“...and
the lettuce should not be thorn but cut into strips.
For some, no matter what season we are in, there must be served Indian
food.
Indian food is often not so easy to make, but there do exist cool, refreshing
Indian food, that is easy to make and healthy too. A Chickpea chaat is really
easy to make and a dish you can put together in minutes. So why not try to
make
chickpea and potato chaat? Here is how you do it: http://food.ivillage.com/ethnic/indian/0,,9k04pjm4-2,00.html.
Let’s
take a trip to Japan for a moment. No, I‘m
not going to recommend sushi ( I love it though) but rather Cold Somen
Noodles. Somen are thin Japanese wheat noodles, which is boiled, cooled
and served
with a dipping soup and many toppings. This is supposedly not too difficult
to make and one of the most popular summer dishes in Japan. So let’s
try: http://japanesefood.about.com/od/
recipeindex/tp/
japanesesummerrecipes.htm
This summer I will try to
eat as much as I can of my favorite Asian summer dishes, but I may be tempted
to throw a Cervelat on the grill too.
Have a great
vacation!
These are my recommendations and as always, it would be great if you
could share your favorite summer recipe with us. - Anne
Try this taste of summer
Lemon grass and lychee Martini
*
50ml
(2fl oz) vodka
*1 tbsp lemon grass sugar syrup
*2 tsp lychee juice (from canned lychees)
*2 tsp pomegranate juice
*Sparkling water
*Pomegranate seeds
To garnish:
*cocktail stick
*slice of lime
*lychees
How to:
1. To make the sugar syrup, mix together the sugar, water, lemon grass pieces
and juniper berries in a small saucepan.
2. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes,
or until the sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Strain the syrup into a plastic container and refrigerate until ready to use.
The syrup can be kept in the refrigerator for up to one week.
4. To make the martini, fill a cocktail shaker with 1 tbs crushed ice. Add the
vodka, lemon grass sugar syrup, lychee juice and pomegranate juice, shake until
well mixed and chilled. Strain into a martini glass, top up with sparkling water
as desired and add a few pomegranate seeds. Slowly pour the pomegranate juice
over the back of a spoon so that the juice settles at the bottom of the glass.
5. Serve immediately, garnished with a lychee and lime slice threaded onto a
cocktail stick.
ENJOY!
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