Beef and lamb shawarma with tarator sauce is a dish that truly captures the essence of Middle Eastern flavors. This recipe combines the richness of beef and pronounced taste of lamb in harmony of spices and flavors. The crown of this dish is the Tarator sauce, creamy and tangy, perfectly complementing the spiced meat. As …
I don’t know if it has to do with the fact that I haven’t been drinking alcohol in the last couple of months, but this is my second beer recipe on my blog. And while beer soup is quite a peculiar dish, beef stewed in Guinness, with a sweet, malty aftertaste, is another matter entirely. …
Kabab Kооbideh is a popular Middle Eastern dish made from ground meat, usually beef or lamb, mixed with spices and shaped into oblong shapes. It is fried on broad skewers and served with rice, bread, or vegetables. In Persian cuisine, there is a variant of this dish in which ground chicken is used instead of …
This dish comes from China, but it is also often found in other Asian countries. So often, in fact, that it is almost never cooked at home. Pork shoulder is marinated in a sauce based on fermented tofu with the addition of soy sauce and hoisin sauce, garlic, honey, and a Chinese five-spice blend. Finding …
Paprikash is a Hungarian dish in which pieces of meat (and sometimes vegetables) are stewed in sour cream (sometimes cream) with lots of sweet paprika and onions. Wikipedia says, that paprikash made from light meat such as chicken, veal and lamb is considered classic (yes, young meat is also considered white or light meat), but …
Even though the dish is called Hawaiian chopped steak, we won’t use expensive steak cuts. It doesn’t make sense. Behind the sweetness, soy sauce, and other flavor components, you just won’t feel the difference between the steak and the cheaper parts of the carcass. Take a shoulder (chuck or blade) part or a sirloin. We …
Today we have Chop Suey, and no, that’s not a song of System of the Down.Chop Suey is an American-Chinese dish, consisting of meat, eggs, and vegetables. Translation means “Chinese ragu”. Despite the fact it’s already an American- Chinese dish, it has another, even more, American variation, it’s called American Chop Suey that is American …
Chicken breasts are the most problematic and difficult to prepare part of the chicken. You can easily dry them out and make tough and tasteless. The interesting thing is many people think that’s how it should be. The white meat, they say, that’s what it supposed to be like. No. Properly cooked chicken breasts should …
Burgers are not usually cooked with chicken, but it doesn’t mean it’s bad. Chicken fillet is lean meat and unlike beef burgers, you’ll get fewer calories. I’d like to touch the buns and cheese sauce in more detail. I use in this recipe home-made buns, you can find their recipe on the website. The same …
Today we have easy to prepare roast pork shoulder. Of course, the ideal and most authentic way to cook it – is on a grill outside. So, if you do have such a possibility (especially now, in the middle of the warm season, I guess, many of you should have one), and also if you …