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  One pot: Aracena chicken with chickpeas

  Posted at 9:02 pm by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  Aug 4th

  I hope you all are having good weekend. My dad is still spending time with us and taking care of our little monkey. However, I have been already told that he will need holiday when is going to be back 😀 That little boy is apparently very tiring 😀 And as grandparents being grandparents, they have send to little Canito present which has arrived when my dad is here. It is a huge car – Tatra truck and he simply loves it!! Have you heard about Tatra trucks? The second oldest car factory in the world? Well, if not… the toy industries in Czech Republic are making those cars as toys for kids like my little one 🙂

  Well, and something about today’s dish. I prepared it already couple of weeks ago, when I was with our aupair at home alone and wanted to please her, so I have chosen Spanish dish. Apparently, very favourite chicken dish at Finca Buenvino in Andalucia in Spain.

  

  What do you need: 

  1 cup of Spanish rice (rice for paella)

  750 g chicken breasts 

  olive oil 

  1 onion

  4 garlic cloves

  1 red pepper 

  1 green pepper

  6 tomatoes

  1 tsp saffron

  chicken broth or vegetable stock

  200 g chickpeas

  fresh parsley 

  sea salt and pepper

  sweet paprika powder 

  

  

  Firstly, cut chicken breasts into smaller pieces and season them with sweet paprika powder. Heat olive oil in pan, add chicken pieces and cook until golden on all sides. Season with salt and black pepper. In the mean time, cut onion into slices, add into the pan together with crushed garlic. Cover the pan and cook approximately 5 – 6 minutes. Afterwards, add chopped peppers and continue with cooking. Meanwhile, chop tomatoes and add them into the pan, followed with rice, saffron, chickpeas and chicken broth or water  with vegetable stock (approximately 3 cups of both).  In the mean time, preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the pot with all ingredients in. Cook approximately 20 minutes or until done.

  And serve! 🙂 Enjoy this Spanish dish topped with fresh parsley and possibly with vegetable salad!

  

  Have a nice weekend!

  Vero & little Canito

   

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  Posted in ALL, MEAT / FISH, RICE DISHES | Tagged #chicken, #rice, #Spanishfood
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  5 ingredients: Steamed salmon with roasted basil tomatoes

  Posted at 3:08 pm by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  Jul 31st

  Tuesday. For me very busy day, however positively busy as I am truly loving my job. And catching up with posts as well. I guess, this dish, I prepared when my husband’s family left back to Mexico. So it means already few weeks ago. I remember that it was on of the days when I went to gym after work and wanted to prepare something quick and delicious. And here we are 🙂 Steamed salmon.

  

  What do you need: 

  750 g salmon (or amount of pieces depending on how many people eat) 

  250 g cherry tomatoes

  200 g spicy Spanish chorizo 

  1 cup of rice

  handful of fresh basil 

  vegetable oil, salt and pepper 

  

  

  As it is very quick, however delicious dish, you do not need that many things – 5 main ingredients for preparation. Personally, I love steamed fish or vegetables, therefore I have chosen to prepare salmon in steam cooker. If you have steam cooker, put your salmon pieces in there and set it up for 15 – 20 minutes. In the mean time, take a pot for rice preparation. Add one cup of rice into the pot, together with a few finely chopped basil leaves and teaspoon of oil. Heat it up, mix everything together and add two cups of water and cook until rice is soft. Afterwards, cut chorizo into slices and tomatoes in halves. Take another pan, add oil, chorizo and tomatoes and fry it approximately 7 minutes. At the end add fresh basil leaves. Wait until is rice and salmon done and you can serve!

  

  Enjoy this light, but delicious dish!

  Vero & little Canito

   

  Posted in ALL, AND WHAT NOW...?, MEAT / FISH, RICE DISHES | Tagged #5ingredients, #quickdinner, #rice, #salmon, #tomatoes
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  Last week cooking and leftovers

  Posted at 3:04 pm by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  Jul 3rd

  It has been a while since I have posted really something from our kitchen and it is already July. New month has started and with new month, our Mexican family has left back to Mexico. We are back to normal and alone… which brings lot of mixed emotions. However, their leaving was very sad and to be honest, we already miss them. And the fact that we are not going to see each other any time soon. Probably next year… which sounds even worst when I see it now.

  While was our family with us, I did not cook that much, to be honest. Most of the time, we enjoyed proper Mexican cooking and I did just bits afterwards. So, I am going to share with you my bits – creamy pork liver with rice, and then beef with buk choy and rice (very nice meal at the end as I cook from leftovers).

  Pork livers with rice

  

  What do you need: 

  1 kg pork livers

  1 onion

  2 garlic cloves

  vegetable broth

  2 cups of rice

  250 ml lactose free cream

  salt and pepper 

  vegetable oil

  

  

  Firstly, finely chop onion and add it into the pan together with vegetable oil. Heat it up and cook until slightly golden. In the mean time, cut pork livers into small pieces. When is onion slightly golden, add livers into the pan as well. Fry it until nicely brown. In the mean time, take other pot for rice preparation. Add it into the pan together with crushed garlic cloves and 3 – 4 cups of vegetable broth. Cook until done – soft and tender. Afterwards, get back to the pan with livers. Add a half of a cup of vegetable broth into the pan, season it with salt and pepper and let is simmer for couple of minutes. When are livers soft, add cream into the pan and let it simmer for approximately 10 – 15 minutes. At the end… you can serve when everything is ready, season it according to your taste if needed more. You can enjoy this nice dish with tomatoes, avocados, pickles or sprinkled with parsley 🙂

  

  Beef with buk choy and rice

  This dish was just mix of everything. We have done lot of BBQ while having Mexican around. However, as well many leftovers as the house is full. So, I have made rice dish with meet mixed with vegetables which I found in my fridge.

  

  What do you need: 

  2 pieces of beef – I used pieces of meat which were done during BBQ

  2 – 3 buk choy 

  bigger piece of Spanish chorizo

  handful of mushrooms 

  rice – which I had from previous days when having livers

  250 g radish

  Feta cheese

  salt and pepper

  1 tbsp of Soy sauce

  vegetable oil 

  

  Once you have your leftovers ready and fridge cleaned, you can take a big pan and add vegetable oil. Cut beef into slices and them into the pan. In the mean time, cut mushrooms and chorizo into smaller pieces and add them to the meat. Fry everything for couple of minutes (until are mushrooms done). Add Soy sauce into the pan and cook everything for 10 – 15 minutes (as the meat is ready. If you have fresh meat, cook until it is done). Wash buk choy in the mean time (I am big fan of this vegetable), slice it and add into the pan and fry it additional 10 minutes. Then you can just season it according to your taste and warm up rice from previous day. With this dish I have gotten rid of many leftovers in my fridge and had a delicious dinner. You can serve it with freshly cut radish sprinkled with Feta cheese.

  

  Enjoy your day!

  Vero & little Canito

  Posted in ALL, MEAT / FISH, PASTA DISHES, RICE DISHES | Tagged #leftovers, #meat, #pasta, #rice, #vegetables
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  Fish tikka curry

  Posted at 3:35 pm by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  May 29th

  One of the dishes prepared during the weekend was fish tikka curry. I have been thinking about curry couple of days, however not that keen to prepare as our aupair does not like it 🙂 But guess what 😀 I was a bit cheeky and did not tell her that I am making curry as I called it differently, so she would at least try it. And she did 😀 And served herself twice 😀 It seems that she even does not know she likes curry and I will tell her once she will be leaving us ❤

  

  What do you need: 

  4 pieces of frozen fish (I used cod) 

  2 tsp tikka curry paste

  1 onion

  3 garlic cloves

  olive oil 

  6 small potatoes

  300 g cauliflower

  1 can of chickpea

  1 cup of red lentils 

  1 1/2 cup basmati rice

  125 ml lactose free cream 

  

  

  Firstly, peel and finely chop onion and crush garlic cloves into the big pan. Add oil, tikka curry paste and heat it up. In the mean time, cut potatoes into smaller pieces (you do not need to peel them if you wish) and stir them into the pan. Cook everything together for approximately 15 minutes or until are potato pieces soft. Afterwards, add pieces of cauliflower, chickpeas and lentils, add 2 cups of boiling water and let it cook approximately 40 minutes. When are lentils cooked, add lactose free cream and until is sauce thicker. While is curry getting ready, prepare your rice in other pan. When everything ready, serve and enjoy! ❤

  

  Vero & little Canito

   

  Posted in ALL, MEAT / FISH, RICE DISHES | Tagged #curry, #fish, #rice, #weekend
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  Rice salad with asparagus and Niva cheese

  Posted at 11:20 am by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  May 22nd

  Salads for dinner. I love it and my husband as well. However, our aupair is not that big fan of vegetables and salads 😀 So unfortunately, I kind of stopped preparing salads for a while. But.. I am back as my husband really miss it. So… this time,quickly after my gym, I prepared very simple rice salad.

  

  What do you need: 

  1 cup rice

  couple of pieces of ham and salami (whichever you like or chorizo)

  1 carrot

  1 can of sweet corn

  200 g green beans

  300 g broccoli

  350 g asparagus

  handful of mushrooms

  3 eggs

  1 vegetable stock

  pepper or chilli powder 

  Niva cheese or any type of Blue cheese

  vegetable oil

  additionally: tomato, avocado, tortilla 

  

  

  Firstly, peel and chop all vegetables which are you going to use and together with that cut ham and salami as well.  Once ready, steam broccoli and asparagus in steam cooker  (approximately 15 minutes) or separately in stove. In the mean time, take a big pan, add oil and ham with salami. Fry it for couple of minutes. Afterwards, add the rest of vegetables and fry them until soft. Add cup of rice, stir it properly and add 2 cups of water together with vegetable stock. Let it cook until is rice soft. Season it with salt (if needed), pepper or chilli powder. To finalize, add 3 eggs and stir them into the rice and wait until properly cook. And you can serve everything together and additionally, you can top your rice salad with Niva cheese (which is Czech type of Blue cheese), avocado and tomato aside.

  

  Enjoy!

  Vero and little Canito

  Posted in ALL, RICE DISHES, SALADS | Tagged #greens, #niva, #rice, #salad, #vegetables
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  One pot chicken rice casserole

  Posted at 11:44 am by Vero and Canito in the kitchen

  May 2nd

  One pot dish again. I am simply huge fan of it. Easy, quick and possible to feed lot of hungry stomachs 🙂 This time, I have chosen really something simple… chicken rice casserole with baby spinach leaves and mushrooms which was done in 30 minutes.

  

  What do you need:

  4 chicken breasts

  250 g mushrooms (according to your taste)

  1 cup rice 

  1 small onion

  4 garlic cloves

  350 g baby spinach 

  vegetable broth or vegetable stock

  1 cup lactose free cream

  1 cup cheese (whichever you prefer, I have gone with Mozzarella)

  oil

  salt and pepper

  sweet paprika powder

  

  Firstly, prepare everything and cut meat into smaller pieces. Afterwards, season them with sweet paprika powder, salt and pepper. If you fancy, add something spicy (chilli powder or salsa) :-). Chop mushrooms into smaller pieces together with onion. When ready, take a big pot and fry mushroom with onion together until golden and add crushed garlic cloves. Add baby spinach leaves and rice, stir it until is rice glassy. At the end, put chicken pieces, pour vegetable broth (or water with vegetable stock) and lactose free cream. Do not forget to stir in the cheese. When ready, put the pot into the preheat oven (180 – 200 degrees) and leave it there until done. And then… serve and enjoy quick and delicious dinner. You can serve with tomatoes, any type of salad or avocado aside 🙂

  Vero & little Canito

   

  Posted in ALL, MEAT / FISH, RICE DISHES | Tagged #meat, #onepot, #rice, #vegetables

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