Mar
2
2009
Turkish: Firinda Balik Pilaki
Pilaki is a style of Turkish meze [Wikipedia] and may refer to several dishes that are cooked in a sauce made out of onion, garlic, carrot, potato, tomato or tomato paste, sugar, and olive oil. Beans prepared in this style (fasulye pilaki, with white beans, or barbunya pilaki, with borlotti beans) are served cold, garnished with parsley and slices of lemon. Fish pilaki is also a popular recipe. In Greek cuisine, this style is known as plaki.
Ingredients for 4 persons:
3-4 tbsp olive oil
4-6 fish fillets
1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
3-4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1 potato, petite diced
2-3 tomatoes, diced
1/2 bunch parsley, chopped
juice of 1 lemon
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1 tsp sugarsalt&pepper
optional mushroom
celery root, petite diced
Directions:
- Heat olive oil. Add onion. Cook until soft.
- Add carrot. Cook for a couple of minutes. (if you are using mushroom, add now)
- Add potato. (if you are using celery root, add now). Cook until vegetables are soft.
- Add tomato, garlic, sugar, salt, and 5 dl of water. Cook until the cooking liquid is almost absorbed. Add half the parsley.
- Spread half of the vegetables on a oven dish. Place the fish on top.
- Cover with the rest of the vegetables.
- Season with black pepper. Pour lemon juice and place lemon slices on top.
- Cover and bake in a preheated oven at 180-190 C for 30 minutes or until the fish is tender.
- Sprinkle remaining parsley and serve
Enjoy!
A.
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Dec
16
2008
Gravlax is a Scandinavian dish consisting of raw salmon cured in salt, sugar and dill. Usually served thinly sliced as an appetizer. The word gravlax comes from the Scandinavian word grav, which means literally grave or hole in the ground (in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Estonian), and lax (or laks), which means salmon. During the Middle Ages, gravlax was made by fishermen, who salted the salmon and lightly fermented it by burying it in the sand above the high-tide line. [Wikipedia]
Last week we had a pack of gravlax, two boiled potatoes and some spring onions in need of being eaten. This is what I did:
Ingredients:
1 onion
½ leek (alt. 2 spring onions or one more onion)
2 boiled potatoes
150 g mushroom (champinjon)
1 avocado
200 g gravlax or smoked salmon
2 dl Turkish yogurt
Juice from a lemon
A bunch of rucola
½ dl olive oil
Salt
Ground pepper
Dill
Mint
Directions:
- Chop onion and leek small. Fry in olive oil on low heat until soft.
- Add chopped potatoes. (~2 cm)
- Let it cool down while chopping avocado, mushrooms and fish.
- Add chopped vegetables and lemon juice.
- Add yogurt, ground pepper, dill, mint, salt and mix gently.
- For best result, let this wait for some hours.
- Place rucola at the top of the rest before serving.
- Pour olive oil over and sprinkle some last drops of lemon juice and salt over it.
This recipe is for 3 persons.
Smaklig maltid! Bon appetit! Afiyet Olsun!
M
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