Beef Curry with Okras

Dry the meat well. Peel and dice the onions. Blanch the tomatoes with boiling water, rinse, peel and roughly chop without the stalks. coarsely chop. Clean the chili, rinse and cut into sticks like the peeled ginger. Sauté goulash in oil until hearty. Add tomatoes, chili, onions, ginger, turmeric and paprika and fry briefly. Extinguish … Read more

Hot Chocolate with Rum

For the hot chocolate with rum grate the chocolate. Heat the milk in a saucepan, add a pinch of vanilla sugar and melt the chocolate in it. Whip the cream with a pinch of sugar until stiff. Pour the chocolate milk into heat-resistant glasses, add a spoonful of rum to each and place a whipped … Read more

Coconut Milk Pannacotta with Vanilla Ice Cream and Lychees

Soak gelatin in cold water. Slit the vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape out the pulp (use the pulp for decoration). Boil whipping cream with vanilla pulp in a high saucepan over medium heat to 250 ml. Stir in the coconut milk, orange zest and sugar and continue to cook at a low temperature for 5 minutes. … Read more

Fir Tree Sap Syrup

For the fir tree tips syrup in the spring, cut off the fresh, beautifully bright green tips of the fir branches.rinse with cold water and let dry well. Then in a large glass container (large rex jar) that can be tightly sealed, put a layer of fir tips. Put a layer of granulated sugar on … Read more

Warm Horseradish

For the warm horseradish melt butter, sweat flour in it until light. Heat milk and cream in a separate pot, add flour-butter mixture and stir in well (whisk). Let simmer for 5-6 minutes, if necessary strain. Stir in horseradish, salt, pepper and nutmeg and season to taste.

Bavarian Cabbage

away the thick leaf veins. Cut cabbage into small pieces. Peel and chop onions. Heat lard, then brown the onion cubes in it until light yellow. Remove peel from apples, core and grate. Add to the onions with the cabbage. Add sugar, salt and beef broth. Stew for 40 minutes until soft. Season with vinegar. … Read more

Provencal Eggplant Gratin

A bean recipe for every taste: Cut away the stalk of the melanzane, then slice the fruit lengthwise into 3-4 mm thick slices. Coat both sides with a tiny bit of olive oil (1) and place close together, perhaps overlapping slightly, on a baking sheet. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Meanwhile, bake the melanzane … Read more

Apple-Carrot Juice

First peel the apples, quarter them, remove the core and put them in the blender. Add lemon juice and orange juice and puree finely. Add carrot juice and blend everything vigorously again. Peel an apple and cut into thin slices. Pour the apple-carrot juice into glasses and garnish with the apple slices.

Donuts with Pistachios

For the donuts with pistachios, mix flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar, milk, eggs, oil and salt until smooth. Pour the batter into the donut maker and bake for about 3-4 minutes. Then brush the donuts with sugar glaze or lemon glaze and sprinkle with finely chopped pistachios.

Chicken Curry with Coriander Greens, Dhaniwali Murgh Korma

In Kashmir, the land of sheep and goats, chicken is eaten relatively rarely. This recipe was revealed to me by Abdul Ahad Waza, who is famous in Kashmir for his skill in hosting weddings and other festivities. Together with his four sons, he prepares dishes in his courtyard that he delivers to Kashmiri gourmets. In … Read more