Fried Chicken Batter

INGREDIENTS

  • Deep Frying Oil
  • Wet:
    • 75g flour
    • 50g potato starch
    • 100g buttermilk
    • 30g egg white
    • 25g vodka
    • 120g beer/seltzer
    • 1 teaspoons salt
    • 1 teaspoon Garlic
    • 1/2 teaspoon Paprika
    • 1 teaspoon Chili
    • 1 teaspoon Black Pepper
  • Dry:
    • 6:1 white flour/rice flour
    • Or Tapioca flour

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Dry, Wet, and then put dry again
  2. Fry on a low temperature, then on a high temporary for a short period of time (drives out moisture)

Tater Totes – Pommes Dauphine

INGREDIENTS:

  • 900 g Mashed Potatoes, Peeled, Boiled, Riced While Hot
  • 275 g Pâte à Choux
  • 100 g Butter
  • 4 Egg Yolks
  • 480 ml Water
  • 100 g Unsalted Butter
  • 8 g Salt
  • 3 g Sugar
  • 280 g Flour
  • 200 g Eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Boil water, butter, sugar, and salt until the butter melts
  2. Remove from heat and stir in flour until it forms a cohesive paste
  3. Return to heat briefly to dry the mixture out until it releases from the pan
  4. Transfer to a bowl and beat in the eggs gradually. Add enough eggs until a smooth V forms when you drop it off a maryse
  5. Boil potatoes until tender, while warm rice or sieve the cooked potatoes until smooth
  6. Mix in butter and egg yolks
  7. Fold the choux into the mashed potatoes gently until fully incorporated
  8. Pipe or spoon the mixture into walnut sized quenelles or balls on a tray using wet hands or a piping bag

Heat oil to 160°C

Cake

Sponge

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 eggs
  • 90g powdered Sugar
  • 90g flour
  • 25g vegetable oil
  • 25g milk
  • vanilla
  • Flavor of some kind

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Separate eggs
  2. whip egg whites until they are bubbly and frothy (5 minutes on MEDIUM power)
  3. sift in 1/2 sugar + Whip until blended
  4. sift in 1/2 sugar + Whip until blended
  5. You cannot overwhip, continue whipping until it is stiff and hard like mountain tops
  6. Preheat oven to 170C
  7. add eggs and whip until merged
  8. [NO more whipping]
  9. add milk + fold in
  10. Sift in flour continuously until all folded in
  11. Cook in a 9×9 pan for 22 minutes

Butter Cream Frosting

(Also try Swiss buttercream in the future)

INGREDIENTS

  • 178g Butter
  • 1 cups of powdered sugar
  • egg yolk?
  • 1 tsp of favor
  • Many many drops of food coloring
  • 1 tbsp of milk

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Whip the butter
  • add one cup of sugar at a time
  • When done at the flavoring and coloring
  • Add more coloring
  • Add some milk
  • The frosting should be smooth and fall of the spoon/knife it should not be too rigid. USE THE MILK.

Pistachio Gipfeli

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 80g granulated sugar
  • 22g cornstarch
  • 50 grams blanched pistachios
  • 250 heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup cold milk (for blending pistachios
  • vanilla or something

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Sanitize the eggs
  2. Blend pistachios with milk
  3. Whisk egg with sugar until foamy
  4. Heat the heavy cream in a pan (leave some out)
  5. Add the corn starch to cream via cold injection (take some milk heavy cream mix with starch, add back in)
  6. Mix in the pistachios
  7. Turn down the heat and add in the eggs, do not boil, do not cook, just heat
  8. Add in the vanilla

[Original Source: https://www.cucinabyelena.com/best-italian-pistachio-cream/]

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Hummus

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INGREDIENTS

  • 150g chickpeas
  • 6 jalapenos
  • Tahini paste
  • good greek oil / sesame oil
  • Cumin
  • Corriander
  • White pepper
  • black pepper
  • cayanne pepper
  • Smoked paprika
  • salt
  • Parsley

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Simmer Chickpeas for 40 minutes
  • Drain 50% of the water
  • Cool just a little bit
  • Add Garlic, Tahini, Jalapenos, and spices to processor
  • Add the chickpeas on top, process
  • Sprinkle parsley on top.

Indian Black Bean Curry

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INGREDIENTS

  • 4 large onion, finely chopped
  • 6 large garlic cloves, crushed
  • 5 medium tomatoes (350 grams), seeded and finely chopped
  • 2 sweet potatos
  • 1 Corn
  • Ghee
  • 2 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 4 teaspoon coriander seeds
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
  • ½ teaspoon garam masala
  • ½ teaspoon turmeric
  • 600g canned black beans
  • Salt to taste
  • 500g coconut cream
  • 1.5 teaspoons methi leaves
  • 20 curry leaves
  • Parsley
  • 1 Greek Yohurt (Naan)

Original Source: https://www.thefieryvegetarian.com/black-bean-curry/

Black Bean Dip

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Ingredients

  • 3 onions
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1½ teaspoons ground garlic
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 2 teaspoons ground coriander
  • 2 teaspoons ground cumin
  • 1½ teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 2 teaspoons oregano
  • ½ teaspoon black or white ground pepper
  • 2⅔ cups of canned black beans (6-8 cups cooked)

Instructions

  1. Dice and fry onions
  2. Add seasoning and fry for another 2 minutes
  3. Add beans and water
  4. Boil and then simmer for 15 minutes
  5. Remove the Bay leaves!
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Caramel Cookies

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Makes 24 Cookies

INGREDIENTS

  • Cookies
    • 2/3 cup brown sugar (do not reduce the sugar under any circumstances)
    • 175g butter (> 1 stick, 113g = 1 stick) Softened (room temperature)
    • 1 egg
    • 2 cup flour
    • 2 cup of nuts or chocolate chips (200g)

(Note for Ro: 2ggs, 2.25 flour 150g buffer, 1/2 cup sugar)

  • Caramel
    • 100g Condensed Milk
    • 50g Brown Sugar
    • 25g Butter
    • 10g golden syrup or light corn syrup
    • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

Caramel

  1. Mix everything except the vanilla extract in a pan in low medium heat until melted together
  2. Chill caramel for 2 hours until completely set
  3. Then cut into pieces

Cookies

  1. sugar and butter, then egg, then flour
  2. Do the flour all at once and do not mix fast
  3. Make balls with caramel in the middle, flatten
  4. Put in Freezer for at least 4 hours
  5. Flatten even more
  6. Cook at 163C (325F) for 16min until they brown on top