Keep Reading

Art by Rei Kato

Paletas de Tamarindo

Aku: It's alright, just imagine the samurai in his underwear!

Jack:*in his underwear*

Aku: OH NO HES HOT

Tibetan Vegetable Momos 🧡 

💚 Please Follow Our Page to have such a mouth-watering 🍅 Recipes on Daily Basis

(Yield: 32 momos) 

INGREDIENTS

DOUGH

2 cups all purpose flour, more as needed

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp oil

3/4 cup water

FILLING

2 cups (180g) shredded green cabbage

3/4 cup (70g) shredded carrot

1/2 cup (45g) thinly sliced scallions, white and green parts

2 tsp salt, more to taste

1 tbsp minced ginger

3-4 cloves garlic, minced

1/4 cup minced cilantro

4 oz extra firm tofu, crumbled

1 tsp ground black pepper

2 tsp oil

INSTRUCTIONS

Make the dumpling dough: In a mixing bowl whisk together the flour and salt. Add the water and oil and mix the dough until it comes together. Turn out onto a floured counter and knead the dough, adding more flour as necessary, until you have a smooth and barely tacky dough. Put the dough back in the mixing bowl and cover with a damp towel. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes while you prepare the filling.

Add the shredded cabbage, shredded carrot, and sliced scallions in a large mixing bowl. Add the salt and toss to combine. Let the mixture sit for 5-10 minutes, then squeeze out extra water from the cabbage. You can do it easily in a thin tea towel, nut milk bag, muslin or layered cheese cloth.

Dump out the water and add the vegetables back into the mixing bowl. Toss with the ginger, garlic, cilantro tofu, black pepper, and oil. Taste and add salt if needed.

When the dough has rested for a half an hour, divide it in half. Leave one half under the damp towel, and roll the second half out on a lightly floured counter until it is very thin, basically as thin as you can roll it. Lift the dough and rotate, flip and dust with more flour as you roll to keep it from sticking

Did you know you can get 100+ recipes just like this easy Sheet Pan Meal by 💚 Simply Click the ✨ for all of our mouth-watering ebooks ~ only $15! Limited time offer😍

vegan tonkotsu ramen

FILIPINO RICE CAKES

*gluten free, vegan, no oven, quick, soft and fluffy*

These rice cakes are called Puto and are very popular everyday breakfast cakes in Asia. They take 5 minutes to mix the batter and 10 minutes to steam them.

2/3 cup (100 g) rice flour (non glutinous)

3,5 (100 ml) oz coconut milk

2 tbsp oil

2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)

Heat a pot with water for steaming.

Mix flour, milk, sugar and baking powder. Add oil. If you want yellow puto, add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, if you want brown puto, add 1,5 tbsp cocoa powder and 1 more tbsp of sugar. If you use brown sugar, the cakes will be slightly "tanned". You can divide the batter and make some white, some yellow cakes. If you use coconut oil, they will smell like coconut even more.

Be very careful with hot steam. Place a steaming rack in a pot with boiling water, put cupcakes mold on the rack, pour the batter into each mold a little lower than the brim. Cover with lid and steam for 10 minutes. If the water boils intensively in the pot, the cakes will rise and open up like a flower, as in the first picture. If the water boils not intensively, they will rise a little like in the last picture.

The steam may condense under the lid and drop down. If you don't like it, wrap the lid in a cotton kitchen towel.

EASY TURKISH BAKLAVA

ingredients:

1 package phyllo dough (mine has 25 sheets), thawed

¾ cup unsalted butter, melted (at room temperature not hot)

2 cups walnuts, chopped

2 tablespoons ground pistachio, for garnish

Syrup:

2 and ½ cup sugar

2 cups water

1 slice of lemon

INSTRUCTIONS

Thaw the phyllo dough overnight in the fridge and then let it sit on the counter for about half an hour. Put it aside.

Prepare the syrup. Put the syrup ingredients in a pot. Heat until it boils. Let it simmer over medium low heat for 15 minutes and cool completely.

Trim the phyllo sheets to fit your baking pan. I used 25 sheets in this recipe and trim them all together. Cover them with a damp cloth so that the sheets won’t dry out when you are working. Each time you place a phyllo sheet into the pan, make sure you cover the rest. They can easily dry out otherwise.

Preheat the oven to 390F.

Butter the bottom and the sides of a 9×13 baking pan.

Place one phyllo sheet in the pan and brush it with melted butter. Place the second phyllo over it and butter it too. Repeat this until you have 5 sheets in total.

Spread ½ cup walnuts over the 5th sheet evenly.

Repeat this until you have 4 layers of walnuts. Top the 4th layer of walnuts with 5 phyllo sheets, buttering each. Make sure you butter the top as well.

Using a sharp knife, cut the raw baklava into vertical strips and then cut diagonally. Make sure you cut it all the way to the bottom of the pan. Bake it at 390F for 30 minutes or until tops are golden.

Remove it from oven and using a ladle, pour cooled syrup over hot baklava. Let it sit uncovered for 4-5 hours so that the syrup spreads well into the layers.

Garnish with ground pistachio and serve.

What is in Baklava filling

Although Turkish baklava is well known with its pistachio filling, it’s definitely not limited to it. Maybe because pistachio is not a very cheap product around the country, homemade baklava is mostly made with walnuts. Plus, every region has its own filling. For example, because pistachio nuts are grown in the south east of Turkey, pistachio baklava is famous there whereas in central Anatolia, the filling is crumbled walnuts. In the west region of the country, it is possible to see baklava with almond filling and in the north, the filling is hazelnuts.

Here in this recipe, walnuts are used in the filling and ground pistachio as garnish on the top.

If you are not making phyllo sheets from scratch, it is really so easy to make baklava using packaged phyllo.

First, make the syrup with water, sugar and a slice of lemon. Let it cool until you prepare and bake your baklava.

Second, trim the phyllo sheets to fit your baking pan.

Third, place the phyllo sheets in the pan, brushing each with melted butter. Sprinkle walnuts after every 5 phyllo sheets. You don’t need to butter the phyllo on which you spread walnuts.

The order is as follows:

4 buttered phyllo sheets, 1 phyllo sheet with no butter, ½ cup walnuts (makes 5 phyllo sheets, 1 layer walnuts)

4 buttered phyllo sheets, 1 phyllo sheet with no butter, ½ cup walnuts (makes 5 phyllo sheets, 1 layer walnuts)

4 buttered phyllo sheets, 1 phyllo sheet with no butter, ½ cup walnuts (makes 5 phyllo sheets, 1 layer walnuts)

4 buttered phyllo sheets, 1 phyllo sheet with no butter, ½ cup walnuts (makes 5 phyllo sheets, 1 layer walnuts)

5 buttered phyllo sheets. Butter the top.

In total, we have 25 phyllo sheets with 4 layers of walnuts.

Fourth, brush the top with melted butter, cut it and bake until golden.

Finally, pour cooled syrup over hot baklava and let it sit until it absorbs the syrup, at least 4-5 hours.

How to cut Baklava

Traditionally baklava is cut in diamond shapes. It might be a big deal if you have never tried it before, but it is not as hard as you think. First, cut the raw baklava into vertical strips. Use a sharp knife for this and cut it all the way to the bottom of the pan so that the syrup spreads evenly. Then cut it diagonally to make that diamond shape.

Alternatively, you can just cut it into squares or rectangles.

Turkish Baklava syrup

The ingredients for syrup are 

water, sugar and a slice of lemon. Combine these in a pot. The ratio here is 2 and ½ cups sugar to 2 cups water. You can just put the lemon slice into the sugar and water combination and heat until it boils. Let it simmer over medium low heat for 15 minutes and cool completely. Lemon gives the consistency needed for the syrup. The best syrup is neither too thick nor too thin.

There is no additional flavourings in Turkish baklava syrup, but there are recipes with rosewater or orange blossom water. So if you want to enrich the syrup, go ahead and use them.

How long does Baklava last?

Keep it covered in a container at room temperature for 1-2 weeks. Don’t store it in the refrigerator, its texture might change as sugar crystalizes and the dessert will lose its moistness.

Can I freeze it?

Yes, you can freeze it. Bake it, pour the syrup over it and let it cool completely before placing it in the freezer. Keep it in small batches in freezer bags so that you don’t have to thaw all of them at once. Bring it out of the freezer in the refrigerator one day before you serve.

What to serve with it

We either serve it with Turkish Tea or Turkish coffee, preferably with no sugar added as the dessert itself is already sweet enough.

NOTES

The butter should be melted and at room temperature, not hot. And don’t try to cover the surface of each phyllo sheet with butter. Just gently brushing it with butter will be enough.

You can adjust the amount of the syrup you pour over baklava. You don’t have to use all the syrup for a less sweet baklava.

Don’t forget to cover the phyllo sheets with damp cloth when buttering one phyllo sheet in the pan. Otherwise, they dry out and tear.

https://www.giverecipe.com/easy-turkish-baklava-recipe

Thank you😊❤️❤️❤️❤️

After quite a long while of not drawing digitally, it feels good to hold my stylus. I really get into drawing funks.. Today’s sketches are a bit darker, the second one spawned from a mixture of Ferra / Torr, and the new Jason DLC for Mortal Kombat X.  I need to work on coloring >_> and everything, but learning to color better would help my arts a LOT.  woooooo i’ll finish these sketches later.. :P

Soft Tacos sound pretty good right now.