Session# 2 Recipes


Potato Soup

Ingredients
4 large potatoes
1 large onion
6 cups chicken broth
½ stick butter
Salt, black pepper
Lettuce leaves

Sauté onions with butter add cubed potatoes and continue to sauté. Add water and lower the heat when it boils. Cook until the potatoes simmer. Add salt and black pepper. Liquefy with blender and serve with finely chopped lettuce.



Manisa Kebap

Ingredients
2 lbs beef cubes
1 onion
2 potatoes
5 mushrooms
Oil, salt, black pepper
10 uncooked tortillas
1 medium tomato
Mozzarella cheese slices
2 banana peppers

Sauté beef cubes in oil. Add cubed onions first and then mushrooms and continue to sauté. Add the spices and water, cook until the beef and the mushrooms are tender. In a separate pot, fry cubed potatoes and add into the beef.
Cook both sides of the tortillas on a non-stick pan and lay one tortilla into a small bowl. Add the cooked beef in the middle of the tortilla and fold two sides of the tortilla onto the beef and followed by the other two sides. Stuff all the tortillas with the beef. Spray oil onto an oven tray and place all the stuffed tortillas on it. Put a slice of mozzarella cheese, a tomato ring and a slice of banana pepper onto each tortilla and bake at 375ºF.




Moist Cookies
Ingredients
2 eggs
2 stick margarine or butter at room temperature
3 tbsp cacao
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
3 cups+2 tbsp of all purpose flour

For the syrup
-2 cup sugar
-2 cup water

For the top
-Shredded coconut

Mix flour, baking powder, and vanilla and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine all other ingredients and make dough with the consistency of an earlobe. Grab egg size dough and roll it like a ball and place them in a tray. Bake the cookies at 350 degree oven approx. 30-35 minutes. In a bowl, mix 2 cup sugar and 2 cup water and let the sugar melt by stirring. After taking cookies out from the oven, let them sit for about 2 minutes. Apportion the syrup over the cookies with the help of a table spoon. (Each cookie should take about 3 tbsp syrup.)When the cookies absorb all the syrup, sprinkle some coconut over them.

Sources:
1. www.kulkedisimutfaktaa.blogspot.com
2. http://istanbulturkishcookingclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/moist-cacao-cookie.html
3. http://www.kayotic.nl/blog/?p=2883&lang=tr
4. http://www.mutfaksirlari.com/manisa-kebabi-bohca-kebabi.html