Session # 6 Recipes

Turkish Cooking Class March 20th Menu

FRIED RAVIOLI

Ingredients:

1 package dinner rolls (36 rolls)

½ lb ground beef

1 small onion

Black pepper, salt

Oil for frying

Sauce:

1 clove of garlic

1 cup yoghurt

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp tomato paste

Leave dinner rolls at room temperature for 3 hours.

Grate onion, mix with ground beef, add salt and pepper, and knead the mixture thoroughly. Divide dinner rolls into two, make a little hole in the middle of the dough pieces, then put half teaspoon of beef filling inside, and close it up. Fry the filled doughs in oil. In a separate bowl, mash the garlic and mix with the yoghurt. In a small pot, melt the butter, and mix with tomato paste, add little water and boil for few seconds. Place fried raviolis on a service plate, pour some yoghurt on top, and sprinkle tomato sauce on the yoghurt.

GREEN LENTIL SOUP WITH NOODLES

Ingredients:

1 cup green lentil

3 tbsp butter

1 onion

1 tbsp tomato paste

½ cup noodles

2 tsp dried mint

2 tsp salt

Wash and drain green lentil, boil in salty water few minutes. Drain the lentil. Saute cubed onions in butter and add tomato paste. Add boiled and drained lentil to fried onion. Add hot water and boil on medium heat. Add noodles, salt and dried mint, boil for 5-6 minutes. If the soup gets very thick, add more hot water.

PURPLE SALAD

Ingredients:

1 red cabbage

Mayonnaise

Garlic

Yoghurt

Knead thinly sliced red cabbage with salt. Drain extra water. Mash the garlic in a separate bowl and mix with yoghurt and mayonnaise. Mix yoghurt sauce with sliced cabbage.

RICE PUDDING

Ingredients:

4 cups milk

1 cup sugar

½ cup white rice

1 tbsp starch

1 tbsp rice flour

A pinch of salt

Boil washed and drained rice in 1,5 cup of water. Rice should get very soft. Add milk, sugar and a pinch of salt and continue to boil. In a separate bowl suspend rice flour and starch in cold water and mix with little bit of boiling milk. Add starch mix slowly into boiling milk while stirring. Boil 10 more minutes and pour into heat resistant bowls. Pour some water on a tray and place bowls with rice pudding on the tray. Broil rice pudding and serve after refrigerating.