Kimbap Sushi or 김밥

 Here I am posting a recipe for kimbap (the Korean name is 김밥), is a traditional Korean style sushi roll, and also is the most popular recipe in Korea. The kimbap combine a variety of vegetables, meat, rice and seaweed. It is really easy and quick to make.

Ingredients (four rolls)

3 cups cooked rice

4 sheets of gim (seaweed paper), roasted slightly

1 large cucumber cut into matchsticks (about 1 ½ cup)

1 large carrot, cut into matchsticks (about 1 ½ cup)

5 eggs

Ham cut into matchsticks

1 teaspoon of black pepper( depending on your taste)

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of olive oil

1 teaspoon of sesame oil oil

1 teaspoon of soy sauce

How to make the best kimbap sushi or 김밥

first how to make a good rice for sushi: its so easy and tasty, just place freshly made rice in a large, shallow bowl. Gently mix in ½ teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoons sesame oil over top with a rice scoop or a wooden spoon. Let it cool down enough so it’s no longer steaming. Cover and set aside.

Then add a pinch of salt on the cucumber matchsticks and leave it 5 minutes then wash it with water and make sure to take it out the water with a clean kitchen towel.

Combine the carrot matchsticks with a pinch of salt. Mix well and let it sweat for 5 to 10 minutes. Heat a pan and add a few drops olive oil.

Squeeze out excess water from the carrot, then saute for about 2 minutes. 

Crack 5 eggs in a bowl and add a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon of black pepper(depending on your taste). Mix it with fork or hand mixture depending what do you have at home take it easy. In a large pan add a few drops of olive oil then put it on the stove on medium heat for 3 minutes.Turn down the heat to low and pour the egg mixture into the pan. Spread it into a large circle so it fills the pan.

When the egg is cooked, flip it over with a spatula. Try to keep the egg as yellow as possible, and not brown. Cut it into wide strips.

Now and after everything are already, lets roll the kimbap nicely and gently.

Place a seaweed (sheet of gim) on a sushi mat with the shiny side down. Evenly spread the cooked rice over top of it as you see at the picture.

 Then add all ingredients that we have on it as you see at the picture.

Use both hands to roll the sushi mat over the fillings, so one edge of the rice and gim reaches the opposite edge. This centers the fillings in the roll, so they’ll be nicely in the middle when you slice it.

Grab the mat with both hands and and press it tightly as you continue rolling the gimbap. Push out the sushi mat as you roll, so it doesn't get wrapped in the gimbap 김밥.

Put some sesame oil on the finished roll. Cut each roll into ¼ inch bite size pieces with a sharp knife.

Put it on a serving plate and serve it immediately with Soy sauce, you can serve it too with Chinese or Korean tea or a regular tea depending on your taste. 

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Mini croissants by Puff pastry

In baking, a puff pastry(In arabic: العجينة المورقة or in frensh:La patte feuilleté) is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20 °C (68 °F). In raw form, puff pastry is a dough which is spread with solid fat and repeatedly folded and rolled out. It is sometimes called a "water dough" or détrempe.

The gaps that form between the layers are a result of the puff pastry rising as the water evaporates into steam during the baking process. Piercing the dough will prevent excessive puffing, and crimping along the sides will prevent the layers from flaking all of the way to the edges. (From Wikipedia).
From the time I was in college until about 3 years ago, croissants were flaky, layered, buttery rolls of heaven, no matter where I bought them or who made them, Today I made my favourite croissant by puff pastry, this is my first time I try to make it and i succeed.
It was soft crunchy and yummy! The best Mini Croissants from Gourmet dish kitchen by simple way :)

Ingredients:
500 g of white flour
250 ml of cold water
1 tsp salt
400g of margarine lamination cut into pieces and very cold

 How to make the Mini croissants by puff pastry!?
In a bowl; put the flour and the frozen butter then; mix it just by the tips of your fingers...
after that; add the mix of water and salt and also mix it just by the tips of your fingers.
Until you have an incoherent dough.

Knead your dough by hand for 5 minutes.
Using a small dusting of flour and yeast (for 100 g of flour we need 25 g of yeast),

roll out the rectangle to 9 x 20 inches. Using a dry pastry brush, brush off any excess flour -- otherwise it will get trapped and start to brown, eventually discoloring your dough.

Fold your dough into thirds, like you're folding a letter, and repeat: Roll to 9 x 20 inches, brush off excess flour, and fold into thirds. Chill for an hour.

You will repeat this whole process (roll, fold, roll, fold, chill) two more times, each time chilling the dough for 1 hour, for a total of six folds.
It is helpful to make indentations with your finger on the dough to keep track of were you are at with your folds. (One indentation for the first fold, two for the second, and so on.)
You can keep this dough in the fridge 24 hours.

This puff pastry is a base of a lot of pastries and desserts; today I Am using my puff pastry in the gourmet croissant recipe from gourmet dish kitchen.
With the rolling pin, make a rectangle by pressing firmly along its length and with a knife make triangles and a small scrap of dough at each end, as you see in the picture..

 Hold a dough triangle so that the short notched side is on top and gently elongate without squeezing or compressing the dough

Lay the croissant on the work surface with the notched side closest to you. With one hand on each side of the notch, begin to roll the dough away from you, towards the pointed end.
(you can make small triangles, medium or big depending on your taste)
(also you can fill it with chocolate or anything else or you can keep it classic without
filling)
Put the croissants in the oven-tray on 170C°/388F° for 15 mins.

Puff Pastry Perfection: More Than 175 Recipes for Appetizers, Entrees, & Sweets Made with Frozen Puff Pastry Dough!!

Puff Pastry Perfection is more than just another collection of baked goods. It is a burst of extraordinary flavors that surprise and delight, along with foolproof instructions to make home cooks into baking heroes.
Puff pastry is the royalty of pastries—crisp, flaky, and especially light, it literally rises to any occasion. And although preparing homemade puff pastry is a labor-intensive process, Puff Pastry Perfection shows that a package of frozen puff pastry sheets makes the magnificence of puff pastry accessible to home cooks everywhere.

Oh, the enchanting creations that await! Frozen puff pastry can be used to quickly and easily render classics such as napoleons, cream puffs, strudels, turnovers, palmiers, mille-feuille, and French tarts. It can be twisted into appetizer sticks, cut into tartlet shapes, used as a quick pie or quiche crust, folded over savory appetizer fillings, molded over casserole fillings to create one-step pot pie "lids," or rolled and slice into elegant, but oh-so-easy cookies.

The result? How about portobello napoleons, wasabi shrimp puffs, dried cherry and almond baked brie, or spicy cumin cheese straws for starters? For supper consider chile relleno quiche, puff pastry po' boys, pizza bianco with prosciutto, arugula and parmesan or chipotle and cheese beef pot pie. Next, the sweets: miniatures such as ginger-lime sugar twists, southern pecan crisps, fresh mango napoleons, and puff pastry cinnamon rolls, all perfect for teatime or an anytime nibble. And finally the grand desserts: from lemon-blackberry cobbler to chocolate-walnut strudel to caramel apple dumplings, there's a sweet treat for every taste and occasion.

Delicious Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe (Or Chocoprince)

Here is a new gourmet recipe. The little prince cookie, which is unlike any of the biscuit cakes I have done so far.
It's Prince William's favourite cake and was served at his wedding reception; that's why it's called Choco Prince cake!!
Easy and delicious little prince cookie from Gourmet Dish kitchen.

Ingredients:
100g of butter
4 tsp of caster sugar
8 tbsp of dark cacao
1 tsp of vanilla powder
80g of fresh cream
A bottle of sweetened condensed milk(397g)
500g of biscuits tea (roughly crushed)
You can add some Nuts (walnuts, almonds...) or Dried Fruit (sultanas, apricots, cherries) depending on your taste :)

How to make Delicious Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe (Or Chocoprince):
First of all; put a pan on the stove on low heat
Then add the butter.

When the butter melts add caster sugar then stir well!

Add the cacao and with constant stirring.

Add the vanilla powder.

Add the fresh cream and keep stirring.

Then add the sweetened condensed milk

Add the biscuits tea (roughly crushed)

Then stir gently!

Remove the pan off the stove!! Place it in a plastic diet and rouled as you see in the pictures.

Put it in the fridge for two hours.

You can cut it as you see in the picture depending on your taste... You can also put it in the cheese cake-tray its optional... also you can serve it with juices or coffee, tea...
Enjoy!

Coffee cake

This is one of my favourite cakes; decorated with fresh almond and coffee cream, it was really tasty soft and delicious.
The coffee cake from Gourmet Dish kitchen :)

 Ingredients
For the cake:
4 eggs
6 cacao powder
2 tsp of Instant coffee
1 cup of cooking oil
1 cup of sugar
1 chocolate yogurt
2 tsp of yeast pastries
1 tsp of vanilla powder
2 cups of white flour
For the coffee cream:
1 cup of water
2 tsp of cacao powder
2 tsp of starch
2 tsp of Instant coffee
1 tsp of butter unsalted
For garnish
Toasted almonds

How to make the coffee cake:
For the cake; mix all the ingredients very well, add the flour with continuous mixing.
Put the mix in the oven-tray for 25 minutes on temperature 170 C°/388F°.

For the coffee cream; mix all the ingredients well and add the butter, then put it on medium heat with continuous mixing.

When the mixture becomes thick, removed it over the heat.

Put the coffee cream on the coffee cake and add some toasted almonds depending on your taste enjoy!

Chocolate Cakes: 50 Great Cakes for Every Occasion!!

There are enough people out there obsessed with chocolate cake to warrant an official holiday, National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27th. Beloved baker Elinor Klivans, author of the best-sellingCupcakes! and Cupcake Kit, has dedicated her new cookbook to the stuff of chocoholic fantasy: chocolate cake. There's something for bakers of every skill level in the 50 recipes included here, from fast chocolate fixes like the Hot Chocolate Pudding Cake to more elaborate recipes like the Mocha Whipped Cream Truffle Cake. This book is certain to be celebrated by chocolate lovers everywhere. And how will they do that? With cake, of course!

Cheese Pies (Cheese mint pies)

Perfect Cheese pies from Gourmet Dish (To be honest; this is a recipe  from my mother in law, but I added some modifications) ; It's was really soft, easy and delicious cheese pies hope you will like it. Enjoy!!

Ingredients:
For Dough
3 cups of white flour
A tablespoon of yeast
A tablespoon of sugar
A quarter cup of vegetable oil
A quarter cup of natural yogurt
Cup warm milk for mixing

For the Stuffing
400g of feta cheese or any white cheese
Dry mint leaves (minced)
A few drops of olives oil

How to make the Cheese Pies:

Mix all the ingredients and let the dough rest 15 min; then make the dough in the form of a circular.

Then cut the dough into small circles as you see in the image (Photo).
With a drinking glass upside down into the flat dough to make small circular pieces.
Put the stuffing (Mix of cheese, mint and olives oil) in the center of the circle

 Close the circle
as you can see in the picture.

You can make nice decoration with a fork like the picture.
After greasing the oven-tray with butter put the pies in the oven-tray in the oven for 25 minutes.
Temperature is 170C°/388F°.
Serve warm.

Easy & Homemade Bread Recipe

There are many types of Milk bread recipes. This homemade milk bread Recipe is a good way to cook Bread with little ingredients and without spending much time the Moroccan way. Simple, easy, quick, and healthy Milk Bread recipe from the Gourmet Dish kitchen.

The Ingredients to prepare the homemade milk bread:
1kg Fluffy semolina
100g White flour
A tablespoon of powder milk
Two tablespoons powder sugar
A tablespoon of yeast bread
A pinch of salt
Two tablespoons of oil
Two tablespoons of butter
200ml of milk
Warm water for mix.

How to make the Homemade Milk Bread:

 In a bowl mix all the ingredients, then add the water until we get the dough sticks to hands

  So let the dough resting (half an hour and above).

Get out the air from the dough and make it into a small balls.

Pass the small balls in the semolina, Then press it by palm of the hand.
Let the dough resting again for 10 minutes.
Put the oven-tray in the oven for 20 minutes (15 minutes from under than 5 minutes from above).
Temperature is 220 C°/ 428 F°