Fragments of session 5 - Leuven Favourite recipes from Belgium Recipes from the teacher and the students BEEF STEW WITH BROWN BEER, MASHED POTATOES AND APPLE PUREE BELGIAN MUSSELS WITH FRENCH FRIES CHICORY WITH HAM AND CHEESE CHOCOMOUSSE CREAMY TOMATO SOUP GRANDMA'S APPLE PIE "GRATIN DAUPHINOIS" LOST BREAD MARINATED PORK TENDERLOIN WITH CHICORY (BELGIAN ENDIVE), SOFT APPLES FROM THE OVEN AND CROQUETTES PANCAKES POTATOES IN GARLIC CREAM RABBIT WITH PLUMS SMALL CAKES THREE-COLOURED QUICHE BEEF STEW WITH BROWN BEER, MASHED POTATOES AND APPLE PUREE Serves: 3 or 4 adults Ingredients: 1 kg beef cut into cubes of about 2 square centimetres, 2 dl dark brown beer (low in alcohol), 1 tablespoon of mustard, salt and pepper, fresh thyme and laurel, butter, 2 dl water, 1 slice of bread; 1 onion(chopped) Preparation : Melt the butter in a large frying pan and fry the chopped onion until golden brown. Add the cubes of beef and fry them until brown on all sides. Then add the spices and herbs and cover with a slice of bread on which you have spread the mustard. Cover the whole with the beer and the water and let this simmer for at least 2 hours. It's important that the beef is entirely covered with the liquid. Add some flour before serving if you prefer a thick sauce. Serve with mashed potatoes (or rice) and apple puree. The recipe tastes best if you prepare the apple puree yourself (cut 4 apples into pieces and simmer them with some sugar and a tablespoon of water until they become soft. Just stir the puree or mix it if you do not like any pieces of apple left in it). This is what we call a winter recipe. Ann (back to top) BELGIAN MUSSELS WITH FRENCH FRIES Ingredients: 2 onions, 3 kg mussels, fresh parsley, 2 pieces of celery, some pepper and salt Preparation: Wash the mussels a few times until they are clean (throw away any mussels that are open after washing them) . Take a large cooking pot and pour the mussels into it. Cover with chopped onion and celery, pepper, salt and some parsley (if you want to, you can also add fresh thyme and laurel to improve the taste). Bring to the boil and cook gently for a 5 or 10 minutes. Serve in a soup plate or bowl together with French fries and mayonnaise. serves : 2 or 3 adults Ann (back to top) CHICORY WITH HAM AND CHEESE serves: 4 Ingredients: 6 pieces of chicory, 6 slices of ham, 150 gram of grated cheese, 20 cl of milk and a bit of pepper, salt and nutmeg. Preparation: Boil the chicory and let it drain . Wrap each piece of chicory in a slice of ham and put it all in an oven dish. Then make the sauce: boil the milk and add corn flour and the grated cheese until thick. Add a bit of pepper, salt and nutmeg. Pour the sauce over the chicory in the dish. Put the dish in the oven and grill it for a minute. Serve with boiled or mashed potatoes. Wouter (back to top) CHOCOMOUSSE Serves: 4 Ingredients: 100gr pure chocolate. 1 tablespoon of water 30 g of butter 20g of sugar 2 eggs. Preparation: Break the chocolate into pieces , melt in " au bain marie " add the water and stir it. In a bowl, mix the butter and the sugar until it's a smooth creamy mixture, then add the egg yolk and mix again. In a different bowl, beat the egg white till it's stiff. Mix the chocolate and the butter-mixture, and scoop it all together into the white of the egg. Now put in the refrigerator for an hour. Greet (back to top) CREAMY TOMATO SOUP Serves: 4 Ingredients: Some oil or butter, 1 onion peeled and finely diced, 225g potatoes peeled and diced, 4 tomatoes skinned, seeded and chopped, 400g tinned tomatoes, 15 ml tomato puree, 600ml vegetable or chicken stock, 150ml fresh cream, fresh basil leaves. Preparation: 1 Heat the oil or melt the butter in a large cooking pot. Then gently sauté the onion until soft. Add the potatoes and cook for 2 minutes. 2 Add all the tomatoes, puree and stock, then cook around 30 minutes until the potatoes are soft. 3 Liquidise until smooth or sieve. 4 Add cream as you like. 5 Serve with fresh basil leaves. Ann (back to top) GRANDMA'S APPLE PIE Serves : 8 Ingredients : For the pie crust or pie bottom : 2 cups of flour (English measure), 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 2/3 cups of butter, 6 to 7 tablespoons of cold water For the filling : 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, 3 tablespoons of flour, 1/4 cup of water, 1/2 cup of white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar , 8 Granny Smit apples (green and rather sour apples) peeled, cored and sliced. Preparation : 1/ for the pie crust : Mix the 2 cups of flour and the salt in a bowl. Use a blender to cut the butter into pieces until they are the size of peas. Sprinkle one tablespoon of cold water over part of the mixture and gently toss with a fork. Push the moistened dough to the side of the bowl. Repeat with one tablespoon of water at the time until the entire dough is moistened. Divide the dough into two pieces and form two balls. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 220°C. 2/For the filling : Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in the flour to form a paste. Add 1/4 cup of water, the white and the brown sugar and bring to the boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer. Flatten one ball of dough into a 9-inch pie plate. Place the sliced apples on top. Cover with a lattice work you made from the other ball of dough (flatten the dough and cut long stripes out of it). Then gently pour the sugar and butter liquid from the saucepan over the pie. Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated oven. Then reduce temperature to 175°C and bake for another 35 to 45 minutes until the apples are soft. Serve the pie warm with vanilla ice cream. Lisa (back to top) "GRATIN DAUPHINOIS" Ingredients: potatoes (1kg), pepper, salt, 4 cloves of garlic, thyme, milk (1/4 liter), 4 tablespoons cream. Preparation: Peel the potatoes. Wash and dry them. Cut them into thin slices. Add pepper and salt. Cover the inside of a dish with a clove of garlic. Put the potatoes on the dish. Sprinkle with thyme. Pour the milk and cream mix on the potatoes. Grill 30 à 40 minutes in a hot oven. Serve in a dish. Lynn (back to top) LOST BREAD Ingredients: 2 eggs 2 cups of milk 4 slices of bread sugar(white or brown) Preparation: Put the eggs and the milk in a deep dish. Make a mixture of the eggs and the milk using a fork; Put a slice of bread in the mixture until the slice is soaked. Then put the slice of bread in the pan that is hot and oiled already. Cook the slice gold-brown on one side and on the other side too; Repeat this with all the slices . Put on each dish a slice of bread when it's ready(after3or4 minutes) and put sugar on it. Serve it immediately when it's still hot. Frederique (back to top) MARINATED PORK TENDERLOIN WITH CHICORY (BELGIAN ENDIVE), SOFT APPLES FROM THE OVEN AND CROQUETTES Serves: 4-5 Ingredients: 8 pieces of chicory - 4 apples - 1 bottle of red wine - 500 g diced vegetables (leek - celery - carrots - onions) - pepper - salt - fresh thyme - 1 kg pork tenderloin - 12 croquettes - 2 tbsp candy sugar - 1 teaspoon strawberry jam - 2 dl cream Preparation : day 1 --> prepare the marinade : put the meat into a bowl, cover with the vegetables and the wine, add salt, pepper and thyme and leave for one night day 2 --> take the meat out of the marinade and dip dry. Melt butter and fry the meat until brown, then reduce the heat and leave to fry for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile cut the apples into two halves, sprinkle with candy sugar and put in a preheated oven (200°C) for 25 minutes, Wash the chicory and fry it in a large flat pan. When brown, reduce heat and leave to simmer until soft. Prepare the sauce like this : sieve the marinade and pour 2 dl into a small pan. Add some brown stock , one teaspoon of strawberry jam and cream. Stir until you have a smooth brown mixture. Fry the croquettes in hot oil for 4 minutes. Serve. Ann (back to top) PANCAKES Serves: 5 Ingredients : : 500 g flour 2 eggs a little salt milk Preparation : First put 500g flour in a bowl. Then break two eggs in it. Stir the mixture very carefully -not too fast. While stirring, add milk, little by little, until you obtain a smooth liquid. After all that you can begin to fry. But for each pancake you have to put some oil into the pan. Then heat the frying pan and pour a little amount of the dough. After 1 ore 2 minutes turn the pancake. Continue like this until the dough is gone. You can eat the pancakes with whatever you like : sugar, jam, .... Gil (back to top) POTATOES IN GARLIC CREAM Ingredients : garlic cream - potatoes - pepper and salt - butter Preparation : Grease a flat oven pan with butter. Cut the potatoes into slices of almost 0,5cm and arrange them in the pan. Then sprinkle with fresh, finely chopped garlic (you can also use dried garlic). Add a little bit of salt and pepper and pour the cream on top of it until the potatoes are completely covered with cream. Put this in the oven for about 45 minutes, at 180°C/ Serve with ostrich, lamb chops or steak. (back to top) RABBIT WITH PLUMS Serves : 5 Ingredients : 250 g dry plums 1 rabbit 4 dl red wine 2 dl vinegar 100 g butter 1 1/2 table spoon flour pepper, salt, laurel Preparation: Clean the plums and let them soak in water for 24 hours. Divide the rabbit into pieces and wash them. Make a marinade of red wine, vinegar, pepper, laurel and salt. Let the rabbit marinade in this mixture for at least 12 hours. Remove the rabbit from the marinade and drain it. Then dry it. Heat the butter and fry the pieces of rabbit until they're brown. Sprinkle with flour and add the plums (without the soak water) and half of the marinade. Let it stew for one hour. Serve with bread or potatoes. Pieter (back to top) SMALL CAKES Ingredients : You need...for +/- 8 little cakes...65 gr.butter , 65 gr.sugar , 1 egg ,75 gr.raising flour and a piece of black chocolate or an apple... Preparation : It's really not so difficult to make...so you can always try them out... Just folow the instructions: (First preheat the oven at 180°C) *Blend the butter and the sugar *Add the egg yolk and blend ...you can blend it by hand or with a wooden spoon *Beat the eggwhite to snow with a mixer *Blend the flour with the eggwhite under the dough *Sliver the chocolate or the apple...(you can choose what you like the most...I prefer the chocolate...but the cakes with the apple are also very very good...) in little pieces and blend them under the dough *Divide the dough over 8 cakepapars *Bake for +/- 15 à 20 minutes in the oven at 180°C Lien (back to top) THREE-COLOURED QUICHE (a quiche is a kind vegetable cake) Ingredients : 1 red pepper 1 yellow pepper 1 green pepper 4 eggs ( you need 1 for the dough and three for the filling) 2.5 dl of cream 40g Parmesan cheese, grated salt, pepper, nutmeg as much as you want 100g flour 50 g unsalted butter 1 - 2 teaspoons of water Preparation: the dough : Cut the butter in little slices and put them on top of the flour which you have put into a bowl and add a sniff of salt. Knead the butter with he flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Make a hole in the middle and pour the egg ( 1 whipped egg with the teaspoons of water) into it. Stir the mixture until it becomes a ball of dough. If it's a bit sticky, add more flour. Stretch the dough until it's flat, wrap it in some plastic foil and let it rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. the filling : Cut the peppers in half and remove the seeds. Then grill them in the oven. Singe the skin and let the peppers cool down for a minute. When there cooled down you can remove the skin easily and cut them in strips. Preheat the oven at 170°C. Oil the mould (diameter : 22 cm ; high : 3.5 cm) Put some bakery foil in the mould and lay the dough in it. When that's done, make some holes in the dough with a fork, in this way unneeded air can escape. Whip the eggs with the cream, add some salt, pepper and nutmeg to your own taste. Spread the peppers over the dough in the mould and sprinkle the cheese on top. Pour the eggs and cream inside and bake the quiche for 40 minutes, until the filling is hard. Let the cake rest for 5 minutes before you cut it. Monique (back to top)