Sweet cabbage sheets, lasagna style

By Karima.


Feeling like something similar to Lasagna, lighter and healthier? 
Get your Cabbage, black olives, a portion of rice and minced meat and follow the steps: 

boil your sweet cabbage leaves for 10 mintues. 


Meanwhile, prepare your stuffing: 
In a pot grate and soften an onion in a bit of oil. add the minced meat or chicken pieces. Once cooked add chopped black olives and boiled white rice. and mix well. 

Grease an oven dish and spread the sweet cabbage sheet gently to form a sort of carpet for the stuffing. Then add some of the stuffing on it. spread it evenly before you add another layer of the sweet cabbage sheets. 

Get some Bechamelle sauce and spread it nicely and gently on top of the last layer of cabbage

Wet your wooden spoon with water so that sauce doesn't stick to it

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Voila !! 

Then chuck in the oven, and watch till all is cooked and smells wonderfully. 

ENJOY

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Pasta bake with veggies - Yemeni Hands

By Reem 

This is a simple recipe for pasta and cheese lovers.

I just followed instructions on the pasta sauce jar.

Cooking time: 40 mins, serves 6

Ingredients:

1. Pasta (i used wholemeal) 3/4 of a medium pack.
2. Cheese (i used mozzarella and cheddar).
3. A generous amount (depends on u).
4. Pasta bake ready sauce (whole jar) I will upload the pic of it.
5. A whole medium red onions
6. A carrot
7. 1/4 green pepper
8. 1/4 orange or red pepper
9. Salt and black pepper.

Method:

Preheat the oven on the highest.

Boil your pasta (salt and olive oil)

Fry the chopped veggies in a bit of vooking olive oil. Start with the carrots, onions and peppers. 

When the pasta has cooked fully, drain it and add it to the pan which has the veggies.

Cook together for 3 mins and add salt and black pepper.

Pour the sauce jar into a deep-ish oven tray.

Add water (not boiled( to the empty jar, shake it and add it to the pasta mixture.

Put the pasta mixture into the oven tray.

Mix it all up.

Put it in the oven.

Take it out in 20 mins.

Can add more black pepper at this stage.

Add half the cheese into the pasta. Make sure it goes all in and everywhere. It will be melting. Yummmy.

Sprinkle the rest on top and back in the oven until the cheese on top is golden brown.

Serve hottt and enjoy.

Here are some picture illustrating the steps: 

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Gratin Dauphinois

by Amel

Gratin Dauphinois by Amel

  Ingredients :
1 kg potatoes
  2 onions
3 tablespoons creme fraiche
  20 cl light creme
  Gruyère (grated cheese)
  ½ spoon of curry or nutmeg powder

 

Preparation:

While you cook the potatoes, gently brown the chopped onions. (Quick tip: to avoid burning them, use water instead of oil!)

Add the curry or nutmeg powder, they will give your dish all its flavour.

Once the onions are ready, add the creams and cheese and cook them until the mixture boils (approximatively 3 mins) 

Cut the potatoes in thin slices, and add them and your onion & cream mixture in a dish, sprinkle with cheese and pop it in the oven. Bake it at 210°C / 400°F / thermostat 7 for 10 to 20 minutes depending on how long you prehated your oven.

Bon appétit !!