Garlic Bread

Garlic bread

Easy and tasty snack or a starter, I bet you will fall in love with it. 

Ingredients:

French Baguette

6 garlic cloves 

olive oil 

unsalted butter

italian seasoning

parsley

salt

Directions:

1. Finely mice and crush the garlic.
2. Mix butter , finely chopped parsley, garlic, italian seasoning.
3. Cut the bread into half along the length and spread the paste and sprinkle some salt.
4. Pre heat the oven at 350 degrees, place the bread in the oven and drizzle some olive oil on top.
5. After 3 minutes turn the oven to broil mode and let the bread stay for 4 minutes or until butter melts and bread is crisp or golden brown along the edges.
6. This step is optional , add lemon zest on top.

Bibimbap

Bibimbap

Bibimbap(BEE-beem-Bop) is a korean rice dish, usually served in a stone pot , and with hot chilli sauce.The stone pot makes the rice crunchy and tasty. I had this dish for the first time at a korean restaurant Koreana in boston and fell in love with it. A very healthy , easy and a tasty dish. Hope you like it.

Ingredients :

• Steamed white rice
• 4 baby carrots, julienned
• 4 baby zucchini, julienned
• 1 cup bean sprouts
• 1/2 bunch spinach
• 4 shiitake mushrooms or portabella dried or fresh
• 1 egg
• 3 garlic pods
• Firm Tofu
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• sesame oil
• Soy Sauce

Sauce:

• Gochuchang Paste (fermented chilli paste, you can get it in any asian store)
• sprite or spring water

Directions:

1. Cook white rice and set aside.
2. Mix 1/2 tea spoon salt in zucchini and set aside for 30 min, then sauté them in a pan (on high) until slightly transparent.
3. Wash bean sprouts thoroughly 3 times, place them in boiling water for 10 minutes or until tender. Drain them and wash them with cold water. Add a tea-spoon of sesame oil and 1 clove of minced garlic to the bean sprouts and set aside.
4. Place spinach in boiling water for 2 minutes, place it under cold water and then squeeze it. Add 1 tea-spoon sesame oil, 1 tea-spoon soy sauce and 2 cloves of minced garlic to it and mix thoroughly.
5. Add 2 spoons of oil in a pan , sauté the mushrooms for a minute.
6. Add 1 spoon of oil in a pan, sauté carrots for a minute.
7. Cut firm tofu into small cubes and roll them in a mixture of all-purpose flour and chilli flakes. 
8. Add oil in a pan and fry the tofu cubes until golden brown. 
9. Heat oil in a wok , add egg and cover it with a lid, cook it moderately.

     Preparation of sauce:

     Mix Gochuchang paste and some sprite ( or spring water and sugar mixture)