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Bread / Bread and patty for greek "souvlaki"
« on: May 11, 2009, 07:54:34 pm »
Both bread and patty for Souvlaki, share the same recipe up to one point.

Ingredients:
- 700 gr. flour (white, black or mixed)
- 400 gr. water
- 1/3 of measure oil
- 30 gr. yeast
- 1 tbs salt (not full)

Pour into TM bowl yeast, water, salt and oil, mix for 1,5 minute at 37 Celcius degrees, speed 1.
Add flour to the bowl and press  :: for 3 minutes.

Bread.
Remove the dough from the bowl, and put it in one or two tins like the one in the photo (I use 2 tins)

Leave it there, cover it with a towel/cellophane so that it is warm, until it doubles its size.
Then we bake it at approx 160-180 degrees for approx 45 minutes. (Times and degrees approximate)

Patty.
Remove the dough from the bowl, split it into little balls (approx 12-14), at the size of a tangerine. Cover them with a towel/cellophane and store them at a warm place, until their size becomes double.
We get each ball, press it with our palm until it turns to a round disk. Create little "holes" with a fork over its surface.
Then we pour a small quantity of (extra virgin) olive oil in a frying-pan and fry each patty for 2-4 minutes from both sides, until it becomes slightly brown.


This patty is cut into pieces.
You can eat these for a snack, with Olivier salad, with cheese, with many sauces and in general you can make up combinations.

The recipe for the Souvlaki is not listed here  ;D (it requires tzatziki, tomato, potatos, onions, pork, salt, pepper and often many other ingredients)

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Cakes / Cooky's Orange Cake - from the Greek cookbook
« on: April 25, 2009, 05:51:33 pm »
Here's another one recipe of orange cake, taken from the greek TM cook-book :D I'll try to translate into english, so please forgive any mistakes I'll make, or even better correct me, if you like ::)

Boiled Orange Cake

Ingredients:

For the syrup dressing:
  • 250 gr. of margarine
  • 250 gr. orange juice
  • 450 gr. sugar
  • 0,5 of THX-cup cognac or liquer tangerine
  • half an orange, with its bark

For the yeast:
  • 4 eggs
  • 250 gr. self raising flour
  • 1,5 tbs baking powder
  • 2 vanilla flavour

Wash one orange and rinse it well. (we'll use it in the cake) Then produce the orange juice but remember to keep this half orange remainder!

Place in thermomix all the ingredients required for the syrup dressing.
Blend on speed 4 for 7 minutes, temperature 100 C.
When the time-switch is off, pour some glasso into two separate glasses of water, but do not fully fill them. Place one glass in the cold storage and the other one in the refridgerator.


In the meanwhile, heat the oven to around 160-180 C and grease and flour a cake pan.

Next, add the flour into Thermomix, the baking powder and mix manually until it's spread all over. Add the eggs over the flour and blend on speed 7 gradually (but quickly) for 8 seconds.

The yeast is ready.
Pour it into the cake pan and place it into the oven. Bake for approx 20-30 minutes.
When the cake is out, pour over it the syrup dressing from the refridgerator.
Then allow appox 20-30 minutes to cool. During this time, the cake will absorb the syrup dressing.


Once you turn over the cake, pour over the colder syrup dressing, from the cold storage.

The cake is ready.
Bon appetit! ;)


Some notes:
- I thought the sugar was too much in the first place. Maybe the recipe says so, because of orange and cognac taste, so as to balance it. Next time, I will try with maybe 400gr. I won't risk adding less... ::)
- I used normal butter instead of margarine since I didn't have any available.


Here's the photo of my cake.
It's really delicious.
But I was too greedy to taste it so I forgot to take the picture prior to cutting it...
;D



Caution:
Yesterday I cooked again the cake using margarine, as the recipe says.
BUT my opinion is that the cake tastes better using normal butter and not margarine, which has a peculiar smell and taste. I will never make it with margarine again

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Introduce Yourself / Hellenic greetings
« on: April 15, 2009, 12:08:16 pm »
Hi everybody,
My mother has been a loyal Thermomix customer for 25 years, and now this is my turn to become such one :o :-:
I dropped by to say 'Hi", or "Salut!", or "hola!" or "привет!" or "γεια σας" and I'll come back as soon as I have something special to add (or ask) ;D

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