This blog is for middle school students at TED Istanbul Koleji to collect recipes from around the world on healthy eating. Students will share their recipes here and prepare their recipes at home to share with the class. Students can comment on other students recipes here, as well as share information and questions.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
American Salad
American Salad
5-6 medium potatoes
2 bowl garnish
5-6 pickled cucumbers
2 tablespoons boiled corn
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
5-6 tablespoons yogurt
Some salt
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Ingredients
Method
Chicken and Broccoli Stir-fry
Chicken and Broccoli Stir-fry
Ingredients
- 1 pound chicken breast (about 2 breasts), cubed
- 3 scallions, whites only, thinly sliced on an angle
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 -inch piece peeled fresh ginger, minced
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon dark sesame oil
- About 1/3 cup water
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 5 to 6 cups broccoli, trimmed sliced stalks and medium florets (keep the 2 cuts separate)
- 3/4 to 1 teaspoon red chili flakes, optional
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- Garnish: toasted sesame seeds, optional
- Serving suggestion: Jasmine rice
Directions
In a medium
bowl, toss the chicken with the scallion whites, about half the garlic and
ginger, the soy sauce, sugar, 1 teaspoon of the cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of the salt, the sherry, and the sesame oil. Marinate at room temperature for
15 minutes. Mix the remaining cornstarch with
1/3 cup
water.
Heat a large
nonstick skillet over high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and heat. Add the
broccoli stems, and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the florets and the remaining
garlic, ginger, 2 tablespoons of water, and season
with 1/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper. Stir-fry until the broccoli is bright green
but still crisp, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a
plate.
Get the
skillet good and hot again, and then heat 2 more tablespoons oil. Add the
chicken and chili flakes if using. Stir-fry until the chicken loses its raw
color and gets a little brown, about 3 minutes. Add the hoisin sauce, return the broccoli to the pan and
toss to heat through. Stir in the reserved cornstarch mixture and bring to a
boil to thicken. Add more water if need to thin the sauce, if necessary. Taste
and season with salt and pepper, if you like. Mound the stir-fry on a serving platter or divide
among 4 plates and garnish with sesame seeds; serve with rice.
SERVES 4;
Calories: 431; Total Fat 16 grams; Saturated Fat: 2 grams; Protein: 32 grams; Total
carbohydrates: 40 grams; Sugar: 8 grams Fiber 4 grams; Cholesterol:
66 milligrams; Sodium: 1,097 milligrams
Notes: The
garlic and ginger can be chopped together in a minichopper to save time.
Scallion greens can also be used to garnish, if you
like that extra onion-y flavor and you want to use up the scallions.
The broccoli
stems are used (love all that fiber) to add textural contrast and also to help
bulk up the dish, and why waste them?
- NOODLE WITH BROCCOLI AND CHICKEN
-
-
2 tsp light soy sauce
-
½ tsp ground black pepper
-
200g/7oz purple sprouting broccoli
-
2 tbsp vegetable oil
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2 tbsp shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
-
2 tbsp sesame oil
-
3 tbsp soy sauce
-
2 tsp cornflour
-
2 tbsp sesame seeds
- For the noodles:
-
-
250g/9oz medium rice noodles
-
2 tbsp sesame oil
-
Preparation method
- For the chicken, place the chicken into a bowl, add the light soy sauce and black pepper and toss well, then set aside.
- Bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the sprouting broccoli and cook for two minutes until just tender, then drain and set aside.
- Heat a wok or large frying-pan over high heat until it is hot.
- Add the oil, and when it is very hot and slightly smoking, add the chicken and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes or until golden-brown, and nearly cooked.
- Remove the chicken from the wok and set aside.
- Add the onion to the wok, along with the garlic, ginger and red pepper and stir-fry for three minutes.
- Add the chicken and broccoli and toss through then add the sherry, sesame oil, soy sauce and chilli bean sauce and heat through, stirring to combine.
- Mix the cornflour with one tablespoon of water, then stir into the sauce and heat until just thickened.
- For the noodles, cook the noodles according to the pack instructions, then drain and toss with the sesame oil and spring onions.
- To serve, pile the noodles onto the plate, then spoon the chicken over the top.
- Garnish with the sesame seeds and serve at once.
INGREDIENTS FOR FRUIT SALAD
1/2 cup sugar
1 1 -inch piece ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise and seeds scraped out
1 lemon
5 large navel or blood oranges
2 mangoes, peeled and diced
2 firm bananas, peeled and diced
5 kiwis, peeled and diced
12 kumquats, very thinly sliced crosswise, seeds removed
1 cup pomegranate seeds (from 1 pomegranate)
Directions
Combine the sugar, 2 cups water, the ginger and vanilla seeds and pod in a saucepan. Use a
vegetable peeler to remove wide strips of zest from the lemon and 1 orange, add to the
saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer 5 minutes.
Refrigerate until cold. Meanwhile, peel the remaining oranges with a paring knife, cutting along
the natural curve of the fruit. Hold an orange over a large bowl and cut along both sides of each
membrane to free the segments, letting them fall into the bowl. Squeeze each empty
membrane to release the juices. Repeat with the remaining oranges. Add the mangoes
, bananas, kiwis, kumquats and pomegranate seeds and gently toss. Pour the syrup over the
fruit and chill overnight. Before serving, remove the citrus zest, ginger and vanilla pod. Spoon
the fruit and syrup into bowls. To remove pomegranate seeds, cut the fruit into quarters, then
break apart in a bowl of water. Skim off the pith that floats to the top and drain the seeds.
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