Savory Egg Pie

Ingredients

·         Pie dough

·         4 hard- cooked eggs

·         2 tablespoons butter

·         ¼ cup all-purpose flour

·         1½ teaspoon curry powder

·         ¾ cup milk

·         1 tablespoon finely chopped pickle or relish

·         Salt to taste

Preparation

o   Roll out half the dough on a floured board and line a 15 cm flan ring with it.

o   Cut he eggs in halves lengthways and lay them flat on the pastry, radiating from the centre. Melt the butter; blend in the flour and curry powder. Add the milk and stir with a whisk until it boils. Boil for a minute or two, remove from the heat, and stir in the pickle and season with salt. Pour over the eggs and leave until cold before covering.

o   Roll out the rest of the dough. Moisten the edge of the crust with cold water and cover the flan with the second piece, pressing the two edges together to stick firmly. Trim the edge and decorate the rim by marking with a knife handle. Prick the top with a fork, brush with milk and bake in a hot oven (200⁰C) for 20-30 minutes, until nicely browned. 

Serve hot or cold.

Crispy Roast Potatoes

You will need:

• 1 medium potato per person

• Salt, pepper and flour

Preparation

Cook the potatoes in their jackets in boiling water for about 10 minutes - just until the outer layer is tender.

Allow to cool, then remove the skins and cut potatoes in half. Score surfaces deeply with a fork, season potatoes with salt and pepper and dust liberally with flour.

Deep-potatoes in hot oil until they are cooked through, crunchy and brown.

Spanish Casserole

Ingredients

• 2 onions, sliced
• 1 green pepper, sliced
• Oil for frying
• 250 g button mushrooms, halved
• 3 tomatoes, skinned and diced
• 500 g beef mince
• 1 cup uncooked rice
• 1 eggplant, diced
• 2 potatoes, sliced

Ingredients for sauce

• 125 ml tomato sauce
• 40 ml soy sauce
• 10 ml curry powder
• 10 ml dried mixed herbs
• 500 ml beef stock 

Preparation

1. Put all ingredients for the sauce in a saucepan and bring to boil. Turn down heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

2. In another saucepan, saute the onions and green pepper in the oil until tender. Add the mushrooms and saute until brown. Add the tomato and saute until tender.  Remove the fried mixture.

3. In the same pan, brown the mince and remove. Fry the uncooked rice for 2 minutes.

4. Add the meat and the other fried ingredients. Add the eggplant and season with salt and pepper. Pour over half of the sauce and place the potatoes on top. Pour over the remaining sauce.

5. Simmer over low heat for an hour or until the rice and potatoes are tender.

6. Regularly check the level of the sauce and fill up with warm water if being cooked up.

7. The best results are obtained when the dish is not stirred at all during cooking time.

Glazed Carrots

Ingredients

• 6 young carrots
• 2 tablespoons margarine
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 250 ml (1 cup) vegetable stock
• Chopped parsley

Preparation

1. Scrape the carrots, leaving them whole.

2. Melt the margarine; add the carrots, sugar, salt and enough stock to come half way up the carrots.

3. Cook gently without a lid until tender, giving the pan an occasional shake.

4. When tender, remove the carrots and keep hot. Boil the remaining stock until it is reduced to a glaze.

5. Add the carrots to the glaze, one at a time and turn them until they are well coated with the glaze.

6. Turn into a hot serving dish and sprinkle with chopped parsley. 

Three Delicious Sandwiches

Cream Cheese Sandwich

On two slices of whole-wheat raisin bread, spread a generous amount of cream cheese. On one slice, sprinkle chopped walnuts and on the other pitted chopped dates. Combine the two slices and cut sandwich in half or in fourths as a party snack. Garnish with slices of apple and banana.

Cucumber Tomato Sandwich

Place a lettuce leaf on a slice whole-wheat or rye bread. On this, place a layer of thinly sliced cucumber, then a layer of thinly sliced tomato and finish with a paper-thin slice of onion. Add another slice of bread spread with homemade mayonnaise or margarine.

Avocado Sandwich

For this, you will need:

• One ripe avocado
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• One teaspoon green onions, finely chopped
• 1/8 teaspoon dill weeds
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon parsley, chopped

Peel and mash avocado. Add other ingredients and blend. Serve on whole-wheat bread with Alfa sprouts.