What is wrong with the supermarket buns? They are packed with chemicals and additives. If you can find a bun made of only flour, yeast, egg, butter, milk… I will stop baking hamburger buns right away! But I’m still searching.

Ingredients | 5 buns

• 400g /14oz Bread flour
• 40g /1.4oz Butter
• 40g /1.4oz Milk
• 1 Egg
• 130g /4.5oz Water
• 4g /0.14oz fresh Yeast or a pinch of dried yeast
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 20g /0.7oz Whole Wheat Flour (optional)

Preparation

– Dissolve yeast in water

– In a small pan melt butter and add 50g of flour. mix for a minute on low heat, to have a doughy texture.

– In a big bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour and salt.

– Add the wet ingredients: mixture of water & yeast, butter and flour, milk, and egg.

– Knead till we have a soft dough.

– Cover the dough with a foil and proof for ⏳ 6 hours.

– Knead the dough on a working board.

– Make 5 small balls and proof for second time: for ⏳ 2 hours.

– Preheat the oven on 190C°/375F°.

– Egg wash the dough balls surface twice, with a ⏳ 10 minutes interval.

– After the last egg wash add the topping of your choice:

• Poppy seed
• Sesame
• Sunflower

♨️ Bake in the oven for ⏳ 20-25 minutes.

– Set the grill program for the last ⏳ 3-4 mins to have a brownish color on the buns surface.

When they cool down they can be stored in the fridge for 1 week or 2-3 months in freezer

Making of burger:

– Mix the minced beef with salt, onion powder, and black pepper.

– Make hamburger disks: for each person 150g/5.2oz of meat.

– Grill each side on medium high heat for ⏳3-4 minutes and they are done.

Notes

• Bake the hamburger buns days in advance, I store them in freezer and warm them up for serving hamburgers.
• The slice of meat for the roast-beefs is perfect for hamburgers.
• Emmental, Gouda, Cheddar are great for cheeseburger.

Enjoy! ☺️

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What types of apple is the best?

Pink lady, Ambrosia, SweeTango, or any sweet and sour taste apple you find in the market can be great.

Ingredients | 5-6 servings

• 5 Apples
• 100g /3.5oz Flour All-purpose
• 50g /1.7oz Almond flakes
• 40g /1.4oz Coconut shredded
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• drops Vanilla extract
• 50g /1.7oz Butter and some knobs of butter
• 1 tbsp Coconut oil
• 1/4 cup Water

Preparation

– Preheat the oven at 170C°/330F°.

Preparing the apple base:

– Peel, deseed, and slice the apples.

– Add cinnamon and some drops of vanilla extract.

– Mix them and put them in the oven tray.

– On top goes 4-5 knobs of butter.

Making of the crumbles:

– In a bowl combine the flour, shredded coconuts, almonds, and a pinch of salt.

– Pour the melted butter and coconut oil, along with 1/4 cup of water.

– Add some drops of vanilla extract.

– Mix till you have a sticky mass.

– Place the moist crumble by hand on top of the apples.

– Put the baking tray on the lowest rack of the preheated oven.

– Cook for ⏳ 75 minutes.

For a more colorful crumble: put the oven on grill program for the last 5 mins, so the top will become brownish and more crunchy.

Serve it warm with coffee or tea ☕️

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No additives or chemical ingredients are used, with all those nuts and fruits this is a pretty healthy cake if we compare to the other sweets of Christmas period. Buy the dried fruits and soak them in rum for 3-4 hours and the rest is very easy to do.

Here is the recipe of: Dried fruit in rum for Christmas cake

Ingredients | 6 servings

• 7tbsp Rum-soaked dried fruits
• 140g/5oz Brown sugar
• 50g/1.8oz of Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• Zest of 1 Orange
• Juice of Half Orange
• 300g/10.5oz Flour
• 2 knobs of Butter
• 30g /1oz Crushed Walnuts
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• a pinch of crushed Fennel Seeds
• pinch of Salt

Use all ingredients at room temperature.

Preparation

– Preheat the oven on 180°C/356°F.

– Mix flour & baking powder in a bowl and put it aside.

– In a bigger bowl, whisk the butter with sugar till you have a creamy texture.

– Add eggs and milk & continue to whisk

– Sieve half of the flour and mix, the batter becomes dense

– Add to the mixture of dried fruits, and orange juice.

– Followed by the other half of flour.

– Add the rest of the ingredients to the mix: crushed fennel seeds, cinnamon, walnuts, and orange zest.

– In the mold of 20cm/8inch which is covered by parchment paper, Flatten gently the batter.

Let the Christmas cake bake for ⏳ 50 minutes at 180°C/356°F. At the end of the baking time, leave it to cool down and it will be ready to serve.

Notes

• Wait 2 hours to cool down. It’ll be easier to cut it, feel free to sieve a bit of icing sugar on top.
• Some people might not like fennel seed but to my experience, it gives a great scent and flavor to the cake
• Always do the toothpick test to be sure the cake is cooked, If your mold smaller the cake needs more time in the oven, vice versa if the mold is bigger.

Merry Xmas and enjoy the holidays ☺️

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The syrup of orange juice balances its sweetness and makes it moist. You’ll never get tired of eating this buns, since it’s a kind of sweet bread for a better chewy texture, use all-purpose flour.

Ingredients

• 300g/10.5oz all purpose Flour
• 2-3 tsp Cinnamon
• 4 tbsp Brown Sugar
• 2 Egg
• 100g/3.5oz of Milk
• 100g/3.5oz of Butter
• 7g/0.2oz of Yeast
• pinch of Vanilla
• pinch of Salt

Syrup ingredients

• 100g/3.5oz water
• 3-4 tbsp Brown sugar
• 1 orange juice

Preparation

– Dissolve yeast in a bit of cold milk.

– Slightly heat the rest of the milk, butter, 1 tbsp sugar, salt, and vanilla.

– Mix to dissolve sugar and salt.

– In a big bowl combine: flour, yeast, 1 egg and the butter mix.

– Create a dough and knead for 10 mins.

– Put the dough aside and proof for ⏳ 3 hours.

Syrup:

– Mix half a cup of water with orange juice and sugar.

– On high heat, mix till the sugar dissolves and the syrup becomes slightly dense. put it aside when its ready.

Filling:

– Mix the cinnamon with 2-3 tbsp of brown sugar.

Assemble

– Roll out dough into a large sheet of 1 cm/0.3inch and fold it on itself, wait 5 minutes to relax then roll out again.

➡️ Repeat this 2 times. This helps the dough to have a better layered texture.

– Stretch the dough for the last time spread the butter (room temperature) on its surface.

– Sprinkle the filling and start to roll it on itself.

– Cut each piece at 2cm/1inch

– Put the rolls on the baking tray, covered with parchment paper and proof for ⏳ 1 hour.

♨️ preheat the oven to 190C°/370F°

– Egg wash the surface of the rolls.

♨️⏳ Put them in the hot oven for 15 mins

+ 2 mins on the grill program to have a golden color on top

– Make some wholes with a toothpick and while they are warm, pour the syrup.

– Wait ⏳30 minutes so the rolls absorb the syrup and so they’ll be ready to serve!

Notes

• I’m not a fan but It’s common to add white sugar glaze on top if you like here is how: half cup of powdered sugar with 1 tbsp of melted butter add some drops of vanilla and mix lively until it gain a silky gooey texture.
• These Cinnamon Rolls are wonderful for parties with numerous people. You can bake them a day before and serve them at room tempreture.

Enjoy 🙂

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Use skillet pan, or stone pans for grilling. Thermal shock on the surface brings more flavors to the chickens.

Ingredients | servings: 2

• 3-4 Chicken legs
• 1 Chilly
• 2 clove of Garlic
• 3-4 tbsp Ghee
• 5g of Ginger
• 1 teaspoon Turmeric
• 2tbsp White greek yogurt
• 1 teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder
• 2 teaspoon of Tandoori Masala
• 1 teaspoon of Coriander Powder
• 2 Chopped spring onions

Preparation

– Cut the surface of the chicken (3-4 cuts per each) so the marinade can coat more surface of the meat.

Making the marinate

– In a bowl add: The grated garlic and ginger, chopped chilly, all the spices, salt, yogurt, half of the chopped spring onions and oil. Mix to have a paste.

– Add the chickens and massage the paste all over.

– Leave them on room temperature for 30 mins.

– On a hot pan place the chickens.

– Each side should cook for 10-12 minutes (on medium heat). While cooking, chicken will release its juice.

➡️ (optional) After cooking the chickens, you can grilled some chopped veggies, so they will absorb the tasty flavor of chicken from the grill pan.

Serve the grilled chicken tandoori with veggies or salad (for low carb), or with naan (bread) with chopped spring onions on top.

Enjoy! ☺️

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