Cauliflower cous cous

This salad is a really easy and healthy recipe and the best way to eat vegetables.

Ingredients:

- 1 Small cauliflower 

- 1 tomato
- 1/2 Red onion
- Olive oil
- Lemon juice 
- Salt or @Herbamare
- Pepper 

First of all you have to finely cut or grate the cauliflower in order to get small grains, similar to couscous. Cut the onion, cut the tomato in small cubes. Mix all the ingredients and season them with the olive oil, the lemon juice, the @Herbamare and the pepper.

Gazpacho

If you have a blender and tomatoes, you can make gazpacho. You can make a lot and keep it in the fridge, so when you're thirsty you just have to serve a glass of delicious vitamins. It can also be taken in the form of a soup, as in the photo, adding small pieces of vegetables (tomato, cucumber, onion)

Ingredients:

- 1 kilo of very red and ripe tomatoes

- 1 green pepper

- 1 clove garlic

- 1/4 onion

- 50ml Virgin olive oil

- 250ml of water if you are going to drink it, 50ml if you are going to make soup

- Salt

- 10ml Sherry vinegar

- Black pepper

The original recipe takes some bread, about 50g, but I like it better that way, it's lighter.

Put everything in the blender until it is finely crushed. If the mixer is not very powerful, you may need to strain it. Just a few hours in the fridge or if you're dying of impatience, add some ice cubes.

 

Pasta with mussels

 

This is a very easy recipe, but it looks like a very sophisticated one. Furthermore, it takes a very short of your time and it's very tasty.

Ingredients:

- Some kind of pasta

- Mussels

- 1 Clove of garlic

- A little of parsley

-  A splash of white wine

- Salt

- Pepper

- Olive oil

- A little bit of chile ( If you like the spicy food)

Heat water in a casserole. When it boil add the pasta and a pinch of salt. Meanwhile, in a frypan pour some olive oil add the garlic finely chopped. Sauté them, add the mussels, the wine and the chile. Drain the pasta and add to the mussels.  Stir it for a minute, add the parsley and serve.

Avocado toast

Easy, fast and healthy, the all in one . You can make the avocado toast in a minute and it's perfect for a lunch o a light dinner. It can be made a bit more complicated by adding smoked salmon or ham or whatever you like.

Ingredients:

- Avocado

- Rye bread

- Salt

- Pink pepper

Cut a slice of bread. Spread the avocado with the help of a fork on the bread. Season with salt and pepper. Enjoy.

Long live the canned tuna

When we don't know what to make for dinner, we aren't in the mood or we have no time, usually we make pasta with tomato sauce or we open a tuna can. But there is nothing sadder than sitting on a table looking at a tuna can. Well, it could be worse: to be sit looking at a sardine can.

Today, we´re going to change this, we´re going to transform the tuna can sadness in happyness, we´re going to give colour to it and we´re going to make several easy recipes with a tuna can.

Tuna Poke

Instagram has plenty of pictures of this hawaiian fish salad, last gastronomic trend, but I think it is nothing like the original one. Nevertheless, it´s very tasty and is a very healthy dish. It usually has some kind of cereal, usually rice, vegetables, algaes, nuts and fish, althoght we can make it with chicken or turkey.

The Poke of the picture has rice, a tuna can, sweet corn, cherry tomatoes, some arugula,  few  hazelnut, red onion and avocado. You can season it with regular salad sauce, with soya sauce or whatever sauce you like. ANYTHING BUT KETCHUP!

Rice Salad

We usually make this recipe on Sunday, when we aren't in the mood of cooking. It is not rocket science and it´s very tasty. Cook the rice in plenty of salted water, drain it and let it be cold. Add a tuna can,sweet corn and olives, season it and that is all!

Tuna Burgers

Tuna burgers are a little bit more complicated and you have to use the stove and a fry pan, but it´s not that big of a deal. We'll need the next ingredients:

. A tuna can well wrung

. One egg

. Rice or boiled potatoes or chic pea flour or breadcrumbs.

. Chopped garlic

. Chopped onion

. Chopped parsley

. Salt ( not too much, the ingredients have salt)

. Black pepper

. A squeeze of lemon
















Blend  the ingredients in a bowll to obtain a thick paste.

Form hamburgers with your greased hands and fry them in a pan with olive oil. When they are ready put them on a kitchen paper to eliminate the excess fat. Serve with a green salad or potato chips or both of them.

Pasta with tuna and tomatoes

The last recipe mix the tuna can with the pasta with tomato sauce. You can find it in this very blog in the next link.

http://ayudamamaa.blogspot.com/2015/03/pasta-con-atun-y-tomate.html

Boiled Quail Eggs

Las 13 Friday was the World Egg Day, so in Help Momm! we´ve made this recipe with quail eggs.

Ingredients:

- Quail eggs
- Water
- A pinch of salt

Put the eggs in a pot, add fresh water and cook until it boil for 3 minutes if you like a soft yolk or 5 if you like a hard boiled egg. Just before it begin to boil add a litle bit of salt. When the time is over suddenly sink the eggs in cold water to stop the cooking and make easy to remove the shells.

Pear, fennel and arugula salad

This salad is inspired in the one of El Comidista

Ingredients:

1 pear

1 fennel

1/2 red onion

1 beetroot

1 bunch of arugula

3 spoons of lemon juice

1 spoon of vinegar 

3 spoon of olive oil

1 spoon of honey

1 pinch of cumin 

salt and pepper

Cut the fennel and the onion in very thin slices. Put the slices in a bowl, add the lemon juice and the vinegar. Lets it marinate for 45 minutes.

Cut a beetroot in tin slices and put it on a dish, over it we put the fennel, the onion, the arugula and the pear cut in 8 pieces.

We prepare a vinaigrette with the olive oil, the honey, the marinate´s juice, salt, pepper and cumin and we add it to the salad just before serving.