Fast cooking at home
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Hi guys, I'm a Student in Germany (I'm not from Germany)
Can you guys give me some fast cooking recipes, specially with potatoes & noodles?
Also, I've been trying to bake bread, but it always turned out horrible, any tips? Thanks! -
I know only egg and bread
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For noodles: bring your water to a boil, put your noodles in, wait for it to begin boiling, give it a stir - put the lid on and shut the stove off. After 10 minutes your noodles will be perfect (unless they're egg noodles ; those cook significantly quicker)
Afraid I don't have anything for quick cooking though lol
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1. For bread, try doing a quickbread first, like corn bread or Irish soda bread. They're a lot easier to do than traditional breads and taste pretty great.
2. For quick noodle dishes, here's two:
A) Cook your noodles until just before they're done. While they're cooking, take an egg or two and beat it with a fork, set that aside. Then in a frying pan, cook some thinly sliced bacon (optional, otherwise use some olive oil) until it's crispy and the fat's rendered out. Remove half the fat - you don't need it. Cook an onion in the fat, then add some garlic and pepper. Drain the noodles and pour this sauce over them, then stir the noodles while drizzling in the egg. The heat from the pasta will cook the egg, causing it to thicken the sauce without forming chunks of egg. Add some freshly grated parmesan/reggiano cheese and you're done. It's a good winter dish. If you're like me and like some greens alongside, they can be stirred in at the end too, chopped into fine ribbons; the heat will wilt them and they'll get coated in sauce.B) Cook some noodles and set them aside. Make sure they're still a bit chewier than you'd like. In a frying pan, add a bit of oil and some garlic and ginger (around here you can buy garlic and ginger as a paste with no added salt or preservatives, it works great). To that, add a tablespoon of black bean sauce and some balsamic vinegar (the Chinese use a vinegar called Chankiang but it's often full of lead and other nasty shit and it's harder to find.) Let it reduce a bit to take away some of the acid's sharpness. Add some chili garlic sauce. Toss the noodles in and add some chopped leafy greens (cabbage works great, so does lettuce) and chopped scallions. You can also add some sausage or a meat or tofu if you want - just cook them after you add the sauces and before you add the noodles, or use pre-cooked leftovers.
For an easy potato dish, I'd suggest just mashing them with some horseradish, garlic, and milk or chicken stock. You can make a nice pan gravy to go along with them (equal parts fat and flour, whisk on medium heat until uniform, keep stirring until a light brown, add pepper/seasonings, add broth while whisking hard, let cook 3-4m while stirring to thicken.)
You might also look into making "sauce mornay" - it's a cheese sauce, it's delicious on everything, and it's easy as hell to make. For healthier dishes, simple formula for you: small amount fat, ginger, garlic, a sauce (hoisin's sweet, chili bean is hot, garlic chili's tangy, the list goes on), an acid (wine vinegar, wine, citrus juice), cook veg and tofu in the sauce by reducing heat and covering the pan with a lid. Serve on top of a starch and you'll be golden.
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Cooking is not so easy! Cooking is art.
