Southern food recipes

Ingredients for portions
½ kg beef, diced
1 bottle of beer, dark, sweet (best Belgian
2 onion (s), chopped coarsely
1 tablespoon, died mustard, sweet
1 cube beef stock
1 teaspoon thyme
2 bay leaves
flour
butter
Salt and pepper
Salt
possibly sugar

Preparation
The meat with salt and pepper and fry in butter, until browned on all sides. The meat from the pan, but leave the juices in the pot. Add the onions and fry until they are brown. Then, with the dark beer (preferably Belgian Abbey or Trappist beer category “dubbel” so dark, very sweet beer) deglaze and cook briefly. Then the meat is coming back into the pot. The bay leaves, thyme, mustard and bouillon cubes are added. Add enough water so the meat is completely covered. Ca. two and a half hours at low heat to boil. Thicken with flour and simmer a few minutes. Taste and add more seasoning if needed – depending on the chosen beer and mustard is possibly also attached a little sugar.

Serve with potatoes.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Normal

Ingredients for 4 portions
2 liters of milk
6 tablespoons lemon juice or vinegar
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
200 g onion (s) sliced finely
1 tsp cumin, whole
4 tomatoes (s), chopped finely
½ teaspoon chili powder
½ tsp turmeric
1 ½ teaspoon salt
350 g spinach, chopped finely
50 ml cream
½ tsp coriander powder
½ teaspoon spice mixture (Garam Masala)
2 cm ginger, fresh, cut into strips

Preparation
The milk in a saucepan to a boil. Stir in lemon juice or vinegar. The milk curdles then. If it does not happen as long as further add lemon juice or vinegar and cook until the milk curdles.

Then the pot from the heat. A sieve with a muslin cloth design (I always take these finely meshed, thin blue-white or all-purpose washing cloths, a cloth diaper could do it also, of course, clean). The curd and pour in 2 – 3 min. Drain.

The cloth with the thus obtained cheese (paneer) tie, remove from the colander, press out the liquid a little with your hand and place on a flat plate. complain with a water-filled pot about 2 hours. Take out the paneer and about 2 cm cubes.

Heat the oil in a large pan or wok, add onion and cumin and stir until golden brown. Add the majority of the tomatoes (reserve a rest for garnish), stir, cover and about 5 min. cook, stirring occasionally from here.

Season with chili, turmeric and salt. Spinach, paneer pieces and add cream, stir gently (taking care to not break the paneer pieces). Cover over low heat about 10 – 15 min. Simmer. Finally add coriander, garam masala and ginger strips and continue to cook for several minutes.

On a plate and garnish with the remaining diced tomatoes. Basmati rice or bread as a side dish fit, for example, naan bread (paratha).
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Rest time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Normal

Ingredients for portions
300 ml syrup (or sugar syrup Kandissirup)
100 g brown sugar (optional)
200 g butter or margarine
1 pack baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 tsp, cinnamon crossed out
450 g flour

Preparation
Syrup, sugar, soft fat, salt and cinnamon until fluffy. Flour and baking powder and knead into a dough. 3 hours in the refrigerator.
Either form of the biscuit maker biscuits or shape into a roll and cut into 1 / 2 cm thick slices.
Bake at 160 degrees about 15 minutes.
The cookies are very sweet as the original. If you want, omit the sugar or make the cookies thinner.
Preparation time: 15 min
Resting time: 3 hours
Level of difficulty: simple

Ingredients for 12 portions
1 bunch dill
30 g sugar
2 (s) egg, of which the yolk
2 tablespoons lemon juice
6 tablespoons mustard, medium hot
6 tablespoons honey, liquid
2 tablespoons whipping cream

Preparation
Ingredients then mix with a little salt and pepper and chill.
Served to my kaltgebeizten salmon and other fish dishes.
Preparation time: 5 min
Level of difficulty: simple