Cooking with Kelly

 

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Along the way I am hoping to meet people who will take me under their wing and teach me how to cook. I will use this page to document the recipes that I have learnt.

Perhaps you would like to learn with me and try some of these recipes at home with an adult? I was taught these recipes in Spanish, so hopefully they are correct! Let me know how they turn out! 

PERUVIAN FAVOURITES

The Peruvian recipes were taught to me by Selly, whom we stayed with in Trujillo, Peru. Selly makes about 20 empanadas every day and 1 type of cake. Then, she walks around the local market selling her produce to local people.

Selly serving the chocolate cake for the cyclists.

Selly´s Famous Chocolate Cake

Selly often makes a delicious chocolate cake for all the hungry cyclists staying at the Casa de Ciclistas. Selly gave me this recipe verbally just as we were saying goodbye to everyone, so I hope that it turns out correct! You might have to experiment with the icing!

Ingredients for the cake mix

3 cups of flour

1 cup of coca

3 cups of brown sugar

½ litre of milk

1 cup of oil

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 teaspoon of salt

2 teaspoons of vanilla essence

2 teaspoons of bicarbonate

3 eggs

 

Icing

(not too sure of the quantities, mix to your taste!)

Milk

Sugar

2 spoons of coca

Butter

Method

Add the bicarbonate to the flour and mix in a bowl.

 

Then add all the other dry ingredients (except the sugar) to the flour and stir.

 

In another bowl, beat the eggs and add in the milk.

 

After that, add the eggs and milk, a little at a time to the dry ingredients.

 

Add in the oil, vinegar and vanilla essence.

 

Add in the sugar and beat.

 

Grease a cake tray.

 

Pour the mixture into the cake tray.

 

Cook for about 40 mins, depending on the intensity of the oven.

 

To check if the cake is ready, stick a knife into the middle, if the knife comes out clean then it is ready.

 

For the icing

Mix all the icing ingredients together in a saucepan over heat.

 

Spoon onto the cake and cool.

 

Meat Empanadas

Empanadas are a great cycling snack and quite similar to Cornish pastries

 

Ingredients

150g of water

250g beef

3tbs brown sugar

1tbs salt

Handful of raisins

4 small onions

1 hot pepper

1 tub of margarine

½ kilo of flour

2 egg yolks

A little garlic, salt, pepper and herbs

Oil

Plastic bag

Method

Dissolve the sugar and salt into a bowl with the water. Put it to one side.

 

Cut up all the vegetables and raisins. Fry them in oil.

 

Add in the beef and continue to fry.

 

Add in the salt, pepper, garlic and herbs. Once cooked, place to the side.

 

Then mix the solution of the sugar and salt with the margarine and flour.

 

Kneed it and then roll the dough up into a ball. Cover the dough ball with a thin plastic bag.

 

Put the dough in the fridge for an hour.

 

After an hour, take the dough out of the fridge and roll it out into a long sausage on the table.

 

Split the dough into 20 small round balls.

 

Flatten each ball out with a rolling pin (use a little flour on the table if necessary to stop it sticking).

 

Put a tablespoon or two of the beef mixture into the middle of the dough.

 

Fold the dough in half over the beef mix.

 

Seal the ends together by pressing down on the edges with your fingers.

 

Paint the tops of the empanadas with egg yolk.

 

Bake in a hot oven for 20 to 30 minutes until they are hard, tap on the bottom of one to check if they are ready. They will sound hollow when they are ready.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Lemon Pie

 

This recipe makes one big lemon pie that is great to share with your friends. 

 

 

Ingredients

200g butter

½ kilo of vanilla biscuits

1 tin of condensed milk

½ kilo of sugar

½ kilo of eggs

6 limes

A splash of vanilla essence.

 

Method

In a food processor mix up the biscuits and butter until you have fine biscuit crumbs.

 

Take a cake base and cover the base with the biscuit mixture, remembering to push the mix up into the sides of the base. Flatten mixture with a spoon.

 

Clean food processor.

 

Put the condensed milk into a food processor.

 

Crack the eggs. Put the yolk into the food processor with the condensed milk.

 

Add the egg whites into another bowl.

 

Juice six limes and add it into the food processor.

 

Turn the processor on for a few seconds. Pour the mixture into the cake base ontop of the biscuit base.

 

Put the tin with the mixture in the oven and bake at 150 degrees for about 10 minutes or so.

 

Now, take the bowl with the egg whites in and add the white sugar and a couple of drops of vanilla essence.

 

Beat the mixture using an electrical whisk until snowy white peaks are formed, this may take about 5 minutes.

 

Take the base out of the oven and spoon on the egg white mixture. Spread it out.

 

Bake the whole cake on a slightly higher heat for about 10 minutes until the egg white mixture is brown.

 

Watch how quickly it disappears!

 

 

 

Mazzamora

 

This is Dave’s favourite Peruvian dessert and it is yummy eaten with hot rice pudding. 

 

Ingredients

2 corn on the cobs of the black variety

2 small apples

1 small pineapple

1 quince

2 small sticks cinnamon

Raisins

5 tbs potato flour (or a similar thickener)

Sugar to taste.

 

Method

Peel all the fruit and place the peel into a saucepan. Place the peeled fruit to the side on a chopping board.

 

Peel the corn and add the corn kernels and cob into saucepan.

 

Fill up the saucepan with water and boil. Put the lid on and then let it simmer.

 

Add two more cupfuls of water to it and then add in the cinnamon. Continue to simmer for about 20 mins.

Once it has simmered. Strain off the peel and corn and pour the liquid into a big bowl.

 

Cut up all the fruit into tiny pieces and add to the liquid.

 

Separate about 3 cupfuls of the liquid into a smaller bowl and allow it to cool for a little while (5 to 10 mins). Add a little sugar to taste and 5 tablespoons of potato flour into the cooled liquid.

 

Return the main liquid to the saucepan and heat. Continue to stir whilst adding in the smaller bowl of liquid with the flour in. You should notice that the mixture has begun to thicken.

 

Serve it with rice pudding.

 

 

Rice Pudding

 

 

Ingredients

¾ cups of rice

½ cup of dry milk or 1 small can of condensed milk

Sprinkle of nutmeg, cinnamon or vanilla essence or all three!

Handful of raisins or dried fruit.

 

Method

Add all the ingredients to 2 cups of water in a pot.

 

Bring to boil and simmer until the rice and fruit are tender (8-10 mins)

 

Stir and serve warm

 

Try it with the mazzamora.

 

 

Kelly Jordan 2008