Chicken Lasagne

I love Italian food, but…who doesn´t? Pasta, cheese, and tomato are a beautiful combination, and if we add some béchamel sauce, meat, chicken or whatever we like, it results in an awesome dish, called Lasagne!

I like to make my own béchamel sauce. It’s not difficult, and I only make the amount I need.

Today I will show you how to make a Chicken Lasagne.

Let´s start:

Ingredients (3-4 persons)

• 1 chicken or 3 big chicken breasts already cooked and chopped by hand
• 1 onion, finely sliced
• 2 garlics, finely sliced
• Olive oil
• Salt
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• 200gr tomato, diced
• 100 gr corn
• 100 gr mushrooms
• Boiled water (100-200 ml)
• 9-12 lasagne sheets (depending on the size of your baking tray)
• 200-250gr Grated Emmental cheese

Béchamel Sauce

• 40 gr plain flour
• 40 gr butter
• 500 ml milk
• Salt q.s.
• Pepper q.s.
• Nutmeg q.s.

Instructions

First prepare the chicken filling

1. In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil with the onion and garlics, stirring frequently, until lightly browned (about 7-8 minutes)
2. Add the chopped chicken to the pan, and cook for about 3 minutes, stir occasionally
3. Add the tomato purée, the diced tomato, corn and mushrooms, 100 ml of boiled water, and stir it for 1 minute. Cook it for 7-10 minutes, and set it aside. Note: You might need more boiled water because your sauce can get dry

 Now let´s do the Béchamel sauce

1. Warm up the milk (you can use the microwave). Note: You just want it to be warm, (not boiling).
2. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
3. When the butter is melted, with a wooden spoon, add the flour, a bit at a time, stirring in between, until it is fully incorporated into the butter.
4. Slowly, add the warm milk to the mix, whisking vigorously to make sure it's free of lumps.
5. Simmer for about 8-10 minutes, stirring frequently to make sure the sauce doesn't scorch at the bottom of the pan. If you like to have a thick sauce, just leave it for a bit longer. Set aside. Note: Cover it with plastic film to cover the sauce, so it doesn´t get a thick layer on top.

 Finally you can start to lay up the lasagne

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Lay up the lasagne in a baking tray, starting with a layer of bechamel sause, then the lasagne sheets (to cover all the baking tray)
3. Put a 1/3 of the chicken filling, the white sauce and the grated Emmental cheese.
4. Repeat twice.
5. Top with the grated Emmental cheese
6. Bake it in the oven for 35-40 mins, until piping hot and crisp and bubbling on top.
7. Serve immediately

Baby C Birthday Party

I really loved to do this especial order, for Baby C birthday party. Pink, gold and white layout, beautiful colours for a beautiful baby girl! :)
 

French Toast

What a lovely and different suggestion for a breakfast or even brunch, French Toast. They are so delicious and they melted in the mouth. We all love here at home! And one more time is easy and quick to do!

Ingredients

• 5 white bread slices
• 100 ml milk
• 2 eggs
• sugar
• cinnamon

Instructions 

1. Beat the eggs
2. Heat a pan with oil over medium-high heat
3. Dunk each slice of bread in the milk, soaking both sides
4. Dunk each slice of bread in the eggs, soaking both sides
5. Place in the pan, and cook on both sides until golden. Serve hot!
6. Put sugar and cinnamon as you like

Chicken with beer

Sometimes we have a stressed day, and we don´t have any ideas for dinner. So, we just want something easy and quick to do. This recipe is incredible simple to make, with only four ingredients.

Chicken with beer (3-4 persons)

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts chopped
• 1 french Onion dried soup mix satchel (50 gr)
• 1 beer (330ml)
• 40 ml milk

Instructions

1. Start to chop your chicken breast
2. In a pan put the french onion dried soup mix, the chopped chicken, the beer and the milk, let cook for about 25-30 minutes at medium heat, stir occasionally

Suggestion: You can serve with white rice

Chocolate Banana Cake

My kids love bananas, and here at home I always have a lot, and sometimes we forget to eat them and they become a little bit ripe.

 I don´t like to throw food away, and my suggestion for this time is to make a Chocolate Banana Cake, is so delicious and doesn´t contain too much sugar because the bananas are sweet.

I promise your kids will love, and ask for more!

Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas
• 100 gr brown sugar
• 40 ml olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 125 gr greek yoghurt
• 150 gr flour
• 30 gr cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• salt

Instructions

 1.    First, preheat the oven to 180°C, and grease a 18 cm pan with butter and flour. Set aside

2.    In a bowl, mash the bananas and the brown sugar together

3.    Add the olive oil, eggs, vanilla extract and greek yoghurt. Mix all together

4.    Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt together. Add to the liquid mixture and mix everything

5.    Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake it for between 35 to 40 minutes. A toothpick inserted in the center of the cake must come out clean

6.    Remove it from the oven and let it cool down for about 10 minutes. Then, turn it out to a wire rack

Donuts

This is a recipe I've tried a few times now, and this time I got it just right. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 

Ingredients

• 600 gr plain flour
• 260 ml full milk
• 2 medium eggs
• 11 gr instant dry yeast
• 100 gr butter
• 40 gr sugar
• 8 gr salt
• 8 gr vanilla sugar

For the coating I used:

1. Sugar
2. Chocolate Glaze (Mix it all together)
   1. 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar
   2. 2 tablespoons of milk
   3. 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
3. Red Vanilla Donut Glaze (Mix it all together)
   1. 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar
   2. 2 tablespoons of milk
   3. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1.    Add all the ingredients into the mixing bowl, start mixing for 2 minutes at low speed

2.    After that, increase the speed and continue mixing for another 10 minutes

3.    Remove the dough from the bowl and gently make a ball

4.    Place the dough in a greased bowl, set it aside and let it leaven until it doubles the size

5.    Put a bit of flour on the table and place the dough on top. Start rolling it until it has about 1 cm thick. Note: Make sure that you have the same thickness throughout

6.    Cut your dough with a donut cutter, if you don´t have, you can use 2 round cutters, one bigger and another smaller to make the hole

7.    Note: I put my donuts in a peace of baking paper each, as I show in one of the pictures.

8.    Set it aside, again, to leaven a little more, but now just the time to rise 50%

9.    Put the oil in a frying pan at 160 ˚C

10.  Put your donuts in the pan, and let them fry until they become gold.

11.  Take them out to a plate with kitchen paper so the oil can drain

12.  You can decorate as you like