REAL JAM RECIPES!

We used to it watermelon fresh, but Chinese cuisine offers you an easy and unusual recipe – fried watermelon with icing sugar.

¾ pound fresh watermelon with rind
2 oz wheat flour
1 egg
2 oz corn starch
2 oz sugar
2 oz ice crumbs
1/3 oz powdered sugar

1. Combine flour, egg, starch and sugar in a bowl and stir. Add ice and some water if needed and stir again.
2. Slice watermelon pulp in triangle pieces and roll in batter. Fry in a deep-fryer and lay out on a paper napkin to let the excess oil soak into it.
3. Serve up with powdered sugar.

Small beef pieces and sweet peppers, rolled up in sesame glaze… What can suit better for a picnic at your lawn in a warm spring day?

1 pound beef stake 1 ½ inches thick
2 red and 2 yellow peppers, sliced
lime segments
sweet chili sauce

for glaze

2 cloves garlic
1 tsp honey
1 tsp sunflower-seed oil
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp piquant chili sauce
1 tbsp light soy sauce

1. Cut beef stake in 1 inch slices. Roll beef and pepper cuts in glaze and grill each side 2-4 minutes, pouring with glaze.
2. Make skewers, each consisting of a beef slice and 2 pepper slices. Serve up with lime and sweet chili sauce.

This citrus duck salad is a perfect cold collation or a light main dish for supper.

2 cabbage lettuce
2 duck breasts, skin removed, chopped
7 oz water chestnuts, sliced
2 shallots, sliced
2 inches long cucumber piece, sliced in lines
4 spring onions leaves, sliced
1 stick celery, cut into thin lines
4 ½ oz bean sprouts
orange segments for decoration

 for seasoning

 3 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 ½ tbsp lime juice
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 red chili pepper, sliced
1 green chili pepper, sliced

1. Combine shallots, sprind onions, celery, cucumber, bean sprouts and water chestnuts in a big bowl. Mix thoroughly.
2. Put cabbage lettuce leaves in a dish, lay out salad and put duck pieces on top.
3. Put seasoning ingredients in a pan, heat up about3-5 minutes. Sprinkle salad with seasoning and decorate with orange segments.

This dewy milk-shake will help keeping your gastric acidity balanced.

2/3 cup yogurt or milk
2 grapefruits
soda water

1. Peel grapefruits and make juice with a squeezer.
2. Combine juice and yogurt and blend it. You can dilute milk-shake with soda water.

It’s hard to make sure whether it’s a salad or a dessert. Anyhow, this dish is a fount of vitamins. It can be served as a juicy dietary breakfast or a refreshing garnish for meat, fish and chicken.

1 pound carrot, grated
2 big sweet oranges
2 tbsp chopped pistachios or pine nuts
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
salt, black pepper

1. Peel oranges, remove pellicle from orange segments.
2. Mix oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and a small bowl to make a seasoning.
3. Combine carrot with oranges, pour in seasoning and strew with nuts.

This spicy mixture is an essential part of many Indian courses. You can make it yourself by frying all these spices in a dry pan for a minute. This will make them more fragrant. Then just crush spices in a coffe-grinder and put garam masala in a clean jar for spices.

2 tbsp fennel
4 parts anisetree
3 inches cinnamon stick
2 tbsp black pepper peas
2 tbsp caraway seeds
2 tbsp coriander
1 tbsp cardamom
1 tbsp cloves