REAL JAM RECIPES!

This delicious pancakes with coconut stuffing can be served with yogurt, sour cream or jam.

1 cup flour
1 egg
¼ cup milk
3 tbsp sugar
4 cup fresh coconut, grated
½ inch ginger root, grated
yogurt, salt, aniseeds to taste
oil

1. Beat up egg with 2 tbsp milk, combine with flour and salt and make thick pastry. Leave in a cold place for 30 minutes.
2. Add the rest of milk to get pastry looking like nonfat cream. If it’s too thick, add some milk. Preheat a small pan and fry over medium or strong heat.
3. Combine coconut, aniseeds, sugar and ginger. Put 1 full tsp coconut stuffing on each pancake and fold in four. Cover and let it cool about 30 minutes.
4. Decorate with the rest of grated coconut and serve with yogurt.

6-7 small tomatoes
2 bunch fresh cilantro
6 green chili peppers
salt

Combine all ingredients and blend.

Don’t be affraid of this sophisticated dish name. Kesar kheer means sweet rice pudding with various second helpings and it’s a quite easy recipe.

½ cup rice
4 cup milk
8 tbsp sugar
1 tsp saffron
1 cup pistachios, shells removed
½ cardamom

1. Soak pistachios in water for 3 hours. Wash rice, combine with 2 cups milk and mix. Cook 20-25 minutes until soft.
2. Add saffron, cardamom, sugar and the rest of milk. Cook 10 minutes more until thicken. If pudding seems to be too thick, add some milk or water.
3. Decorate with pistachios and serve hot or cold.

If you like making jams you can try this exotic recipe, which doesn’t really take much time to cook.

1 pineapple (2 kilo), peeled, cored and diced
2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1, 3 kilo sugar
1, 25 liter water

1. Combine pineapple, water and lemon juice in a big pan, bring to a boil. Coddle about an hour until pineapple is soft.
2. Add sugar and stir until it dissolves. Bring to a boil without cover and simmer 30 minutes until jam gets thick.
3. Pour hot jam in warm sterilized jars and seal.

A very easy jam recipe. Black currant will have a nice and tender taste.

1 kilo black currant
1,5 kilo sugar
2 cup water

1. Bring water to a boil, put currant and bring to a boil one more time.
2. Put sugar and let it melt. Bring to a boil, then coddle 20-25 minutes.
3. Remove from fire, let it cool down and pour into jars.

Want to bake something new and delicious? Cause joy to your relatives with these curd rolls: tender and sweet curd pastry that melts in the mouth!

½ pound curd
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
3 tbsp butter
1 tsp backing powder
1 tbsp cinnamon

1. Melt butter. Combine with flour, curd and backing powder and mix thoroughly.
2. Beat up egg with half sugar, pour into curd mixture and make pastry. Leave it for about 30 minutes.
3. Roll out pastry to form a rectangle, powder with cinnamon and sugar. Roll up pastry and cut it in small rolls. Bake in the oven (180 C/360 F) until ready (about 15 minutes).

This low-caloric orange jam isn’t as rich in calories as usual orange jam. Though it has less saturated colour than usual jams have, it’s not less tasty and flavored.

2 pound oranges
1 ½ cup apple juice
3 ¾ cup jam sugar

1. Slice oranges in thin segments and remove seeds. Put orange segments in a big pan with apple juice. Bring to a boil and simmer 30-40 minutes until orange peel is soft.
2. Add sugar and cook stirring on a slow fire until it melts. It takes about 5 minutes. Bring to a boil and cook over a strong heat 4 minutes.
3. Remove from fire, skim scum from the surface. Let it cool for 15 minutes, and then pour into sterile jars.

These small crispy wontons resemble Chinese dim sum, but they are baked in the oven. If you think this dish is too expensive, you can easily replace shrimps by chicken breasts or minced meat.

½ pound shrimps, hulled
8 sheet filo pastry
2 clove garlic
2 shallots
1 chili, seeded
1 lime peel
1 inch long fresh ginger piece
2 tbsp fresh coriander

1. Set oven to 200 C (390 F). put garlic, ginger, shallot onions, chili, lime peel and coriander in a blender and mince until you get a paste. Then add shrimps and mince several seconds more.
2. Put one filo pastry sheet on a board and oil it. Then put one more pastry sheet above, oil it as well. Cut the squares 3*3 inches big.
3. Put 1 tsp shrimp paste in the center of each square and make wantons according to the recipe below. Put your wontons on a backing tray and bake about 15 minutes until golden.
4. Serve up shrimp wontons together with small soy sauce dish or sweet chili sauce.

Each country has its own name for the dish consisting of small pastry “bags” stuffed with meat. Italians call it ravioli, Russians – pelmene, and Chinese – wontons. Wontons look like small “knots”, which have stuffing “tied up” inside. They are usually served as an appetizer or put in noodle soup.

l14 oz pork forcemeat
24 wonton envelopes
1 ¾ oz tinned bamboo, sliced
2 leaves spring onion, sliced
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 egg white, beaten up
4 ½ tbsp starch
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp dry sherry
2 tbsp sugar

1. Combine in a big bowl pork, bamboo, onion, soy sauce, egg white, sugar, sesame oil and sherry and mix thoroughly. Add starch and mix again.
2. Put 1 tsp filling in the center of each wonton square, moisten its edges with water and join them to form a “knot”.
3. Cook in a steamer 5-7 minutes until ready.