REAL JAM RECIPES!

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.