Cherry Pie with Cardamom

I promised you to write about one excellent recipe with cardamom. So today you can discover a new taste because of  cherry pie with spice that I was writing about two days ago. At first, you must prepare ingredients like: 

For short-crust pastry:

200g of flour

2 egg yolks

100g of butter

30g of icing sugar

2 tablespoons of cream ( take it directly from a fridge, it must be cold)

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix with your hands very quickly. Cover the bowl and put it into a fridge for 30 minutes.

For filling:

0,5l of milk

1 vanilla pod

140g of sugar

4 egg yolks

50g of flour

Put milk with vanilla pod in a pot and place it over a heat. Mix egg yolk with sugar. When it will be like polish kogiel-mogiel add flour and mix it together. Remove the vanilla pod from the pot and add the mixture of yolk, sugar and flour. Simmer the milk until smooth. Cool before you will put it in a pastry.

Preheat oven until 180°C. Now you can take the pastry from the fridge and put it on a baking sheet. One more time put the baking sheet into fridge during 10 minutes. Then bake pastry during 20 minutes until gold colour. Put the milky filling into baked pastry.

Cherries with cardamom:

0,5kg of cherries

4 tablespoons of brown sugar

1 tea-spoon of cinnamon

0,5 tea-spoon of cardamom

2 tea-spoons of starch

Put cherries with sugar, cinnamon and cardamom in a pot and heat it. When it will be very hot, add starch and mix all together. Put cherries into the milky filling.

Now you can prepare a good coffee and taste your cherry pie! 

This recipe I found here: www.kulture-raz.pl/

Spices: Cardamom

 

Today I decided to write something about cardamom. It’s the third most expensive spice after saffron and vanilla! Cardamom comes from the ginger family. For the first time it was founded in south Asia, in countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal. Nowadays Guatemala and India are the biggest producers of cardamom in the world. You can find two different forms of cardamom: green and brown. The second one is popular in Asia and Australia. You will hardly find it in polish shops. The green cardamom with minty aroma and strong taste is a common spice in Europe so you can buy it easily. Generally we use cardamom pods and seeds that you can hold in a small jar. You can buy also cardamom powder.

 

Cardamom is very popular as an ingredient in Indian dishes but you can use it also to prepare a delicious dessert for the New Year’s Eve. I will give you a very good recipe in my next post.

 

Cheesecake with strawberries

It was the first cheesecake with strawberries in this summer season that I decided to prepare in my kitchen. I’m allergic to strawberries but I really like this sweet, juicy fruit. This is the best moment to buy and try to introduce fresh fruits and vegetables in our diet. How you can prepare this cheesecake?

It’s very easy.

You will need:

1 box of butter biscuits (about 250-300 g) crushed to crumbs

1 tablespoon of peanut butter

1 table spoon of butter

1 ready cheesecake filling (193g)

500 ml of milk

About 1 kg of strawberries

Mix crushed biscuits with butter, peanut butter and put them into the tin. Make the filling: place milk and ready cheesecake filling into a bowl, then mix with an electric mixer. Put the cream onto the biscuit base and strawberries on the top. Leave to set in the fridge.

Polish dumplings

 

Last Sunday we were in Mandu – a small restaurant in Oliwa district in Gdańsk, where you can try different kinds of dumplings. I wanted to discover this popular place because I read about it in Internet. This restaurant is famous for very good cuisine and a possibility to observe how they prepare dumplings just before they serve them on a plate.

 Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. Two basics ingredients that we use to prepare polish dumplings are flour and water. They may have a sweet or savoury filling. Typically they are cooked by boiling but in Mandu you can also try baked dumplings. If you visit Gdańsk, you must eat dinner in this place. We’ve chosen baked Mexican dumplings with mixed meat-vegetables filling and khinkali – Georgian dumplings with spicy meat filling and chopped parsley. Everything was delicious. Next time I would like to try dumplings with raspberry and chopped mint filling served with sour cream.

Our visit in Kazimierz Dolny

I spent two days with my husband in Kazimierz Dolny. It was the first anniversary of our wedding. We really like travelling but we don’t have enough time to do it regularly. Kazimierz Dolny is a small town in south-west of Poland, on the right bank of Vistula. This beautiful place has been the location of several films. There’s a lot of small galleries with art folk and restaurants where you can spend a time, eat something delicious and take a coffee. The famous symbol of Kazimierz is a cock. You can even buy bread cocks form in Sarzyński’s bakery.

I wanted to try traditional Jewish cuisine so we went to restaurant ‘U fryzjera’. For the first time in my life I ate gęsi pipek (it’s a stuffed goose neck) and dumplings with salad of carrots in sweet spicy sauce. It was a great experience for me. You can see pictures below :)