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Hello everybody...Dear EC members!. Here it’s me Nina as you might know..I came up with a delicious blog post today!EC has many many members from all over the world ,

so why can’t we create Something altogether?:))

Each of us is a representative of a country, culture and even a through idea, so let’s share them and present them. It’s going to be a process…In each step we have one blog post with a certain topic…then it’s your turn to show yourself to us…remember you are a representative of your people and culture!…as some topics require technical vocabularies, try to search them and use them in your comments (bold them please)…I will add your comments to the blog to have a whole unique result…

I know its Ramadan and Muslims keep fasting-so am I-, but I decided to take the first step a little bit tasty! The first step is:

a recipe of one of your local delicious food!

May God accept your fasting Dear Muslims, one of the reasons of fasting is to take the control of our desires, even the shallowest, right? the prophet(P.B.U.H) said that Ramadan is a month, first of which is blessings, the middle is forgiveness and the end is releasing from the fire of Hell. I hope we all learn what we have to learn and we are capable of learning throughout this lovely month, In Sha Allah.))

• Dear EC members! It would be better to add picture!
• Try to follow a good pattern for writing but don’t copy the recipes -(think all can understand it)- trust on your writing!))
• If you have any suggestion for the topic of the next step, I’d be happy if you send it in a message for me.
• The new step will be shown up after five days-following the previous-.
• Invite your friends to join us.
• Don’t hesitate, start writing!!

1.A Food Recipe From Iran: Khoresh Gheymeh!!!

Ingredients (for 4-5 persons):
Split peas (two cups).................................................................
Chopped onion (two middle-size)
Potato (three middle-size)
Oil(as needed)
Sliced fried eggplant (two - if you will)
Red (meat)800 gr.
Black lime (five)............................................
Tomato sauce (two-three table spoons)
Grated tomato (two middle-size-recommended)
Spice and salt and pepper (As much as needed)+boiling water))

Method:

A) First of all, do all these to start: 1) boil the split peas and keep them aside/2) cut two of the potatoes into small chunks and slice the other/3) cut the meat into small chunks.

B)Great!,now, pick up a pot and start cooking! : Sauté the chopped onions in hot oil. Then add the meat chunks and sauté them together.(be careful not to burn the onions!!!))Now it’s the time to add spices such as turmeric, pepper and etc.(warning: don’t add salt now since the meat won’t get cooked!).Then add the grated tomatoes and two table spoons of tomato sauce. Sauté all of them together.( the previous steps in B take place in 10-15 minutes, we add them constantly after each other).

C) When the rawness of the tomatoes and tomato sauce disappeared, pour 2-3 boiling water into the pot and let it boil. Control the heat! Simmering always works! So choose almost a gentle heat after some minutes to go on!

D) Afterward, it’s time to add black limes to the food,(recommended: make some small chinks by a chicken knife in them to get the desirable taste) potato chunks and after a short while boiled split peas.

E) Let the food boil gently so that everything cooked thoroughly! Did we add salt????!!Not probably! That’s because of the meat as I said, check the meat out during cooking, and whenever you found it cooked add salt as much as needed.

*While waiting for your food to be cooked fry the sliced potato. We need them for the decoration of the food before its being served.
*About eggplant, it’s good to say that some people add it to the food and some put it on the food along with fried potatoes…and some don't use it in the food...that’s your choice!
*After 30 minutes – an hour when all the ingredients such as meat, potatoes and even black limes are cooked, it’s time to serve the food!
In Iran, people serve Khoresh Gheyme with rice! Oh shall I explain how to cook rice too???Let it be for further research!)) You can decorate your Khoresh by fried potatoes and eggplants and also fresh vegetables!

Bonn appetite!

2.A food recipe from Russia:     Russian okroshka     

Introduced by: Prostomolotova Galina

Three days ago I returned from my Mum’s place where I stayed with my daughter  for some days. As it’s summer now in Russia, the weather is very hot. So we prepared our favourite traditional summer soup called ‘okroshka”. It is perfect meal for hot summer weather as it is prepared on the base of kvass – russian bread drink – and it is light and very refreshing. It’s rather challenging to get good kvass in the shop, but my Mum can prepare it herself. It’s so delicious!

Ingredients: (for 4 persons):

• 2/3 potatoes
• 1cucumber of medium size (or 2-3 baby cucumbers)
• 300 gr of boiled meat (beef or chicken) or sausage
• 4 eggs
• 1 small bunch of radish
• 1 bunch of fresh dill
• 1 medium bunch of green onions
• 4 tbsps of sour cream
• 1.5-2 litres of kvass (russian bread drink), you may replace it with kefir diluted with cold boiled water or mineral water
• Salt, ground black pepper

How to make, step-by-step:

Bon Appetit!

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