Recipe: Spinach and Feta spirals

I recently joined a group that swopped recipes. Because I love almost all of them I figured I would share some that really made me go Mmmmmm and that I have tried or was keen or trying. It would really be a sin not to share.

Quick and easy savoury idea, puff pastry spirals with spinach and feta cheese.

Spinach filling: Chop up some spinach, mix with fresh crushed garlic cloves. Add crumbled feta and a dash of nutmeg. Season well with freshly ground black pepper.

It doesnt get easier than that .

Recipe shared by Rabia Ismail Firfirey

Recipe: Nutella buns

Because who doesnt love Nutella
Bun dough
1000 g flour
500ml milk lukewarm
1 pkt yeast
125-150 g sugar
1 ts fine cardomon
1/4-1/2 ts salt
1 egg
150 g butter melted
Raise for 45 min . Fill shape and raise until double. Divide in half if making 2 fillings.
 
Cinnamon filling
100 g soft butter
1-2 ss cinnamon
5 ss brown sugar
Glaze
1 egg
Pearl sugar (optional)
 
Nutella filling
1 or 2 TBl nutella or any chocolate spread
crushed nuts ( hazel,almonds or walnuts)
Dust with icing sugar when done

 Bake at 210 degree's fr about 10-15minutes or until brown

Recipe by Zerina Parker

Recipe: Daiwaras

The quickest thing to make for your iftaar table, seriously it took less then 30 minutes and was so delicious.


Ingrediants:
500g self raising flour
1tsp salt
1Tblspn Butter
2Tblspn sugar
1tsp elaichi powder
Buttermilk


Mix all ingredints togther,
Add buttermilk as required to form a dough.
Roll in out super thin and cut into shapes. Fry in oil then sugar as you would a bolla. Sprinkle with coconut.

When you fry it, it will pop up like little cushions

Recipe: Chicken Balls

Going through the Boeka Treats book recently I came across a recipe that I wanted to try but seemed like to much effort...Hence I tried the Butter bean Ball recipe not to long ago. That was good but this is super impressive. I felt like I couldn't get enough of it...But that could also be because I hadnt eaten all day...No it was definitely because it was so delish! And im actually really excited to share it with everyone. Oooh and also I added things to the recipe top enhance the yummyness!

Here goes:

• 1 cup mashed potatoes
• 1 cup cheese (grated)
• 1 cup spagetti (boiled)
• 1 cup chicken fillet
• dhanya
• green chillies (Add as much as you like)
• 1tsp ginger&garlic
• the juice of half a lemon
• 1 egg (beaten)
• 100g breadcrumbs
• salt&pepper

Method:

Cook the chicken in oil with the green chillies (finely chopped), ginger&garlic, lemon juice, and all your seasonings.

 Combine all the other ingrediants except the egg and breadcrumbs.

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Form into balls and dip into the egg before rolling into the breadcrumbs.

Deep fry until golden brown and then drain on paper towel to remove excess oil.

And Bon appetit!

1 of my favourite recipes

Recipe: Bolla's

INGREDIENTS

5 tablespoons of white sugar
2 eggs
5 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons of vanilla essence
2 & 3/4 cups of cake flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
300ml of buttermilk
1L of oil for deep frying
Fine Coconut for sprinkling

METHOD

Whisk eggs and sugar in bowl until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and oil and beat till creamy.
Now add the flour , baking powder and buttermilk and mix well , it should be a soft but stiff batter . There should be no dribbles of batter when you spoon some .

 
Allow mixture to rest covered for at least 30mins , so it can be made ahead of time ...

Place spoonfuls of mixture in hot oil and fry until golden brown.

TIP - Dip spoon in cold water to ensure that dough separates from spoon to form neatly rounded balls when dropped in oil. If you don't get them perfectly round , do not fret ... I don't ... And it's OK .

THE SYRUP
2 cups of sugar
2 cups of water
Some stick cinnamon

Allow to simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes -

Switch off the heat of the syrup and dunk the doughnuts once or twice , remove immediately and sprinkle generously with fine coconut .

Enjoy :)

Recipe: Hertzoggies

Hertzoggies is a great treat to have with your tea after a heavy meal. The sweet crust, sweet coconut and sweet jam sounds overbearing but to sweet-tooths like me its a combination to die for. And its really simple to make. What I love about it is its so versatile instead of sticking to traditional and just having Jam and Coconut you can experiment and add fillings that you prefer.

Ingrediants:

• 500g Butter/Margarine
• 1 cup Castor sugar
• 1 Tsp Vanilla essence
• 1 Egg
• 5 cups of Self raising flour (Add as required)
• Your choice of filling 

 If you do want coconut as a filling:

• 500g Coconut
• 500g Sugar
• Stick Cinnamon
• 4cups of water

Put everything in a pot till the water dries out

Method:

 Mix all your ingredients except the flour(Make sure the butter is soft). Once mixed, Mix in the flour by hand to form a soft dough. I needed to add quite a bit but do so a little at a time. You'll know it's right when it doesnt cling to your hand.

Thereafter dust your surface with flour and roll out a section of the dough at a time. Take a piece of wax paper and put it over the dough when rolling to prevent the dough sticking to the rolling pin. Choose a cookie cutter and constantly dip it in flour as you push into the dough.

Dont forget to spray your pans

My mom suggested I put the coconut in first and then add the jam immediately when it comes out of the oven. So heavenly.
You could also bake it plain and put whatever filling you like. My favourite is definately Peppermint caramel where you take 1 tin of Caramel Treat, 1 box of Orley Whip and 1 Peppermint chocolate, mix it together and scoop in into the tartlets.

This recipe gave me about 80 hertzoggies so you'll have more than enough to give all your neighbours as well :)

Happy baking :)



 

Recipe: Butterbean Balls

I love beans, especially Butterbeans. I could literally eat it everyday. That and sushi. So I found a recipe that involved butterbeans I figured i would try it out. Needless to say, it was good and really simple.

Ingredients:

• 1 Tin Butterbeans 
• 3 Viennas, sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 5 slices White bread, crumbled
• 1 xl Egg, beaten
• 1tsp lemon juice
• 2tsp Garlic paste
• Salt & Pepper to taste
• 100g breadcrumbs
• Oil for frying
• (And I added alot of fresh chillies, finely chopped)

Method:
Process the butterbeans, viennas, onions, garlic and bread together. Put in a bowl and add the egg, seasoning and chillies. Form into little balls and roll into the breadcrumbs till completely covered.

Deep fry for about 5 minutes and you good to go.

I would suggest putting a little cube of cheese into the ball before you breadcrumb it.  Gooey goodness.

Im really keen on trying the Spagatti Balls. Will be posting that soon.

XOXO

Recipe: Flapjacks

I found this recipe on Fatima Sydow's page that you can viewed here. And I couldn't wait to try it out.
Its one of those things you can make it no time and is so devine. Another reason why I love this recipe is that the frying process requires no oil at all. Score!  Lets do this: 

Perfect with Ice-cream and strawberries

Ingredients

1 large egg
1 cup of sifted cake flour
1 cup of full cream milk
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
(I would add some sugar though)
 

Method 

Whisk egg , add the rest of ingredients , whisk till smooth , about a minute .

Heat a frying pan , with no oil or butter , pour with a ladle or half a cup worths in pan , when bubbles start appearing on the surface it's time to flip them over with a spatula , leave on heated pan for 30 seconds , and it's done take it out and place on your serving plate, repeat with remaining batter , you can get 6 pancakes from this batter , you want more , just double all the ingredients .
 

Serve it with Vanilla ice cream , strawberries and strawberry syrup , yum !!! Serve while pancakes are still warm. I however would not be able to resist adding Nutella or Golden syrup.