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venerdì 20 ottobre 2017

BURRITO ON THE ROAD

The burrito is a kind of food that belongs to the tex-mex cuisine. It's a popular street food, especially in the USA. Over the years this food has met the taste and the lifestyle of each person, for example the vegans and the vegetarians.
Initially the street food was created for the lower society class’ demand.
Nowadays it has updated and focused on different cultures, following the tradition and the quality of products. Street food also permits the people to taste food during a simple stroll around the city.









The burrito consists of a large wheat flour tortilla, generally filled up with bovine meat, chicken or pig then closed to obtain a thin roll.
Every city has a different interpretation of the classic recipe. The filling includes also other ingredients like rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole and cheese. In the USA there are principally four popular versions: the classic tex-mex, the San Francisco's, the San Diego's, and the Los Angeles' one.
We want to propose you the authentic Mexican recipe.


Preparation:
In this recipe, we will use beef loin, which you will slice into thin slices.
Cook separately meat slices in a bit of olive oil and a pressed garlic clove. Add salt and black pepper to the meat slices and cook until medium-done; store for later.

In the same frying pan add the diced tomato to the hot oil. Once the tomato has started to melt down, drop in the previously diced onion and garlic. Cook for a few minutes and add the rice (which has already been cooked), the beans and the meat.

Now sprinkle your mix with cumin and coriander, and stir well. Taste seasoning, add salt and pepper if you wish.
Chop the lettuce into thin slices. Then place a wheat flour tortilla on a plate and spread two tablespoons of the meat, rice and beans mixture we previously did, then place some lettuce over and then sprinkle some cheese on top. Fold the tortilla into the typical cylinder shape, then cut the burrito in two. Serve with guacamole and some hot sauce.

We hope you will enjoy our article… let us know through your comments.

Glossary
Beef loin: it's a part in of the back of the bovine
Filling: all the ingredients that fill sweet and salty preparations
Guacamole: it is a Mexican sauce made with avocado, lime and salt
Lower society class: poor people
Roll: thin material rolled on itself to obtain a cylinder shape
Seasoning: the ingredients like salt, pepper and spices used for add flavour to the food
Slices: part of something, generally food, cut in thin stripes
Sprinkle: to put a bit of an ingredient on a dish, for example, to sprinkle spices on the burrito
Stir: mix one or more substances, for example, to stir the sugar in the coffee
Stroll: to walk in the outdoors
Taste: to eat a little quantity of a dish to check the flavour
Tex-mex: it is a fusion of Texan cuisine and Mexican cuisine
Melt down: transition from the solid state to the liquid state, for example, the ice melts down at 0°C and becomes water
Wheat flour: a type of flour made with a cereal; you can use it to make bread, pizza and pasta    
          

venerdì 13 ottobre 2017

Food Tour Menu

Hi everyone!

Welcome on this blog!
Today we would like to propose this menu: the FOOD TOUR. In this menu we will present some dishes from different countries.
We will take you around the world!
Enjoy this recipe and this particular taste!

First dish: Rice with Saffron

The saffron rice is a typical dish of the north of Italy. This rice can be enriched with mushrooms, sausages or speck.

“Risotto Giallo” in Italy is a synonym for richness and cheerfulness, because saffron was a very expensive ingredient in the past.




Recipe for 4 people

Average time: 25 minutes cooking.

Ingredients:

280 g of rice;
40 g of butter;
½ onion;
½ glass of white wine;
1 saffron bag (0.15g);
40 g Parmesan;
1 L Broth.


How to prepare it:

                     
                                Peel and finely chop the onion and brown it with 30 gr of butter in a pot until they golden.
Merge the rice and make it toast in the condiment.

When the rice has golden, add white wine and hot broth. Stir the rice constantly and at the same time add the hot broth to avoid drying the rice.
At half-cooking, add the saffron bag (previously dissolved in a cup of hot broth) to the rice.

After cooking (about 20 minutes) remove the pot from the fire, add a butter nut and parmesan and keep it stirring.


Wait a couple of minutes before serving saffron rice in the dishes, so that the rice rests and the flavors get stronger.



Glossary
Brown: to make or become brown
Parmesan: a variety of Italian cheese. Parmigiano-Reggiano is commonly grated over pasta or stirred into soup and risotto
Saffron: an orange-coloured condiment. It is a very expensive condiment. It was probably first cultivated in or near Greece
Golden: to make something become gold-colored
Stir: to move a spoon or other kitchen tool around (a liquid or another substance) in order to mix it thoroughly
Dissolve: to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.