Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:
5 cups sesame seeds/sesame paste 2 cups
1 1/2 cups olive oil or vegetable oil
salt
paprika
lemon juice
parsley optional

Method:
Preheat oven to 350. Toast sesame seeds for 5-10 minutes, tossing the seeds frequently with a spatula. Do not allow to brown. Cool for 20 minutes.

Pour sesame seeds into food processor and add oil. Blend for 2 minutes. Check for consistency. The goal is a thick, yet pourable texture. Add more oil and blend until desired consistency (now you have basic sesame paste).

for preperation of Tahini salad you add 1 cup water in room temp. to 1 cup semsame paste. add : garlic 1 crushed ,  salt and paprika to taste, 2 spoons lemon juice. optional – parsley half cup chopped.

use less or more water in order to get to desired consistency

Ingredients:
250 grams dry Dates
1 teaspoon Red chili pepper
5 teaspoons Coriander powder
5 teaspoons aniseed powder
2 teaspoons white cumin powder
3/4 or 1 cup Lemon juice
Salt to taste

Method:

• Boil the dates until a little tender.
• Remove the stones and keep them whole.
• Dry with a clean cloth.
• Mix all the ground ingredients together with a little salt and fill in the dates.
• Keep the dates in clean jar.
• Mix a little salt with lemon juice and pour over the dates, taking care that dates must be covered with lemon juice.
• Keep aside for 7 days.
• Shake the jar every other day and serve after one week.

Ingredients:
2 cups boiled Rice
1/3rd cup Lemon Rice
6 Tbsp Oil
1/2 tsp Black Mustard seeds
Few curry leaves
3-4 green chilies
Salt to taste
1/4th tsp. turmeric powder
1/4th cup peanuts

Method:
Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, allow to splutter.
Add turmeric powder and peanuts, fry till brown.
Now add green chilies, curry leaves, salt and fry for 2 minutes.
Take it off from the flame and add lemon juice and mix well.
Now add this to the boiled rice and mix well.