Showing posts with label mozzarella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mozzarella. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Lunch box: Bulgur salad with vegetables

What’s cooking on in Pauline-Cuisine?

Another lunch box recipe for this week: Bulgur salad with vegetables, we need to keep on track with the new resolutions.

I wanted to taste the bulgur, so many times, I saw it mentioned in my cooking magazines as great alternative to the more traditional semolina. In order to help me to cook it for the first time, I took the inspiration from a well known French cooking website: Marmiton. I mixed different recipes with what I already know on my favorite mix in order to achieve this tasteful and easy recipe. It is a kind of Taboule but the fact to use the dried tomatoes gave a something different to the usual recipe. Moreover, as the cucumber has been replaced by olives and that mozzarella has been added, this lunch box has a kind of Italian way.

I was surprised how easy it is to cook the Bulgur. The first time, that I saw the seeds, I though that will be more like the Quinoa, which is for my part quite difficult to find the right cooking timing. Moreover, I was impressed by the volume of it. So the first time that I tried, I cooked far too much of it and I wasted it, so in the recipe, I have taken care to give you the right amount of dried seeds.

I hope you will enjoy this nice salad, don’t hesitate to comment it.

Have a nice week and see you next week with another delicious recipe.

Sunday, 9 June 2013

Lunch box: Gnocchis with vegetables

What’s cooking in Pauline-Cuisine?

The sun is back and that is really great news. I am still really tired by our long winter but seeing the sun when I wake up is marvellous. So, I decided to put some colour on my dishes, still hot but really colourful and tasty.  This week I will share with you the recipe of Lunch box: Gnocchis with vegetables.

I have used some leftover in my fridge for creating this weekly recipe. In fact, I am so busy at the moment that I didn’t take time to order my grocery and that is quite good because I just cook with all the leftover on the fridge, so no waste. Every time, I place an order, I order some gnocchis because it is a long conservation product and you can use it when you are in a rush. But this time, I wanted to spend a little bit more time in my kitchen and make a more complicated recipe with my gnocchis that my usual one: Gnocchis with cheese and pesto. I had cherry tomatoes and courgettes in my fridge because I went to the market on Thursday. In fact, I have discovered recently an amazing market near my place where they sell bowls of fruits and vegetable for £1, unbeatable :).

I decided to cook the courgette in square piece in a pan. I have peeled the cherry tomatoes in order to let them really melt with the gnocchis. Everything in a pan with some piece of mozzarella, then served with fresh basilic, really amazing taste and texture.

Take time to try this really nice recipe that you can eat straight away or for your next day lunch box.