Cold Refreshing Yoghourt Soup

It’s the best time for making "cold refreshing yoghourt soup", which is also nutritious and refreshing in these hot days. Also It is very easy for person who always comes late at home because of heavy traffic.

Vegetable Soup with 30 different Ingredients for your Diet

If you are on a diet close your eyes and imagine. Imagine about cooking something that consists of the nourishment, vitamins, protein, carbonhydrates and taste of 30 different things. Also imagine that this meal is light, fills your stomach and is good for a diet. I hear you say "No way! What kind of diet is this?" Follow this recipe and decide for yourself if I'm right or wrong.

Stuffed Peppers in Olive Oil

Who can just stand there and not taste a lovely dish made with olive oil, especially stuffed peppers? Most folk hesitate to make it at home, thinking it's a difficult job to prepare stuffed peppers but of course here I am to "prove them wrong!" If you know the job it only takes 40 minutes to prepare this lovely dish. Here are the secrets, just follow:

Ingredients

• 750 gr small regular shaped green bell peppers
• 1 and a 1/2 cups of rice, washed and strained
• 2 middle size onions, chopped
• 2 middle size tomatoes, sliced
• 1/2 a bunch of parsley, stems removed and chopped
• 5-6 stems of fresh mint, stems removed and chopped or 1 teaspoon of dry mint
• 1 tablespoon of small currants
• 1 tablespoon of pine nuts
• 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper
• 1 lemon
• 1 small cup of olive oil
• 2 cups of hot water
• Salt

Directions

1. The stuffing: pour half of the olive oil in a pot, add the pine nuts, currants and chopped onion and cook for 1 minute. Next, add the strained rice and stir for 2 minutes on low heat. Take it off the heat and add the chopped parsley and mint, ground black pepper and salt. Mix it all together and let it cool.
2. Meanwhile, core the bell peppers by pressing gently into the stem part with your thumb and taking out the core with the help of a knife.
3. Stuff the peppers with the rice mixture, with the help of a teaspoon. Be careful not to stuff too much, leave a gap of 1 cm empty, and keep the stuffing loose.
4. Close the peppers with a slice of tomatoe and place them in a pot open side up. Keep them tight. If the pot is too big, use a smaller one.
5. Slice up the lemon and cut the rinds off. Place the lemons on the stuffed peppers.
6. Add the rest of the olive oil and 2 cups of hot water. Close the lid and cook for 15-20 minutes on low heat.
7. Let it brew and serve cold.

Any Questions?

• I've had a peep of other recipes. Some say you should put a cup of water in the stuffing, some say you should stuff the peppers with cooked rice. Don't believe them it's a lie! If you don't want your stuffings to be mushy follow this recipe.
• Again I've seen some recipes using 6-8 onions. Don't even think about it.
• As I've said before the ratio of rice to water is still the same: 1 cup of rice to 1 and a 1/2 cups of water. No more no less.
• When cooked there should be 2 cm of liquid in the pot beneath the peppers. If you cook too much and the water boils down, then the stuffing will dry out as it waits.

Ice Cold Minty Lemonade

I know you're used to drinking acidic and gaseous beverages. Here's a recipe that's not only perfect for hot summer days, but is also a drink that will make you stop drinking those harmful drinks. We don't find good homemade lemonade anymore, but with this recipe I'm sure lemonade will find its way into your homes.


Ingredients

• 10 lemons
• 1/2 an orange
• 1/2 a cup of sugar
• 5 cups of water
• 5-6 leaves of fresh mint

Directions

1. Wash the orange and lemons thoroughly and scrape their rinds lightly to get rid of any pesticides and dirt.
2. Slice the lemons into two and squeeze their juice into a large bowl.
3. Add the squeezed lemons, orange, mint leaves and water into the bowl and stir until the sugar has disolved.
4. Put the mixture in the fridge. Wait for 3 hours.
5. Sieve the mixture with a fine muslin cloth.
6. Your lemonade is ready. Serve with ice cubes.

Afiyet olsun!


Notes

• We scrape the lemons to get rid of the dark spots.
• The amount of water and sugar are upto you. Add slowly and test to see if the texture is good.
• Add a few strawberries and experience an even better flavour!
  
  

Red Pepper Soup

You all know cream tomatoe soup but have you ever heard of red pepper soup? You may not have, but if you are up to it, you can try our recipe and find that it can be done, and tastes even better than tomatoe soup!

The best way to prepare red pepper soup is from fresh pepper paste you have prepared yourself. If you don't have any home made fresh pepper paste then you can apply this recipe.