Comenius

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Comenius

• Cookery Book

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Do you feel apathy with some of these
adjectives?
YES ???
Then break free from your life as a fast food
addict !  


START COOKING YOURSELF!
THIS book will help you to learn to cook for
yourself and have fun eating your OWN creations!
Wishig you much fun ?
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UK
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Warm Chicken Salad

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 2 cups of mixed green salad
• ¼ red pepper cut into strips
• ¼ red onion cut into strips
• 1 small skinless chicken breast cut into strips
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• Dressing Ingredients
• Juice of half an orange
• Small teaspoon of mustard (preferably Dijon)
• 2 tablespoons of sesame oil
• Fresh ground pepper
• Cooking method
• Combine the dressing ingredients and set them
  aside. Place the greens in a medium serving bowl
  and top with
• pepper and onions. In a frying pan, fry chicken
  breast in olive oil until lightly browned. Whisk
  dressing and add to pan
• then heat for a further 30 seconds. Pour over
  salad and serve immediately.

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Beans on Wholemeal Toast

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 2 slices of wholemeal bread
• 1 can of baked beans
• low fat butter/margarine
• Cooking method
• Place beans in a saucepan and allow to simmer on
  a medium heat. Meanwhile toast wholemeal bread to
  
• your preference. Place the toasted bread on a
  plate then spread on butter/margarine thinly and
  pour the beans over
• when they are piping hot. Allow to cool before
  eating.
• Cooking time 5-10 min

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Fresh Fruit Salad

• for one to two persons
• Ingredients
• 3 apples, peeled chopped
• 1 orange, segmented
• 1/2 pound seedless green grapes
• 1 banana, sliced
• Dressing Ingredients
• fresh orange juice
• juice of one lemon (and one lime)
• Cooking method
• Put all the fruit in a bowl and add the
  dressing.
• The fruit salad is served cold.
• Preparation time 3-5 min

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Finland
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• for 2 people
• Ingredients
• 1 broiler breast escalope
• different spices
• food oil (olive oil or other kind)
• Cooking method
• Bake the escalope in a pan, but dont add any
  butter. Instead, cook it with a drop of oil.
• Spice the dish as you like!
• Cooking time 20 min
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Broiler Breast Escalope
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Easy Spinach Pancakeswith Fresh Berries and
Green Salad

• for 2 people (2-3 pancakes each)
• Ingredients
• 40 g frozen spinach
• 1 egg
• 1 dl milk
• 0,5 dl semolina
• 0,5 table-spoonfuls of oil
• salt
• strawberries and blueberries
• salad
• 1 tomato
• slices of cucumber
• Cooking method
• Mix the melted spinach with the egg. Add milk,
  wheat flour, oil and salt. Stir the batter and
  let it swell for 15
• minutes. Cook the pancakes.
• Serve with fresh berries and salad.

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Whipped Berry Porridge
(old traditional recipe)

• for 2 people
• Ingredients
• 0,5 l water
• 1 dl red whortleberries
• 0,75 1 dl sugar
• 0,75 dl semolina
• Cooking method
• Put the water and the whortleberries in a pot.
  Let it boil for about 5 minutes. Add the sugar
  and whip in the wheat
• flour. Let it boil for 10 more minutes or until
  the porridge is thick enough. Let the porridge
  get cool and whip it, for
• example, in a mixer until its smooth. Enjoy with
  cold milk.
• Cooking time 20min

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The Czech Republic
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Chicken Pocket

• for 2 people
• Ingredients
• 0,5 kg chicken breasts
• 100 g Camembert
• 50 g ham
• 2 pinch salt
• 1 pinch pepper
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• Cooking method 
• Slit the chicken breast and put the salt and
  pepper on them. Put the Camembert, ham and bacon
  into the slot.Close
• the slot using a toothpick. Fry it in a
  frying-pan. Add all the spice cream and lemon and
  mix everything together. Put the rice
• into the boiling water. Boil it for about 15
  minutes. Serve it hot.
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• Cooking time 40 min

• Sauce
• 3 lemon spice
• 3 tablespoon soya sauce
• 1 pinch of chilli
• 50 ml cream
• a cup of rice or pastries

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Stuffed Potatoes

• for 2 people
•  Ingredients
• 4 big potatoes boiled with the skin
• half a zucchini/courgette
• 200 g of tomatoes
• 1 clove of garlic
• salt, pepper
• 50 g cheese EIDAM round
• chives
• olives (green or black)
• Cooking method 
• Boil the potatoes for 20 min. Remove the
  potatoes. Halve them and then scoop out the
  inside. Add salt and pepper
• to taste. Smear the edges of the potatoes with
  cloves of garlic. Put rounds of cheese on the
  potatoes. Clean the zucchini
• and the tomatoes and slice them. Put it all in
  the oven and bake it for 10 minutes. While the
  potatoes are in the oven make
• the dressing. Add a spoon of sweet pepper to the
  light yogurt mayonnaise . Add salt, pepper, basil
  or thyme to taste. Put
• the dressing on the baked potatoes. Decorate it
  with chives and olives.

• Dressing
• 100g light yogurt mayonnaise
• ground sweet pepper
• basil, thyme
• salt, pepper

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Apple Pie

• for 2 people
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• Ingredients
• 500 ml milk
• 250 g curd cheese
• 20 g soft rolls
• 0,5 kg apples
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 2 eggs
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• Cooking method
• Cut the rolls and put them into the milk with
  the eggs.Grate the apples. Put one layer of rolls
  into the pan. Put
• thin slices of apples on the rolls. Sprinkle
  some sugar on the apples. Add another two layers
  of rolls and apples.On the
• upper layer of apples put the curd cheese. Put
  another layer of rolls on the top. Bake it at
  180 for 25 minutes.
• Cooking time 90 min  

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Romania
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Chicken With Green Beans

• for 2-3 people
• Ingredients
• 900g chicken
• 1 kg green beans
• ½ teaspoon of rosemary
• ½ teaspoon marjoram
• ½ teaspoon oregano
• ½ teaspoon of sweet basil
• ¼ l tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon of chilli
• 1 teaspoon of sour cream
• 1 spoon of flour
• Cooking method
• The portioned chicken is placed in a pot and all
  the condiments are added. Add the sour rcream and
  one cup of
• water and place the pot on the stove. Add the
  tomato paste after 10 min wait for everything to
  boil, then add the
• green beans - that have been picked, washed and
  cut into pieces. Let everything boil until the
  meat is almost done
• then prepare a white sauce out of water and the
  flour, which will be poured into the pot. Let it
  boil for another

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Potato salad

• for one person 
• Ingredients
• potatoes,
• onions,
• carrots,
• garlic (optional),
• oil, vinegar,
• dill, green parsley, salt, pepper
• Cooking method
• Put the potatoes and carrots in a pan to boil
  together, let them cool and then slice them into
  little cubes. Add the
• finely cut onion, salt, pepper, crushed garlic
  and a bit of oil (you can even mix it with some
  dry wine). Add more oil to
• taste after one hour, and if necessary, more
  vinegar. Sprinkle the dill mixed with the parsley
  on top.
• Cooking time 25 min

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Rice Pudding

• for 2 people
• Ingredients
• 1 cup of short grain rice
• 4 cups of milk
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 5 spoons of sugar
• Cooking method
• Put the cup of rice in a medium sized pot,
  together with the cups of milk, the same size
  add the salt.Put the pot
• on the stove at medium fire and keep mixing until
  the content becomes homogenous.Take the pot off
  the stove, add the
• sugar and let it cool down.
• It can be served with jam, vanilla, chocolate
  cream, etc.
• Cooking time 10-15min

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Germany
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Turkey Breast (Putenschnitzel)

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 2 turkey breast
• 2 eggs
• 10 g flour
• Salt, pepper
• Oil
• Pineapple/mushrooms
• Rice
• Cooking method
• Flatten the meat a little bit. Mix the flour
  with salt and pepper, then whisk the egg and the
  egg-yolk. Turn
• over the dry schnitzels one after another in
  egg-yolk and flour. Make sure that you heat up
  enough oil in your pan
• and fry both sides of the schnitzels for three
  minutes untiltheyre crispy.
• Before serving, let them drip off on a tissue.
  Then server them with pieces of pineapple and
  rice.
• Cooking time 25 min

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Eggs in Frankfurter Sauce with Mashed Potatoes
and Tomatoes

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 2 eggs
• 15g mayonnaise
• 15g yoghurt
• salt and pepper
• 10g chopped herbs (dill, cress,
• chervil, borage, parsley, tarragon)
• ½ clove of garlic
• Cooking mode
• First you have to cook the eggs for 10 minutes.
  Then dip the eggs in cold water and peel them.
  Now mix
• the yoghurt and the mayonnaise. Then salt and
  pepper the mixture and add the chopped herbs and
  the clove of
• garlic. Finally pour the sauce over the eggs.
• For the mashed-potatoes and the tomatoes
• Peel the potatoes and cut the tomatoes. Melt the
  butter and steam the tomatoes. After that cook
  the potatoes
• for 20 minutes, then mash them. Put the tomatoes
  under the potatoes and mix it with creme fraiche.
  Finally add salt

• For the mashed-potatoes and the tomatoes
• 3 potatoes
• 3 tomatoes
• salt and pepper
• 10g butter
• 20g creme fraiche

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Fruity Milkshake

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 800 ml cool full-cream-milk
• 6 balls strawberry ice-cream
• 1 tablespoon sugar or honey
• 6 strawberry halves for decoration
• Cooking method
• Mix the milk, ice-cream and sugar or honey
  together well. Then fill high
• glasses with the milkshake. Put the strawberry
  halves onto the brim of the glasses.
• Serve the milkshakes with thick straws.
• Preparation time 10 min

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Italy
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Gnocchi with Ricotta Cheese and Spinach

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 50g spinach
• 100g Ricotta Cheese
• 65g flour
• 1 egg
• 30g parmesan
• 25g butter
• Cooking method
• Wash the spinach and cook it for a few minutes
  with a pinch of salt. Mix together in a pan with
  a wooden
• spoon the spinach, flour, parmesan and egg. Shape
  the gnocchi using two spoons. Cook the gnocchi
  for five minutes.
• When they are cooked put them in a pan with
  Ricotta cheese, butter and parmesan for another
  two minutes.
• Cooking time 15 minutes

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Artichokes and Taleggio Cheese Salad

• for one person
• Ingredients
• 4 artichokes
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• salt
• pepper
• 1 lemon
• 200g Taleggio Cheese (or feta if unavailable)
• Cooking method
• Prepare artichokes. Remove the outer leaves and
  slice as thin as possible. Add olive oil and
  lemon to taste. Put
• them in the centre of the dish with some thin
  slices of Taleggio Cheese.
• Cooking time 10 min

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Chocolate Tart

• for eight persons
• Ingredients
• For the pastry
• 500 g flour
• 3 eggs
• 150 g butter
• 250 g sugar
• a pinch of salt
• Cooking method
• Put the flour, the eggs, the sugar, a pinch of
  salt and the blended but cold butter in a bowl
  and mix into a
• creamed mixture. Rest it in the refrigerator for
  about an hour. Grease a pie-dish with butter and
  flour then roll out
• the pastry and lune the pie-dish. Prepare the
  cream with milk, eggs, sugar, flour and
  chocolate. Blend in all the
• ingredients to a smooth cream and pour it on the
  pastry. Then cover it with the remining strips of
  pastry. Place in
• the oven at 170 for about an hour.
• Cooking time 30 min

• For the cream
• 1 liter of milk
• 2 eggs
• 10 spoons of sugar
• 3 spoons of chocolate
• 5 spoons of flour

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Energy Values For One Person
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What Nutriments Do You Need Each Day
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Enjoy! Your meal !
Dobrou chu!
Pofta Buna!
Buon appetito!
Guten Appetit!
Hyvää ruokahalua!
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