Category: Cooking

Making Mexican Bread

(ft. My Mom)

During this Quarantine, my mother saw some videos on YouTube of how to bake conchas. So… we made conchas one evening and they turned out very good…

Ingredients for the dough

(yields 8 conchas)

2 cups flour/ 2 tazas de harina
2 ounces sugar/ 2 onzas de azucar
3/4 ounce of yeast/ 3/4 de onza de levadura
2 ounces margarine/ 2 onzas de margarina
2 eggs/ 2 huevos
3/4 cup of milk/ 3/4 taza de leche
Pinch of salt/ Pizca de sal
Vanilla and cinnamon/ Vainilla y canela

Ingredients for the topping

Make separately

1 cup flour/ 1 taza de harina
1/2 cup sugar/ 1/2 taza de azucar
One full bar vegetable shortening/ Una barra de mantequilla vegetal

Making the Dough

(You’ll need lots of space to make the dough!)

First place down the 2 cups of flour on your workspace. Add the flour, sugar, and the yeast together. Mix the dry ingredients evenly.

Then you add the wet ingredients together.

Once your things are there all together, you are going to mix it together.

Once you are done, put it inside a big bowl and let it rest for 40 mins. When you’re done it will start to rise up. Leave it somewhere warm to help it rise.

It will end up fluffy and thick.

After 40 Mins, take whatever tray you want and start making them into eight small balls and place them on the tray.

Once you put your dough balls in the tray, let them rest and let them rise a little bit more. You will now start with the paste that goes on top.

Making the paste

Put all the ingredients from above together and start mixing it all together. Until it sticks together…

Now that both main things are completed we will put them together to make our conchas.

Take your paste and cut a small ball, then roll out the ball into a flat thin circle, and cover the dough with the paste.

Use a knife to cut the paste a little bit but not the dough. Then leave it somewhere so it can get bigger again… It will look like the picture below. For best results, leave it to rest with the paste for 30 mins.

Once your dough looks like that the picture above, put your oven to preheat at 350°F and when it’s hot bake your conchas for 15 mins and then take it out. You will notice it will come out golden brown.

They are ready to eat with a hot drink! But be careful because it’s still hot. I hope your results are as good as mine!

Cooking in Quarantine #2: Chickpea Stew with Spinach

Post author By futurepotato777
Post date May 20, 2020
5 Comments on Cooking in Quarantine #2: Chickpea Stew with Spinach

Chickpeas. Known by different names such as gram or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean, Egyptian pea, Chana, and Chole, they are filled with protein and can be cooked in many different ways. Such as in cold salads, soups, stews, etc. One of the first names ever given to the grain, was chiche pease, from Middle French, pois chiche. In Old Spanish, It was named garbanzo and has been kept that way. In English it was named garvance during the 17th century. But after many years, it finally came to be known in English as chickpea. Chickpeas date back all the way to late Neolithic (about 3500 BC) in Greece. You can read more about the chickpea where I researched it, on revolvy.com

Today we will make the ancient legume in a stew accompanied by spinach.

Ingredients

Chickpeas
Chopped onions (As many chopped onions as you want.)
Chopped garlic
Ground Pepper
Salt
Spinach
Achiote Powder
Cumin Powder

Attention

Leave chickpeas in water for 12 hours before the day your expecting to cook them. Don’t put salt when boiling the chickpeas. Don’t use canned spinach, try to use fresh spinach. Depending on how much chickpeas your making, you will need to calculate how much water you’ll be using and how much spice you’ll be using.

Procedure

Step 1: Wash your hands and clean your working space.

Step 2: Get a pot and fill it up with water and leave it to heat up.

Step 3: While your water is heating up, drain and rinse the soaked chickpeas out of the water you left over night, and proceed to put them in the pot covered by fresh water. When you see bubbles starting to develop at the bottom of the pot.

Step 4: Leave the chickpeas to simmer for an hour and a half. Move them every 10 minutes to make sure they don’t stick to the bottom. Add more water if necessary.

Step 5: After they’re done cooking, proceed to take a take a stock pot where we will cook the whole stew. Heat some olive oil or vegetable oil in the pot to medium low. Then proceed to put your chopped up garlic to simmer for about 3 minutes then proceed to put the chopped onion. Constantly move them until the onions are golden.

Step 6: Then add a hint of ground pepper, salt and the amount of spinach you’ll be using. Cook it and move it constantly.

Step 7: While cooking your spinach, add Achiote powder and Cumin powder and let it cook for 10 minutes.

Step 8: When done cooking your spinach, add your Chickpeas and the water it boiled in to add it’s juice and leave to cook for about 15 more minutes.

Step 9: Serve and Enjoy

Cooking Quarantine

Most Creamy Coffee Flan!

My family and some friends asked me to make flan. I said yes, but I wanted to surprise them by making a coffee flavored flan. Because what better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than with delicious flan?This cake was delicious and my Mom loved it! Hope you love it too!

Careful!!! To make this you will need parental supervision 🔥🔥🔥

(Hot sugar and fire!)

Pros about this recipe

Makes more than what is in the picture
Creamy
Common ingredients

Ingredients

Flan Base

1 can Lecherita
1 can Leche evaporada
6 eggs
You can make a smaller batch with 1/2 can of each and 3 eggs

Sugar syrup

3/4 cup of any sugar in a pot
3-4 drops of water

Tools

Can opener, whisk attachment, or beater attachment, hand whisk, spatula

Procedure!

Separate your 6 eggs in two bowls: one for yolks and one for whites.

Then, for a creamy flan…Beat your eggs until you see this…

Ximena approved!

If you don’t want a super creamy cake move the bowl a little and if the eggs are still sliding it is ready to add in the yolks.

Remember to do it one by one and take 30 seconds in between!

Now it is time to add your leches: first the evaporated milk, then the condensed milk.

Divide what you put in, in two parts don’t put it all at once.

Finally, put it in the oven at 350-400 degrees and cook until fully done (you know this when your toothpick comes out clean).

Last, you can decorate with cherries and enjoy! 🍒🌸

Cooking Quarantine

Baking Brazilian Truffles: Brigadeiros

Post author By xochitlgomez
Post date April 24, 2020
3 Comments on Baking Brazilian Truffles: Brigadeiros

I made Brazilian truffles just to explore and try something new to make!!! Hope you enjoy this recipe ❤️

Ingredients for perfect truffles:

2 tablespoons of salted butter and a little more for your plate
About half a can of sweetened condensed milk or 14 oz
1/4 of cocoa powder
Optional : chocolate sprinkles but I made it with Ice cream!!!👌

Procedure:

Step 1: In a pot I put butter and my condensed milk!!

Step 2: Now add your cocoa!!

Step 3: Now mix it all together!!!

Step 4: Butter your plate

Step 5: Flatten it out on the plate.

Step 6: Roll it into little balls and let it cool for about 30 minutes in the fridge

Then for the finishing steps

Step 1: Scoop ice cream

Step 2: Make a hole big enough for your truffles, and put the truffles inside!

Enjoy….!! Hope you make it and enjoy it just as much as I did ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Cooking

Cooking in Quarantine #1: Homemade Tortillas

Post author By futurepotato777
Post date April 15, 2020
6 Comments on Cooking in Quarantine #1: Homemade Tortillas

They’re sold in almost every store in NYC and popular among us latinos, usually eaten with tacos, burritos, and traditional Mexican food like barbacoa (steamed goat) or frijoles con cecina y salsa (clack beans with homemade hot sauce and salty beef). Originally named tlaxcalli , Tortillas originated in Mexico by Aztecs before European contact. Ever since then people have known tortillas most commonly in tacos and in other Mexican dishes.