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Fresh tuna tostada

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FRESH TUNA TOSTADA CAUTION: MEGA DELICIOUS!

  • 4 servings
  • 20 minutes preparation
  • Ingredients for the tostada:
  • 1 cup of fresh tuna
  • Tostadas
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1/2 white onion
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 serrano chilli
  • Chipotle mayonnaise
  • Ingredients for tuna marinated sauce:
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1/2 orange juice
  • 1/2 lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
Cut the fresh tuna into cube dices, chop the cucumber, onion, garlic clove and serrano chilli.
Stir fry the onion to use as topping.
Marinate the tuna with the garlic and serrano chilli sauted in a pan, add the soy sauce, orange and lime juice and let sit for 5 minutes.
Fill the tostada with the mayonnaise, add the marinated tuna, cucumber, fried onion, and avocado on top.

Pasta from scratch

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AUTHENTIC ITALIAN PASTA FROM SCRATCH

  • 4 servings
  • 30 minutes preparation
  • Ingredients for the dough:
  • 200 grams of flour
  • 2 eggs
  • Semolina for dusting
  • Ingredients for ricotta cheese and lemon zest filling:
  • 150 grams of ricotta cheese
  • 15 grams of parmesan cheese
  • 2 tablespoon of olive oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Lemon zest
  • Ingredients for aglio, olio e peperoncino sauce:
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Rosemary, dill or basil herbs
  • Chilli pepper
  • 20 grams of olive oil
  • 30 grams of parmesan cheese
  • Lemon zest

Chop the garlic in fine slices with chillis and place them in a pan with the olive oil and pepper.
Turn the heat on medium until the garlic is turning gold, then add the pasta water to the sauce and turn off.
Drain the pasta and cook it in the sauce for about 3 minutes, you can add herbs as you like (dill, rosemary or basil) and grate some lime zest. Switch off and serve with the parmesan cheese on top. 

Waffles

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THE BEST! WAFFLES WITH CHOCOLATE BITES

  • 12 servings
  • 30 minutes preparation
  • Ingredients for the batter:
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 4 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups of milk
  • 40 grams of butter
  • 30 grams of oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • Hershey's blueberry and acaí chocolates
  • Ingredients for the topping:
  • Fresh strawberries
  • Fresh blueberries
  • Liquid chocolate
  • Whiped cream
  • Or powdered sugar

In a bowl combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Heat the milk (do not boil), add the butter and turn off.
Add the eggs, oil and vanilla extract and Hershey’s chocolates to the dry ingredients, then add milk mix and let sit for at least 1/2 hour.
Now put the batter in a hot waffle maker for about two minutes or until golden brown.
Add any toppings you want and enjoy!