Skinny Mediterranean Tuna Salad

Summer has officially started! Greek Debt to Gastronomy has prepared for you this delicious and skinny tuna salad. This dish has all the Mediterranean flavours and odors of Mediterreanan without many calories! 

Skinny Mediterranean Tuna Salad

Cooking Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 20 minutes Difficulty: Very Easy

Ingredients

for 4 portions

1 big tomato

1 peeled cucumber

5-6 olive oils

2 tbs capers 50 g. Pasta as clams 

1 can of tuna in water 

2 tbs olive oil 

2 tbs vinegar 

Salt 

Some fresh oregano leaves 

Process 

Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain it and rinse it with cold water. Drain it again. 

Place the flat surface of a spatula on top of an olive and press down. Pull out the pit and slice the olive. Repeat for all olives.

Chop tomato and cucumber finely. 

Put all ingredients in a bowl, add the oil and vinegar, season with salt and toss them.

Guacamole - the Mexican special

Guacamole

Ingredients

4 servings

2 ripe avocados, seeded and peeled

2 tbsps lime juice 

1 small ripe tomato, chopped

1/4 tsp garlic powder 

2 tbsps cilantro, finely chopped 

1/2 small red onion, chopped

1/2 tsp cayenne

1/2  jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced

Salt

Steps

1. Place the seeded and peeled avocados in a bowl. 
2. Using a fork, mash the avocado tryining to keep it chucky. 
3. Sprinkle it with the lime juice.
4.  Fold in the tomato, the garlic powder, the cilantro, the red onion, the cayenne and the pepper. 
5. Combine them well. 
6. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap to prevent oxidation from the air reaching it. 
7. Refrigerate for at least one hour. 
8. Salt it and then serve.

TROPICAL HEAVEN WITH CHOCOLATE COCONUT MOUSSE

Ingredients

6 small portions

2 eggs
250 g. good quality dark chocolate
250 ml. heavy cream or coconut milk
50 g. crystal sugar
1/2 cup shredded coconut

Preparation

1. Seperate eggs and beat the white eggs until thick.
2. Using a whisk beat the cream, the egg yolks and the sugar together for a couple of minutes until smooth and thick.
3. Melt the chocolate at a bain-marie (over a pan of boiling water) or in the microwave.
4. Add the melted chocolate and the shredded coconut to the whisked cream and continue to whisk for another couple of minutes.
5. Spoon into small serving dishes or in coconut shell.
6. Refrigerate for about 2 hours.

Rice pudding! The next trend in China

Today, I am going to reveal my secret plan of how I will become extremely rich...

I will sell Greek rice pudding in China!!! Sounds stupid? What a minute! Chinese people love rice and rice pudding is more than delicious! So creamy, so yummy! Success for sure!

Ingredients

8 servings

5 cups milk

1 cup Short Grain Rice

1 cup sugar

ground cinnamon for serving

1tsp vanilla extract 

A lemon or orange peel

Process

Wash the rice. 

Put the rice in a bowl and cover it with water for about 15 minutes. 

Drain it in a strainer and roughly rub the rice with your hands.

In a large pot heat the milk over medium heat. 

Before bubbles begins to rise from the milk, add the rice and reduce heat to low. 

Stir constantly with a large wooden spoon (to prevent stucks at the bottom of the saucepan) until thick and creamy about 40 minutes. 

Stir in sugar, orange/lemon peel and vanilla extract; cook 20 minutes more, stirring constantly. 

Remove from heat and pour rice pudding into small serving bowls. 

Serve with a sprinkle of ground cinnamon, at room temperature or chilled.

Tip

If you are too busy or just bored for a time consuming recipe like this, you can dissolve two tablespoons corn flower in half cup of milk and pour it in your saucepan right after you add the rice. 

Classic Greek family recipe

If you are a beginner cook, this real simple and scrumptious recipe will take all your friends to your kitchen table. The combination of meatballs with potatoes results in a complete dish, while the herbs give the dish an extra flavour and make it even better.

Ingredients

4 servings

Meatballs dough

500g medium ground beef

500g medium ground pork

1 egg

2 onion, finely grated

3 medium slices of day-old bread

1/2 cup red wine

3 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp dried oregano 

Black pepper

Salt

Roast Potatoes

6-7 medium potatoes

1 tbsp mustard

1 tsp oregano

Juice of 1 lemon

2 cups water

1/4 cup olive oil

1 clove garlic, roughly chopped

Salt

Pepper

Steps

Soak the slices of bread in wine for a minute or two. Strain and grade them by hand.

In a large bowl mix all meatballs ingredients with your hands until combined very well.

Put the bowl in the fridge.

Preheat oven to 200 ° C or 390 Fahrenheit.

Peel the potatoes and cut them into 4 even-sized pieces.

In another bowl add all potatoes ingredients except for water and combine them well to marinate the potatoes. 

Pour the water to a deep roasting tin (one big enough to take the potatoes in a single layer) and add the potatoes.

Cover the roasting tin with baking paper and cook for about 30 minutes. Remove the tin from the oven. Make large finger shape meatballs and line meatballs over potatoes. Cook for thirty minutes more without the paper.

Serve it with Greek Salad and Feta!