This crazy, ramshackle, friendly city of Istanbul, is a city that lives to eat. The Take-Aways, the street vendors, the restaurants all provide exquisite, tasty interesting food.
Ingredients:
- Beaten chicken breast (like thin escallop)
- Pistachio nuts
- Cashew nuts
- Orange segments
- Orange juice
- Yellow cheese (any cheese that will melt nicely)
- Flour
- Oil
- Turkish Raki
- Loads of butter
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Tags: Cashew, Chicken, Istanbul, Mint, Orange, Pistachio, Raki, Turkey
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Now there we are, our chicken with lemons, cinnamon, cloves, white wine and raisins and it’s a very, very fragrant dish this is. Very remnants of north africa and moors and the arabs
QS: Greek white wine
Ingredients:
- Checken pieces
- Finely chopped onions
- Chopped garlic
- Sultanas
- Sliced lemons
- White wine
- Cold tomato sauce
- Cinnamon barks
- Cloves
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Tags: Chicken, Cinnamon, Cloves, Greece, Lemon
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The beef in tomato sauce and green olives is a rumbustious strong flavored mediterranean dish, don’t think of just greece, don’t think of just span, its the mediterranean
Ingredients:
- Beef cut into big cubes
- Finely chopped onions
- Chopped garlic
- Green olives
- Chopped tomatoes
- Tomato sauce
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Tags: Beef, Greece, Olives, Tomato Sauce
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A good fun lamb dish, some lovely pieces of leg of greek mountain lamb, the kind of lamb that eats thyme, rosemary and marjoram, its beautifully flavored, young delicious lamb
Ingredients:
- Lamb leg cut into pieces
- Chopped onions
- Chopped garlic (a lot!)
- Chopped tomatoes
- Marjoram
- Dried apricots
- Fresh chopped mint
- Chicken stock
- Lemon juice
- Spoon of tomato paste
- Crushed coriander seeds
- Yogurt
- Fresh Coriander leaves
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Tags: Greece, Lamb, Marjoram, Mint, Yogurt
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Think, for a moment, my dear friends, of the coconut, I mean, he’s done so much for us, hasn’t it? in fact he’s done so much I need a little walk around the island to think about the coconuts
QS: Fresh Mango Juice
Ingredients:
- Green coconut
- Fillet of fish (anyone you like) – floyd uses red snaper
- fresh ginger
- Shallots
- Lime juice
- Chillies
- Fresh turmeric
- Salt and pepper
- Fish paste
- Turmeric powder
- Sugar
- Coconut Milk
- 3-4 freshly squeezed lemon juice
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Tags: Chillies, Coconut Milk, Curry, Fish, Malaysia
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One of the nicest dishes i have expirenced here in malaysia is tamarind chicken, that’s if i can make myself heard between the waves i’ll explain it to you.
Ingredients:
- Finally chopped shallots
- Salt
- Coriander
- Finely chopped garlic
- Plum sugar (you can use white or brown as well)
- Tamarind paste
- Rich, dark soy sauce
- Chopped free range chicken
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Tags: Chicken, Coriander, Malaysia, Soy Sauce, Tamarind
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Risotto Bianco which is a white risotto, popular through out italy but it much esteemed here in venice. its not an old dish, its only invented in about 1922.
Ingredients:
- Butter (a lot!)
- Finely chopped onions
- Risotto Rice (Floyd uses Rice from verona)
- White wine
- Crayfish lightly blanched in water and chopped into big pieces
- Shelled langoustines
- Fish stock
- Parmesan cheese (as much as you like)
- Lemon juice
- Cognac
- Chopped parsley
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Tags: Cognac, Crayfish, Italy, Langoustines, Risotto
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We are on the fish market here, and they are all stopped mending their nets for a few moments, watching us, as usual, in total amazement what are these mad english people doing – cooking on the key well thats how we like to do things on the floyd program – simple as that!
Ingredients:
- Sliced green and red peppers
- Chopped garlic
- Fresh tomato sauce
- Fresh mussels
- Olive oil
- Chopped parsley
In a hot pot put olive oil and add the peppers, add the garlic and stir around. Add the tomato sauce and put the mussels in with little grind pepper and stir around.The lid goes on for about 10 minutes or until the mussels open. Fix taste with salt and pepper and add the chopped parsley.
Tags: Italy, Mussels, Tomato Sauce
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