ALAATTIN PORTAKAL-ATATURK PRIMARY SCHOOL

ISTANBUL,TURKEY

Butter Beans (Kuru Fasulye)

Ingredients

2 cups white/butter beans

2 onions, chopped

2 tbsp oil

1 tbsp tomato paste 

1tbsp of chilli paste

1 dried red & green chillies, chopped

½ tsp baking soda (optional)

¼ tsp chili red pepper flakes (optional)

1 tsp salt to taste

Preperation

 Wash white beans, place them in a pot and cover with water (approximately 1 inch above the beans).

  Leave them in water overnight or for at least 12 hours. The next day, cook them with the same water, till beans get soft over low heat. You could add baking soda to have softer beans quicker. When they , are soft, add 1 tsp of salt. In another pot, sauté onions with oil for 2-3 minutes over medium heat. Stir, in peppers and tomato paste. Saute for 2-3 minutes and add chili red pepper flakes (optional). Transfer, the cooked white beans over them. Simmer for 10-15 minutes over low heat. Serve White Beans, with, pilaf or over pilaf.

Also pickled vegetables, are good to go with this recipe.

Enjoy!!

ELIO PINTO-ICS Civitella San Paolo-ITALY

ZUCCHINI OMELETTE

INGREDIENTS

2 eggs

2 zucchini

2 olive oil tbsp

1 white onion

Salt and pepper enough

PREPARATION:

Wash and cut thin and sliced zucchini clean the onion and put them in a pan with oil and salt, add zucchini when the onion will be a little gold, cook for 15 minutes, until they are soft.

Now break the eggs in a bowl with salt and pepper, beat eggs for 30 seconds drop eggs in the zucchini pan and cook slowly. After 10 minutes the omelette is ready!

Enjoy your food!

For this recipe you can use all vegetables you like!

Onions for example.

STRAWBERRIES BREAD

GIORDANA DIANA-Civitella San Paolo, Italy

INGREDIENTS 3 eggs

250 g sugar 300 g flour

2 tbsp potato starch

1 cup of natural yogurt

1/2 cup of olive oil

1 packet of baking powder 1 grated lemon peel

200 g strawberries

PREPARATION

Beat eggs in a bowl with sugar and lemon peel add yogurt, oil, flour, potato starch, chop- ped strawberries and last the baking powder.

Drop the mixture in a buttered baking degrees.

Take off the cake and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Enjoy!

For this recipe you can use apples if you like!

ELIO PINTO Typical recipes of Sant'Oreste, Italy

DUMPLINGS WITH BEANS

This is a good recipe for 6 people

INGREDIENTS:

300g boiled white beans 40g dumplings per person 1 carrot

1 celery stalk

1 onion

1/2 tsp of tomato paste

4 chopped potatoes Enaugh olive oil

PREPARATION:

Fries onion in a pan with olive oil and than add white beans and enaugh water to cover all beans add. Chopped carrot, celery and tomato paste.

When water is boiling add potatoes and enaugh of salt. Let soup boiling until will be tasting.

When soup is boiling add dumplings and wait few minutes (like 2-3 minutes) you can eat with chili pepper and tps of olive oil after cook.

Enjoy your food!

SOFT BREAD AND BEANS

INGREDIENTS:

400g boiled white beans 1 carrot

1 celery stalk

1 onion

1/2 tsp of tomato paste 4 chopped potatoes Enaugh olive oil

PREPARATION:

Fries onion in a pan with olive oil and than add white beans and enaugh water to cover all beans add. Chopped carrot, celery and tomato paste.

When water is boiling add potatoes and enaugh of salt. Let soup boiling until will be tasting.

Cut stale bread into plates.

Enjoy your food!

Judit Suszterné Fükő -

Bulgárföldi Általános Iskola, Miskolc, Hungary

Hungarian Gulyas Soup (Gulyásleves)is one of the national dishes of Hungary, and also the symbol of the country. This rich, warming comfort food gives you energy for the cold winter days. Although, it is commonly cooked in summertime as well, especially in a cauldron, over the fire in the gardens