Homemade Flatbread with Potato, Feta and Dried Tomatoes

To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.

Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat
Homemade Flatbread with Potato Feta and Dried Tomatoes

Dough ingredients:
– 300g all-purpose flour
– 1 tbsp sugar
– 20g fresh yeast
– 150ml warm water
– 1 tsp salt

Filling ingredients:
– 250g potatoes (weighed boiled)
– 150g Feta cheese
– 4-8 dried tomatoes
– 1/2 tsp black pepper
– 1 tbsp olive oil for brushing the flatbread before baking
– sesame seeds

Method:

1 Dough
1.1 Crush yeast into ~35C water, add 1 tbsp sugar: mix well and leave the mixture for 15 min
1.2 Add flour and salt: knead the dough and leave it under cloth for 30 min
2 Filling
2.1 Peel potatoes and boil until ready: drain extra water
2.2 Combine and mix potatoes, feta, chopped dried tomatoes and black pepper
3 Flatbread
3.1 Preheat the oven to 200 C
3.2 Separate the dough into 4 parts: roll out each part into 16-20 cm round
3.3 Put 2 tbsp filling in the middle of each round
3.4 Lift up ends of each round to the center and seal them tight with the fingers. Then accurately flatten into 15 cm round.
3.5 Brush each flatbread both sides with olive oil and put on the baking paper
3.6 Sprinkle each flatbread with sesame seeds
3.7 Bake for 15-20 min at 200 C until golden and serve warm!
4 Enjoy with a cup of black tea

Homemade sweet potato bread rolls !

Einer neuen Wahrheit ist nichts schädlicher als ein alter Irrtum.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ingredients (for 10 bread rolls):
– 600g all-purpose flour
– 150ml water
– 21g fresh yeast
– 1tsp sugar
– 1tsp salt
– 3 small sweet potatoes

Beautifying ingredients:
– sesame seeds
– 1tbsp milk

Method:
1 Dough
1.1 Boil sweet potatoes and mash until smooth
1.2 Warm up water to 35C, add crushed fresh yeast & sugar: whisk until smooth and leave in a warm place for 15 min
1.3 Add flour, salt, mashed potatoes and knead a dough: leave in a warm place under cloth for 50 min
2 Bread rolls
2.1 Preheat the oven to 200C
2.2 Separate dough into 10 equal parts
2.3 Form a ball from each dough part and put on the baking paper
2.4 Brush the top each ball with milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds
2.5 Leave in a warm place for 20 min
2.6 Bake the bread rolls at 200C for 25-30min
3 Enjoy the bread rolls (best warm) – they are perfect for sandwiches !

Warm soup in the pot with red bell peppers, carrots, beef and pearl barley !

花より団子

Japanese saying

Ingredients (6 pots):
– 400g minced beef
– 3 red bell peppers
– 5-6 carrots
– one large red onion
– 1 glass (250ml) pearl barley
– 2 tsp salt
– 5-6tbsp tomato puree (pure tomatoes, not salted)
– 300-350ml water in each pot

Method:
1 Grate carrots; chop bell peppers & onion
2 Combine vegetables, 1 glass not boiled pearl barley, tomato puree, salt: mix well
3 Preheat the oven to 190C
4 Distribute minced beef equally in the pots
5 Distribute vegetables & pearl barley mixture in the pots equally, over the minced beef
6 Add 300-350ml water in each pot
7 Cover the pots with lids and put in the oven for 60 minutes at 190C
8 Enjoy delicious soup!