A recipe for happiness ... rarely does anyone know the composition of this vital dish. However, the popular writer and journalist Elchin Safarli was still able to write a whole book about it. It contains several small stories about food from his personal life, and how the process of preparing various dishes can make a person the happiest.
According to readers and fans of Elchin Safarli, this collection of short essays is so positive that sometimes you want to take and cook something like that. Indeed, in our time, when every day people are content with only various fast foods, it is very cool to see and immerse yourself in such incredible stories.
Cooking recipe happiness
The tastiest dishes are those that we cook together with our loved ones and relatives. So Elchin Safarli claims that the recipe for happiness is to always love and be loved. One of his stories is dedicated to his girlfriend. Together with her, the writer created only the most delicious and delicate pastries.
Cupcake with dried apricots and raisins
“Once we cooked this simple but incredibly delicious cupcake together. They even came up with the appropriate name for him - "Our". Its main ingredients are orange dried apricots and black raisins. And this is no accident, because she is red-haired, and I am a brunette ... ”, says one of the stories in the book“ Recipes for happiness ”by Safarli Elchin.
So, how exactly does a famous writer cook such pastries? To do this, he uses the following products:
- butter - about 150 g;
- fine sugar sand - 1 cup faceted;
- vanillin - a couple of pinch points;
- large eggs - 3 pcs.;
- sour cream or fresh milk - 1 large spoon;
- sifted flour - 1.5 cups;
- baking powder - dessert spoon;
- ground cinnamon - 3 pinches;
- large black raisins - a handful;
- sweet dried apricots orange - 7 amount
Foundation preparation
The recipe for female happiness is a beloved and loving man, a hearth and children. All women are dreaming about it. But this is not only the desire of women. Indeed, a strong half of humanity thinks of a happy and full-fledged family.
To prepare a delicious and tender cupcake according to Safarli Elchin’s recipe, soften the butter in advance, and then add fine granulated sugar, vanillin and eggs whipped into the foam. Having mixed the components well with a mixer, you should have a uniform and airy mass. It is necessary to lay milk or sour cream to it, and then pour in baking powder, ground cinnamon and sifted flour. At the end of the dough, you need to add steamed black raisins, as well as finely chopped orange dried apricots.
Cake Baking Process
After the dough for the homemade cake is thoroughly kneaded, Safarli Elchin recommends taking a special baking dish, grease it with vegetable oil and lightly sprinkle with wheat flour. Next, put the whole cooked base in the dishes and place it in the oven, heated to about 180 degrees. After 60 minutes, the cake "Our" will be completely ready. By the way, removing it from the form in the hot form is highly discouraged. So you have to wait until home baking has cooled a little.
Correct serving cupcake
Everyone has their own recipe for happiness, so each person will put his own ingredients in such a dish of life. But no one will argue with the fact that there is nothing nicer than "tea" with your loved one or the whole family. So Safarli Elchin claims that he served Nash dried fruit cake to the table only when all his close and dear people gathered behind him. By the way, as a decoration, such pastries can be sprinkled with icing sugar or coated with icing from cocoa powder or chocolate.
According to the author of the book “Recipe for Happiness”, he especially never liked to cook pastries. But to make any salad is a pleasure for him.
Cooking paradise salad
To prepare such a simple dish, we need:
- chicken fillet - 300 g;
- aromatic spices, including small salt - add to taste;
- milk - 120 ml;
- red onions - 2 heads;
- fresh tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- small eggplants - 2 pcs.;
- vegetable oil - 95 ml.
Product Preparation
The chicken fillet should be washed, cleaned of skin and bones, and then cut into small pieces, seasoned with spices and salt, add milk and leave in the refrigerator for 60 minutes. After this time, the meat must be fried in a pan using vegetable oil.
In addition to breasts, it is necessary to process eggplants in a similar way. However, fry circles of vegetables should only be after the roll in wheat flour.
Dish formation
After the products have been thermally processed, in one dish it is necessary to mix the fried chicken fillet, eggplant, as well as red onion sliced in half rings and cubes of fresh tomato. Serving such a quick and very tasty dish to the table is recommended in the warm state along with dark or white bread.