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Quesillo
Quesillo
I’ve been making quesillo for a lifetime and never new it. I guess being high is universal. Quesillo are simply griddled tortillas with cheese, pickled onions, and sour cream. This tasty snack is a staple street food of Nicaragua; sold in little plastic baggies to keep the onions from falling out.
Ingredients
- vegetable oil
- corn tortillas
- Nicaraguan white cheese crumbled
- pickled onion
- sour cream
Instructions
- Heat up the cooking oil on a griddle over medium heat. Add the tortillas to the griddle. Cook for 1 minute and flip.
- Top each tortilla with cheese and pickled onions. Add a tsp of sour cream on top.
- Roll up the tortillas, sealing on the griddle seam side down. Cook for another minute.
Nigerian Sausage Rolls
Nigerian Sausage Rolls
Sausage rolls are popular all over Nigeria and most African countries. The sausage is made from either beef or pork(depending on religious beliefs), and is rolled up inside a buttery biscuity pastry. They get baked, and I get baked. The sausage rolls turn out golden brown and flakey. Before you know it, you just might accidentally eat all of them in a course of a night.
Servings: 12 sausage rolls
Equipment
- food processor
- rolling pin
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 tbsp milk
- garlic powder
Sausage
- 3/4 lb ground pork
- 1 large egg
- 1 maggi bouillon cube crushed
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Mix in the butter, egg, and cold water until a dough forms. Roll into a ball and cover with a damp cloth.
- Place the ground pork, egg, anc seasonings in a food processor.
- Process until smooth. You will want the fat to be broken down.
- Lightly flour a clean surface and a rolling pin. Cut the dough ball into 4 equal pieces
- Roll out one of the pieces into an 8”x10” rectangular sheet; about the size of a sheet of paper.
- Spread a quarter of the sausage down the left side of the dough.
- Roll it up like a fatty. Don’t lick it.
- Cut it into 3 equal pieces. Repeat these steps for the rest of the ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the sausage rolls on the sheet in rows of 4. Using a fork, prick 2 sets of holes in each roll. Brush each roll with milk. Lightly sprinkle on garlic powder.
- Bake the sausage rolls for 25-30 minutes. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Folded Kimbap, 3 ways
Folded Kimbap, 3 ways
Folded kimbap pays homage to the traditional kimbap, only in sandwich form. Instead of rolling the kimbap ingredients, the sheet of nori is cut halfway through up the middle. This will allow the kimbap to be folded into 4 sections. What’s nice about the folded kimbap is that there are limitless combinations you can make. Kimbap sesame oil rice is always placed on the bottom left corner of the nori. Then the protein above it. The right sides are for vegetables and other ingredients. Simply fold the rice side up on the protein, then fold over to the right, then bottom right side folded up.
Equipment
- scissors
Ingredients
- 1 cup steamed rice
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 sheets nori
Spam and Eggs Kimbap
- 2 slices spam pan fried
- 1 large egg scrambled
- 1 piece green leaf lettuce washed
- cucumber thinly sliced
Fish Cake Kimbap
- 1 sheet fish cake pan fried
- 1 slice cheese
- carrots julienned and sautéed
- 2 perilla leaves
- cucumber thinly sliced
Beef Bulgogi Kimbap
- 2 oz beef bulgogi
- carrots julienned and sautéed
- 1 strip pickled radish
- 2 perilla leaves
- baby spinach blanched
Instructions
- Mix together the sesame oil and salt with the steamed rice.
- Using scissors, cut half way up the center of a sheet of nori. Place it shiny side down. Place 1/3 cup of rice on the bottom left corner of the nori. Place the spam on the top left corner. Place the eggs on the top right corner. Place the green lettuce and cucumber on the bottom left.
- Fold the rice side up over the spam side.
- Fold over to the right on the egg side.
- Fold over to the bottom on the vegetables.
