Banana and coffee smoothie

Today we bring you a fun recipe that you will love to take as a snack, for example. And the best thing is that it takes only two minutes to prepare!

Ingredients for 2 servings:

- 2 ripe bananas

- 7 oz of cold semi-skimmed milk

- 7 oz of of coffee

- Ground cinnamon

Recipe:

- Peel the banana and cut it into several pieces.

- Introduce it in a glass suitable for blender together with milk and coffee.

- Beat everything well without lumps.

- Pour it over the container where you are going to serve it.

- Sprinkle some ground cinnamon on top and serve with a straw.

Bon appétit!

Coffee cupcakes

Today we bring you a recipe that will delight the sweet tooth of the house, and we show you a trick to make the recipe express if you need to prepare them in less than 10 minutes!

Ingredients:

- 5 muffins (you can see how to prepare them here)

- 3.5 oz of butter

- 3.5 oz of glass sugar

- 1.5 oz of coffee with milk

Recipe:

- Prepare the muffins as we show you in the link, if you want that they have more taste of coffee, you can substitute olive oil for coffee or coffee with milk.

- Cut the top of the muffins so that they are more or less flat.

- In a large bowl, mix the butter at room temperature with the icing sugar little by little with the help of rods.

- Add the coffee little by little and continue stirring until all the ingredients are well integrated and a cream is formed without lumps.

- Put the cream in a pastry bag with the mouthpiece you prefer.

- Decorate the cupcakes with the cream forming circles.

*Tip for cookers: if you can't prepare the muffins because you have no time, you can always buy some and you just have to make the coffee cream, in 5 minutes you will have your cupcakes ready!

Bon appétit!

Puff pastry with chicken, cheese and nuts

Today's recipe is very simple and perfect to leave prepared and cooked in the oven while doing other things, in 15 minutes it is done!

Ingredients for 6 pcs:

- 1 rectangular puff pastry sheet

- 1/2 chicken breast

- 3.5 oz of cheese

- 1/2 onion

- 1 handful of nuts

Recipe:

- Preheat the oven to 200º.

- Extend the puff pastry plate at room temperature.

- Cut it into squares of the same size (we have done it in squares of about 10x10cm).

- Cut the chicken breast into pieces with scissors or a knife.

- Peel the onion and cut it into squares.

- Split the nuts with your hands in uneven pieces.

- Grate the cheese.

- Place a baking paper on the tray where you are going to cook the boats.

- Distribute the ingredients on the center of each of them.

- Fold the edges of the puff boats inwards to form a frame.

- Bake until golden (about 15 minutes).

Bon appétit!

Fusilli with pumpkin, leek and cheese sauce

Today we bring you a pasta recipe with an original homemade sauce based on vegetables and cheese that is very juicy and also helps us take care of ourselves.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

- 7 oz of fusilli

- 10 oz of peeled and clean pumpkin

- 1 medium leek

- 3.5 oz of semi-cured cheese

- Oregano

- Salt

- Olive oil

Recipe:

- Wash the leek and pumpkin clean and peeled.

- Cut the squash in squares of about 1 cm.

- Split the leek into slices.

- Grate the cheese.

- Cook the fusilli in boiling water with a pinch of salt during the time indicated by the manufacturer.

- Drain them in a colander.

- In a pan with a drizzle of olive oil, sauté over medium heat the pumpkin.

- A few minutes later add the leek.

- When they are golden, add a splash of water and let them cook until they soften and the water has been almost completely consumed.

- In a glass suitable for the blender, grind it well until a light sauce is formed without lumps. If you get too thick, add a little water and beat again.

- Mix the fusilli with the sauce and add the grated cheese on top.

Stir well so that the cheese melts completely.

- Serve and sprinkle a little oregano on top.

Bon appétit!

Chicken and eggplant burger

Today we present the recipe for this original chicken burger that we prepared by chance recently at home to take half eggplant we had from another recipe, and we can not like more the result!

Ingredients for 2 servings:

- 2 thin chicken breasts

- 1/2 eggplant

- 1/2 tomato

- 6 thin slices of goat cheese

- Canons

- 2 hamburger buns

- Olive oil

- Salt

- Pepper

Recipe:

- Wash the eggplant, the canons and the tomato thoroughly.

- Cut two slices of tomato for each burger.

- Split the eggplant into thin slices and, each slice, in half.

- In a pan with a few drops of olive oil, sauté the eggplant on both sides until golden.

- Put salt and peppers to the chicken breasts.

- In the same pan where you have cooked the eggplant, fry the chicken until golden.

- Start the hamburger by placing a bed of canons on top of the bread, then the chicken breasts, the eggplant, the tomato and the goat's cheese.

*Tip for cookers: We have not added any sauce, we found it delicious as is, but you can add one if you want. Sure it's very rich with mayonnaise, mustard mayonnaise or pesto. Which one would you add?

Bon appétit!

Salad with white beans and tuna

We love legumes, and although we usually prepare them in the form of stew, sometimes, especially in summer, they want a lighter and fresher form, which is why we are addicted to eating them in salads. What do you think of our proposal for today?

Ingredients for 2 servings:

- 3.5 oz of white beans

- 2 cans of tuna in natural

- 15 cherry tomatoes

- 1/2 cucumber

- 1/3 of green pepper

- Black olives

- Green olives

- Chopped parsley

- Salt

- Olive oil

Recipe:

- Soak the white beans the night before.

- The next day, cook them in boiling water with a little salt until they are soft.

- Wash the cucumber, tomatoes and green pepper.

- Cut the pepper into small strips, the cucumber into squares and the cherry tomatoes into 4 wedges.

- In a pan with olive oil, sauté the green pepper over medium heat until golden.

- Place it on absorbent paper to remove the excess of oil and reserve.

- Drain the tuna.

- Mix in a bowl the white beans, green pepper, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, tuna and green and black olives.

- Sprinkle a little chopped parsley and salt over the top.

- Pour a drizzle of olive oil over it and stir again.

Bon appétit!

Cold coffee dessert

With the good weather it's doing, we want refreshing desserts like this one, and more if it is coffee flavored, we would drink it at all times!

Ingredients for 2 servings:

- 7 oz of milk

- 2 coffee capsules

- 3.5 oz of cream for cooking

- 1 egg

- 1.5 oz of sugar

- 1 trickle of water

- 1 sheet of neutral gelatin

- Sprinkle of hearts to decorate

Recipe:

- Prepare the coffee with the capsule and water.

- Hydrate the gelatin sheet in a small bowl with cold water.

- Mix the egg and sugar in a bowl until they are well integrated.

- Add the milk and cream and mix again.

- Heat it in a saucepan over medium heat until it starts to boil.

- Remove from heat and add coffee.

- Add the well drained gelatin sheet and stir until it dissolves well.

- Fill the glasses where you are going to serve the dessert and keep it in the fridge for a couple of hours to set and cool well.

- Decorate with sprinkles of hearts above just before serving.

Bon appétit!

Coffee crepes

Today we wanted to cover the classic crepes to give them an original touch of coffee. It is a dessert that we often prepare and that we love, so from time to time we make small variations in the recipe and, one of the ones we liked the most, has been this one with coffee.

Ingredients for 10 pcs:

- 9 oz of milk

- 1 coffee capsule

- 1 egg

- 4.5 oz of cornstarch

- 1 trickle of sunflower oil

- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

- A few drops of vanilla essence

Recipe:

- Prepare the coffee with the coffee capsule and water.

- Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl.

- Mix with a few rods until there is a homogeneous mass without lumps.

- Let stand 30 minutes in the fridge to thicken a bit.

- Heat a pan well with a few drops of oil.

- With a saucepan, take a measure of the dough and spread it well so that the thin pancakes are left.

- When it is well done on one side and easily detaches from the pan, turn it over and let it cook on the other side.

- Repeat with all the crepes until you finish with the dough.

- You can fill them with cream, coffee cream (you can see the recipe here), or pour over caramel or coffee syrup (you can see the recipe here), or eat them as they are, they are delicious in any way.

Bon appétit!