Top 3 Tortilla Recipes: 10 minute healthy recipes.

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Tortilla is a unique ingredient: every dish you incorporate it in is simple, easy to cook , yet very delicious. These 3 recipes are my favorites when I am on the run and the family needs to have a snack. Fried tortillas with beef It’s good to take with you if you decide to go...

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Beef Cutlets Easy

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This recipe is very popular in European countries: in Austria it’s called schnitzel,  in the US it’s called a cutlet. We cook cutlets with beef and pork, even with fish and chicken. The main thing the fillet/ or loin has to be thin. It’s a great dish for a weekday dinner, 5-10 minutes to cook...

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Mom’s potato stuffed with beef

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         This recipe is my Mom’s recipe; she invented it when we lived in Russian Far East. She had that awesome spiral potato cutter, so she was cutting potato and using it in two dishes, spirally cut potatoes from  the middle of potato were fried (Yummm) and the rest of the potato, (it looked like...

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Pizza from scratch in 30 minutes!

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Normally when we cook pizza we think it should take an hour, I saw some recipes where cooking pizza took 4 hours. I bet it comes out as a delicous masterpiece, but… guess what… we normally don’t have 4 hours to fix the pizza. It’s good, when we have 30 minutes. That’s why I decided...

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Potato, zucchini, red bell pepper, with bacon and herbs baked in a pot.

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 I was searching the internet for some time to find if this dish is prepared on North American continent, the closes I got was a recipe from allrecipes.com by Jana, but based on name I can say that the author is either from Europe of has roots from European countries. Please help me, if you...

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Quick and delish omelet with squash, tomato and onion (and with lemon basil, of course).

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So this is my favorite Saturday morning breakfast/brunch meal. It’s very fast to cook and you can add pretty much any vegetable you like and it will be gorgeous. For this one I added: 3-4 slices of snow white squash you can use zucchini); ½ of white onion; 4 eggs; ½ tomato; Lemon basil leaves;...

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Simple and fast pie with braised cabbage, eggs, tomato and lemon basil..

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This pie was invented some time ago it’s fast and simple to cook, and filling can be pretty much anything: mushrooms, braised cabbage, spinach, eggs and herbs, meat… you name it. For the batter: 1 cup of cultured buttermilk; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1, 5 cups of self-rising flour; 1 egg; Pinch of salt. Filling:...

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Deep fried beef steak

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Deep fried sirloin beef steak In Ukraine we don’t have steaks, no seriously! Ukrainians just don’t have this dish; we eat braised meat and meatballs. So I had to learn how to cook steak, my own way. For this deep fried steak you have to choose meat correctly, it should have some fat (not a...

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Lazy homemade pasta with minced pork and beef meat

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This recipe is as simple as 1-2-3! You can make it with pasta from a store but it’s more tender and delish if you cook it yourself. The detailed recipe for the homemade pasta may be found here. The alternative brief recipe is here: 2-3 eggs; 1/3 melted butter; 1 cup of flour; 1/3 cup...

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Cabbage rolls stuffed with beef, pork and rice

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 This dish is cooked in our country since the times of tsars and Kyiv Rus. It’s delicious and mainly healthy, because the dish is steamed, not fried. The recipe is quite simple but takes some time. For this dish you will need: 1 cabbage (preferably with young, tender leaves) ½ pound of pork ½ pound...

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