The identity of each people is expressed in different ways, including in unique culinary traditions. In the world there are a huge number of national dishes: soups, main dishes, and, of course, desserts. Visiting different countries, you can get acquainted with various delicious desserts prepared according to national recipes, often completely unique.
If you get to the USA, then make sure that this country is just a paradise for lovers of desserts. Delicious American donuts, easy to prepare, but very tasty; cookies with pieces of chocolate, which is a real threat to the figure, because, having started to eat it, it is very difficult to stop, and others.
But the most famous American dessert is a cheesecake, which captivates sweet lovers with its airiness, tenderness and light vanilla flavor. Let's try and we cook this American dish, using one of the simplest recipes.
Recipe: American Cheesecake
Ingredients for American Cheesecake:
1. Philadelphia cheese - 700 gr.,
2.5 eggs
3. vanilla sugar - 200 gr.,
4. 2 packs of any cookies,
5. butter - 100 gr.
Method of making an American cheesecake:
1. Grind the cookies into crumbs and mix them with melted butter, resulting in a slightly sticky mass.
2. We encircle the low-shaped bottom and its walls with the resulting mass.
3. Beating eggs with sugar, add Philadelphia cheese and, whipping everything until a homogeneous consistency, send the mixture to the mold.
4. Put the form for about an hour in the oven, heated to 165 degrees. It is necessary not to miss the moment the appearance of a slightly yellowish crust - then immediately turn off the oven and let our cheesecake cool.
5. Decorate the finished dessert with fresh berries or mint leaves.
Of course, not all recipes for American desserts are so simple. For example, for the preparation of lemon cheesecake, you must strictly follow the recipe and cooking technology. The American pumpkin pie, tender and surprisingly tasty, which not every one of them can cook, also thrills all housewives.
South America, whose cuisine contains a huge variety of such recipes, will delight dessert lovers. Brazil is especially famous for them, where you will certainly be treated to bananas in wine syrup, the famous Brazilian nut cake, a sweet called brigadeiro and many other delicious desserts, without which no holiday can be enjoyed by South Americans. Let’s try and we will prepare one Brazilian dessert, simple, but very tasty and healthy.
Recipe: Brazilian Egg Dessert
Ingredients:
1.3 eggs (only yolks),
2. sugar - 200 gr.,
3. water - 100 gr.,
4. A pinch of ground cinnamon.
Cooking method:
1. Stir the water with sugar and boil for 5-7 minutes.
2. In a bowl, beat egg yolks lightly and in the process pour hot syrup into a thin stream.
3. Cook this mixture over low heat until thickened, then, after cooling, stir well.
4. Having put the finished mass into a dish, sprinkle it with ground cinnamon and serve with fruit or ice cream.
Once in Asia, you will be a little puzzled by the desserts that are offered to you. Asian cuisine has always been considered exotic in our country, and the dishes that serve desserts there are no exception. For example, in Japan you will be offered fried watermelon. Sounds strange, doesn't it? The same reaction is usually caused by shrimp in sugar, sweet rice and other dishes. However, having tried many of them, you can forever remain fans of Japanese cuisine. For example, such a traditional Japanese dessert.
Caramel Sweet Potato
Ingredients:
1. sweet potato - 500 gr.,
2. sugar - 120 g.,
3. 1 tablespoon of light
4. healthy cooking oil
5. black dummy for decoration
Cooking method:
1. Peel the potato, chop it into thin slices, soak in cold water for 5 minutes, and then dry thoroughly with paper towels.
2. Heat the vegetable oil on a slow fire and fry the potatoes in it until the flowers are golden, then remove it and let the oil drain.
3. Heat in a large saxap pan with 3 tablespoons of water before caramelization, pour the molasses and mix.
4. Put the potato in the pan, so that it completely covers it.
5. Remove from heat and sprinkle with a scent.
Although, the question is - why look for desserts around the world when our culinary art traditions contain so many recipes that trying all of them is probably simply impossible. Russian people have always been sweet, so our cuisine is rich in a wide variety of recipes for sweet dishes, the oldest of which were based on honey, homemade kvass and beer.
Earlier in Russia it was customary to boil various fruits and berries in molasses or honey, or to cook apple pastille. However, apricots, viburnum and other berries and fruits were also used for its preparation.
One of the oldest Russian desserts is jelly, which is still popular today. Let's try to cook it in a new, modern design.
Lemon jelly with whipped cream
Ingredients:
1. water - 1.5 l and half a glass,
2. sugar - 4 tbsp. l.,
3. lemon - 3 pcs.,
4. starch - 100 gr.,
5. cream - 0.5 cups,
6. 2-3 sprigs of mint.
Cooking method:
1. Squeeze the juice from the lemon, after rubbing the zest on a fine grater. You should get almost a glass of juice.
2. Boil water with 2 tbsp. l sugar and, adding lemon zest, cook for about 10 minutes.
3. Filter the resulting syrup, add lemon juice to it and bring to a boil again.
4. We dilute the starch in 0.5 cups of water and pour a thin stream into the syrup with lemon juice with constant stirring, when it thickens, remove from heat.
5. Beat the cream with the remaining 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, serve with them jelly in a bowl, garnishing with mint leaves.
And here is another Russian dessert, which is difficult to say about which of its advantages is greater - tastier or healthier. It's about baked apples. In general, apples are honored guests in Russian desserts. And baked apples are a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. They are still popular thanks to their aroma, excellent taste and ease of execution.
Baked apples with honey, raisins and nuts
Ingredients:
1. sweet and sour apples - 5 pcs.,
2. walnuts - 100 gr.,
3. raisins - 100 gr.,
4. honey - 50 gr.
1. Carefully cut out the core of apples, put them on a baking sheet and add a few tablespoons of water.
2. In the recesses add mixed honey, chopped nuts and raisins.
3. Put the baking sheet with dessert in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.
4. Taking apples out of the oven, put them on a platter and pour honey.
Of course, to tell in a small article about the traditions and features of the preparation of desserts, which are offered by cuisines of different nations, is simply impossible. But we hope that you have aroused interest in this amazing page of world culinary history, and you will try to cook desserts according to our recipes and surprise your loved ones with these delicious dishes.
