RECIPIES
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Of Magnesia | Olive Oil Production Volos Magnesia

Recipe with rice

In a small stainless steel saucepan put ½ tea-cup of Basmati rice enough for 2 servings. Wash and drain twice, put in the saucepan and add a full cup of cold water and a pinch of salt. Stir the salt only in the water—no stirring at all from this moment on. Add gently in the middle of the saucepan 40–50 ml of our EVOO 3% acidity. Our EVOO is thicker, more dense than that of the Peloponese. Put on low to middle heat enough to allow a few bubbles to appear. Do not stir at any time. Cover with lid and wait for 40 minutes. Check from time to time if the water and oil have been absorbed. It should look solid; taste and serve. In different ways you can cook wonderful pasta dishes, potatoes à la Boulangère in the oven. Excellent EVOO pancakes.

Try the 3 top foods in one meal, beginning with avocado pear with EVOO dressing as a starter, followed by grilled salmon with freshly made mayonnaise accompanied by a green salad made with lettuce heart, cucumber, rocca and spring onion with EVOO and champagne dressing, baby new potatoes in EVOO garlic sauce. For dessert a blueberry mousse to use up the rest of the champagne bottle.

EVOO is used in marinating almost every type of meat with great quality to tenderise the meat. A good example is the cocotte with. Health foods require a very special selection of ingredients of the highest quality.

The way that French ‘Haute Cuisine, Cuisine Nouvelle and Cuisine Menusee’ treat their ingredients is based on health principles of freshness or maturity or seasonal availability. Great chefs de cuisine like Paul Bocuse and Jean Troisgros were the creators of gastronomy and Art Culinairie. Taste must be harmonious and enhancing to ingredients whether it is meat or fish or game or poultry or eggs or vegetables.

A simple vegetable like spinach can be cooked in more than 30 ways. This takes account of the needs of health sufferers and several ailments or illnesses of the peptic system and organs. Spinach can be cooked in whole leaves and EVOO which is not suitable for kidney, pancreas, gall bladder sufferers, or can be chopped and steamed and used for several preparations as in poached egg with cream sauce or a gratin with parmesan, or sweetbreads in brandy sauce.