Really rich knights

Remember the sweet eggy fried breads that are called "poor knoghts"? If we believe Wikipedia, then it is eaten in almost all the countries of the world, with slight variations and under different names. Well, we eat it here in estonia, too. But if you add a thick yoghurt with roasted strawberries and vanilla flavoured whipped cream and sprinkle over some chopped hazelnuts, then it would be very unfair to name them "poor". I would say, they are very rich, tasy and glamorous!

You need:

8 thick slices of good white bread

2 eggs

200 ml milk

2 tbs sugar

Mix the eggs, sugar and milk well. Dip the slices of bread in the mixture, hold for a few seconds and fry in hot butter on a pan until they are golden on both side.

200 ml thick natural yoghurt (or buy the usual natural yoghurt and drain it)

150 ml fresh strawberries

3 tbs brown sugar

a few drops of balsamico

1 ts grated lemon zest

Halve the strawberries, put them on a baking tray, sprinkle over with brown sugar, lemon zest and a few drops of balsamico. Cover with foil and bake in the oven of 180 degrees for about 20 minutes until they are soft. Strain away the liquid (makes a delicious drink with water and lemon). Push the strawbrries a bit with a fork and mix with the yoghurt.

150 ml whipping cream

2 tbs of sugar

seeds from one vanillapod

Mix the sugar, vanilla seeds and the cream. Whip until firm.

Serve the fried bread, putting a tablespoon of strawberry yoghurt and another of vanilla cream on them. Sprinkle over with a tablespoon of chopped hazelnuts. Makes a beautiful weekend breakfast for strawberry season!

Tõeliselt rikkad rüütlid

Vaja läheb:

8 lõiku head saia

2 muna

200 ml piima

2 spl suhkrut

Sega munad, piim ja suhkur. Kasta saiaviilud segusse ja hoia mõned sekundid. Prae kuumas võis mõlemalt poolt kuldseks.

200 ml paksemat maitsestamata jogurtit (või nõruta tavalisest liigne vedelik välja)

150 ml värskeid maasikaid

3 spl pruuni suhkrut

1 tl riivitud sidrunikoort

mõned tilgad balsamico äädikat

Poolita maasikad. Pane ahjupannile, raputa peale pruun suhkur, sidrunikoor ja mõned tilgad balsamicot.

Kata vorm fooliumiga ja küpseta 180 kraadi juures ca 20 minutit kuni maasikad on pehmed. Suru maasikaid kahvliga pisut puruks, nõruta välja vedelik ja sega maasikad jogurtisse.

150 ml vahukoort

2 spl suhkrut

vanilliseemned ühest vanillikaunast

Sega vahukoor suhkru ja vanilliseemnetega. Klopi korralikult vahule.

Serveeri praetud saiad, tõstes neile peale lusikatäis maasikajogurtit ja teine vanilli-vahukoort ning raputa peale veidi haitud metspähkleid. Suurepärane nädalalõpuhommikusöök suviseks maasikahooajaks!

Traditional oatcookies with chocolate-hazelnut twist

Oatcookies are the kind of cookies that every mom in Estonia has made when children have wanted something sweet. They´re quick and easy to make. This time I added a special twist to those traditional cookies, to make them more festive. Hazelnuts and dark chocolate are both also very estonian things. In fact you can pick hazelnuts from the forest everywhere in Estonia during autumn. So, if you´re in a hurry, you want something sweet, but at the same time healthy, here it comes. You need (for two big bakingtrays):

500 gr of oatflakes (preferably not the instant-porridge ones)

250 gr sugar

200 gr of butter

200 gr wheat flour

6 eggs

50 gr of hazelnuts

100 gr ofdark chocolate

Mix sugar with butter. Add eggs, one by one, mixing constantly. After the eggs, sift in flour and mix in the oatflakes. Mix through. Cover the bakingtray with bakingpaper and put spoonfuls of cookiebatter on. Push a hazelnut or two to every cookie and pinch the batter to cover the nut. Bake in preheated 180 C oven for about 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and let it cool down. Melt the chocolate on bain-marie and cover every chocolate with a teaspoonful of melted chocolate. Sprinle some chopped hazelnut on top. Serve when the chocolate has become hard again.

Kaerahelbeküpsised metsapähkli ja tumeda šokolaadiga

500 gr kaerahelbeid (mitte kiirpudruhelbeid, kui võimalik)

200 gr võid

250 gr suhkrut

6 muna

200 gr jahu

50 gr metsapähkleid

100 gr tumedat šokolaadi (nt Bitter)

Sega või ja suhkur pehmeks vahuks. Lisa ükshaaval munad, pidevalt segades. Sõelu sisse jahu, lisa kaerahelbed ja sega korralikult läbi. Kata ahjupann küpsetuspaberiga, tõsta sellele supilusikatäied küpsisetainast. Suska igasse taignakuhja pähkel või kaks. Näpista tainast pealt nii et pähkel saab kaetud. Küpseta 180 kraadises ahjus umbes 20 minutit või kuni küpsised on ilusti kuldsed. Lase jahtuda. Sulata šokolaad veevannil ja tõsta igale küpsisele teelusikatäis šokolaadi. Puista peale hakitud metsapähkleid ja lase šokolaadiglasuuril tahkuda enne serveerimist.