Quick, spicy, sweet and fresh sandwich

this is a really nice dinner that can be assembled quickly, 

with a maximum amount of taste!

First, stir together the components for 

a fresh garlic sauce:

- 3 tablespoons of Greek yoghurt

- 1,5 tablespoon of mayonaise

- 1 clove of garlic (chopped)

then chop 1 cm thick slices of your red cabbage and place them in an oven dish

make the marinade:

- 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil

- 1 tablespoon of honey

- 1 tablespoon of ras-el-hanout

give it a good stir and brush the marinade on the slices of

red cabbage, then place the oven dish

in a preheated oven (200 degrees Celcius) for 25 minutes

in the mean time, cube one chickenbreast per person,

and bake it in a little olive oil.

When the chicken is done, stir in some sambal.

Then assemble the sandwich,

start with the bread,

add some garlic sauce,

the spicy grilled red cabbage,

then the hot chicken pieces,

some more garlic sauce,

and the final piece of bread!

Champignon XXL Burger

I used the mature version of the common 

white mushroom, but this recipe can be made with 

a portobello mushroom (the mature version of the chestnut mushroom) 

just as well.

Mushroom marinade

-1 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar

-1 tablespoon of soy sauce

-1 tablespoon of olive oil

-1 teaspoon of cajun seasoning

Marinate the mushroom caps for about half an hour,

Then bake it in a pan, preferably a grilling pan. Using additional oil is not necessary, as there is oil in the marinade already.

Finally, build your burger the way you would do it with a ‘normal’ burger.

I used a slice of cheddar, some red onion and a slice of tomato….oh, and a nice layer of chipotle mayo ;-)

Pork Belly Buns

Never made these before and today i'm going to try and make a quick version,

not completely sure if that's a great idea, but let's see!

I've encountered way too many delicious pictures of pork belly buns on the internet lately,

so when I spotted the buns in the fridge of my local ethnic store, I just had to try.

Bought a couple of slices of pork belly (that's how they mainly sell pork belly over here, also called "speklapjes") and cut them in quarters

Baked them slowly on low/medium heat in tiny bit of oil (to get them started),

until the largest part of the fat melted away.

this will take about 20 minutes, and you want to turn up the heat and crisp them up a little at the end.

at that point, most of the fat was tossed and the meat was set aside.

in the little fat that was left, I heated a mixture of the following ingredients:

- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce

- 1 tablespoon of fish sauce

- 2 tablespoons of dry sherry

- 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

-chopped ginger (to taste)

- thin rings of red spanish pepper (to taste)

after bringing it to a boil, the meat was added back in and the heat

turned back down to low/medium heat.

I let it simmer for a while; about 20-30 minutes.

next up was steaming the buns I bought from the store

(instructions are on the package)

and preparing the rest, in this case:

- slices of cucumber

- shaved carrot slices

- a tiny bit of hoisin sauce for every bun

et voila: