Mouthwatering, Cozy Winter Meal on a Budget - mexican restaurant main dishes

Fortunately, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.
Chef Alex Stratta runs two of the best restaurants on Vegas Boulevard
Alex Award-
Winner and "Stratta "-
He brought quite a bit of his culinary talent to the east just to "perform early on Saturday morning ".
As our chef, Alex tried to do a three-
Of course, a comfortable winter meal for four under our petty $40 budget. The menu?
Hummus and vegetable soup, braised pork ribs with red wine, coconut cassava with fresh fruit.
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His chef hat was automatically entered in our "How far can you go" contest where the lowest cost of ingredients "Shoestring" chef was invited back for our big year
End holiday feast
Right around the corner, of course!
Not only that,-
You can help choose the main course we will prepare next week.
Would you prefer grilled salmon, grilled chicken or braised pork?
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The Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant serves French Riviera cuisine, while Stratta offers a more casual dining experience and rustic Italian cuisine such as wood-baked pizza and homemade pasta.
Food Source: "partner of food lovers" chickpeas or chickens
Peas: slightly larger than ordinary peas, these round, irregular --shaped, buff-
Colored beans are solid in texture and mild in taste, like nuts. Chickpeas (
It's garbanzo and ceci)
It is widely used in Mediterranean, Indian and Middle Eastern dishes such as steamed couscous flour and hummus.
They also tried Spanish stew, pasta and a variety of Mexican dishes and quickly became popular in many parts of the western and southwestern United States.
There are canned chickpeas, dried peas and some fresh chickpeas.
Salads, soups and stews are most commonly used. Kombu (aka konbu)
: Kombu is particularly popular in Japanese cooking and is one of the two basic ingredients of dashi (soup stock).
From dark brown to gray brown
After harvest is the black seaweed of the Sun
Fold into pieces after drying.
Kombu for sale in Japanese and healthy-
The food market, if it is not opened in a dry place, it will be kept indefinitely.
After opening, store in a cool and dry place for 6 months.
Kombu has natural white
A powder cover that provides quite a taste.
Therefore, the surface should be gently wiped, not cleaned.
Kombu can be used to season cooked food as well as to make sushi.
It is sometimes pickled and used as a condiment.
Kombu is also known as simple kelp.
Spite: spite is an ancient grain with a mellow nut flavor, native to southern Europe, where it has been used for thousands of years.
The digestible spelt protein content is slightly higher than that of wheat, and people who are allergic to wheat can tolerate it.
Flour is freshly ground and can be used in health-
Food stores can replace wheat flour in baked goods.
Short ribs: a rectangle of beef, about 2 inch by 3 inch, usually cut off from the chuck.
The short rib consists of a fat layer and a meat layer and contains a rib slice.
They are very tough, long, slow, wetheat cooking.
Cassava: starch material extracted from the roots of cassava plants.
It has many forms, including particles, flakes, particles (
Called Pearl cassava)
Flour or starch.
The most widely used form is cassava flour (
Also called sweet potato powder)
And Pearl cassava.
Flour is used as a thickening agent for soup, fruit fillings, glaze, etc.
Like corn starch.
Pearl cassava is mainly used to make puddings, in several specifications, in regular or instant forms, as well as various prepackaged flavors.
Most supermarkets have Pearl cassava, while other forms are more common in health
Food stores and Asian markets.
If stored in a cool, dark place, all types of cassava will be kept indefinitely.
Ingredients: 1 cup of dried chickpeas (
Overnight.
1 oz dried kombu10 cup vegetable soup 1 1/4 cup cooked speltMETHOD: soak hummus for the night.
Wipe kombu with a damp cloth to remove all the excess dry salt and white film on the seaweed.
Add hummus and kombu to the vegetable juice, boil it, and then simmer it until the hummus becomes soft (
About 45 minutes).
Wait until cooked before adding salt and white pepper to season.
When chickpeas are cooking, place the spelling in a pot of cold light salt water and cook until soft, but not spread out (
About 1 hour).
After the hummus is cooked, remove the kombu and filter the hummus from the liquid.
Using a high speed mixer, mix the chickpeas with some soup bottoms, adjust to the desired consistency, and then mix until smooth as silk, filtered through a fine filter.
Keep the soup warm until it needs to be cooled or immediately for future use.
Vegetables: 1 cup of carrot, small cup of celery root, small cup of onion, small cup of Tuscan kale, 2 cups of small cup of preserved cooked speltSalt and white pepper 2 to fill the pot with water, slightly seasoned, then boil, boil the cut vegetables until tender, then put ice in a container containing ice water, drain well, refrigerate and spare until needed.
Side dishes: 2 tablespoons of fresh pomegranate seeds s1/4 Fuji apples, 1/4 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil salt and crushed pepper, cut the apples into small strips of matchstick size a moment before the soup is served, put in a bowl with seeds, oil, leeks and seasonings.
Stir them and put them on the hot soup for cold storage.
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Red wine braised short ribs: 2 pounds beef ribs coarse salt taste 1/2 cups scallions 1/4 cups carrots 1/2 cups sherry 5 parsley stem2 leeks 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1/2 tbsp Black in half1/4 cups honey 1/2 cup red wine 4 cups veal or cut in the beef. Method: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Cut the ribs into 1-
Inch connection (
About 3 to 4 ribs. )
Put a heavy baking tray in the oven and make it very hot.
Remove the pot from the oven and place it at high temperature on the stove.
Add two tablespoons of olive oil to the pan and season the meat with coarse salt and black pepper.
Good in all aspects.
Add onions, garlic and carrots.
Bake for five minutes and add honey.
Caramel Honey until light brown and off
Vinegar glaze.
Dry the vinegar with red wine and parsley.
Cut the wine by half and add beef.
Boil and put in the oven for 4 1/2 to 5 hours until the meat is scattered.
Take the ribs from just now and tighten them through the cheese cloth.
8 inch and a half long leeksan-
An inch thick tie around the ribs.
Remove the hemp thread from the butcher's shop and put it back in the tight sauce.
Spare after seasoning.
Coconut cassava with fresh tropical fruit ingredients: for cassava: 1 oz tapioca pear 1 1/3 cup coconut milk 5 teaspoon agave nectar1/2 vanilla bean 1/4 cup soy milk method: soak about 1/2 cups of coconut milk with tapioca pearl overnight.
Then, in a medium-sized pan, boil the rest of the ingredients in addition to soy milk.
Cook the cassava pearls soaked the night before in a pan until the pearls become clear and transparent.
Immediately remove from the high temperature and end with 1/4 cups of soy milk.
Put in a shallow container and cool in the refrigerator.
Decoration: 1/8 cup cut fresh strawberry 1/8 cup cut fresh pineapple 1/8 cup cut fresh kiwi 1/8 cup cut fresh pepper 3baby coconuts)
, Selection method: Peel all fruits and cut them into dice with slices or hand mandolin, mix them in a bowl and shave off baby coconuts as thin as possible.
Assembly: after freezing the cassava, place the spoon in the bowl, add the cut fruit to the top, and then finish with the shaved baby coconut.
So how does dir Alex perform in our "How far can you go? " competition? !
$ Chickpeas and vegetables. 60 kombu $3.
Vegetable stocks are $87. 00 spelt $2. 99 carrot $.
Celery Root 35 yuan 2. 33 onion $. 18 kale $.
99 yuan pomegranate99 apple $. 33 chives $. 49 total $16.
Braised short ribs for $8. 98 shallots $. 17 garlic $. 39 wine $1.
Beef is $99 in stock. 59 total $14.
$2 coconut sweet potato powder.
$99 coconut milk. 79 soy milk $1.
49 $2 mixed fruit. 99 total $9.
Total: $39.
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Bill telepathy $3701Telepan2.
$37 Mark Murphy11 ditch plain 3.
$37 Amanda freitage