Egyptian Cottage Cheese With Green Pepper and Baladi Bread
Introduction: Egyptian Cottage Cheese With Green Pepper and Baladi Bread
I live in a village in Egypt where there is a wide variety of healthy breakfast choices such as homemade dairy products and fresh vegetables that local farmers grow, and because I am also interested in food art, I decided to make use of Areesh cheese - Egyptian cottage cheese - and fresh veggies to make this savory Ice cream.
Supplies
* 150 gram of areesh cheese.
* 2 green peppers.
* 1 tiny red pepper.
* 1 green chili.
* 1 red chili.
* 1 green onion.
* 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
* 1 loaf of baladi bread.
* Salt.
* Some rocket leaves.
* Mortar and pestle.
* A knife.
* Scissors.
* A tablespoon.
* A fork.
Step 1: The Green Ice Cream
To make our pistachio ice cream, I mean Areesh cheese with green pepper we should:
* Add one teaspoon of olive oil to the areesh cheese.
* Mix them well with a fork.
* Chop one green pepper, one green chili and rocket leaves into the Mortar and pestle.
* Add a pinch of salt to the veggies.
* Crush them well with the pestle until they are homogenous enough.
* Stir the mix with some Areesh cheese.
Step 2: The Pink Ice Cream
It's so to dye the cheese in pink:
* Cut small pieces of beetroot on some areesh cheese.
* Mix them well until the cheese turns pink
* Remove the beetroot pieces.
Step 3: Ice Cream Cone
To make the ice cream cone, we can use Egyptian flat bread, which is Known as baladi bread:
* Cut a triangle out of the round loaf.
* Cut it into two smaller triangles.
* Put them on top of each other.
Step 4: Adding Ice Cream in the Cone
Now it's time to fill our cone with these savory ice cream scoops:
* Add a tablespoon of plain areesh cheese on the upper part of the bread.
* Add a larger amount of the green and the pink cheese respectively.
* Make the scoops look like they are melting on each other.
Step 5: Cherry and Sprinkles
Finally, it's time for our ice cream toppings:
* Put a tiny red pepper on top.
* Chop the brown part of a green pepper into small rods.
* Sprinkle the pepper rods on the pink part of the cheese.
* Chop the green onion into round pieces.
* Add them to the cheese with green pepper.
Step 6: Enjoy!
Now you can enjoy this extremely "healthy" and tasty ice cream as a breakfast without any guilt.
Bon Appetit! 265