ETLİ TAZE FASULYE

GREEN BEANS WITH BEEF CUBES

Ingredients:

• 3 lb. of green beans
• 1 pound of beef cubes
  
• 2 medium size of onions
• 2 fresh green pepper
• 1 tbsp of tomato paste
  
• 6 large size of tomatoes
• 3 tbsp of vegetable oil
• 1/2 tsp of black pepper
  
• salt

Chop onion and green pepper. Wash, drain and, trim the beans and cut them diagonally into 1-inch pieces.
Take beef cubes and vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook it until the beef absorb all of its juice, stirring occasionally . Add chopped onion, chopped pepper into the pot. Saute them on a medium heat for 10 minutes then add tomato paste and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Take green beans into the pot. Add black pepper and salt. Stir them all together.Simmer it until green beans are soft. Peel the tomatoes and cut them into cubes. Place tomatoes on top of other beans. Put the lid on and cook for 20 minutes.

ELMALI KURABİYE

COOKIES WITH APPLE FILLING

These cookies from Rabia's blog. I can easily say that it is so delicious and very easy to make. The dough is very easy to work with which is very important when you are making these kind of cookies.

Ingredients:

• 1 stick of butter (melted )
  
• 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/3 tsp of baking soda
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla sugar
• 4 cups of all purpose flour ( approx )

Filling:

• 4 large size off apples
• 1 cup of finely diced walnut
• 1 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 tbsp of ground cinnamon

Peel and grate apples. Take sugar and the grated apple in a medium pot over medium heat. Cook until it absorbs all of its juice.Then add walnut and cinnamon to the pot. Turn the heat off.Stir and set a side.
Shift flour, baking soda and vanilla sugar all together in a large mixing bowl. Take melted butter, vegetable oil, milk and sugar in another large bowl and mix. Add shifted flour gradually to the liquid and make a soft dough.
Take a small piece of dough ( about the size of an egg) and make it flat with your hands. Place 1 tbs of filling in the middle of the dough and close it up. Place them on a baking tray.When putting the cookies to the tray, the closed part of them should face up. Preheat the oven to 350F. Bake them until golden brown.