LEVEL 5. UNIT 2. FOOD FROM AROUEND THE WORLD

Every country has it’s own culture that it’s reflected in the food, that’s why every single country has traditional dishes that are different from other places in so many ways. Each country uses special ingredients, different techniques and much more.

For example, french food it’s all about exquisiteness, it’s techniques of cooking and baking are essential to accomplish a great dish. It’s known for being the finest cuisine in the world. They have more than a hundred varieties of bread, the greatest cheeses and the best desserts in the entire world. My favorite French dish is crepes, and what I like the most about this dish is that you can it eat it as a main dish or as dessert, which means that it can be salty or sweet. My favorite is strawberry-banana and nutella crepe.

There’s also Indian food which it’s characterized by the extensive use of various indian spices, herbs, vegetables and fruit. The most important or frequently used spices in Indian cuisine are chilli pepper, black mustard seed, cumin, ginger , coriander,  garlic and of course, curry. I really don’t like indian cuisine because the dishes are too hot and spicy and I don’t like most of the ingriedents they use.

 One of my favorites is american food because there are a lot of fast food dishes that are delicious. My favorite dish is hamburger because it’s made with a lot  ingredients like cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, ketchup and I always eat it with fries. I also like the american breakfast, I always order scramble eggs with pancakes and I love the maple although it’s sticky. I like bacon too because it’s crunchy.

Japanese cuisine it’s very extensive too but the most famous dish is sushi. There are lots of types but my favorites are alaska and california rolls. Chefs use many ingredients to prepare sushi like crab, salmon, shrimp, rice, avocado, cream cheese, seaweed and others. It’s a dish that can be eated hot or cold depending on the type of sushi you like. I like to eat it with soya sauce that gives sushi kind of bittersweet taste.

Another worldwide famous cuisine it’s spanish. It has a great variety of different dishes like paella, tapas and tortilla. The paella it’s the most traditional dish and it’s made with different kind of seafood as lobster, shrimp, clams, octupus and oysters. It’s principal ingredient is rice with spices that’s why it’s yellow. Most of spanish dishes are very salty like tapas that are made with different types of ham, cheeses, olives and they have a lot of fat too. Another famous spanish dish is tortilla which is made mostly with potatoes but it also has other ingredients like peppers, cheese and herbs. I love to prepare tortilla and this is my favorite recipe:

Step 1: Prepare a large bowl with 1kg of thinly sliced potatoes and sprinkle plenty salt over them and work it down to the bottom of the bowl.

Step 2: In a large frying pan heat about ½ cm of olive oil.  When it's very hot add the potatoes from the bowl and start to fry them.  Be sure to keep stirring them so that they don't stick or start to brown. 

Step 3: add half an onion to the potatoes.  This should be chopped very fine.  Stir the contents of the frying pan then cover it.

Step 4: break 8 large eggs into a bowl and add a pinch of salt and beat them.

Step 5: add the potato/onion mix to the bowl of beaten eggs.

Step 6: add the mix to the frying pan. Flatten it down in the pan and keep the heat at medium for a few minutes.

Step 7: Turn the tortilla several times.  You'll find it gets heavier each turn.  

It is ready when you put a knife into it and the knife comes out clean.