Make Agua de Valencia easy and quick

Most cocktails are quite hard to make because of the endless ingredients and the cutting work. With Agua de Valencia this is not the case! This cocktails only consist of 4 ingredients and no cutting work (maybe a slice of orange for decoration). Agua de Valencia consist of the follow ingredients:

• Fresh orange juice
• Cava
• Gin
• Vodka

To make the cocktail so delicious as possible, it is best to use fresh orange juice. It could also be nice to add sugar to the Agua de Valencia, but this is not necessarily important. If you are on a leash or not really a fan of sugar, you can leave it out!

Serving a Agua de Valencia

First of all, it is important that you have 500 ml of fresh orange juice. Do you still need to squeeze them? Do that first! If you bought it from the shop, you can put 500 ml in a measuring cup and pour it into a large can. Then as follows add 300 ml of cava. Then you need to add 100 ml gin plus 100 ml vodka. As you read, there are quite a few layers of alcohol in this drink but you don’t really taste that because of the orange juice. So watch out because this can be very treacherous!

Below is a schematic representation of a can Agua de Valencia:

If you want to add a bit of sugar to the Agua de Valencia, do this first! Even before the fresh juice. If not, the cava could froth.

Are you planning to go to Valencia or are you going to Valencia soon? Then we recommend you to go to a terrace in Valencia to go and drink Agua de Valencia on the terrace. With the sun in your face and the typical Spanish drink you can enjoy your holiday to the fullest!

You can also read about typical Spanish dishes

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A delicious traditional recipe crema Catalana.

The recipe isn’t expensive, but it takes some patience because the dessert need to be put in the fridge for 2 hours. Listen to some nice music and let’s start cooking!

We are using the following ingredients (for 4 persons):

• one cinnamon stick
• 500 ml milk
• 150 g sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• lemon rind of one lemon
• 2 big spoons of Maizana
• vanilla stick
• 3 big spoons of brown sugar

1) Beat the egg yolks with the sugar and the maizena in a bowl till it gets light and soft.

2) Cut the vanilla stick lengthwise and scrape the seeds out.

3) Pour the milk in a saucepan and add the lemon rind, the cinnamon and the vanilla seeds to the milk. Let the milk cook and let it rest for 8 minutes on a soft fire.

4) Remove the cinnamon stick and pour the milk with the egg yolks.

5) Keep stirring constantly, otherwise you will get whole egg pieces.

6) When the mass has about custard thickness pour it into the trays.

7) Put the trays in the fridge and let it rest for two hours.

8) Let the brown sugar caramelize in a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius.

9) Put the brown sugar on the crema.

10) Serve it to your family or friends! Enjoy!

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Dinner is served: an easy gazpacho recipe for students

There are a lot of gazpacho recipes these days. However, the original gazpacho recipe includes: bread, olive oil, garlic, water, vinegar and salt. In the 19^th century tomatoes were included among the ingredients and over the years even more vegetables have been included. We are going to make a sweet gazpacho dish, if you want to save this dish for the day after (it will save you money) don’t use this recipe including the bread or onions because that could cause mold in the soup.

The ingredients (8 persons):

• 1 kilo of tomatoes
• 1 ½ clove of garlic
• ½ onion
• 1 green paprika
• 1 red paprika
• 1 cucumber
• 50 ml olive oil
• 25 ml red wine vinegar
• ice cubes (not really necessary)
• one piece of white bread

Garniture:

• basil leaves
• ½ onion
• 1 Yellow Paprika
• two pieces of white bread

It really doesn’t take much time to make Gazpacho because you can put the ingredients in a blender!

1) Cook some water and dip the tomatoes in the water for a couple of seconds. When they are soft, let them cool of and peel the skin of.

2) Peel the cucumber and cut it in half.

3) Cut the onion and garlic in small pieces and do the same with the paprika and the piece of bread

4) Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend it till it gets a soft structure, meanwhile you can cut the onion and paprika for the garniture.

After these steps, put the soup in the fridge to cool it down.

The garniture:

Cut the bread in small blocks and bake them with olive oil in a baking pan till they are light brown and crispy. Let the croutons leak on a piece of paper.

Grab some nice bowls (or whatever bowls you can find in your student house.) Pour the soup in it and add the garniture on the soup. Call your roommates and enjoy the meal together!

Tip: You could add some ice cubes to the soup to make it even more fresh!

For more recipes read our blog!

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The best Spanish tortilla recipe to make your own “Tortilla Española”

Of course you could buy a Spanish tortilla in a supermarket in Spain, but it will never be as good as the one you make yourself. After comparing different recipes, this is the best Spanish tortilla recipe. Follow the easy steps and learn to make your own “tortilla Española.”

Ingredients

To make a Spanish tortilla for 4 persons you need the following ingredients:

• 6 eggs
• 3 small potatoes (600 grams)
• 1 small onion
• Two glasses of olive-oil
• Salt & pepper

How to make the Spanish tortilla

Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin slices of about 0.5 centimeters. Peel and slice the onion in half rings.

Place the frying pan over a low heat and add one glass of olive oil. Add the potatoes and onion rings and cook it over a low heat for about 25 minutes. Make sure you stir and flip the potatoes slices.

Crack the eggs in a big bowl, add salt and pepper and start mixing the eggs. After the potatoes and onions are cooked, put them into the bowl with the eggs and mix carefully mix the eggs with the onions and potatoes.

Clean the frying pan you used before, place it over a low heat and add the other glass of olive oil. Carefully transfer the mixture into the frying pan. Cover the pan and cook it for about 15 minutes on one side. Use a plate to flip the Spanish tortilla over and cook the other side for about 5 to 8 minutes.

Your tortilla Española is done, enjoy your meal!

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Make an authentic paella Valenciana with the paella valenciana recipe

With this authentic paella valenciana recipe you will make a typical valencian paella. The first one will be good, but the second paella valenciana you’ll make, will make you love it even more.

Paella valenciana Ingredients (4 persons):

• 320 gram rice
• 700 gram chicken
• 400 gram rabbit
• 350 gram green beans (in pieces of about 4 cm)
• 100 gram garrofón
• 3 ripe, grated tomatoes
• Optional: a red pepper, artichokes and rosemary.
• Saffron
• Paprika powder
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Water with bouillon cubes or ready to serve bouillon
• Paella colouring (for the yellow color)

How to make the authentic paella valenciana:

• Heat a splash of olive oil in the paella pan.
• Put the pieces of chicken and rabbit in the pan and season them with salt. Fry them until they are golden brown.
• Add the green beans (and optional the pepper and artichokes) and bake them for a few minutes. Add also the garrofón and bake it together.
• Put the meat and the vegetables to the side of the pan and add the tomatoes in the middle. Bake this for about 3-5 minutes.
• Put the saffron and bake it shortly.
• Add a little paprika powder, but make sure this is on low fire so it doesn’t burn.
• Add the water or bouillon just below the edge of the paella pan. If you want rosemary in it this is also the moment to add some. Season it with salt and let it cook for 30 minutes. If necessary, you can add more water/bouillon in between.
• Taste the bouillon before adding the rice. If necessary, you can add more salt. Add the rice and make sure all the rice is equally in the bouillon so all the grains will be cooked.
• Cook for 10 more minutes and lower the fire after to cook it slowly for another 8 minutes. Make sure the rice is equally divided and do not stir anymore.
• Take the pan from the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes.
• Dinner time!

¡Que aproveche!

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