Baked salmon

Ingredients
1 pound of salmon
juice of one lemon
1 table spoon of honey
2 tea spoon of salt
half tea spoon of  red chili powder
1 tea spoon of lemon or lime zest (shredded lemon or lime skin)
2 tea spoon of dry or fresh basil leaves

Steps
Blend lemon juice, honey, salt, red chili powder, lemon zest and basil leaves in a bowl
Brush the salmon with the mixture in the bowl, marinate for 10 min
Preheat oven to 400F, bake the salmon for 25-30min

Brown rice sushi

Ingredients
1 cup of brown rice
2 cups of water
1/3 cups of vinegar
3 table spoon of brown sugar
1 tea spoon salt
1 small cucumber
1 red bell pepper
1 avocado
1 tomato
half cup of cut romaine lettuce
nori-sushi wrap
wasabi
pickled ginger
salt
pepper
lemon or lime juice

Steps
Cook the brown rice with water for 40 min by rice cooker
Combine the vinegar, sugar and 1 teaspoon salt in saucepan over medium heat, stir to dissolve the sugar

Transfer the cooked rice to a large wooden bowl (traditionally, a wooden tub). Drizzle a quarter of the vinegar mixture over a wooden spoon or spatula onto the rice. Fold the rice gently with the spoon to cool it and break up any clumps; be careful not to smash the grains. Fold in the remaining vinegar mixture and let the rice sit 5 minutes.

Spread the rice. Place the nori sheet rough-side up on the mat or cutting board. Moisten your hands and scoop a handful of rice, slightly larger than a lemon, onto the nori. Press the rice to spread it evenly up to the edges of the nori, moistening your fingers as you go. 

Prepare the vegetables. Peel the cucumber and slice into matchsticks.  Thinly slice the avocado, thinly slice red bell pepper, thinly slice salmon into a long matchstick. 

Add the filling. Carefully flip over the nori so it's rice-side down on the mat with the short end facing you.  Arrange a few pieces of cucumber, avocado, salmon, or red bell pepper (usually every three is better), 

Roll the sushi. Roll the sushi away from you with your hands, tucking. Try to roll as tight as possible. In the end of roll, use the water to stick the edges of the nori. 

Slice the roll. Cut the sushi roll into 4 to 6 pieces. Repeat with the remaining nori, rice and vegetables. 


Place the already cut sushi on the plate, make it circle, then plate some romaine lettuce in the middle of the circle, add some diced tomato on top, add salt, pepper, lemon or lime juice to taste
Decorate the edge of the plate with thinly cut cucumber pieces as picture.


Serve with pickled ginger and more wasabi or eat as is.

Bread wrap lamb--- Uyghur dish

Ingredient
1 pound of lamb, cut into sizes of the thumb finger
1 onion
small amount of Knor chicken flavor Bouillon cube, it will enhance the flavor of the food
bread
2 table spoons of vegetable oil
salt to taste
2 tea

Steps
1. Make the bread as Uyghur bread blog
2. Boil the lamb and cook till tender, add salt to taste
3. heat the oil in the frying pan
4. Add thinly sliced onion, fry for a few minutes
5. Add some soup from the boiled lamb, add salt, chicken cube, cumin, let it simmer for 15 min
6. Place the bread on the plate, put the lamb on top and soften the bread, then add the rest of the juice with onion

Uyghur kirzma kawap

Ingredients
1 pound of lamb
half small onion
Salt and black pepper to taste
1/2 cup of water
1/2 cup of vegetable oil

Steps
1. Mince lamb and onion, salt and pepper till they are mixed well and very soft, add water and mix again
2. Make lamb mixture into small flat thin round shape, try to make them thin so that they will be cooked properly
3. Heat the oil
4. Place the minced lamb mixture slowly to the oil, heat at low to medium heat for few minutes till the meat balls turn brown
5. Flip the meat ball and deep fry again for a few minutes
6. Try one and see if it is cooked properly, if not, fry longer time for the rest

Ququre (uyghur food)

Ququre is a very traditional Uyghur food.It is hand made tortellini made from scratch.  Stuffing is often chopped lamb and onion. Also often it is prepared as soup

Ingredients

1. 3 cups of all purpose Flour

2.3/4 cup of water

3.1 pound of lamb, minced

4. salt to tatse

5. black pepper to taste

6. 2 tea spoon Cumin

7. 1 small size onion

8. 1 table spoon of water

9. 1 radish

Steps

Step 1 Prepare soup

1. Pour water in the pan

2. Cut few pieces of bones of lamb into the pan

3.Cut radish into small piece, also toss into pan

4. Heat the soup till boil

5. Take out the black form on top

6. Add salt to taste, pinch of black pepper

7. Let the soup simmer till the rest of the preparations ready

8. 1 tomato,thinly cut

9. Chopped Cilantro

Step 1 Dough mixing

1. Mix the 3 cups of flour, oil, 3/4 cup of water, salt, mix in the kitchen aid bowl. Use  kitchen aid mixture, beat at speed 2 for 4 min

2. Then mix the dough at speed 2 for 4min or longer time

3. Set the dough aside for 30 min before next step

Step 2 Filling preparation

1. Mince lamb and onion

2. Add salt and black pepper, cumin to taste

3. Add water, mix

Step 3 Make ququre

1. make the dough flat, round, thin

2. Fold the flat dough back and forth

3.Cut the dough for about 2inch x 2 inch rectangle

Step 4

1. Fill the  rectangle shape dough with lamb mixture

2. Make the shape of ququre as the following pictures
(These ququres can be stored in the freezer.If you like, you can make stock of ququre, each time thaw before use)

Step 5 

1. Put all the ready ququre into boiled soup, mix

2. Add cut tomato in the soup as well

3. Let it soil for 5 min

4. Add chopped cilantro on top of the soup

5 Adjust the salt of the soup

Rice noodle and carrot salad

Ingredients
1 pack of dry rice noodle
2-3 medium size carrots, shredded
1 cup of baby spinach
2 table spoons of vinegar
1 tea spoon of red pepper powder
2 tea spoons of sour source
6 cloves of garlic, minced
1 table spoon cut ginger
2 table spoons of olive oil
2 cups of water
half thinly cut red bell pepper or any other spicy red pepper
2 tea spoon of paprika spice


Steps
1. Boil 2 cups of water
2. Toss packed rice noodle into boiled water, boil for few min or until it is cooked, take out the rice noodle from water, rinse by cold water to cool down rice noodle.
3. Place the rice noodle in the serving plate, add shredded carrots, mix, add salt to taste
4. Toss baby spinach, mix again
5. Mix vinegar and red pepper powder, Add mixture to the salad
6. Add sour source, mix
7. Add chopped garlic and chopped ginger on top for garnishing
8. Heat the olive oil for 2 min
9. Pour the heated olive oil on top of the salad, especially on top of minced ginger and garlic, mix well
10. Add thinly cut bell pepper, mix
11. Adjust vinegar, sour source, garlic, ginger, salt and pepperika according to your taste

Zucchini bread

Steps
Part 1
 4 eggs
1 small onion, chopped
3/4 cup vegetable oil
 1 tbs parsley
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 cup parmescan cheese
dash of salt and pepper

Mix all above

Part 2
Add 2 cups Bisquick mix (or pancake mix), mix again by spoon

Part 3
Add 3-4 thinly sliced Zucchini, mix all above with sppon

Part 4
Pour into 9x13 pan, bake at 350 for 40 minutes