Cooking Companion V : Sunflower Meals

In cookings and recipes post this time we'll have non-vegetarian meals, like was promised in the preceding one. However, mushrooms make the third selected meal since their use is rather limited in the modern house-hold cooking.

The main uniting element in these meals is Sunflower seeds, which I recently noticed not only healthy but also tasty (they can be added for salad, eaten as such, etc). Also, we of course favor organically grown food, and fx for salt recommended is using the Sea salt, it's containing all the minerals and so on...In overall, we won't mind too much if it would out-compete other methods of production out the business - since there's plenty of salt in the seas and it can even be used for human necessities...So:

Chicken on Beans

Ingredients: Some already cooked rice (1-2 dl), pepper slices, green beans, 1 garlic glove, some salt, curry (½ tsp), cinnamon, (olive) oil, sunflower seeds, chicken in preferred parts (wings, legs, etc)

Easily and quickly prepared: Some oil on the (oven-)pan, place for it the bean and pepper slices, rices and add the spicing. Over that the chickens parts and add on them ½ dl olive oil (can also add some ½ – 1 dl white wine), little water. Lastly, add sunflower seeds within and cook in the oven about 200 C. (Additionally mushroom slices can be used).

Fishin'n'Fushin

Ingredients: Sunflower seeds, (olive) oil, lemon, salt, white wine (if wish), some fish, amount according to number of eaters and prepared before (I used perch, but also white fish goes well, fx)

Since the fish often tastes better without too much preparations, just pour some oil for the pan and add the lemon juice.(alternatively/usually its squeezed on the fish pieces). Fry the fish for some time, turn the fillets over few times and add some salt (½ tsp). Add some sunflower seeds in the same pan (if wish add some white wine too) and take the fish for separate serving plate (frying time about 4-8 minutes, varying). Then place the (slightly) fried sunflower seeds over fish. I also made some some shrimp/dill sauce for it, but it's better without, actually.

Mushroom Delicatessen

Mushrooms (according to the preferences; from market / self-collected, but if so make sure to be in proper knowledge from the ones to use, since some are poisonous and can be even lethal). Next I usually prepare them with my Grandma's old recipe:
Mushrooms are sliced to smaller pieces (spoiled parts not included, of course) and mildly fried in some butter, little wheat flour added and small sliced onion, then fried few minutes. Add some warm milk/cream and bake in the pan (for 4-6 minutes), some water if needed (salt and white pepper as spices). Using cream makes it rather more sauce, which can be served fx with potatoes. Making that for the soup gives best results, but one needs rather plenty mushroom for that. But its good and tasty.(Sunflower seeds served on the same plate / pour them over the prepared ready soup).

...And thats from the meals this time. Bon appetit.