gardening ’17 update
Category "food"
“Mission Potato 2017”
BellaRosa
Dezire
Slatko
Slatko, a scrumptious Serbian welcome
Ingredients:
- 1 kg plums
- 1 kg sugar
- Lemon juice
- Vanilla
- Rosette leaf
Instructions:
Slatko is made from slightly ripe plums which are peeled and put in lime water. To make lime water solution dissolve 250 g of lime into 2 l of water, stir and pour 2 more liters of water. Leave it for the lime to fall on the bottom then drain the clear solution (lime water) and put plums in the water. Leave them in this solution for at least an hour and then rinse them well and take out the pips. Using a mix of sugar and 1-2 cups of water make a syrup and cook it on low heat until the mixture reaches the consistency of honey. Add vanilla, lemon slices and a spoon of diluted citric acid. Cooked the prepared plums in this syrup for about 25 minutes and then add the rosette leaves. Take off the stove, cover with a lean, moist cloth and once it has completely cooled pour the slatko in jars.
Kajmak
Kajmak, irreplaceably good
Ingredients:
- 100 g butter
- 100 g hard feta cheese
- 100 gr sour cream
Instructions:
In a bowl whisk the butter with a fork until it’s fluffy. Add crumbled feta cheese and sour cream. Mix it all well. Note: You don’t need to add salt to the kajmak as the feta cheese is salty on its own. If you like a more mild kajmak, add some cream. This 5 minute kajmak makes a wonderful spread and goes great with ćavaps.
Note:
That is not real Kajmak, just a lazy way to make a concotion of some cream.
Real Kajmak is made by colecting the film from boild milk and then salting it. It take a long time to collect enough to use, but it is the best! When spread on hot bread it is the best food you can eat.
Gibanica
Gibanica, a pie like no other…
If you wanted us to name a dish found nowhere else but in Serbia, we would say gibanica – a pie who has “sisters” all over the region, but which is unique to Serbia. And you can describe it with only these words – finger licking!
Ingredients:
- 500 g filo pastry
- 300 g cheese
- 2 small cups of oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- Some salt if the cheese isn’t salty
Instructions:
Whisk eggs with some sparkling water in a bowl, then add oil and crumbled cheese. Mix it well and then add sour cream. Mix again. Oil the baking dish and line the sheets of filo pastry. First put one layer of filo pastry at the bottom of the dish, then crumble two of them,dip them in the mixture and then spread across the dish. Put one layer again, then spread two crumbled dipped ones and repeat until you run out of the mixture. Save one layer of pastry to put on top. Pour the remaining oil over the top layer. Bake in preheated oven on medium heat until golden brown. Serve while hot. Enjoy!
Karađorđeva steak
Karađorđeva steak, the brilliant invention of a Serbian cook
Loved in Serbia and across the globe. The Karađorđeva steak, or as it is also popularly called “a girl’s dream”, is a dish created by chance but a dish that managed to win over many hearts. There are a couple of ways to make the Karađorđeva steak. Here’s one of them!
Ingredients:
- 800 g of pork or veal fillet
- 80–90 g of seasoned kajmak
- 30 g flour
- An egg
- 30 g bread crumbs
- oil
- salt
Slice the fillet so that you get a sizeable steak. Pound the meat until it is thin and soft on both sides. Make one edge of the steak thinner so that it could stick easily one the meat is rolled up. Spread kajmak along the thicker edge and roll the meat into a cylinder shape. Coat the stuffed meat with flour and remove the excess flour. Then dip it into the beaten egg on all sides and then in the bread crumbs. Then roll the meat on a clean surface so that the bread crumbs stick better. Fry in hot oil until golden yellow.
Paprika – Peper (first and second harvest)
Pizza-rolls
600 g flour
10g dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
200g of warm milk
250g of butter room temperature
1.5 tsp salt
Filling: ketchup, cheese, oregano, basil, ham – to taste
Glaze: 1 egg, sesame
Dissolve yeast in milk, add sugar and leave to activate.
Add yeast and milk to the flour and knead the dough with electric mixer, dough hooks. Then add butter and salt and knead until smooth, then leave to rest for 10 minutes.
Roll the dough* onto floured surface to a thickness of about 1/2cm. Spread the ketchup over the dough, sprinkle dried oregano and basil, grated cheese and, if desired, with grated ham. Roll the dough tightly, then cut into 1cm thick slices. Arrange cut snails to lay on a baking pan covered with baking paper. Coat them with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake in pre-heated oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
*If you want smaller shapes, divided the dough into two parts. Rolling the whole bunch of dough, you’ll obtain larger forms.
Meatballs in a beer sauce
1/2 kg of minced meat
2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
2 cloves garlic (crushed through a press)
1 egg
1 flat teaspoon of salt
ground pepper
Sauce
120ml beer
70ml ketchup
50ml soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
pinch of salt
Stir all ingredients for meatballs and knead until completely combined. Make small meatballs, the best with ice cream scoop, and live them aside.
Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a separate bowl.
Cover baking pan with aluminum foil and arrange meatballs over it. Pour the sauce over meatballs.
Bake in pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
Biscuits Cake
750g biscuits (6x6cm dimensions)
1l + 200g milk for dipping
2 chocolate pudding
100g dark chocolate
13 tablespoons sugar
250g butter
Mix 900ml milk sugar and let it boil. Dissolve pudding powder In 100 ml of milk and cook into boiled milk. Add chocolate and cook another 2-3 minutes. Remove it from the heat, add the butter and stir well.
Dip each cookie into the milk, arrange them in a 4×4 biscuits basis and cover with the warm filling. Arrange another 4×4 biscuits over filling and repeat the procedure six times in total, covering the cake with filling over the top and sides. Sprinkle with grated chocolate or leave as it is.