If you have wondered what to accompany your coffee and you are fed up with ready-made biscuits, this is the right recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup of softened butter
¾ cup of sugar
1 egg
1-2 packages vanilla
1-2 tsp grated lemon rind
2 ½ cup of flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 cup of finely ground walnuts
powdered sugar
Ingredients for the cream:
6 levelled tbsp softened butter
2 eggs
2 yolks
2 tsp grated lemon rind
2/3 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 cup of sugar
1 tbsp semolina/vanilla-flavoured or natural/
Method:
Lemon Cream:
In a bowl, cream butter and sugar for about 4-5 min. Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time. Beat for 2-3 min. Stir in lemon rind, lemon juice and semolina. Pour the mixture in a pot and keep over low heat. Stir constantly until it gets smooth. It takes 15 min. to thicken. Do not bring the mixture to the boil. Allow to cool down and place in the fridge covered with foil.
Cream butter and sugar. Add 1 egg, vanilla and lemon rind. Mix sifted flour, baking soda and salt. Stir flour in the mixture. Blend well. Cover the dough with foil and keep in the fridge for about 2 hours. Roll out 2/3/-cm sheet. Cut out biscuit shapes, half of them with a hole in the middle. Arrange on slightly greased baking paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 10 min. or until golden brown. Allow to cool down. Spread mixture on a biscuit and top it with another one. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. At first the biscuits are hard but they soften up in a few days when the cream is absorbed. Keep in the fridge.
Bon appetit!
18.4.09
Butter Walnut Biscuits with Lemon Cream
Stuffed Aubergine
A Delicious Dish!
Ingredients:
4 aubergines
2-3 potatoes
2 tomatoes
1-2 peppers
1 onion
3-4 cloves garlic
100 g corn from a can
100 g yellow cheese
vegetable oil
Black pepper
Instant vegetable soup
Method:
Halve the aubergines lengthwise. Make some cuts in the flesh of the aubergine. Salt lavishly and allow to rest for 15-20 min. to release the bitter juice. Wash, scoop out the flesh and arrange the aubergine shells in a baking tin. Boil the potatoes and cut into pieces.
Saute the finely chopped onion, garlic and peppers. Add corn, potatoes, tomatoes and spices.
Fill each aubergine half with the mixture. Dissolve the instant vegetable soup in ½ l of water. Pour it in the baking tin. Bake at 180 C for 20 min. Sprinkle with grated yellow cheese and bake for some more time.
Enjoy your meal!
Walnut Honey Biscuits
Delicious honey biscuits for gourmets!
Ingredients:
1 cup of roughly chopped walnuts
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
3 tbsp honey
4-5 tbsp oil
1 tsp baking soda
Cinnamon
Flour
Method:
Whisk the eggs. Add sugar. Pour sunflower seed oil in a very thin trickle and stir in one direction. Add honey, cinnamon and sifted flour together with baking soda. Stir in walnuts. Knead dough. Roll out a sheet of pastry. Cut out biscuits of different shapes. Bake in a hot oven for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Bon Appetit!
Boiled Dried Beans
This is a classical dish!
Method:
Rinse 2 handfuls of dried beans. Place them in a pot and cover with water. Bring to the boil over medium heat. When the water turns yellow, pour it out and add cold water. Bring to the boil. Add 1 chopped onion, 1-2 peppers chopped, 1 carrot chopped, salt and 5-6 tbsp sunflower seed oil. Cook until the dried beans get tender. When the beans are ready, they are on the bottom of the pot. Before removing from the heat, stir in 1 tbsp paprika and mint.
Enjoy your meal!
17.4.09
Fried Cabbage
This is a light cabbage meal for fast days.
Method:
Chop the cabbage, sprinkle with salt and crush it. Pour some oil/ 1 cup/ into a pot and stir-fry a small onion. Add 1 tbsp paprika and 1 cup of water. Stir in the cabbage and keep over heat until the water is reduced. Stir it well to avoid burning.
Bon appetit!
Milk Banitsa
This is a very nourishing meal!
Ingredients:
5 sheets of filo pastry/ self-made/, 3 of them are slightly baked in the oven or over wood-burning stove.
1 l milk
3 eggs
Salt
1 cup of vegetable oil
Method:
Place one of the baked sheets in a greased baking tin. Roll two soft sheets and arrange around the sides of the baking tin. Crumble the second baked sheet in the middle of the tin. Bring the milk to the boil and whisk the eggs. Stir in the eggs and pour the mixture into the baking tin. Sprinkle with salt. Top the banitsa with the third baked sheet. Sprinkle some oil on top. Bake at 250 C until golden brown. Remove from the oven and wrap in a cloth. Serve cold.
Bon appetit!
Shopski-style Pipkins/Gyuvecheta/
I offer you a very delicious dish.
Ingredients:
0.600 kg low-salt cheese
2 onions or 1 bunch of green onion
100 g butter
4 tomatoes
4 eggs
4 chilli peppers/optional/
Paprika
Method:
Put some finely chopped onion into the greased pipkins. Arrange slices of cheese, sprinkle with paprika and cover with slices of tomatoes and finely chopped chilli peppers. Top with pieces of butter. Bake in the oven for about 15 min. Remove from the oven and crack 1 egg into each pipkin. Bake for 5 min.
Enjoy your meal!
14.4.09
Chicken Pockets
A spicy and tasty dish for gourmets!
Ingredients:
½ kg chicken breasts
Yellow cheese
Ham
Breadcrumbs
Paprika
Garlic flour/optional/
1 cup of white wine
1 instant chicken broth
100 g processed cheese
200 g sour cream
vegetable oil
Salt
Method:
Hammer the chicken breasts until they get thin. Place a thin slice of ham and yellow cheese over half of the steak. Fold the pocket and prick the edges with tooth sticks. Combine breadcrumbs with paprika and garlic flour. Roll the pockets in breadcrumbs. Fry in strongly heated oil until golden brown. Pour out excessive oil. Add wine and chicken broth. Cover and keep over lower heat for about 20 min (as long as it is necessary for the chicken to cook). Take out the pockets and remove the tooth sticks. Add processed cheese to the sauce. When it melts down, stir in some cream. If necessary, salt to taste. Pour some sauce over the chicken pockets. Serve warm with some garnish. I garnish them with mushrooms sautéed in butter with some parsley or fresh potatoes / slightly boiled and sautéed in butter/.
Bon appetit!
Mashed Potato Balls
Ingredients:
1 kg potatoes
2 eggs
1 onion
Flour or breadcrumbs
Savory, fennel, salt
vegetable oil
Method:
Boil, peel and mash the potatoes. Stir in 2 beaten eggs, grated onion, fennel, savory and salt to taste. Shape into medium-sized balls. Roll into flour or breadcrumbs. Fry in preheated oil until brown both sides. Remove from heat and place on grease – absorbing paper. Serve with yoghurt salad and tomato juice.
Bon appetit!
Diet Parfait
It is suitable for diet periods when we have to cut down on carbohydrates.
Ingredients:
2 jars of skimmed yoghurt 0.1 %
1 package of instant drink powder
2 packages of gelatin
Method:
Leave the gelatin to dissolve in 200 ml of water for 30 min. Warm the yoghurt in a bowl that is placed in a baking tin with hot water. Add the instant drink powder. When it dissolves, remove from heat. Put the gelatin in a bowl in a baking tin with hot water to dissolve completely and stir in the yoghurt and instant drink powder. Mix well and pour into suitable cooled dessert bowls. It takes two hours to get jellied.
The parfait does not contain any sugar.
Bon appetit!
Thracian Rice Banitsa / cheese and rice pie/
A tasty traditional recipe!
Ingredients:
1 package of filo pastry or homemade pastry
5 eggs
½ cup of rice
½ jar of yoghurt
250 g cheese
Vegetable oil
Method:
Boil the rice keeping the ratio of rice to water 1: 3. Whisk 4 eggs, add crumbled cheese and mash it with the eggs. Put the slightly cooled rice in a bowl. Take two sheets of pastry and spoon some rice, some of the mixture and oil over the top one. Repeat with the rest of the pastry. Top the banitsa with a sheet and pour over a mixture of 1 egg and yoghurt. Sprinkle with some oil. Bake at 200 degrees C. You can cut the banitsa into big pieces before pouring over the mixture so that it could be absorbed easier.
When ready, sprinkle with some water and wrap in a cloth. Serve with yoghurt or a glass of ayran.
Enjoy your meal!
Chicken Steaks in Tomato Sauce
These are crispy chicken steaks.
Ingredients:
4 chicken steaks
A glass of milk
Salt, black pepper, parsley, paprika
A glass of wine
Method:
Hammer the steaks and allow to rest in wine for ½ hour. Season with salt, black pepper, parsley and paprika. Arrange in a baking tin and pour over milk. Bake at 200 C. Before removing from the oven, add a cup of tomato juice or tomatoes from a can.
Bon appetit!
7.4.09
Silver Carp Fillets with Mixed Salad
This is a delicious fish meal!
Ingredients for 4 servings:
8 medium-sized fish fillets
2 tbsp corn flour
1 turnip
1 beet
2 big onions
2 lemons
Vegetable oil, vinegar, salt
1 tsp grated horse-radish
Method:
Roll the fillets into corn flour mixed with salt. Allow to rest for half an hour.
Clean, wash and shred the vegetables. Combine with horse-radish and season with oil, vinegar/lemon/ and salt. Cover the salad and allow it to absorb the spices. Fry the fillets till brown both sides. Place over paper to absorb grease. Serve with salad and rounds of lemon. This is a light and healthy dish. It rivals meat dishes in its nutritional value.
If you wish, you can prepare a fast sauce for the fish :
Ingredients:
3-4 baked peppers chopped,
4 onions,
a bulb of garlic finely chopped,
tomatoes from a can, salt,
a tsp sugar,
½ tsp powdered black pepper.
Method:
Stir-fry the peppers, add rounds of onion and garlic. Stir in mashed tomatoes. Add sugar, salt and black pepper. When the sauce thickens slightly, remove it from heat and serve in a gravy-bowl. The fish goes with white wine.
Enjoy your meal!
Curious Facts:
The silver carp is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish, a variety of Asian carp native to north and northeast Asia. It is cultivated in China. It is relatively big in length and it can weigh up to 20 kg. It inhabits the upper sea layers and feeds on the plankton found there.
Baked Fish Fillet with Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients:
600-700 g fish fillet
Lemon juice
8 tbsp vegetable oil or margarine
4-5 boiled potatoes
½ kg mushrooms
2 tbsp flour
2 cups of fish broth or water
Salt, black pepper/optional/, parsley, cow-parsnip
Method:
Chop the fillet into pieces and sprinkle with lemon juice. Allow them to rest for half an hour.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces and stir-fry in oil. Remove from the oil and stir –fry the fish pieces in the same pan. Cut the boiled potatoes and place them in a greased baking tin. Arrange the fried fish pieces over the potatoes. Pour in the mushroom sauce. It is prepared in the following way. Stir in 2 tbsp flour for 2 min in the oil the fillet was fried in. Gradually stir in the broth. Bring to the boil and add the fried mushrooms. Season with salt, lemon juice, parsley and cow-parsnip.
Enjoy you meal!
Chicken Shoulders
Ingredients:
4 chicken shoulders
2 cups of milk
Salt, black pepper, parsley, paprika
1 glass of wine
Method:
Allow the chicken shoulders to rest in wine for 1 hour. Season with salt, black pepper, parsley and paprika. Place in a baking tin, pour in milk and bake at 200 C.
They go with white wine.
Bon appetit!
Mashed Potato Balls with Cheese
Ingredients:
1 kg. potatoes
¼ kg cheese
2 eggs
Savory
Method:
Boil the potatoes, peel and mash them. Add 1 egg, 1 yolk, cheese and savory. Make dough.
Shape into balls, roll in the egg white and fry when still warm otherwise they will burst open while frying. Serve with tomato sauce with garlic.
Bon appetit!