Czech cousine

Typical and Traditional Czech Recipes1. STARTER Czech Cabbage Soup

2. MAIN COURSE Dill Sauce with Dumplings

3. SIDE DISH Potato Salad

4. DESSERT Walnut Cake

1.STARTER: Czech Cabbage Soup

Ingredients: 8 cups of cabbage chopped (1 head) 2 cans of tomatoes 2 teaspoons salt 3/4 teaspoon tabasco 1/4 cup of parsley - chopped 3 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons sugar 1 can sauerkraut 1 kg beef bones 1 cup onion finely chopped 3 carrots chopped 2 cloves of garlic minced 1 bay leaf 1 kg short ribs (beef) 1 tablespoon leaf thyme (dried) 1/2 teaspoon paprika 8 cups water

Directions:Put onion, carrots, bay leaf, garlic and beef bones into roasting pan. Top with short ribs and sprinkle with paprika and thyme. Place into oven and cook at 450 degrees for 30 minutes. Take meat and vegetables out and place them in large pot. Add cabbage, tomatoes, water, tobasco and salt and bring to boil. Simmer 1.5 hours. Take fat off. Add sugar, sauerkraut, parsley, and lemon juice. Cook for 1 hour. Remove short ribs and bones from pot. Remove all meat from bones. Slice meat into pieces and place back. Cook for additional 7 minutes.

2. MAIN COURSE: Dill Sauce with Dumplings

Ingredients: flour – 2 teaspoons whipping cream – 200 ml milk – 100 ml, possibly whole milk fresh dill - a bunch (dried can be used but fresh

is better) sour cream – 3 tablespoons beef broth – half a liter (vegetable broth for

vegetarians may be used, or even water) a little butter fruit vinegar

Directions:Wash the dill, dry it and chop finely. In a pot warm up butter, sprinkle with flour and fry until pink. This gives you the basic roux, pour the broth and boil for about 15-20 minutes – no lumps allowed. Then add dill and milk and boil again. Salt it and season with vinegar and to complete it add cream. Dill sauce can be served with dumplings or potatoes and it depends on you if you add a cooked egg, or preferably beef.

3. SIDE DISH: Potato Salad

Ingredients: boiled potatoes 1kg a glass of mayonnaise hard boiled eggs 2 pc salami 200 grams pickled gherkin 2 pc pickled red pepper – 1 pc salt, pepper onion 1 pc cannikin of peas

Directions:Peel off potatoes, eggs and onion. Cut potatoes, onion, eggs, salami and red pepper to small pieces. Put in a bowl and add glass of mayonnaise, salt, pepper and a cannikin of peas. Toss the salad and put the bowl to cold.

4. DESSERT: Walnut cake

Ingredients: 5 eggs 20dkg butter 30dkg sugar 10dkg grated walnuts 5dkg grated bitter chocolate 30dkg flour 250ml cream, 2 g vanilla sugar 13g baking powder

Directions:Beat egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar and butter thoroughly. Add gradually flour blended with baking powder, nuts, cream and grated chocolate. Finally carefully fold in stiff beaten egg whites. Pour the dough into a buttered and floured form and put to bake in a preheated oven. Bake slowly at medium temperature.