Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Uštipci

Uštipci  are doughnut-like fried dough balls popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia where they are known as "miške".

Regular
They are similar to Fritule, and also to krofne but with more of a soft, bread-like feel to them. They are easier to make than krofne, and they do not necessarily have to be sweet. In restaurants they might come with jam, kajmak or with cheese thus fulfilling the role of breakfast staple or dessert or even a main course. They can also have other ingredients in them which most commonly are apple, pumpkin, but and even meat and cheese are possibilities. They are eaten with tea or coffee and also as a dessert. Many times, they are also served with powdered sugar sprinkled on top of them to make them more aesthetically pleasing. They can go well with jams, Nutella, and Eurocrem.

Preparation
In a large bowl add flour and yeast and mix. Then, add salt and sugar, egg and water until you get the mixture to dough consistency. Leave to stand for about half an hour until the dough sets. Once the dough has doubled in size, pinch medium-sized pieces of dough in any shape you like and place in a pan with a good amount of oil, usually filled to half to the top. Fry until just golden brown. Place on paper towel to dry excess oil.




ingredients
700 gr. flour
3 pcs. eggs
50 gr. butter
1 package dry yeast
1 teaspoon salt
half a teaspoon of sugar
2 heaping tablespoons sour cream
40-50 ml. lukewarm water

Preparation
1
Put a cup of sugar, yeast and a teaspoon of flour. Stir, and let the yeast foams.
Melt the butter and leave to cool.
2
The container in which the will and knead, sift flour. Add salt. Stir. Add eggs and sour cream. Immediately add the foamed yeast. Now, begin to interfere with a wooden spoon as long as you can. Then adding the lukewarm water with hand knead that does not stick to your hands.
3
Dough smear a little oil and cover with transparent film, and a clean cotton cloth. Leave a dough rises 1 hour.
4
Risen dough, put it on floured table. Sprinkle with a little more flour to the dough so as not to help the adhesive. With roller attenuate the dough 1 cm thick. Leave a grows another 10 minutes.
5
Then with time you practice circles.
6
Do that with all the test until it is spent. In this way, they still are growing.

7
When you're done with all the tests, then pour the oil in a frying pan. Put the oil around one finger. When the oil is warmed, place the fritters fry. Hi fry over medium heat.

8
When well done on one side, turn the other side. In this way, they are well inflated.

9
Finished fritters, put them first on a paper towel, then serve while still warm.

Krafne


ingredients
500g plain flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
pinch of salt
4 g of dry yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
3 dl of milk
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon margarine/or butter is better
lemon peel/zest

oil for frying
powder sugar
Jam or other fillings

Preparation:

Yeast put it to rest in a warm milk with one teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of flour.
In the sifted flour to add egg yolk, salt and remaining sugar and yeast ascended.
Mix and add the oil, melted butter and lemon zest. Good interfere (or hands mixer paddle attachments) to obtain a smooth dough (if necessary add more flour).
The dough cover and let it well moistened, it is important that the dough into a double, and the time depends on the ambient temperature.
The dough before kneading and roll it out on a floured surface for about finger-thick. With a cup to make circles and leave it to rest 15 minutes.
Reverse them and leave again 15 minutes to rise.
Fry in hot oil (not too hot that it does not make foam around donuts) and so the above raised side put down.
Before turning the first container must be covered and later discovered.
I fry them in a pan with a transparent cover so that as soon as the notice that the goods turn yellow immediately toss and turn (very soon to be finished) .Be careful not to make a brown color because it will be hard.
Get them on paper towels to dry off the excess fat.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired, you can also fill with jam or other fillings.


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Lemon cake

Luscious Lemon Cake will ask you to cut only one piece. Serve with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream that will be wonderful to connect with citrus aroma in biscuit. This cake can also be used as a basis for the cake if the brush with a fine vanilla cream and add a handful of fruit. Lemon cake still is the best when it enjoyed simply - with an afternoon cup of tea il coffee.
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You will need:

200g sugar
50g butter
3 lemon (zest and juice of two lemons 3)
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
250g flour
Rum
Powdered sugar
Preparation:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
Chop or peel two lemons so grate the zest and mix it with a cup of sugar.
Mix with your fingers to sugar better grabbed crust.
Add butter and whisk the eggs all the time.
Pour the rum and add the flour and baking powder.
Mix with a spoon and add the juice of one lemon and, if necessary, a little milk.
Bake about 45 minutes until the cake is brown.
While the cake bakes, mix the juice of one lemon with a little sugar.
Remove the cake from the oven, drill holes with a fork and pour the sauce the juice per biscuit.
Leave to cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Chocolate and coffee cake


The ingredients for the crust:

300 g flour
3 eggs
180 g of powdered sugar
100g margarine
spoon ful of instant coffee
baking powder

Ingredients for the filling:
400 g chocolate
80 g margarine
1 dl rum
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Preparation - :
Step 1: Beat margarine and sugar, add eggs one by one, instant coffee, flour and baking powder.

Step 2: All this stir and bake 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Baked cooled in a mold in which it is cooked.

Step 3: In a double boiler melt the chocolate and add up to two tablespoons of water.

Step 4: When the chocolate semi cooled, add the butter and rum. All whisk together.

Step 5: chilled dough is cut in half. Both halves spread with filling and set them against each other.

Step 6: cake greased the top down and from the side and leave it in the fridge to cool.

Your coffee and chocolate  cake is ready.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Always soft pancakes

The recipe according to which most of us do Pancake said it put the whole eggs to the mixture, or separate the egg white and yolk if you'll ever softer and softer pancakes.

"The recipe for pancakes softest eggs can not put the whole at once, but the egg white separated from egg yolk"

Procedure:
1. Make a mixture of pancakes as usual, with only small changes so that particular egg whites from egg yolks to whip the mixture, egg whites and set aside.

2. When the mixture is put all the ingredients (except the egg whites) and thoroughly mix the, whites make softer snow beaten (nor soft nor hard) and add it to the mixture.

3rd Snow then very gently fold into the mixture, preferably with a whisk. Whites pancakes will give a foamy structure, beautiful softness and looseness. Even when cool and settle, this Pancakes will not lose softness, that will become tough.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Pana cota with coffe and chocholade coating

ingredients:

500 g cream
150 ml of milk
70 g sugar
30 g vanilla sugar
3 tablespoons cold water
10 g ground gelatin
4 teaspoons instant coffee granules
Dressing


100g dark chocolate
70 ml of water
1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
  panna cotta Photo: Thinkstock
Preparation:

Ground gelatin mix with 3 tablespoons of cold water and leave to swell 5 to 10 minutes.
In a small pot, heat the cream, milk, sugar and vanilla sugar, so this mixture just before the boil, remove from the heat and add the instant coffee and swelling of gelatin. Stir for about 1 minute to coffee and gelatin is fully dissolved.
The mixture of panna cotta strain through a sieve into a thick 6 bowls. The dish with a lid or cover it with foil and cool them in the fridge for about 4 hours.
Approximately 20 minutes before serving so prepare the dressing in 70 mL of hot water added to a soluble coffee granules and chopped dark chocolate and mix until dissolved.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Happy Food: Chocholate cake

Happy Food: Chocholate cake: The Internet is full of recipes for speed treats that do not take much time and effort, and those that are not baked are definitely at the t...

Chocholate cake

The Internet is full of recipes for speed treats that do not take much time and effort, and those that are not baked are definitely at the top of the time!

We have found and selected the chocolate biscuit cake which does not burn, and it will work even to someone who had never made any treat, because it prepares very simple!

What is needed for this cake?

800 g biscuits
100 g walnuts
200g sugar
60 g cocoa
240 ml water
150g butter
teaspoon vanilla extract
120 ml cream
120 g of milk or dark chocolate.

Preparation:
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Biscuits break out and leave in a large bowl. Fry nuts about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, then add the crushed biscuits.
In a bowl, mix the sugar and cocoa, then add water with constant stirring. Good combine to produce a uniform mixture, then add the butter and let it melt the butter and blended well with the mixture.
Cool for 10-15 minutes, add the vanilla extract. Stir, then pour over crushed biscuits mixed with nuts. Mix well to cream well distributed, so pour in the pond in order to create a treat. When you create, cover pan and let stand in refrigerator for about half an hour to an hour. As it cools, put the cream to boil while pouring the chocolate. Stir until blended. Pour the mixture onto the cake and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dumplings



need

2 eggs
4 tablespoons flour or semolina
pinch of salt
tablespoon oil.


In a bowl, cracks the eggs, add salt and oil, then stir with a fork and add spoon by spoon flour.
Leave in the fridge for half an hour to rest.
In boiling water or soup with a small spoon  add small amounts of the mixture.
Dumplings are ready when they float to the surface.
Thus prepared dumplings can be added in a variety of soups and stews.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Nutella cupcake

INGREDIENTS

Serves 2

1/2 cup Nutella
2 eggs
1 tsp sugar
unsalted butter
Cocoa powder

PREPARATION

1. Preheat the oven to 375F / 190C

2. Butter two second soufflé ramekins and sprinkled with cocoa powder, knocking out excess.

3. And a medium bowl, mix Nutella and two egg yolks.

4. In a separate medium bowl, whisk two egg whites until foam starts to form. Add sugar and continue mixing until they hold stiff peaks.

5. Fold 1/3 of the whites into the Nutella mixture until fully incorporated. Add the remaining whites to the mixture and fold gently, but thoroughly until the mixture is smooth.

6. Pour the mixture in the ramekins, clean the rims are the soufflé rises evenly, and bake for 15-17 minutes.

7. Serve immediately.

Monday, February 29, 2016

Vanilla biscuits with chocolate filling

ingredients

For the dough
:
125 g margarine
125 g flour
50 g of powdered sugar
50 g pudding (powder) of vanilla, chocolate ...
2 bags of vanilla sugar

Phil:
50 g of chocolate


Preparation
Knead the dough with margarine, powdered sugar, pudding (powder), and flour, it rest in the refrigerator wrapped in foil for 30 minutes.

The dough out of the refrigerator and shape it into a cylinder.

Stones cut into equal pieces the size of half a cm. There must be 36 cut-out pieces.

Make balls (the size of a large walnut) but in every place at the bit of chocolate.

Twist the dough into a ball and give birth to a baking sheet by making the distance between the balls.

Any ball hit slightly with a fork. Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes at 180`C.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

The story of chocholate

The story of chocolate goes back to the ancient past, and was first mentioned in the Indian civilizations, Maya, Aztecs and Olmecs who have settled in Central America, present-day Mexico and in the surrounding areas. The ancient civilizations of the Aztecs considered chocolate as "food of the gods", or maybe better, "drink of the gods", as the chocolate consumed for centuries in the form of a beverage. Especially appreciated for millennia and has been attributed medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.

Cocoa and chocolate was the drink of all classes and an integral part of public ceremonies and rituals. Legend has it that in Nicaragua, before the arrival of Europeans, cocoa beans used instead of money, such as coins. Europeans with chocolate met Christopher Columbus, who was on his fourth voyage, in 1502 in the Gulf of Honduras came upon a canoe carrying different types of cargo, including to find and cocoa beans.


Put the chocolate in Europe

Initially, the Europeans did not accept the taste of chocolate, which was too bitter for their palate, especially when contained chilli peppers. Therefore, the inhabitants of the old continent began to redesign the recipe according to your taste and add honey, sugar and cinnamon.

At the end of the 16th century, chocolate was an expensive drink that is associated with the noble families, and was especially prized in Spanish court. Chocolate is from Spain spread to Italy and through the royal wedding in France. By the mid-17th century, in Paris are open numerous "house of chocolate", although this delicacy is still largely reserved for the elite. Due to its attractiveness and nutrition, chocolate is gradually becoming popular among all classes in Catholic Europe, especially in Mediterranean countries.

In the second half of the 17th century, the question arose whether the chocolate as food or drink. The sentence was passed Church, comparing chocolate with wine, which is considered a drink, although has nutritional value. Thus, chocolate became a drink for women, and coffee drinks for men in some parts of Western Europe.


During the 18th century, chocolate has become ubiquitous, and it is available in many forms - like toothpaste, blocks, drinks with added sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and other spices. Chocolate drinks added to milk or wine. Very slowly, the accepted and chocolate in solid form, in the form of so-called. Spanish sticks. In France, the popular chocolate pastilles. Cocoa butter, which is from the 16th century used solely for cosmetic purposes, it has become an important ingredient in the culinary elite kitchens.

Several small tricks for better enjoyment of consuming chocolate

Chocolate is tastiest when consumed on an empty stomach. The ideal temperature for consumption of chocolate is between 18 and 20 ° C. Never store chocolate in the refrigerator - it will cause separation of cocoa and production of white bubbles
The ideal temperature for storing chocolate is 10-15 ° C.
If you try several different types of chocolate, always start with the one that has the least cocoa, it is usually milk chocolate (except for white chocolate that does not contain cocoa)
When you eat dark chocolate, let me give you a few seconds melts in your mouth and let go of their first tastes and aromas. Then chew slowly several times to release a secondary flavor. Then let a little "recovery period" in the mouth. In this way, you will feel a whole range of flavors that offers good chocolate.
If the surface of the chocolate created white-gray cover, due to inadequate storage, this means that the chocolate lose on quality, taste and texture, so avoid such a chocolate if you are a true fan of these foods




Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Chicken with zucchini sauce

ingredients

Chicken breast (500 g)
Zucchini (200g)
cream (300-500 ml)
Onions (70 g)
Olive oil
Salt, pepper (optional)



Preparation

Warm olive oil in a deep frying pan, and with it heat up the grill pan for the chicken. Chicken breast before placing on grill pan, cut into desired size, season with salt and pour a little oil. The meat does not need to beat with a meat mallet to help chicken steaks are not too thin and that when baking chicken does not dry up.
On a hot frying pan chicken and bake it with one hand without touching a few minutes. When you see that the steaks get white to almost half their height, turn them and bake at least as much on the other side. When the chicken is ready set it aside on a plate.
In the hot oil in a deep frying pan, add finely chopped onion. If you like garlic, you can freely use it.
When the onion becomes translucent, add to the pan flask grated on grater for cheese. Sauté zucchini with onions for a few minutes until the zucchini is tender.
If you want, you can add the zucchini in a little broth for a richer flavor sauces, but I did not this time made.
When the soft squash them well with salt and pepper, then pour over the cream.
Stirring occasionally let the cream boil, then reduce the heat and let the sauce thickens to the desired consistency.
If you prefer thicker sauce, use less cooking cream or leave it longer to boil and thickens, but if you love rarely dips less cook the sauce and, if desired, add more cream or foundation.
Serve sauce with chicken when it is still warm, but with this dish well will agree and that a slice of lemon.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Creme Brulee

6 egg yolks 
6 tablespoons 
white sugar divided  
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups heavy cream 
2 tablespoons brown sugar


Preheat oven to  150 degrees C.
Beat egg yolks, 4 tablespoons white sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl until thick and creamy.
Pour cream into a saucepan and stir over low heat until it almost comes to boil. Remove the cream from heat immediately. Stir cream into the egg yolk mixture; beat until combined.
Pour cream mixture into the top pan of a double boiler. Stir over simmering water until mixture lightly coats the back of a spoon, about 3 minutes. Remove mixture from heat immediately and pour into a shallow heat-proof dish.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool to room temperature. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight.
Preheat oven to broil.
In a small bowl combine remaining 2 tablespoons white sugar and brown sugar. Sift this mixture evenly over custard. Place dish under broiler until sugar melts, about 2 minutes. Watch carefully so as not to burn.
Remove from heat and allow to cool. Refrigerate until custard is set again.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Mini American pancakes


135 g flour
2 eggs
130 ml of milk
1/2 baking powder
pinch of salt
teaspoon sugar
Preparation:

Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.

Separate the egg yolks. Whites beat the snow and put it aside.

In the yolks add milk and other dry ingredients.

In the end, gently mix the egg whites.

On heated pan put a little butter on it pour a small amount of mixture and bake.

Pour as hot with maple syrup and serve


Tuesday, February 9, 2016

World wide cuisine - Bosnian cuisine

Bosnian cuisine

Bosnian cuisine has many similarities with the Mediterranean, the Greek and the Turkish kitchen.
Due to prolonged Austro-Hungarian rule, it is felt and effects of central Europe.




Bosnian cuisine is similar to dishes of Turkish, Greek and other Mediterranean cuisines. Due to prolonged Austro-Hungarian rule, it is felt and effects of central Europe.


Bosnian cuisine uses many spices, usually in small amounts. Most dishes are mild, cooked with a little water. Sauces are almost completely natural. Typical ingredients Bosnian dishes are tomatoes, potatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, cabbage, mushrooms, spinach, zucchini and beans. Of spices commonly used ground pepper, parsley, bay leaf and celery. As a food additive in Bosnian cuisine is often used milk, cream and sour cream. Sweet dishes are added cinnamon and cloves. Meat dishes are chicken, beef or lamb. For Bosnian cuisine is specific preparation prepared dishes, or bell, with prepared foods, coincident metal bell, saved in the heat.


Region Herzegovina is suitable for growing grapes and making wine, while in Bosnia brandy produced from plum and apple. Coffee is drunk without a handle, with optional rahatlokum.
in Bosnian cuisine most prevalent meat, while fish are generally nowhere mentioned.



Some dishes, such as soup beg, Bosnian pot, čevapčići, charm, burek, beans and traditional bean stew with meat, moussaka, sudžuk, etc.. are typical for the region of Bosnia.
Bosnia has some kind of quality cheeses like Livno cheese, Travnik cheese, Vlasic cheese.



Since desserts are the most famous:
Baklava - flaky pastry with a filling of nuts, drenched in sugar syrup or honey
Bomblets (plural), truffle (singular), type of truffle
Peaches - cookies that look like a peach
Cupavci,
Dulbešećer - jelly made from rose petals
Gurabija (Qurabiya)
Halva
Hurmasica - date-shaped pastry drenched in a sweet syrup
Cider - pastry made of filo dough stuffed with apples
Kadajif (kadaif)
Compote - a cold sweet drink made of cooked fruit
Donut - filled donut
Custard pie
Wafer
Orasnica - walnut cookie
Pancake (crêpe)
Jam
Centered commodities - lokum (Turkish Delight)
Rose - similar to baklava, but baked in a small roll with raisins
Russian Hats (trans. Russian Caps, plural)
Sampit
Sweet (made from different fruits)
Strudel (Strudel)
Rice pudding (rice pudding)
Tufahija - whole stewed apple stuffed with a walnut filling
Tulumba - deep-fried dough sweetened with syrup



In Bosnia, it is customary to drink a lot of coffee so-called Turkish coffee, no sugar is stored and drinks from filđan. When it comes to guests, as soon as it comes housewife prepares coffee at the so-called dočekušu, there is a brief welcome, then moving socializing with conversation and then use
other coffee or razgovoruša, how all this may take a very long time housewife preparing a third coffee that is still called otpravuša and sign away it's time to leave.

World wide cuisine- Croatian


CROATIAN CUISINE



Croatian cuisine is heterogeneous and is known as a cuisine of the regions since every regions has its
own distinct culinary traditions. Its roots date back to ancient times and the differences in the selection of foodstuffs and forms of cooking are most notable between those on the mainland and those in coastal regions. Mainland cuisine is more characterized by the earlier Slavic and the more recent contacts with neighboring cultures - Hungarian, Austrian and Turkish, using lard for cooking, and spices such as black pepper, paprika, and garlic. The coastal region bears the influences of the Greek, Roman and Illyrian, as well as of the later Mediterranean cuisine - Italian (especially Venetian) and French, using olive oil, and herbs and spices such as rosemary, sage, bay leaf, oregano, marjoram, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, lemon and orange rind. Peasant cooking traditions are based on imaginative variations of several basic ingredients (cereals, dairy products, meat, fish, vegetables) and cooking procedures (stewing, grilling, roasting, baking), while bourgeois cuisine involves more complicated procedures and use of selected herbs and spices. Charcuterie is part of Croatian tradition in all regions. Food and recipes from former Yugoslav countries are also popular in Croatia.
Croatian cuisine can be divided into a few regional cuisines (Istria, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Lika, Gorski Kotar, Zagorje, Međimurje, Podravina, Slavonija) which all have their specific cooking traditions, characteristic for the area and not necessarily well known in other parts of Croatia. Most
dishes, however, can be found all across the country, with local variants. This is also why the varied cuisine of Croatia is called "cuisine of the regions".




Specialities from the grill are called s roštilja,
 those roasted on the spit s ražnja
pečeno means roasted
prženo means fried
pod pekom means that the dish has been put into a stone oven under a metal cover. The cook puts hot coals on the cover so that the meal is cooked slowly in its own juices. Specialties cooked pod pekom include lamb, veal, and octopus.


Meso z tiblice - pork from "tiblitsa" wooden barrel from Međimurje County, northern Croatia
Croatian meat based dishes include:
Zagrebački odrezak (Veal steaks stuffed with ham and cheese and grilled with breadcrumbs)
Šnitzle (schnitzel) breaded veal or chicken cutlets
Meso z tiblice pork ham from Međimurje County
Janjetina - roasted lamb garnished with Mediterranean herbs
Odojak - roasted pork
Visovačka begavica
Turkey with mlinci (flat, sour dumplings)
Leg of lamb à la Pašticada (rolled pieces of Pršut in white wine sauce)
Leg of venison the count's way
Wild duck with sauce
Roasted pheasant
Kotlovina from Samobor (kettle with knuckle of pork and other meat and sausages)
Boiled fillet of beef haunch with Sauerkraut
Escalope à la Baron Trenk (spicy-rolled Schnitzel)
Međimurje Goose (stuffed with buckwheat)
Turopolje Goose (with corn semolina as a side dish)
Purgerica Turkey (Christmas dish from the bordering region to Zagreb, turkey filled with chestnuts, apples, bacon, lemons, etc.)
Krvavice, or čurke, blood sausages, made of blood and kaša
Hladetina, a particular type of head cheese


Seafood




Croatian seafood dishes include:
Squids - Croatian: lignje, Italian: calamari, grilled, fried or stuffed
Octopus salad - Croatian: salata od hobotnice
Cuttlefish risotto - Croatian: Crni rižot, Italian: Risotto nero
Tuna
Lobster from Dalmatia
Shrimps - Croatian: škampi, Italian: scampi
Common mussels - Croatian: dagnje
Salted Cod with potatoes - Croatian bakalar na bijelo (Dubrovnik, Dalmatia and Istria)
Fish stew - Croatian brodet or brudet (Dubrovnik and Dalmatia), Italian brodetto
Clams
Sea spider salad
Breaded catfish or carp
Grilled sardines or other fish (na gradele)
Buzara or Buzzara (shellfish sautéed in garlic, olive oil, parsley & white wine)
Date shells or prstaci are part of the traditional cuisine, but in the 20th century their extraction was banned as a measure of ecological protection


Stews
Goulash (Croatian: gulaš, see also Hungarian gulyás)
Grah - bean stew (often done as 'grah sa zeljem' - with sauerkraut, or 'grah sa kiselom repom' - with pickled turnip strings)
Varivo od mahuna - green beans stew
Riblji paprikaš - also called fiš-paprikaš (spicy fish stew from Slavonia, see also Hungarian halászlé)
Slavonska riblja čorba (fish stew from Slavonia)
Brudet (or Brodet) - fish stew
Chicken stew
Rabbit goulash
Ričet
Istrian stew (Jota)
Game Čobanac (Shepherd's Stew)
Feines Venison goulash with prunes
Hunter's stew
Wine goulash
Sauerkraut stew
Zelena menestra - traditional cabbage and meat dish - Dubrovnik and surrounding area
Pašticada - Dalmatian beef stew with prunes and dried figs
Tripe stew (tripice, fileki)


Pasta

Žganci is made from maize, wheat or buckwheat flour, water, cooking oil and salt
Žganci - cornmeal dish in Slovenian and Northern Croatian cuisine, also known as Polenta (palenta, pura) in Istria and Dalmatia
Gnocchi, often served with Pašticada or goulash.
Fuži is a sort of pasta from Istria.
Needle macaroni
štrukli - baked or cooked filled pastry from Zagorje, Zagreb area.
Krpice sa zeljem - pasta with stewed cabbage
Šporki makaruli - traditional pasta with cinnamon flavored meat sauce, from Dubrovnik and surrounding area


Soups

Maneštra
Veal soup with smoked meat
Vegeta seasoned broth
Beef broth with vermicelli pasta
Ajngemahtec - Zagreb chicken and vegetable soup
Mushroom soup, especially with porcini


Side dishes

Sataraš (sliced and stewed summer vegetables)
Mlinci (typical northwest Croatian, roasted flatbread, similar to Caucasian flatbreads)
Đuveč (baked summer vegetables, similar to Ratatouille)
Šalša od pomidora (tomato salsa)
Restani krumpir (cooked potato fried with onion)
Blitva s krumpirom (cooked chard and potato, with olive oil and garlic)

Sausages and ham

Kulen (Kulin) - spicy pork sausage from Slavonia
Češnovka - spicy pork sausage with a harmonious garlic taste from Turopolje
Kobasica - spicy, air-dried or smoked sausage (Hungarian: kolbász)
Salami from Samobor
Švargl from Slavonia
Suđuk from inland Dalmatia
Istrian and Dalmatian Pršut - dry-cured ham
Panceta from Dalmatia
Špek from continental Croatia
Kaštradina - smoked mutton or goat meat

Cheese (sir)

Paški sir - famous sheep's milk cheese from island of Pag
Farmers' cheese (škripavac) and curd cheese from the regions of Kordun and Lika
Cheese from the Cetina region Cetinski sir
Cheese from the Island of Krk Krčki sir
Cheese from Međimurje Turoš
Cheese from Podravina Prga
Cottage cheese (eaten with vrhnje) from Zagorje (sir i vrhnje, often seen as quintessential Croatian traditional food)
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Sweets and desserts

Palačinke (crepes) with sweet filling
Baklava
Kremšnita - cream slice
Šaumšnita - meringue cream slice
Zagorski štrukli - sweet pastry from northern Croatia
Uštipci
Fritule
Knedle - potato dough dumplings, usually filled with plums and rolled into buttered breadcrumbs, with cinnamon
Strudel (Croatian: savijača or štrudla) with apple or curd cheese fillings
Orahnjača - sweet bread with walnuts
Makovnjača - sweet bread with poppy seeds
Croatian honey
Bear's paw
Farmer's cheese (quark) cakes (cream cake)
Krafne, pokladnice - a type of Donut
Croatian pancakes (with wine and egg sauce)
ušljivac, deran, badavdžija (long plaited bun)
Šnenokli (meringue in custard cream, floating island (dessert))
Almond filled ravioli (rafioli)
Homemade fruit preserves, jams, compotes

Cakes (kolači)

Rožata or Rozata (flan, creme caramel)
Easter pastry Pinca
Kroštule (crunchy, deep-fried pastry)
Fritule(deep-fried dough, festive pastry, particularly for Christmas)
Bishop's bread
Guglhupf ring cake (Croatian kuglof)
Rapska torta (Rab cake)
Međimurska gibanica (Međimurje County layer cake with apple, poppyseed, walnut and cottage cheese fillings)


To state more information about Croatian cuisine should write a lot but I do not want all this to be just a list, and I will announce in the coming posts and some traditional recipes specific to all areas of Croatian cuisine.
The greater part I listed the names of the original Croatian dishes I've also tried to translate in English as it was possible

I hope you have all learned a or renew their knowledge.
I enjoy Dalmatian cooking since I was born and raised in Zadar

Cakes and Cookies: Piskota torta

Cakes and Cookies: Piskota torta: preparation Preparation time :      60 min      1      Piskote soaked in milk or white coffee , collated by the cup...

Monday, February 8, 2016

why not consume all lemon?

Lemon is an extremely healthy fruit, but if you want to get away from the lemon really maximum eat it - frozen. In fact, the healthiest part of the lemon is its bark, which still remains unused. Freeze you lemons, zest you do not only edible but delicious and will have a fresh taste of citrus.


How is the best frozen lemon? Cut the lemon into slices, place them in a freezer bag and store in the freezer. When you want to eat a slice of lemon simply remove it from the freezer and eat so frozen. Lemon, and cover the meat in this way, 'shoot' of refreshing citrus flavor.

Here you will find all the vitamins and minerals enter the body when you eat a lemon with rind:

- Vitamin C, B6, E and A
- Folic acid
- calcium
- copper
- iron
- zinc
- magnesium
- potassium
- proteins
- riboflavin
- niacin
- thiamine
- phosphorus
Lemon is an indispensable ally in the fight against flu viruses, a lemon is a component of natural antibiotics which you can easily do yourself.


Sunday, February 7, 2016

Mountains of the world: Mount McKinley

Mountains of the world: Mount McKinley: Mount McKinley, or Denali (Koyukon Athabaskan for “The High One”), in Alaska, is the highest mountain peak in the United States and in Nor...

Saturday, February 6, 2016

biscuit cuillère

ingredients:
155 g egg yolks
80 g sugar
170g egg whites
50 g sugar
85 g flour
color (Optional)



Preparation:
Mix egg yolks with 80g sugar until they become pale. Mix egg whites with 50 g of sugar and finally add the color. Add the yolk mixture into the egg whites and then add the sifted flour. Spread the mixture on the sheet dimensions 60x40cm and align. Bake at 230 ° C for 5-6 minutes.
Baked biscuit upside-down, short cool and found the cream so that is out biscuits turned inwards. Chilled biscuit brush with syrup using a brush. Then Stuff cream and carefully roll.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Donuts with jam


ingredients:

850 grams gluten-free flour
5 egg yolks
4 tablespoons oil
grated zest of one organically grown lemon
1 vanilla sugar
2 tablespoons sugar (all mix well and add the vanilla extract and rum, if desired)
Preparation of yeast:

200 ml of hot milk
1 fresh yeast
3 teaspoons gluten-free flour
1/2 teaspoon sugar all mix well and leave the yeast to rise
Preparation:

850 grams  gluten-free flour, put in a deep bowl, add the yeast that you previously prepared, egg yolks with sugar, vanilla sugar, oil, vanilla extract and lemon zest.
Begin to mix the ingredients and slowly add more warm milk (about 300 ml) until you get a smooth dough.
If the mixture is thin, add a little flour.
When you get a smooth dough leaving it to rise, knead and repeat the process!



Round mold for donuts make circles of dough. Bake donuts in the deep and well-heated oil so placing them upside down and bake coincident about 2 minutes on each side.

After the donuts cool, confectionery syringe filled with jam of apricot and gently press into each donut.


Saturday, January 30, 2016

Miracle of one egg

The recipe for a simple cake 'Miracle of an egg' ingredients that are more or less still have in the kitchen and for which you need to prepare separate only half an hour.
Ingredients for the miracle of an egg:

BISCUIT

1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup ground walnuts
1 cup milk
½ cup oil
1 cup flour
1 baking powder


Preparation: Beat egg and add half a cup of sugar and continue to mix until you have a thick creamy texture, then add the milk, stirring and gradually add the remaining sugar. Then spoon stir in nuts and oil, and work out at the end of a spoon stir in flour mixed with baking powder.
Thus prepared mixture pour into oiled and floured baking pan. Bake in preheated oven at 170 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Tip: Cake should be juicy and it is important not to overdo. After 15 minutes of baking free toothpick make middle biscuits. If the toothpick does not remain traces of the mixture, you can remove it from the oven.

CREAM

Ingredients:
- 1 vanilla pudding
- 3 ml milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 15 grams of butter

Preparation:
Take 1 ml of milk and stir it into the pudding and sugar, the rest of the milk put in a pot to boil. Lower the heat and the hot milk slowly, stirring add the prepared pudding.

When all boil, remove from heat and allow to cool, and then stir in the butter and knead all good mixer.

At cooled biscuit add the cream and sprinkle with grated chocolate, cinnamon, ground walnuts or addition to your liking.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Fondant


To create a figurine of fondant mixture put in more density in order to be stronger. When applying or making ornaments, use a brush with a little water. To create ornaments roll out fondant on the desired thickness and prepare a sharp and precise tools such as scalpels and cake tins or household items: wire, foil, and toothpicks to glasses and lipstick.

If used for coating fondant cake, rolled sugar mixture must be greater than the cake at least a few inches on each side. To use it precisely set, roll it on the roller and place the biscuit. Fondant smooth hands quick movements. Sharp knife or roller for cutting pizza cut the excess sugar mixture around the cake, which is then used for the figures.
- If the fondant too tight, you can put a few seconds in the microwave or leave ten minutes at room temperature. It will become less elastic and will have to knead.



Ingredients:
5 g of vegetable fat
50 g sugar powder
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons water
teaspoon food colors as desired
Preparation:
Fat, lemon. juice and water melt over low heat, but do not boil. 25 g sugar gradually add the liquid and quickly stir with a whisk. When you get a nice thick mass, increase heat to a boil. Mix about a minute. Remove from heat and gradually add the remaining sugar stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Remove from heat on the work surface previously sprinkled with starch flour that does not stick. Wrap the mixture in plastic wrap and keep in a dry to use as fondant would not dry.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Poffertjes or Dutch pancakes


For the Dutch pancakes (Poffertjes) whether the special pans with small hollows where the dough is placed for roasting.
Of course, today there are devices in which this can be faster and easier
 to prepare but I prefer the old-fashioned way preparation
 that requires a little more time and effort but it is enjoying the taste irresistibly



Ingredients
 1 2/3 cup self-raising flour
 2 tablespoons caster sugar
 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
 1 egg
 1 1/2 cups (375ml) milk


Step 1
Sift flour into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in the centre. Whisk vanilla, egg and milk together in a jug. Add to well. Beat together for 2 minutes until smooth and fluffy. Cover and stand for 20 minutes
Step 2
Heat a large frypan over medium heat. Spray with cooking oil. Drop ½ a tablespoon of batter into pan. Repeat to make 8 mini pancakes. Cook for 2 minutes or until bubbles start to form on surface. Turn over. Cook for 1 minute or until golden and cooked through. Cool on wire rack.

Step 3
Repeat with remaining mixture, greasing pan between additions.

Step 4
Serve warmed with butter and icing sugar or with maple syrup and berries.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

7 ways how to roasted vegetables to make the finest dishes



Roasted vegetables can be a great side dish or a meal. But with salt and pepper should he add a few more spice or ingredient to be flashed in the best possible way.

1. Carrot + honey + parsley + thyme
Carrots is a natural sweet root vegetables, so when her bake with a little honey, parsley and thyme you will feel as if you are eating the finest dessert. For best results, bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 190 degrees Celsius.

2. Pumpkin + honey + + sage rosemary
Pour the pumpkin pieces cleaned with a little honey, add the sage leaves and rosemary and bake in oven for 30 to 45 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius until tender. Thus roasted pumpkin can serve with the main course, or turn to mush soup or risotto.

3. Brussels sprouts + garlic + vinegar balsamico + bacon
Some foods like public, such as roasted Brussels sprouts and bacon. Mix them with onion and vinegar, and bake for about 20 to 30 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius until they become golden yellow.

4. Broccoli + sesame oil + soy sauce + brown sugar + garlic
Broccoli does not have to be boring. Find inspiration for baking in Asian dishes and pour the dressing of these spices and sauce, and bake for about 15 minutes at 220 degrees Celsius.





5.Beetroot + vinegar + honey + thyme
Wrap beets in aluminum foil and bake in the oven is about 45 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. Unwrap beets, clean it and season with a combination of vinegar, honey and spices.

6. Potato + butter + mustard + onions + lemon
Potatoes with butter and mustard, sprinkle with diced onions, and sprinkle with lemon all. Bake in oven for about 40 minutes at 190 degrees Celsius. Good apetite!

7. Asparagus + garlic + lemon + parmesan
Bake asparagus for about 10 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius, and a meal, add the grated parmesan. After all green vegetables taste better when you enrich with cheese.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Hot chocholate


Best hot chocholate





ingredients:

200 g of dark chocolate with at least 60% of cocoa
2 dl cold milk
3 dl cream
teaspoon vanilla extract,

Preparation:

Chocolate break into small pieces.
Add half deciliter of milk and cook steamed stirring.
When the chocolate has melted, add the rest of milk, cream and vanilla extract.
Heat until all the ingredients are not imbued.
When preparing hot chocolate, you can play and various spices to further enhance flavor.
 You can insert chilli, ginger, various liqueurs, cinnamon .... whatever you like



Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Confectioner cream -basic

ingredients

500ml milk
1 vanilla pod
4 egg yolks
150 g sugar
50 g flour or density
for solid creams more:
1 sheet gelatin

Preparation


Brew milk along with Fretting seeds from vanilla bean. If desired, put the empty pod to be removed when the milk boils.


Beat the egg yolks with sugar and add the flour or cornstarch mix that no lumps.
In it pour a little boiling milk, stir well and add the rest of the milk. Mix well, return to the vessel in which the milk stove and cook over low heat until the cream thickens.
Remove from the heat and as it cools, stir frequently to be at the top catches skin, or cover with plastic wrap.
For faster cooling, cream onto a larger platter, spread and cover with foil.


For thicker cream, cooked cream remove from heat, let stand a little, and get involved previously soaked and drained gelatine.

Friday, January 1, 2016

The Dutch Table: Poffertjes

The Dutch Table: Poffertjes: Poffertjes... the name alone invokes visions of carnivals, festivities and palatal pleasure. Even saying it brings joy to the vocal cords....