Croatian Cauliflowerfrench Beansbrussels Sprouts Food

CROATIAN CAULIFLOWER/FRENCH BEANS/BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Steps:

• Put cauliflower in hot water, add salt and cook until soft.
• Melt butter in a pan, add bread crumbs and fry it until dark brown (do not burn it).
• Take out cauliflower cut it in pieces and put it into hot pan with butter and bread crumbs. Fry it just 2-4 minutes and mix gently to cover with bread crumbs.
• Before serving, add sour cream.
• You can also eat it without sour cream, so just put the sour cream jar on the table. Serve with roasted meat.
• The same procedure is with French beans or Brussels sprouts, but make sure to put green vegetables into hot water - that will keep green colour.

SOUTH CROATIAN SAUTéED FRENCH BEANS

Steps:

• Clean the French beans and cut into two or three parts (3-5 cm).
• Sauté finely minced onion on butter until translucent.
• In the meantime put French beans into hot water and cook 5-8 minutes, than remove from water and drain.
• Add French beans into sautéed onion; add tomato juice, very finely minced garlic and parsley. Season it with salt and pepper. Stir and add some beef stock to cover French beans.
• Cook until French beans are soft, or 20-30 minutes adding beef stock if necessary.

FRENCH ONION BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Steps:

• Trim the root end off the sprouts, peel off the first layer of leaves and cut each one on half.
• Heat butter and oil in a large frying pan until the butter just starts to brown. Add the sprouts being careful not to get splattered with hot oil.
• Stir or toss frequently until the sprouts are nicely browned.
• Add the water and soup mix and simmer uncovered for about 7 minutes. Taste a sprout and season to taste with salt and pepper.

CAULIFLOWER AND BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Steps:

• Break the cauliflower into flowerets and cook, uncovered with the lemon juice in a small amount of boiling water for 5 minutes.
• Then, cover it, and continue cooking until just tender.
• Drain the vegetables.
• Arrange cauliflowerets, brussel sprouts, and tomato slices in a shallow casserole dish.
• Sprinkle with thyme, salt, and white pepper.
• Spoon the condensed soup on top and sprinkle with crumbs.
• Bake at 350 degrees until bubbly and heated through.
• (app. 25 minutes?) Serves 6.

CROATIAN SIMPLE FRENCH BEANS SALAD

Steps:

• Clean French beans, cut into 5 cm pieces and cook in hot water (throw it into hot water to preserve nice green color).
• Cook 10 minutes and than change water and cook until soft. Remove French beans from water and put into a salad bowl.
• While hot, pour over oil and finely minced garlic. You can also season it completely with vinegar (use water to dissolve vinegar if it is too strong) salt and pepper but cool it and eat cold.