Croatian Dalmatian Potato Salad Food

CROATIAN DALMATIAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook potato with skin and when cooked, peel it.
• Cut peeled potato into slices (across). Put potato into a salad bowl, pour over olive oil and vinegar dissolved with half glass water (1 dcl). (It is much better if you season warm potato because it will soak oil, vinegar and seasoning much better.)
• Cut onion into thin rounds and add to potato. Add salt and pepper. At the end add hand cut basil leaves. Do not put too much basil - it must be surprise for consumer.
• Mix well. Wait until cools and serve.

CROATIAN DALMATIAN PASTICADA

Steps:

• Meat must be in one piece, preferably older cow. Clean all the fat pieces or little vascular. Cover the meat with vinegar and leave it overnight.
• Next morning peel the garlic, half of it cut in little sticks, the other half mince finely. Do the same with bacon. Using very thin knife, put garlic, bacon and seedless plumes into meat.
• Fry it shortly in a heavy pan making sure that all sides have been done.
• Take out the meat and on the same fat (olive oil) sauté finely minced onion, celery root, parsley root, garlic and bacon.
• When it is done, put back the meat. Mix tomato jam and wine together and pour over the meat and vegetables. Sauté it until meat softens (it will take some time) pouring water if evaporates.
• When it is finely done, put out the meat and strain the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper, add prosek.
• Cut the meat in portions (vertical to fibres) and put it back in vegetables. Cook it for 10 more minutes. Serve with potato gnocchi, noodles or mashed potato. Cover with grated parmesan.

NORTH CROATIAN BOILED POTATO

Steps:

• Gently peal potato skin, and if possible just "shave" it.
• Cook for about 25-30 minutes (until toothpick can easily go through). Drain potato.
• In another pot put butter and finely minced parsley leaves. When butter starts to foam, add potato and fry it on butter 1-2 minutes. Serve hot.

DALMATIAN BOILED POTATO

Steps:

• If you use baby potato just "shave" the skin, otherwise, peal potato and cut into 5 cm large pieces.
• Cook in salted water until soft.
• Put olive oil, finely minced garlic and parsley in pot, add well strained potato and stir. Leave it on fire not more than one minute stirring all the time to cover potato with garlic and parsley. Serve hot with fish.

CROATIAN FISH "GREGADA"

Steps:

• For this meal you have to have large round pot with low rim.
• Prepare the potato: slice it in round thin pieces. Put it in a separate pot, cook until water starts to boil, cut the heat and leave it there.
• Put olive oil and garlic on heat and when starts to fry add fish sliced in pieces 3-6 cm large. DO NOT STIRR with any kind of ladle, just shake the whole pot.
• When fish starts to stick to pot add wine, salt, pepper, bay leaf and potato. Shake it well and add water to cover. Cook until potato is soft (15-20 min). At the end add parsley. Eat it with spoon.