NORTH CROATIAN KOHLRABI STEW (KOLORABA CUSPAJZ)
This is very old recipe I usually eat in spring. This is a side dish, we usually eat some meat and potato with it (beef cutlet or pork chops or...) It is important to use fresh and baby kohlrabi. If the kohlrabi is old and big you will have wooden parts inside. It is also important to use fresh: more time you store it, better chance to have woody kohlrabi. Actually, as I write this recipe I'm also cooking it.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 45m
Yield 3 portions, 3 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Peel kohlrabi like you peel apples. Remove leaves (don't throw away baby leaves, you can slice them and put into stew later) and cut kohlrabi like you cut potato for French fry potato, but just little bit thicker.
- Melt lard (or butter) in a pot, add flour and sauté it 1 minute. Add water and make creamy liquid. Add sliced kohlrabi and add water to cover the vegetable. Add salt and pepper and baby leaves if you want.
- Cook about 30 minutes or until kohlrabi softens.
- At the end add sour cream, stir well and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 162.3, Fat 11.2, SaturatedFat 5.9, Cholesterol 18.1, Sodium 827.2, Carbohydrate 13.9, Fiber 6.2, Sugar 4.4, Protein 4.2
NORTH CROATIAN CUCUMBER STEW ("CUSPAJZ OD KRASTAVACA")
This is one of my favorite spring stews. It is also my grandmother's recipe from her booklet. It is also side dish to meat and potato.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 45m
Yield 4 portions, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Peel the cucumbers and cut them as for salad. Salt it and put aside for 10 minutes.
- Melt lard and add finely minced garlic and flour and sauté it until flour become brownish. Add paprika and stir well. Add cold water and make creamy liquid.
- Squeeze cucumbers with hand to extract bitter liquid and add cucumbers into the pot. Add vinegar, salt and pepper and cover with water.
- Cook not more than 30 minutes. Before serving add sour cream and stir.
CROATIAN PLUM DUMPLINGS (KNEDLI OD SLJIVA)
As with the plum jam, this recipe also uses "bistrica" plums. Of course, other kind of blue plums can be used, but with "bistrica" the dumplings will give the most of it. There are two ways of making this meal: either with the stone or without (if you make without the stone replace it with sugar cube). I usually make with the stone to keep the plum consistent. The dough is usual potato dough as you make for gnocchi.
Provided by nitko
Categories Dessert
Time 1h40m
Yield 40 dumplings, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cook potato in skin until soft (like for potato salad). When ready peal the skin and mash potato on flat surface. Be careful it is very hot.
- Add butter (crush it a bit to speed melting), flour, semolina, nutmeg and salt. Make it into a dough, and when cools it a bit add two eggs. You will think now that you make a big mistake because it will turn very wet, but you have to be firm and continue to make dough. It is OK to add more flour.
- The right amount of flour will be clear to you after you make this several times, this is amount I usually put. It also depends on quality of potato; some are softer than others. When the dough is firm, but soft enough, make the dumplings.
- Cut a piece of dough and roll around cleaned and washed plum. The dough shouldn't be more than 1 cm thick. If you make it without plum stone, break the plum into half, remove the stone and put a sugar cube instead. After that, do as previously mention.
- At this point you can freeze the whole amount of dumplings, but do it on flat surface making sure they don't touch. After they freeze, you can put them in a bag.
- If you want to cook them right away, use large pot, fill with water up to 2/3 and add some oil. When water boils, put the dumplings into the water and cook until they start to float on the surface. You may use a toothpick to check if they are soft.
- In the meantime melt butter in a frying pan and fry some breadcrumbs. When removing dumplings from the pot put them into hot butter with breadcrumbs and fry them just a bit to reduce surplus of water.
- You may serve them as a desert, but also as a lunch, of course amount of dumplings will differ in both cases.
- When you open the dumplings, you may put some sugar over it and also some grounded cinnamon. Some people add sour cream over dumplings, but I don't like it that way.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 650, Fat 18.1, SaturatedFat 10.3, Cholesterol 93, Sodium 551.8, Carbohydrate 108.2, Fiber 9, Sugar 15.1, Protein 15.2
NORTH CROATIAN GREEN PEAS SOUP
This is one of my grandmother recipes I have decipher from her manuscript. I am making the soup today, so this is how it goes:
Provided by nitko
Categories Vegetable
Time 1h
Yield 5 portions, 5 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Clean the green peas and put it into hot water for 5 minutes. Grate of slice carrot and sauté on butter; after a while, mince onion and sauté both on butter until onion is translucent.
- Add finely sliced pancetta and sauté not more than 5 minutes. Add flour and fry about 2 minutes, than add cold water and make creamy liquid (like sauce veloute).
- Cut green parts of spring onion, mince parsley and celery leaves and add into pot. Add green pea and about 1 liter of beef stock. Add salt and pepper.
- Cook until green peas are soft. When soft, remove green pea and blend it into puree (leave 1/6 of peas untouched). You can blend it with stick blender so you do not have to remove geen pea. Add thyme and cook 15 minutes.
- At the end add sour cream and minced chive. Serve with croutons.
NORTH CROATIAN BEEF CUTLET
You can also call this Croatian hamburger. You can eat this as a plain meal with salad, you can it with beans or leek or kale stews, you can eat it cold or cook as a meat balls. You can also mix it with pork meat and your cutlet will be softer. I will submit my recipe which is not obligatory - you can change it.
Provided by nitko
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time 35m
Yield 8 portions, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Put grounded beef and pork into large glass bowl. Soak bread in cold water and after few minutes squeeze bread with hand to extract water; than put bread into meat.
- Add egg, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce.
- Cut leek into very thin pieces up to green parts (before it become full green) and add into meat.
- Very finely mince garlic and put into meat. Now, mix really well to make a smooth meat pile.
- Make cutlets with a tablespoon (approx. 100 to 150 g each) and shape them with hands, put into breadcrumbs to cover the cutlet. Now they are ready to fry. You can also make smaller meat balls and do what ever you want to do.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 293, Fat 14.4, SaturatedFat 5.4, Cholesterol 57.9, Sodium 558.6, Carbohydrate 27, Fiber 1.8, Sugar 3, Protein 13.2
NORTH CROATIAN RED CABBAGE STEW
It is obvious Hungarian and Austrian influence in this meal. Anyway, this is how we do it in Croatia.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 55m
Yield 4 portions, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Slice the cabbage into 1 cm wide stripes.
- Melt sugar on lard until brown (caramel).
- Add wine, cabbage, caraway seeds, salt, and pepper. Cover and cook gently until sugar melts (when you add wine sugar will become hard - do not worry - it will melt).
- Add water to prevent burning. At first you will think your pot is too small, but eventually the cabbage will get smaller.
- Cook about 45 minutes or until cabbage is soft. Eat with pork chops, sausages or BBQ.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 160.5, Fat 3.7, SaturatedFat 1.3, Cholesterol 3, Sodium 70.1, Carbohydrate 23.1, Fiber 5.5, Sugar 13.2, Protein 3.7
CROATIAN "COBANAC" STEW
"Cobanac" is kind of goulash sheep and cow-boy's used to eat while watching their herds. You eat it with a spoon, so the pieces inside has to be bite-size. It is traditional meal from Slavonia (eastern part of Croatia)and people from there are very proud of it. They have annual "Cobanac festival" where there is competition in making cobanac. They cook cobanac in large bronze pots on tripod over open fire. Of course, everyone will tell you that their stew is the best one. This is how I do it. (I know someone here on Zaar would be against horse meat, but, if you really want to enjoy the taste, use horse meat.)
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 3h50m
Yield 6 portions, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Cut horse and beef meat into small pieces (not larger than 2x2 cm). Do the same with potato.
- Finely mince onion.
- Soak dried porcini mushrooms in cold water about 15 minutes, and than cut into small pieces.
- Cut pancetta into small pieces.
- Heat the lard and sauté onion until translucent. Add meat and continue to sauté (covered) 20 minutes. At that point meat will start to leave juices.
- Add paprika, salt, pepper, bay leaf, pancetta and thyme. Stir well and continue to sauté 5 minutes; now add wine, stir and sauté until alcohol evaporates.
- Add potato and water to cover meat and potato. Add mushrooms. Stir and cook on easy fire about 120 minutes.
- If you need to add more salt do it, but do not add additional pepper or hot paprika. If you want it hot, do it at the beginning.
- The stew must be soup-like. You eat it only with spoon. All ingredients must be soft and easy to eat.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 305.1, Fat 12.7, SaturatedFat 4.9, Cholesterol 38.9, Sodium 691.6, Carbohydrate 26.6, Fiber 4.5, Sugar 5.5, Protein 14.9
CROATIAN SPINACH STEW ( SPINAT CUSPAJZ")
This recipe is at least 200 years old. My grand-grandmother was preparing spinach that way, my, grandmother was preparing that way, my mother was preparing that way, so I am preparing it that way. This is very healthy meal, although it is prepared on pork fat. One important fact: never re-heat the spinach - you will have digestion problems.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 15m
Yield 4 portions, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Clean the spinach leaves and put them in boiling water for 5 minutes.
- Drain the leaves and using large knife (or multi-practic machine): cut them to mash.
- Take a pot, melt butter, add flour and garlic, and add cold water to make a kind of "sauce veloutè".
- Add mashed spinach pour milk (or cream) season with salt and pepper.
- Nutmeg is optional.
- Cook for 10 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 258.8, Fat 21.5, SaturatedFat 13, Cholesterol 71.7, Sodium 232.4, Carbohydrate 12.8, Fiber 5.6, Sugar 1.1, Protein 8.8
NORTH CROATIAN BUTTERNUT SQUASH STEW (BUCE CUSPAJZ)
This is one of traditional early summer North Croatian stews. I am sure they eat something similar in Hungary since we have shared the same history for more than 500 years. This is my grand-grandmother recipe, almost 200 years old.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 1h50m
Yield 4 portions, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Cut butternut squash into stripes like thick spaghetti (we buy it usually already cut on the market).
- Salt it and add vinegar and leave it stay for 60 minutes. It must start to leave juices.
- Melt lard and add finely minced onion. Sauté onions until translucent, add flour, stir it until brownish; add cold water and make creamy liquid.
- Add red paprika and some more water.
- Squeeze squash with hands to remove water from it and than add into a pot. Stir it and add some fresh water to cover it.
- Cook gently (it can easily burn) until butternut squash is soft. Before serving add minced dill and sour cream. Serve with pork schnitzels and potato.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 200.1, Fat 7.1, SaturatedFat 3.9, Cholesterol 12.2, Sodium 23.8, Carbohydrate 34.6, Fiber 5.6, Sugar 6.7, Protein 3.8
CROATIAN LEEK STEW ( PORILUK CUSPAJZ")
This recipe is at least 200 years old. My grand-grandmother was preparing leek that way, my, grandmother was preparing that way, my mother was preparing that way, so I am preparing it that way. This is very healthy meal, although it is prepared on pork fat.
Provided by nitko
Categories Stew
Time 35m
Yield 4 p, 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Wash the leek very thoroughly (there might be some mud between the leaves) and cut them in 1 inch pieces (also the green parts, at least nice looking one).
- Preheat the water and when it boils put the leek in it and leave it boil for one minute.
- During this operation prepare this: put lard in a pot, heat it and brown flour in lard (but not too brown).
- Add grounded paprika and just few drops of cold water to make "zafrig" (a kind of "sauce veloutè").
- Take out leek with hollow spoon, add sliced potato in small cubes and water you have cooked leek in it.
- Season with salt and pepper and cook until potato is soft (10-20 minutes).
- Serve as a side dish to steaks, sausages, dried smoked ham etc.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 268.3, Fat 10.5, SaturatedFat 3.5, Cholesterol 20.4, Sodium 403.2, Carbohydrate 35.5, Fiber 4.5, Sugar 7.3, Protein 9.8
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