Vegetables

Ingredients for 2:

1 lb zucchini

For dough:

Ingredients for 2:

4 zucchini
4 tbsp rice
0.5 lb ground meat
1 shallot onion
2 cups vegetable broth
2 tbsp parsley greens
Salt, dill, and ground pepper on your taste

Method:

Wash zucchini, cut in 2 halves.
Remove the centers of the halves.
Put halves in boiling vegetable broth, and boil for 4-5 minutes (do not over boil!)
Boil rice in salted water for about 15 minutes.
Peel onion, and cut it into small cubes.
Cut dill and parsley greens.

Ingredients for 2:

1.25 lb zucchini
4 tbsp cream wheat
2 eggs
Salt, sugar, flour on taste
3 tbsp vegetable oil


Method:

Grate zucchini, add cream wheat, egg yolks, salt and sugar.
Add flour if necessary (if dough is too thin).
Whip egg whites with 1 pinch salt.
Mix dough and whites.
Pre-heat a skillet with vegetable oil.
Cook zucchini pancakes like usual ones.
Serve with sour cream.

Ingredients for 4:

4 pork fillets
0.5 lb sliced mushrooms
2 tbsp flour
0.5 cup red wine
2 tbsp mustard
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp butter
1 cup vegetable broth
Salt, pepper on taste

Method:

Pre-heat a skillet with vegetable oil and butter, put fillets on it, and fry until golden crust forms on both sides (2-3 minutes per side).
Add sliced mushrooms, and set to low heating. Add flour, and cook for 2 minutes, then add wine and mustard, and bring to boil.

Ingredients:

3-4 lb meat bones
1 lb meat
1 pack gelatin
4-5 bay leaves
Salt, ground pepper on taste
0.5 lb boiled vegetables
0.5 lemons
Garlic, parsley and dill on taste

Method:

This dish’s name “holodets” is from the Russian word “holod”, i.e., “cold”.
It is because the final preparation step is to cool in a refrigerator for a few hours.

Really, chicken, beef, or pork “holodets” is a meat jelly with meat cuts, vegetable cuts, and spices inside.

Ingredients:

For Dough:
0.5 stick butter (25g)
0.2 lb flour (75g)
2 eggs
Salt on taste
Butter and flour to grease and to sprinkle a baking sheet
For cheese cream:
1 hard-boiled egg
2 tbsp Brynza cheese (or Feta)
3 tbsp sour cream
1 tsp thinly cut Italian parsley
Salt and fresh-grated pepper on taste
For ham cream:
0.2lb ham (75 g)
2 tbsp sour cream
1 tsp Grand Marnier

Ingredients:

1.25 lb lamb
2 large shallot onions
1 large carrot
1.5 lb tomato
1 sweet red pepper
1 garlic
2 tbsp rice
1 tbsp oil
Bay leaf, black pepper

Method:

Peel and cut onions into medium cubes. Peel and grate carrot.
Fry onions and carrots with oil in a saucepan.
Cut meat, put into the saucepan, and continue to stir-fry for 10 minutes.
Pour cold water in the saucepan, and bring to boil with low heating.
Boil until meat is half-ready.

Ingredients:

250 g salt mushrooms
50 g dried mushrooms
2 large shallot onions
4 large pickles
2 tbsp tomato-paste
2 tbsp butter
0.5 cup sour cream
12 olives

Method:

Pour 0.5 g water in a large saucepan
Put dried and sliced salt mushrooms in the saucepan, and boil with low-medium heating until mushrooms will settle down on the saucepan bottom.
Strain mushroom broth, and slice mushrooms thinly.
Peel pickles, or salt cucumbers, and remove seeds.

Ingredients for 4:

4 large (or 8 small) fish fillet pieces, total 0.5 lb for serving
4 large potatoes
4 tbsp potato flour
2 eggs
3-4 tbsp oil
1 tsp salt
Spices on taste (dill, parsley, ground black pepper)
1 medium shallot onion

Method:

Wash, peel, and grate potatoes.
Squash juice.
Add eggs to potatoes, and mix well.
Peel onion, and cut it into small cubes.
Add onion to potatoes, and mix well.
Roll fish fillets in potato flour.

Ingredients:

4 fish fillets (preferably salmon) pieces weighting about 0.5 lb each (or 8 by 0.25 lb)
0.5 cup dill cuts
0.5 cup Italian parsley cuts
4 tbsp corn flour (or other flour)
2 measure cups (for rice-cooker) rice
1 cup whipped cream
1 cup grated cheese
1 tbsp butter
Spices on taste (salt, pepper, etc.)

Method:

Slice fillets into 1" width pieces.
Mix 0.25 cup dill cuts, spices, and 0.5 parsley cuts, sprinkle the every slice with this mix on both sides.