Vegetables

"Airy" layered salad

Ingredients for 4:

2 large red onions
2 green apples
3 hard-boiled eggs
2 tbsp grated cheese (on your choice)

Method:

Peel onions, slice into very thin rings. If onions are bitter, you can put in a colander and pour with boiling water. Peel and grate apples.
Peel and grate eggs.

Borscht with whitebaits a la Pskov

Pskov is one of the most ancient and beautiful Russian North-West cities, included in "The Gold Ring of Russia". The city started on the junction of the Great River and Pskova River, and it is known in chronicles since 860-s years AD. The chronicles tell that the famous duchess Olga was born in 893 AD in Izborsk stronghold, near Pskov.

Ingredients for 4:

2 medium beets
¾ lb sauerkraut
1/3 lb dried whitebaits (young fish)
1 carrot
2 shallot onion
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp butter

Basket with potatoes

Ingredients for 4:
8 medium potatoes
0.5 lb mushrooms
2 large onions
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt, pepper on taste

Method:
Peel potatoes. Cut out the center.
Boil the potatoes.
Peel onions, clean mushrooms.
Cut mushrooms and 1 shallot onion into small cubes.
Fry with 1 tbsp oil for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

"Klyazma" Salad

Ingredients for 4:

1,25 lb boiled beef
1 carrot
1 shallot onion
1 radish (daikon or black radish)
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Mayonnaise on taste

Method:
Peel and grate carrot and onion, and fry with oil for until gold color.
Peel and grate radish.
Cut the meat into small cubes.
Mix all ingredients, and then add mayo and mix all together.

Note:
Klyazma is a river in Central Russia.

Schi "Valaam"

Ingredients:

1 l water (or 0.25 g)
2 tbsp dried mushrooms
1 lb fresh mushrooms
1 lb green cabbage
1 medium shallot onion
1 tbsp grated parsley root
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
6 black peppers
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp cut parsley and dill greens

Method:

Quick-pickled tomatoes

Ingredients:

Tomatoes
3 cups water
4 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
4-5 ml 70% vinegar
4 bay leaves
12 black peppers
5 spicy peppers
1 small hot pepper

Method:

Put salt, sugar, all the peppers, and bay leaves, in a wide saucepan salt, sugar, all the peppers, and bay leaves, and pour water and vinegar.
Mix and bring to boil.
Stick tomatoes through the fruit-stem with a thin sharp knife.

Fish julienne from pikeperch

Ingredients for 4:

0.75 lb fish
0.5 lb porcini or other mushrooms
2 tbsp butter
1 cup sour cream
3 eggs
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:

Wash mushrooms (or wipe with wet cloth).
Cut into julienne cuts.
Wash fillets. Cut into small pieces.
Pre-heat skillet with butter and cook mushrooms until ready (for about 10 minutes).
Add salt and fillet cuts to mushrooms, mix. Put the mix in julienne dishes.

Turnip puree

Ingredients:

1 lb small turnip
1 large shallot onion
2-3 tbsp red wine (Port or Cherry)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt, pepper, nutmeg on taste

Method:
Peel onion and cut into small cubes.
Fry with vegetable oil until gold color.
Peel turnip, cut into 4 parts, and boil over boiling water until ready.
Mix onions, turnip, and wine, and blend until even consistency.

Monastery bread

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1/3 cup boiled vegetables (carrots, beets, pumpkin, etc.)
Sparkling mineral water (or water with baking soda)

Method:

Mix all ingredients, knead dough. Shape into a round bread.
Sprinkle the baking sheet with 1 tbsp flour.
Place bread in an oven pre-heated to 390-400º F and bake for about 35 minutes.

Note:

You can use grated and pressed vegetables instead of boiled ones.

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