Vegetables

Ingredients:

4-5 boiled potatoes
½ lb boiled beef (de-boned, without fat)
2 hard-boiled eggs
1 medium apple
2 large salt cucumbers
1 small salt herring (or 4-5 large anchovies)

For dressing:

0.5 cup sour cream
1 tsp ground horseradish
2 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp mustard
2 tbsp dill and parsley greens, thinly cut

Method:

Soak the herring and anchovies if necessary (if they are too salted or too hot).

Ingredients:

1 large onion
1 lb daikon radish
½ cup vegetable oil

Method:

Peel and grate radish.
Peel onions, and cut into short thin stripes.

Put the radish in a flat dish with borders.

Pour oil in a skillet, put the onions in the skillet, and fry until the onion turns gold colored.

Then, pour the hot oil with onions over the radish, stir, let sit for 1-2 minutes, and serve.

Note:

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
½ lb feta cheese (or other feta-like cheese) optional
1 large onion
Coriander greens on taste (optional)
2 eggs
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:

Put a piece of foil on the table.
Cut onions into small cubes.
Mix ground beef, eggs, onions, salt, pepper, and coriander greens (optional) together.
Divide into 4 parts.

Cut cheese into 8 same-size pieces.

Ingredients:

1 l milk
3-4 potatoes
2 medium carrots
3 tbsp butter
Salt and spices on your taste

Method:

Peel potatoes and carrots, wash, and cut into small stripes.
Put the potatoes in the hot milk, add pinch of salt, and bring to boil with medium-low heating.

Stir-fry the carrots with butter, until the carrots change color.

Then, add the carrots into the soup, and boil until the vegetables are ready.

Sprinkle with spices on your taste, and serve.

Ingredients for 4:

1 lb cooked (boiled or canned) beans
½ lb smoked chicken breast, de-boned and de-skinned
3 hard-boiled eggs
1 medium sweet onion
3 tbsp sour cream
Salt and greens on taste

Method:

Drain the beans, place in a salad bowl.

Cut chicken breast into small cubes, and put them in a salad bowl.

Peel onions, and cut into small cubes. Put them in the salad bowl.

Ingredients:

1 lb ground meat (beef, pork, lamb, veal, or a mix of them)
1 large onion
3-4 medium potatoes or ¾ lb angel-hair-cut cabbage
0.5 lb cheese
Spices on taste

Method:

Peel potatoes and grate.
Peel onions, and cut into small cubes.
Cut cheese into small cubes.
Mix the ground meat, ground potatoes (or cabbage), onions, and spices together.

Then, add the cheese, and stir one more time.
Shape hand-sized patties, and cook them.

Ingredients:

1 lb peeled kohlrabi
2 tbsp butter, or margarine, or vegetable oil
1.5 tbsp flour
0.5 cup sour cream
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp thinly cur parsley and dill greens
1/3 tsp cinnamon
Salt and ground black pepper on taste

Method:

Cut kohlrabi into medium slices, roll with flour, sprinkle with salt, and fry on a skillet for 3 minutes per side with medium heating.

Ingredients:

5 medium potatoes
0.5 lb boiled crab meat, or 1 can crabmeat, or 1 pack crab meat imitation
½ English cucumber
Sauce Remulade

Method:

Boil the potatoes, cool, peel, and cut into medium cubes.
Grate the cucumber.
Cut the crabmeat into medium pieces.
Mix all the ingredients with Remulade sauce, decorate with marinated ginger, and serve.

Note:

Remulade sauce:

Ingredients for 2:

1 smoked chicken breast
1 medium onion
2 hardboiled eggs
½ English cucumber
½ can yellow corn (or ¼ lb boiled corm)
4 tbsp 3% vinegar + 1 tsp sugar
1/3 cup parsley greens
Spices and dressing on taste

Method:

Peel the onion, and cut into thin stripes.
Brine it with the vinegar-sugar mix.

Cut the chicken meat, eggs, and cucumber into medium cubes.

This dish is so named for the airy layers covering the herrings.

Ingredients:

1 lb herrings fillets Matties (lightly salt, not brined, de-boned)
2 large beetroots
3 carrots
1-2 sour apples
3-4 hard-boiled eggs
Mayonnaise on taste

Method:

Boil beetroots in salt water (do not peel!) for about 45 minutes, check if they are mild with a knife. If not, boil for 15 more minutes, then place in cold water and let cool.