Czech Cook Book

Marokanky / Cranberry Nut Cookies!!

2010-12-19T17:56:00.001-05:00

Ingredients:

250 ml/1 cup of milk
1 cup of sugar
2 cups of crushed nuts (small pieces)
1 and 1/2 cups of dried cranberries or raisins
3/4 of cup of unsalted butter
1 and 1/2 cups of flour

Directions:

1. Place milk, sugar, nuts, cranberries (raisins) and butter into big pot. Heat up on low heat (until butter is melted).
2. Take off the heat and mix with flour.
3. Using two spoons make little balls and place them on greased cookie sheet (or on cookie sheet covered by wax paper).
4. Bake on 350 degrees for 10 minutes, or until the balls start to get brown on the bottom.
5. When cold, sprinkle with melted baking chocolate.

Dill sauce

2010-08-12T14:20:00.001-04:00

Ingredients:

- 1 liter or milk (0,264 gallon)
- 1 box of fresh dill (5 branches), chopped
- instant beef bouillon for 1 liter (0,264 gallon)
- flour (prepare flour paste from 3 tbsp of flour and 1 cup of water, poor through strainer to achieve no blobs)
- 4 tablespoon of sugar
- distilled white vinegar to taste

Directions:

1. Poor one cup of water in a big pot on a low heat. Add instant beef bouillon until dissolved. When dissolved poor milk into pot and stir WELL! If you won't stir it will burn!
2. When milk is hot, add chopped dill, sugar and flour paste. The sauce will start to get thicker. (if its not thick enough, make some more flour paste and add to a mix). Cook on very low heat until it starts bubbling.
3. Boil for 5 minutes. Turn heater off and add vinegar. WARNING: When adding vinegar, never poor directly into sauce!! Take a big spoon, poor 1 teaspoon of vinegar into spoon and mix well. Continue until the sauce has sweet & sour taste. Don't put too much vinegar because you would never fix the sour taste!!!
4. Serve with boiled potatoes and hard boiled eggs.

Dobrou chut;)

Sardines spread

2010-08-12T13:54:00.001-04:00

Ingredients

- 2 cans of sardines in oil or in tomato puree
- 8 oz. of mayo or miracle whip
- 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
- 1/2 of onion (or one small one)- salt, pepper to taste

Directions

1. Chop onion and sardines into fine pieces.
2. Place chopped onion, sardines into bowl, mix with mayo and butter.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste. Let it cool down in a fridge. 4. Serve with any type of bread or cracker, taste delicious.

Egg spread

2010-08-12T13:45:00.003-04:00

Ingredients

- 8 hard boiled eggs
- 8 oz. of mayo or miracle whip
- 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
- 1/2 of onion (or one small one)- salt, pepper to taste

Directions

1. Chop onion and hard boiled eggs into fine pieces.
2. Place chopped onion, eggs into bowl, mix with mayo and butter.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste. Let it cool down in a fridge. 4. Serve with any type of bread or cracker, taste delicious.

Palacinky - Crepes

2010-06-10T13:41:00.001-04:00

Ingredients (for 10 crepes)

- 2 cups of flour
- 2 cups of milk
- 4 tablespoon of sugar
- oil
- toppings

Directions

1. Whisk flour, milk and sugar together until nice and smooth texture.
2. Preheat pan (medium heat) and start making crepes. Under each crepe (big spoon of dough) put 4 tablespoons of oil.
3. Each crepe must be golden brown from both sides.

Serve with jam, fruit, chocolate, peanut butter or whip cream, and milk

Summer pasta salad

2010-05-21T12:28:00.001-04:00

Ingredients:

- 1/2 of pound of any pasta
- 3 tomatoes
- 1/2 of cucumber
- 1 green pepper
- 2 tablespoons of mayo
- 3 tablespoons of plain yogurt
- 2 cheese sticks
- salt
- pepper

Directions:

1. Cook pasta (as said on the box). When done cool in cold water, drain and place into large bowl.
2. Cut tomatoes, cucumber and green pepper and cheese sticks into small pieces. Place into bowl with pasta.
3. Add salt, pepper to taste. Add mayo and yogurt.
4. Mix well with salad silverware and put into fridge.
5. Serve after cooling it down.

- delicious during hot summer days

Dobrou chut:)

Ceske rohliky - Czech Rolls

2010-03-16T20:25:00.002-04:00

Ingredients:

- 0.13 gallon of milk (1/2 of liter)
- 2,2 lb of flour
- o,2 lb of oil (90 gram)
- 2 packages of Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast (1/2 oz)
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- salt

Directions:

1. Make a leaven from 2 tablespoon of milk, sugar and yeast. When ready mix with the rest of milk, flour and oil, and make a dough.
2. Form 4 little balls and let rise. After they grow twice their size roll circles (1/4 of inch thick).
3. Each circle divide into 8 triangles and paint with butter.
4. Start making rolls by rolling triangles from wide to narrow side.
5. Place on baking sheet (buttered) and let rise for another 20 minutes.
6. When ready shake with sesame, cheese, caraway, salt or whatever u like.
7. Bake for 30 minutes or till brown and golden color. (430 degrees Fahrenheit)

Leaven (Foam yeast):
All ingredients for leaven mix in warm porcelain bowl and let foam in a warm spot (80-85 degrees) for 15 minutes.

Rizek - Fried Chicken/Pork

2010-03-16T19:34:00.002-04:00

Ingredients:

- Chicken breast/any pork meat without fat
- breadcrumbs
- 3 eggs
- flour
- salt

Directions:

1. Beat your meat into thiner pieces and salt from both sides.
2. Coat with flour, egg and breadcrumbs (3 layer coating)
3. Heat up oil in frying pan (oil in 1/4 of inch high)
4. Fry your meat until golden brown.

Serve with fries, potatoes and gravy.

Stuffed peppers

2010-02-26T04:45:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- green or white peppers
- tomatoes
- kielbasa or any other sausage
- block of any hard cheese
- bacon

Directions

1. Cut off top of peppers and clean them. Place them on a plate and put them in microwave for 5 minutes - they will get softer.
2. Cut sausage and cheese into small pieces and start stuffing peppers. When all your peppers done put them into baking pan, cover with bacon and slices of tomatoes.
3. Put into oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit). Bake for 30 minutes.

Dobrou chut

Smazeny kvetak - Fried Cauliflower

2010-01-06T18:56:00.001-05:00

Ingredients:

- 1 large cauliflower, cut into florets
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1-2 cups of flour
- salt

Directions:

1. Cut cauliflower into florets put into cold water and start boiling. When the water starts boiling turn of, strain the water and let the cauliflower cool down.
2. When the cauliflower is cold start rolling in 2 layers. First is mix of eggs, milk and flour (should be thick enough so it stays on the cauliflower), second layer is breadcrumbs.
3. Broil in 350 degrees Fahrenheit (slowly). The cauliflower must be half way sunk in oil to be fried properly. When nice golden brown color, place on paper towel to soak the extra oil and serve with fries, potatoes or mashed potatoes.

Dobrou chut:)

Universal Dough

2010-01-05T14:17:00.000-05:00

Ingredients:

500 g of all purpose flour
500 g of margarine
200 g sour cream

Direction:

1. Mix all together, make nice dough.
2. Use for home made pizza, strudel, pie. Enough for two 9"x13" cookie sheets.

Czech Style Apple Pie - Jablecny kolac

2009-12-29T16:20:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- two 9-inch pie crusts
- 4 big green apples
- 4 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons of sugar (or little more if you like)

Directions

1. Place 1 pie crust inside your 9-inch form.
2. Cut apples into slices (1/4'')
3. Place apples on crust (sprinkle the apples with sugar and cinnamon)
4. Place 2nd crust on pie and make little holes into crust.
5. Bake for 30 minutes or till the crust is nicely gold.
6. Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar.

Pickled cheese - Nakladany syr

2009-12-15T10:09:00.002-05:00

Ingredients

- President (Brie) cheese
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 1 small onion
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 4 bay leaves
- 5 balls of whole black pepper
- 5 balls of whole allspice
- olive oil

Directions

1. Cut cheese in pieces (any size is possible, smaller is better, 1'' wide)
2. Take any glass jar (I used the one from my bell peppers) and start with cheese on the bottom.
3. Cut all vegetables into small pieces.
4.. Rotate the ingredients in the jar (cheese, garlic, onion, cheese, jalapeno spices, cheese...). Also you can push garlic inside your cheese.
5. When your jar is full with our mix, fill jar with olive oil.
6. Put inside your fridge and let sit for at least 5 days.
7. Serve with bread, wine or just as it is.

Cocoa balls - Cokoladove koule - The best chocolate treat you will ever taste

2009-12-11T18:03:00.005-05:00

Ingredients

- 100 g of dark chocolate (shredded)
- 100 g of powdered sugar
- 100 g of fine shredded almonds
- 1 egg white (raw)
- rum or any your favorite cognac
- dark chocolate for covering the balls

Filling

- 125 g of unsalted butter
- 1 hard boiled egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar

Directions

1. Mix dark dough in one bowl. Mix filling in other bowl.
2. Make a little flat circle from a dark dough, make a little ball from the filling and place it on the flat circle of dark dough.
3. Form a ball, place it in the bowl full of shredded dark chocolate and cover the whole surface.
4. Refrigerate for at least 5 hours - if possible and serve.

Linecke kolacky - The easiest recipe from my mom

2009-12-09T11:45:00.003-05:00

Ingredients

- 1 cup and 1 tablespoon of flour (250 g)
- 1 and 1/4 stick of unsalted butter (140 g)
- 1/4 of cup and 2 tablespoons of white powdered sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- juice from 1 lemon

Directions

1. Beat everything together and make nice tough dough.
2. Put in the fridge for 1 - 2 hours.
3. Roll out the dough on a floured surface (1/4 '' thick) prevent sticking with turning the dough over and sprinkling with flour from both sides
4. Use cookie cutter (any shape you like - circles, stars...) to cut out the cookies. In half of them cut smaller circle (or star) in the center.
5. Transfer cookies on ungreased baking sheet and place in the preheated oven (325 Degrees Fahrenheit) for 10 minutes (or until nice gold color).
6. Cool down.
7. The ones with the little inner circle sprinkle with powdered sugar (this will be your top part). The other half of the cookies cover with any jam (we use strawberry or raspberry) and put together with the top part.

Kureci spizy - Czech Skewers

2009-12-07T16:53:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- chicken breast
- 1 small onion
- 1 small zucchini
- 1 chili pepper
- 1/2 of green pepper
- 2 tablespoon of oil
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of black pepper
- 1 tablespoon of paprika or curry

Directions

1. Cut meat, onion, zucchini, green pepper and chili pepper into small pieces (should be the same size, slices or circles)
2. Put meat in a bowl, add oil and spices. Let sit for 5 minutes so the meat catch the flavors.
3. Start filling the skewers with meat and vegetables.
4. Broil on low heat skillet with the lid on. (30 minutes)
5. Serve with toast or boiled potatoes.

Czech Kolaches - Kolace

2009-11-27T10:53:00.000-05:00

Ingredients

- 4 1/2 cup of flour
- 2 packages of Active Dry Yeast
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1/2 cup of warm water
- 3/4 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 4 egg yolks

Directions

1. Put yeast into warm water and stir to dissolve and bubbles (about 10 minutes).
2. Mix together butter, sugar, salt and egg yolks until light and fluffy. Add yeast mixture,
milk and 2 cups of flour. Beat at medium speed 5 minutes. Batter should be smooth.
3. Stir in all remaining flour to make a soft dough.
4. Place in bowl and grease the top. Cover and let rise in warm
place until doubled, 1 to 1 hour 30 minutes.
5. Stir down and turn onto lightly floured board and divide into 15 - 25 equal balls (depends on size you like). 6. Cover and let rest for 15 minutes. Place dough balls 2" apart on baking sheets.
7. Press each ball of dough from center outward with fingers of both
hands to make a hollow in center with a 1/2" rim around the edge.
8. Fill each hollow with 1 tablespoon filling. Cover and let rise in warm place until
doubled (30 - 40 minutes).
9. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until brown.
10. Brush tops of kolaches lightly with melted butter and sprinkle lightly with sugar powder.
11. Remove from baking sheets and place on racks.

Filling

Prunes:
1. Cook 30 prunes in water to cover until tender.
2. Drain and mash with fork;
3. Stir in 1/4 cup of sugar. Filling should be thick.
Makes enough for 15 kolaches.

Apricots:
1. Cook 30 dried apricots in water to cover until tender.
2. Drain and press apricots through strainer.
3. Stir in 1/4 cup of sugar. Filling should be thick.
4. Makes enough filling for 15 kolaches.

Poppy seed filling:

1. One cup of milled poppy seeds boil with 8 fl. oz of milk

2. Stir continuously till thick mix.

3. Zest half of a lemon and add to mix, together with 2 tablespoon of sugar, and ground cinnamon.

4. Makes enough filling for 10 kolaches.

Hot red wine - Svarak

2009-11-27T09:20:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- 1 liter of cheap red wine
- 10 pieces of whole cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1/2 of lemon
- 1/2 of orange
- 4-7 teaspoons of sugar

Directions

1. Poor wine into big pot, add cloves, cinnamon sticks, orange and/or lemon and heat up. (Do not boil)
2. When hot add sugar (should be sweet enough for your taste) and serve.

Drink during long cold winter, or as a festive drink with friends or just because its good:)

Czech Bread - Cesky chleba Sumava

2009-11-25T12:00:00.000-05:00

Ingredients

Dough:
8 cups of flour
2 big cooked potatoes or 4 smaller ones
4 teaspoons of salt
3 teaspoons of caraway
water

Leaven (Foam yeast):
2 packages of Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast (1/2 oz)
5 teaspoons of warm water
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 tablespoon of flour

Directions

1. All ingredients for leaven mix in warm porcelain bowl and let foam in a warm spot (80-85 degrees) for 15 minutes.
2. In a big bowl mix flour, cooked and smashed potatoes, salt, caraway, leaven and 15 oz of warm water.
3. Make really nice dough and let sit on warm spot in the kitchen for 45 minutes (or when the dough get 2x bigger).
4. When the dough rises, make two same halves. Work the dough again and make 2 loafs.
5. Sprinkle the baking plate with flour (so the bread wont stick) and cover with cloth let work for another 15 minutes.
6. When rises smear breads with salted water (2 tablespoons of salt mix with 2 cups of water) and place into oven for 15 minutes (390 degrees Fahrenheit). After 15 minutes take out smear with salted water again and put to the oven for another 15 minutes (340 degrees Fahrenheit). After that bake for another 15 minutes for 320 degrees. Last step is smear with salt water and bake for another 10 minutes (until nice golden color).
Bread will get nice crust on the surface.
7. Finish bread take out of the oven and let cool down.

Tip from me:
- eat warm with butter
- place one loaf in the freezer and you can have fresh bread again later.

Czech Donuts - Koblihy do trouby

2009-11-23T16:02:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- 4 cups of flour
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 yolk
- 1/3 cup of sugar
- 1/4 cup of butter
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 2 packages of dry yeast

For filling you will need:
- your favorite jam or chocolate filling

Directions

1. Mix all the ingredients into dough. Let it sit for 30-40 minutes. It will get 2x bigger.
2. Roll the dough flat and using 2'' circle form start cutting out donuts.
3. Put jam or chocolate on half of all donuts, cover with the other half of donuts. Push on edges so the jam don't come out while baking.
4. Put on baking paper and let sit for another 20 minutes.
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes (350 degrees Fahrenheit). You want to get a golden color.
6. Spread with butter when done and let cool down.
7. Serve with milk.

24 pieces

Super easy pasta casserole - Sunkafleky

2009-11-23T14:48:00.000-05:00

Ingredients

- 1 pound of your favorite pasta
- 1/2 pound of any salami, ham or sausage
- 3 eggs
- 4 cups of milk
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of black pepper

Directions

1. Cook pasta as said on box.
2. Put pasta into baking pan, add salami chopped into small pieces. Add salt and black pepper.
3. Pour milk mixed with eggs into pan.
4. Bake for 30 minutes (300 degrees Fahrenheit) or until milk gets thick.
5. Serve with pickles.

Czech style easy casserole

2009-11-17T12:45:00.001-05:00

Ingredients

- 5 big potatoes
- 2 sausage (any you like)
- 1/2 of big onion or 1 small one
- 2 tomatoes
- 8 oz of cream
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of pepper

Directions

1. Cut potatoes, onion, tomatoes and sausage in small pieces.
2. Preheat oven on 350 degrees Farenheit.
3. Put everything in baking pan, add salt and pepper and poor cream over the mix.
4. Bake 30 minutes or until cream is thick and potatoes are soft.

In addition you can add cheese on the top.

Potato pancakes - Bramboraky

2009-11-17T12:25:00.002-05:00

Ingredients

- 6 large potatoes
- 2 eggs
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1/4 cup of milk
- 3/4 of flour
- 1 tablespoon of dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- oil

Directions

1. Grate the potatoes
2. Add milk, crashed garlic, eggs, salt, marjoram and mix well.
3. Add the flour.
4. Start putting pancakes on a hot oiled frying pan (the thinner the better, size doesn't matter)
5. Fry slowly each side of the pancake until golden color.

In addition you can add pieces of any meat, sausage, bacon or sauerkraut or any cheese in the mixture.

Spinach soup

2009-11-14T15:46:00.001-05:00

Igredients

- 1 bag of frozen spinach
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 5 oz of cream
- 2 cloves of garlic
- salt
- black pepper

Direction
1. Heat up butter, add thaw spinach and 1/2 liter of water.
2. Add salt, cream and cook for 15 minutes.
3. When done, add crushed garlic and blend with hand blender.

Tomato soup

2009-11-14T15:35:00.005-05:00

Ingredients

- 15 oz of diced tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 2 teaspoon of salt
- beef or chicken bouillon (according to package)
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- bread croutons

Directions

1. Heat up butter in a pot, add flower and make a flower mix. Add tomatoes and poor 1 liter of water.
2. Cook for 20 minutes. Take of the heat and mix with hand blender. Add salt, bouillon sugar and cinnamon. Possible to add cream when finished.
3. Eat with bread croutons.