I LOVE SERBIAN FOOD

Salt cake with peppers

2011-12-23T00:24:00.000-08:00

First we bake kilogram of red peppers. Clean and halve them.

300 gr of cream we mix with 150 grams of grated cheese.

We need also 200 grams of hem.

Peppers we line up, over put chopped bacon then mix cream.

In this waywe make 2 rowsof peppers.

At the end on the top we put clean mayonnaise and grated cheese.

We leave cake in fridge to rest for a bit.

Cut into cubes and serve.

Prijatno!!!

Potatoes in the pan

2011-10-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

For this very tasty and simple recipe we need one kilogram of potatoes to peel off the skin and cut into slices and choped handful parsley and add it in the pan.
We chop garlic...
2 red and 2 green peppers...2 medium onions...we stir well all vegetables...add salt to taste...add chicken, which we previously cooked in the salt water.
Bake in preheated oven at 250 degrees about 40 minutes.
Prijatno!!!

Pie

2011-09-16T12:06:00.000-07:00

In Serbia pie is very present on the table. With the ready-made crust it is easy to make pie.Here I put a recipe that my mom makes it, but not with the ready-made crust.This is hand-made pie.I still not learned how to prepare pie well.

We can make it with spinach, pumpkin, meat, potatoes, cheese ...

Of 800 g of flour, salt to taste and a little lukewarm water we knead dough.Add enough water that the dough should not be hard.Leave to stand for 30 minutes.

Dough share on the balls.

Rolling pin stretch...

Crust with oil poured and sprinkle with stuffing...

Spinach fill:one kilogram of spinach cleansed and cut, egg, 150 ml of milk, you can put one slice of cheese...

Pie bake in a well heated oven at a temperature of 250 degrees.

When become golden brown reduce temperature.Bake for 30 minutes.

Baked pie covered with a kitchen towel and leave 10 minutes.

Excellent go with sour cream!!!

Serbian grill

2011-08-04T09:33:00.001-07:00

Grilled chicken...
and sausages...
mmm... good smell
and Serbian salad goes well with the grill http://billysbestfood.blogspot.com/2010/06/serbian-salad-2-tomatoes-pepper.html .

Quick, refreshing cake

2011-07-17T05:37:00.000-07:00

This cake is very good for refreshment during the hot, summer days.

3 pack of piscota

700 ml sour cream-20% of fat

powdered sugar to taste

1/2 kg of raspberries

100 g of cream powder

Line up piskotas in the mold. In the next row put raspberries and over tham put sour cream mixed with sugar.

Make rows in this way until you spend all material.

Decorate cake with powder cream.

Leave it over the night in the fridge.

Serve cold!!!

Fruit cake

2011-05-19T23:42:00.000-07:00

This cake I prepared for my sister`s birthday.

For this cake we need to make two crust. In one crust goes 6 egg whites, 1oo g of sugar, 75 g of chopped walnuts, 75 g of chopped dried figs, 75 g of dried grapes. In all this we add 2 tablespoons of flour. We place this mixture in the cake mold and bake it in heated oven at 175 degrees for 30 minutes.

We make all this again for another crust.

Fill: 12 egg yolks mix with 200 g of sugar powder and cook on the steam. We mix 250 g of margarine, add 2 vanilla sugar and mix it with egg yolk.

When fill has cooled we fill each crust with it and we can garnish with whipped cream over.

Enjoy!!!

Delicious pasta

2011-05-02T00:46:00.000-07:00

In salt water we cook pasta(we must to be careful not to overcook) and drain it.

In oil we fry 1 onion and 500 grams of minced meat, add in it 2 tablespoons tomato puree, 2 tablespoons sour cream and grated peel of one lemon. We add salt and pepper to taste.
On a greased baking pan we sprinkle breadcrumbs to make pasta to be crunchy than we put a layer of pasta then meat and sprinkle over it grated cheese. We lay rows until we spend all material.
Bake pasta in the oven at 225 degrees for about 30 minutes until pasta get golden browned color.
We can offer pasta with a green salad.

Prijatno!!!

Billys salad

2011-04-07T01:25:00.000-07:00

For this refreshing salad we need a half head of cale, red onion, carrot, 2 boiled eggs, salt, oil, juice of one lemon.

We finely chop cale, onion cut into rings, plane carrot. Salt it and pour oil and lemon juice over . Plane eggs over the top .

Prijatno!!!

Eggs on Serbian way

2011-04-01T01:25:00.000-07:00

For 3-4 people.

First we peel 4 boiled eggs.

We put one piece of dry bread in water to swell 5 minutes then drain and mixed it with 250 g minced meat, fried onion, egg, salt, pepper.

This mixture leave for half an hour to sit in refrigerator.

We wrap eggs with a layer of meat dough and gently press to attach to the eggs. We roll balls in bread crumbs. Then we fry eggs in hot fat from all sides.

When they become red from outside we reduce heat and slowly fry them a few minutes.

When roasted we half them and served.

Prijatno!!!

Chocolate cake

2011-03-27T09:46:00.000-07:00

This is another recipe that is easy to make and very tasty.

We need to mix 150 g margarine, 150 g powdered sugar, 5 eggs, 150 g of grated chocolate, 150 g ground almonds, 100 g flour and teaspoon baking powder.

Than we place dough on a greased baking pan and we bake it for about 45 minutes in an oven at 175 degrees.

We have to stabb hot cake with fork, sprinkle with orange juice and pour with melted chocolate (100 g) and decorate it with almonds, pistachios, peanuts...

Cake with lemon

2011-03-09T01:36:00.000-08:00

Of 250 g margarine, 250 g sugar, 5 eggs, 250 g of flour, one tablespoon baking powder and juice of 2 lemons we make dough.

Put dough in pan and bake in heated oven 175 C degrees for 75 minutes.

We leave cake in pan to cool slightly and with needle we stab cake and pour with 4 tablespoons lemon juice and 100 g powdered sugar.

When the cake has cooled take it from the pan and reverse it.

Sprinkle it with powdered sugar and bring to the table.

With lemon cake tea goes well!!!

Sour cabbage with dried meat

2011-02-08T02:46:00.000-08:00

500 g of fresh pork, 200 g of dry ribs and 100 g of bacon cuted into pieces and 4 cleaned onions finely choped.

Three small cabbage heads wash and cut into eighths.

In the bottom of pot put half of cuted bacon and over it put heads of cabbage and than over cabbage put the second part of the bacon then next row one half of the fresh meat, dry ribs, onion, 2 bay leafs, 3 peppercorns and one red pepper.

All this again repeat on the same order. Complete with cabbage. Sprinkle with cayenne pepper and with oil.
Pour with cold water, cover and cook on medium heat for 3-4 hours. Cabbage try and add salt if needed. When cabbage is done should not have a lot of sauce.

Serve corn bread with cabbage!!!

Sauerkraut from tubs

2011-01-16T23:42:00.000-08:00

Sauerkraut is a more valuable food than fresh cabbage. Scientists say it also!

Then we can only imagine how much Vitamin C is in the sauerkraut.

And when we cook sauerkraut it retains a large percentage of this very important vitamin.

It is very easy to make sauerkraut and very cheap to do it. It is important to prepare our own tub of sauerkraut because then we will have a rasol-product of sauerkraut. Rasol is good tool against seediness, the elixir of youth and life ...

How can we prepare it? Very easy...

A measure of 50 l barrel goes with one kg of salt.

First we hollow root of the cabbage out and put a small spoon of salt in it. Cabbage put in the barrel so that the root is facing upward. When we fill one line we salt it. When we spend the whole cabbage, cover the tub and let it sit for a day in the salt. Put a stone or a tree on top that heads of cabbage would not be swimming at the top. We pour the tube with cold water and cover and we waite for it said, at least a month. Shake all the vat that salt would not fall to the bottom.

Cesnica

2011-01-08T01:39:00.000-08:00

This is Cesnica that we in Serbia make for Christmas. Housewives make Cesnica. Housewives put in Cesnica money-coin and those who finde in his piece of bread coin keep it because it is a sign of his luck in that year.

For this bread-Cesnica we need kilogram of flour to griddle. Add a piece of fat, salt and warm water to knead the dough. We make dough that is not too hard or too soft. Cover dough and let it to rest awhile. When it is risen put it on desktop and add a little flour and a little more interfere dough. One part of the dough set apart for decorating. Put coin and put the dough into the pan. Decorate. We leave it a little more until it rise in the pan-15 minutes. When Cesnica is baked coat Cesnica with honey. According to old custom we break it to pieces with fingers not with a knife.

For Christmas in Serbia we welcome each other with the words:

HRISTOS SE RODI!

And the reply is:

VAISTINU SE RODI!

Sweet quince

2010-12-08T06:32:00.000-08:00

For this delicious sweet we need 300 g of quince, 1 kg of sugar and half a liter of water.
It is easy to prepare. First peel the quinces and put into the water to not get a dark color. Plane them.
We put the sugar and water to cook until it thickens slightly. In that we put grated quince and cook 7-10 minutes .
We pour sweet in jars.

Winter stores

2010-12-01T00:09:00.000-08:00

All food stored for the winter must be stored in dry basement on shelves or in separate boxes.
In this way you manage to preserve fruits and vegetables out of season.
Fresh tomatoes, ketchup ...
Pickled peppers
Sweet quince
You can leave the gourd, pumpkin, quince jam, beetroot ...

Peppers in sour cream

2010-11-20T23:34:00.000-08:00

Peppers in cream is one of my favorite salads. In addition to beautiful and fresh taste they are healthy. Usually we make them for the winter.

Here I will not put the measures because it depends on the amount of pepper that we use. Someone will want to make 5-6 pepper or 5 kg. I will explain the procedure.

We clean peppers of seeds and salt tham inside and leave for 6-7 hours. We squeeze water from peppers. We salt cream a little and fill the peppers with it. Put in order them in a jar or a can. It is much nicer when you put over them the line of cheese (In Serbia we use cow's milk cheese from the vat). But if you do not have the cheese you do not have to put it. Sour cream is enough. Put in order as we have material. We coat the top with sour cream and put a pinch of salt. With something we press (lid or plate). We can immediately eat, but it is better to stand for about 7 days.

The peppers go well with roasted potatoes. Just wash potatoes, cut and salt it. Bake it in well heated oven. I bake it at 250 degrees.

Enjoy!!!

Princes krofne - cake

2010-11-14T01:49:00.000-08:00

This recipe gave me my friend Jelena and she is the author of photo. Yesterday I tried. They are excellent.

First we boil 125 ml of water, 125 ml of oil and some salt. When it is boiled, add in it 125 g of flour and stir it with mixer, than add 3-4 eggs, one by one and mix it all. Leave it to cool down. Grease the pan with oil, put little flour, shake the pan and spray with water. With spoon remove donuts and put them in the pan. Heat oven 15 minutes at 220 degrees and bake donuts 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees, not opening the oven.

When the donuts are ready leave them to cool.

We make the filling with 2 pudding cooked in 1 / 2 liter of milk. Cool.

On other hand we whip 200 g cream. In the chilled pudding mix 100 g butter. Then add a few tablespoons of cream.

Cut donuts in half. Fill one half with one teaspoon of filling, a cream, then cover with the other half of donuts. And so on.

We can serve donuts sprinkled with powder sugar or topped with chocolate icing.

Enjoy!!!

Small bread-Lepinje

2010-11-10T23:41:00.000-08:00

In a small bowl mix 20 g of yeast with 1 teaspoon of sugar and 250 g of lukewarm water. Set aside until it starts to foam and bubble up about 20 minutes.

In other bowl put together teaspoon of salt, 1/2 kg of flour and yeast mixture. Mix it well and make a firm dough as for bread and leave it to grow about an hour. Than make 2 or 3 balls of it ( if you wish smaller or bigger lepinje ) and stretch each ball to a thickness of one centimeter. Put bread in 250 degree hot pen for baking and bake it for 15 minutes.

You may stuffe them with cheese and eggs.For one lepinja it is enough to mix one egg and 100 g of cheese. Enjoy!!!

Strudel with poppy seeds

2010-11-04T01:01:00.001-07:00

This is the measure for 3 to 5 strudel.
Preparation:

First we ming half liter of milk and half a liter of water.
In yeast add a little salt and sugar.
Mix with flour. Leave that to raise.
Add 2 tablespoons of fat and leave again he raise.

Fil:

2 dl milk boil with sugar and add 1 cube of margarine.
In the hot add 2 bags of 200 g ground poppy.
Raise dough stretch, paint filling and make strudel. Leave that to said. Bake in heated oven about 40 minutes at 220 degrees

Prijatno!

Proja with spinach

2010-10-28T01:38:00.000-07:00

To make Proja we need to mix one cup of white flour, cup of corn flour, cup of oil, cup of yogurt, 2 eggs, 300 g cheese, handful spinach and baking powder. Put all it into greased mould.
Bake it at 230 degrees for half an hour.

It is good to eat Proja with yogurt.

Prijatno!

ICE CUBES

2010-10-18T00:47:00.000-07:00

This cake is very tasty and quickly prepared!

For the crust we need whisk 5 eggs with 5 tablespoons of sugar 5 tablespoons of flour and half baking powder. Bake 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
Over baked crust pour syrup made of 1/2 cup of sugar and small cup of water.
For filling we need:

15 tablespoon of milk, 7 spoons of sugar, 100 g of black chocolate, 2 tablespoons of cocoa. This fill should be boil until it become densely. When fill is cooled add 125 g of butter mixed with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
Pour all with whipped cream.
Enjoy!!!

Ajvar

2010-10-08T23:22:00.000-07:00

These days in my country in each home you can feel the smell of making food for the winter which we call ZIMNICA. My favorite smell is smell of AJVAR. It is so delicious that you wish to lick your fingers. Literally!

This is a recipe from my mother.

We need: 5 kg of long red peppers, 0,5 kg of eggplant, 250 g of oil and salt to taste.

First wash pepper then dry and bake on the stove or barbecue. Do the same with eggplant. Peel the peppers and eggplant. Grind them. All put in a pot for cooking. Add oil and salt. Cook until it is well cooked.

Pour in well-washed, dried and slightly heated jars.

Prijatno!

Roasted peppers

2010-10-04T01:30:00.000-07:00

Peppers for the winter we can prepare in many ways. One way is roasted peppers. First wash and dry peppers. Than bake them in baking pan or grill. Wait to cool and then peel them. We pack them in freezer.

During the winter we can use them for a salad with a little oil, salt and garlic. Or for breading, or just burn them with some salt in oil.

They are good with cheese or sour cream.

PRIJATNO!!!

Red pepper

2010-09-29T00:06:00.001-07:00

Autumn is the time for pepper. There are several different types and forms of peppers. All are good and healthy. The best is to use fresh pepper.

I prefer red pepper. It is good for the preparation of perfect salad with olive oil, salt and vinegar. Red pepper can be filled with meat, rice, cheese, beans.It can be dry also.

Pepper is an excellent natural source of vitamin C, which is essential for the body immunity. The greatest amount of vitamin C is concentrated around the stem, so remove the surface as less as it is possible. Red peppers are also good source of vitamin B6, iron, vitamin P and potassium.

Ground peppers (sweet or hot) today is an indispesable culinary spice in many countries around the world. Without a hot pepper dishes such as Fish stew or spicy sausage can not even imagine.

Pepper is used in folk medicine to treat rheumatic pains, as an antidepressant, antiseptic, aromatic, diuretic. She is good for stengthening the appetite, improves digestion, eyesight, prevent the formation of free radicals. Pepper is also good aphrodisiac, so it is called ``Viagra``.