Croatian Food

1. CroatianFood

2. Dearfriends! Wedecided to present some ofthe dishesfromourregion, fromSlavonia.

3. Allrecipes are traditionalrecipes fromourgrandmothers, but we eat themtoday on regularbasis.

4. HAM CAKE Ingredients: 0.5 kg of flour 20 dag of ham 3 tablespoons of oil 5 g of yeast  little warm water  salt Preparation: Take all the ingredients and put them in a bowl. Make smooth dough. Put the dough into oiled baking and leave it covered with a cloth about 30 minutes. Bake it on 1700C-1800C for 45-50 minutes.

5. S A R M A Ingredients: 1 kg of pickled cabbage 50 dkg minced meat (half beef, half pork) 1 onion 1 tablespoon of flour 4 tablespoons of fat or oil 4-5 tablespoons of rice 20 dkg smoked bacon or other smoked meat ground red pepper, salt, pepper Preparation Wash the cabbage and cut out big white parts, but do not damage the leaves. Fry chopped onion on oil and add rice, minced meat and simmer it for 15 minutes. Cool it and add one egg, pepper, salt, garlic, parsley and mix it all together. Take one leaf of cabbage and fill it with the mixture. Roll the leaf and press the ends. Make as many rolls as you can. The rest of the cabbage cut and put it on the bottom of the pot. Put the cabbage rolls on the cut cabbage. Put smoked bacon between rolls. Pour hot water over the rolls and cook it on light fire about one hour. When cabbage becomes soft, add browned flour, ground red pepper, tomato puree, more water and boil it for 20 minutes.

6. P A P R E NJ A C I Ingredients: 450 g of flour pepper clove cinnamon 2 tablespoons of honey 3 yolks 1 egg 150 g of nuts 150 g of sugar 180 g of fat nutmeg Preparation 1. Put fat into flour and mix them, add sugar, nuts, egg, yolks, honey, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and pepper. Make crispy dough. Leave dough for 1-2 hours on a cool place. 2.Then roll the dough and make biscuits with special wooden pattern. Put the biscuits in oiled baking and bake around 25 minutes on 2000C. Serve paprenjaci with warm tea.

7. F I Š (fishstew) It is usually cooked in open with a group of friends in a big kettle on real fire. Ingredients: 2 kg of carp 75 dkg of catfish 25 dkg pike 3-4 onion 5 dkg of salt 15 dkg of cooked tomato 3 dkg ground hot pepper 15 dkg ground sweet pepper 2-3 pieces of chilly pepper Preparation Clean the fishes and cut them in pieces. Clean the onions and grind them Put onion on the bottom of the kettle, and then put pieces of fishes, chilly peppers, tomato. Pour 3-4 litres of water over everything and cook it on fire. When it starts to boil, add salt, ground hot and sweet pepper. Cook it for 30 minutes. You mustn’t mix it with ladle, only rotate the kettle. You can serve it with homemade noodles.

8. G U Ž V A R A Ingredients: 50 dkg of flour 5 dkg of butter 2 yolks 1 egg 1 yeast 2,5 dcl of milk 10 dkg of sugar little salt Filling: 50 dkg of ground nuts, 2dcl of milk (if you like 10 dkg raisins, lemon peel, little cinnamon, little rum) Preparation First you make filling. Ground nuts mix with all other ingredients and pour hot milk over that mixture. Cook shortly and cool it. Crumble yeast; add little sugar, a teaspoon of flour and little milk. Mix all together and leave it. Wait till the yeast raise. Put flour in a bowl; make a hole in the middle. Put melted butter, yolks, egg yeast mixture and the rest of the milk in the hole. Make dough. Dough is finished when bubbles appear on the surface. Roll the dough thin, put the filling in, roll it again and put it in the baking. Pour some melted butter on the top before the oven. Bake it on 1800C about one hour.

9. NOODLES WITH POPPY SEEDS Ingredients: 500 g of noodles 200g of ground poppy seeds 5 tablespoons of sugar 1, 5 dcl of milk Preparation 1. Cook noodles 2. Mix poppy seeds and sugar; pour boiled milk over and mix it really well. 3. Put the mixture on the cooked noodles.

10. Wehopeyouwilltry some ofour recipes. Everything is verydelicious.

11. Lookingforward to seeandtryyourfood. Greetingsfrom Croatia!!