Eastern european foods?!
Answers: My husband is from Kosovo (part of the former Yugoslavia). I have learned to make some of their food, but I need to learn more if I want him to stop running over to his mother's house everytime he wants something that I can't make! This is not at his request, I am the one that feels I need to do this for him and so that our children won't be shocked we go there on vacation this winter. My husband lived there his whole life so it's not like it's easy for him to eat our food all of the time. If anyone knows how to prepare these foods and knows how to explain it to me in English......Please help!
Baked Lamb and Yogurt (Tav? Kosi)
1-1/2 lbs lamb
4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
2 tablespoons rice
Salt, pepper
For Yogurt sauce:
1 tablespoon flour
4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
2 lbs. yogurt
5 eggs
Salt, pepper
Cut meat in 4 serving pieces, sprinkle each piece with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderately-heated oven with half the butter, sprinkling the meat with its gravy now and then. When meat is half-baked, add rice; remove the baking pan from the oven and leave it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce:
Saute flour in butter until mixed throughly. Mix yogurt with salt, pepper and eggs until a uniform mixture is obtained, and finally stir in the flour. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; stir it with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees F for about 45 minutes. Serve hot.
Serves 4 people
Elli's Veal or Chicken with Walnuts (Gjell? me Arra t? Ellit)
Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons flour
15 finely crushed shelled walnuts
2 beaten egg yokes
1 minced garlic clove
1/4 lb. stick butter
2-3 lbs of Veal or Chicken meat
cut up in 1" cubes
Cooking Instructions:
Place the meat or chicken in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until tender. Then remove the meat setting it aside in a dish while leaving the remaining juices in the saucepan. In another saucepan, add the flour and stir over heat until it becomes light brown in color (do not overcook!) and add the half a stick of butter. Then, add the finely crushed walnuts, minced garlic clove, and the two egg yokes, stirring constantly. Add the juices from the other saucepan and stir until all the ingredients thicken. Immediately remove from the heat to avoid solidifying the egg yolks. Then fold in either the meat or chicken. Pan fry the remaining half stick of butter until brown and pour over the four servings.
Fried Meatballs (Qofte t? f?rguara)
1 lb ground meat
1 slice stale bread
1 small onion, finely-grated
2 tablespoons chopped Feta cheese
2 tablespoons bread crumbs
2 tablespoons oil or melted butter
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Salt
Pepper
Mint
Oregano
1 cup flour
1 cup oil (olive recommended)
Soak bread in water and squeeze hard to drain. Add ground meat, bread crumbs, oil or melted butter, onion, parsley, salt, pepper, and mint. Mix thoroughly, and form into 1-inch thick patties, sprinke with salt. pepper, and oregano. Roll in flour and fry in hot oil. Serve hot with French Fries or mashed potatoes.
Serves 4 people
Veal with large Lima Beans (Mish Qingjji me Barbunja)
1 1/2 lb veal
1 large onion, grated
salt, pepper, tomatoes
1 1/2 lb of large Lima beans
Select shoulder parts of the veal and cut them into 1" cubes. Wash the meat thoroughly with cold water, drain, and then place the meat in a pot together with butter and grated onions and stir fry for a few minutes. As the meat is frying, add water until the pieces are covered. Also add salt, pepper, and only two to three tablespoons of tomatoes (note: tomatoes can be cut into pieces to the size of your choice). Cover the pot and let the meat boil.
In the meantime, cut the ends off the Lima beans and clean them well (you also cut them in half if you desire). Add the Lima beans to the meat after it has been boiling for several minutes. Also add water until everything in the pot is covered. Finally, when the beans are done boiling, add the rest of the tomatoes. Then let the stew boil for a few more minutes so that the liquid can thicken.
*** Please note that tomatoes should not be added all at once in the beginning since they donít allow the Lima beans to boil at the right pace. If you would rather use fresh tomatoes, when you add the Lima beans, add whole tomatoes instead of cut ones.
Tirana Fergese with Veal (Ferges? e Tiran?s me Mish Vi?i)
Serves 4 people
Ingredients:
Veal Cutlets, one pound
Salted Cottage Cheese or Greek Feta Cheese, half-pound
Flour, one tablespoon
Butter, one quarter-pound stick
Virgin Olive Oil, 3 tablespoons
Onion, one medium-sized
Add Salt, Black Pepper, and Chili Pepper to your taste
Cooking Instructions:
First, cut the veal cutlets into small pieces and then dice the onion. In a saucepan, preheat the olive oil and saute the meat and onion for 15 minutes. In another saucepan, melt the butter and then add flour, cottage or Feta cheese, and black pepper, salt and chili pepper to taste. Mix all the ingredients together (adding the sauteed meat and onions) in the saucepan and place in a preheated 350 oven for 15 minutes. Take out and serve immediately.
Note: Instead of veal cutlets, beef liver can be used in the same quantity of meat
and preparation/cooking instructions as above.
hope these help. enjoy.
ask the lazy git to make it himself
Hi. My husband is Czech and I had a similar problem. You can find recipes on the internet, but I found that the very best solution is to ask his mother how to make the food he likes. I couldn't talk perfectly with my mother-in-law, but we managed, and not only did she absolutely LOVE me after taking the time to talk to her about how good her cooking was, but it allowed me to get to know her and the culture better. Even if you can't talk to her on the phone, perhaps you can communicate with her by email? My husband once called his mom from here on the phone and she gave us a recipe that way. All moms love to be needed, and all think that their cooking is the best. If you get a recipe off the internet, sometimes it's just awful (and a total waste of money) and your husband will compare it to his mother's anyway. Asking her is absolutely the best thing you can do. And believe me, it is easy for your husband to 'eat all our food all of the time'. It's just nice to have a bit of home once in awhile.
Oh, and by the way, even if you can't understand everything, most foods are prepared similarly everywhere in the world. If you don't understand something, ask your husband. Usually men like talking about food, too, and it's a bonding experience. Trust me.
You sound like a good catch. Lucky guy.