Slovenia- Cottage cheese with butter, walnuts and cheese

Ingredients for 4 people:


3 eggs

120 g flour

120 g cottage cheese

40 g sour cream

salt, ground pepper, nutmeg, ginger,

chopped parsley

40 g sheep cheese

20 grams of walnuts

40 g butter



Preparation:

Mix together eggs, flour, cottage cheese, cream and spices. With two tablespoons shape dumplings and cook in boiling salted water. When done, take out of the water, place them on a plate, drizzle with butter and sprinkle with grated cheese and ground walnut.

Slovenia- Apple dumplings with cinnamon sauce

Ingredients for 4 people:

400 g stretched dough

500 g of apples

50 g raisins

150 g of honey or brown sugar

lemon juice,

ground cinnamon,

lemon peel

oil, aluminum foil


Preparation:

Grate the peeled apples, drizzle with lemon juice, add soaked raisins, honey or brown sugar, ground cinnamon and lemon peel. The resulting mass spread on three pieces of stretched dough and turn. For each taken two sheets of stretched dough (the leaves are placed one on top of another), and wrapped into oild aluminum foil and cook slowly in boiling water for 20 minutes. Cooked dumplings removed from the water, wait a few minutes and then unscrew them, cut and serve. Dumplings can be drizzle with butter roasted breadcrumbs.

Cinnamon Sauce:

Apple compote, sugar, cinnamon, corn starch. Mash the apple compote, add sugar, ground cinnamon. Mixed corn starch in cold water, then boil and pour under dumplings.

Honey Sauce:

Honey, wine, brown sugar, corn starch, water. Put in the pan honey, brown sugar, wine and water mixed with corn starch. Boil and pour under dumplings.

Slovenia- Baked beans with minced lard

Ingredients for 4 people:


• 1kg of beans

• 50 dag onion

• 20 dag minced lard or cracklings

• 2 fresh tomatoes

• tuft of parsley, marjoram, thyme

• 3 cloves of garlic

• salt

• 1 teaspoon of ground sweet paprika

• 10 dag smoked bacon

• 1 dl oil


Preparation:


We cook shelled beans. In another saucepan, we roasted in minced lard or cracklings finely chopped onion. When translucent, add cut in cubes bacon and tomatoes. Then pour in to the pan cooked and drained beans. Add spices, chopped garlic, pepper, pour oil, pepper to taste. When mixed, place pan in a hot oven to brown beans.

Slovenia -Stewed Beef and vegetables with buckwheat potato mush

Ingredients for 4 people:

1 kg of roast beef

200 g of carrots

200 g onions

6 cloves of garlic

50 g parsley root

150 g of leek

100 g swedes or rutabagas

2 dl white wine

thyme, marjoram,

bay leaf,

savory,

whole black pepper

fat for roasting



Preparation:

Stewed Beef and vegetables
Beef cut into suitable pieces. In the heated fat ram chopped vegetables, add meat, spices, salt, pour wine and slowly covered stew it until soft.


Buckwheat potato mush

Peeled potatoes cut into slices and cook it in a pot with a larger amount of salt water. At the half boiled potatoes pour in the middle of the pot flour and cover it. With the handle of cooking ladle in the middle of flour make a hole and cook for another 10 minutes. Boiled water pour out, mush thicken with half of crackling, crush them with a fork and if necessary, add water in which you cooked mush. Prepared mushes thicken with the remaining cracklings and serve.

Slovenia- Marinated trout rolls

Ingredients for 4 people:


1 kg trout (about 2 pcs)

200 g of carrots

200 g sliced onions

0.1 l white wine

0.1 l of fish stock

garlic, green parsley, fennel, vinegar, bay leaves, juniper berries,

bay leaf, salt, ground pepper



Preparation:


Remove the bones from fish fillets and if can also skin. Fillets, cut in half, season and sprinkle with sliced carrots into noodles. Turn them into oiled foil and cook. In olive oil sauté thinly sliced onions, carrots and remaining spices. Pour in the stock, white wine and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper, then boil and pour after rolls, which we removed from the foil and allow to cool.