Grandchildren love more children, so says the proverb. And when you see how to prepare for the arrival of her grandmother grandchildren - this leaves no doubt: already over a week before the visit, they begin to prepare a mountain of different sweets and delicacies that would be enough for a whole army. And you know what? Do you think that only our, Ukrainian, grandmothers do so? And here and there! Grandmothers all over the world it is in this line - absolutely similar. To such an extent that it seems as if they are with each other just a conspiracy!
To see for yourself this, is very fond of his grandmother (and eat) version of the site Kolobok.ua invites you on a culinary journey through the kitchens, where "grand-mother" from around the world are preparing for the arrival of adorable children. Go!
LATVIA - Herring with potato and cottage cheese
Ingredients: salted herring - 1 units, curd -. 500 g, cream - 4 tbsp.. L, cheese solid - 100 g, mayonnaise - 1-2 tbsp. l, butter -. 50 g, dill, parsley, chives - to taste.
How to cook: Herring cleaned from skin and bones, filet very finely chopped. Sliced herring mix with cottage cheese, sour cream, grated cheese, softened butter. Mixed well. Put the mass in a salad bowl, grease the top with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely chopped greens.
SWEDEN - apple pie
Ingredients: Apples - 3 units, butter -. 100 g, egg - 3 pieces, sugar -. 150 g, milk - 150 ml, flour - 400 g baking powder - 2 teaspoons cinnamon - 1.5 tsp
How to cook: softened at room temperature, beat butter and sugar to a white fluffy mass. Continuing to whisk, egg introduce. Pour the flour with the baking powder, knead. You should get the dough resembles crumbs. Add the milk and knead the dough well.
Apples are cleaned from the skin and seeds. Cut each half into thin slices, keeping the shape. Grease a baking dish with oil. Put the dough evenly. Dent in his apples. Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle the cake. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° C 50-60 minutes until good browning, readiness check toothpick.
ICELAND - fish with vegetables
Ingredients: fish fillets (cod, catfish) - 500 g, onions - 3 units, carrots -. 3 units, bay leaf - 1 pc., salt, ground black pepper -. taste, mayonnaise - 1 tablespoon, ketchup - 1 Art. l.
How to cook: clean the onions and carrots, wash and dry with paper towels. Onions cut into cubes, carrot - rather narrow circles.
In a frying pan pour a little vegetable oil, spread the vegetables and fry on low heat, covered, stirring regularly, for 10-15 minutes until half of vegetables. In the process of frying salt to taste and add the bay leaf.
Fried until half the vegetables lightly sprinkle with black pepper and spread on top of the fish fillets, cut into portions.
Mayonnaise and ketchup mix and top coated with a little of the mixture pieces of fish. Then the fish, not turning from top to lightly salt and pepper. Pan cover with a lid and simmer the dish on low heat for 10-15 minutes until cooked fish. Without mixing.
Willingness to check fish with a fork. If the plug can easily be incorporated into a fish, then the dish is ready. With fish the blade carefully spread with a pillow in portioned vegetable dish.
ITALY - cheesecake with ricotta
Ingredients: Eggs - 3 units ricotta cheese -. 750 g, cane sugar - 250 g butter - 100 g, biscuits - 200 g cream (20% fat) - 250 ml.
How to cook: Melt the butter. We grind the cookies into crumbs. Putting cookies and butter, alter and spread on the bottom of the split mold. Flatten the cake, and then send in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
Put the ricotta in a bowl. In a coffee grinder grind sugar, pour in the cheese. Smooth movements from the bottom upwards mix until uniform. We are trying to drive one egg mix. Add cream. Beat.
Dye Korzh cool slightly, wrap in foil form (2-3 layers), pour cream flatten (if there are bubbles on the surface, they can be punctured by a needle), on a baking pour water. Expose oven temperature of 160-170 degrees, and send cheesecake in the oven for 70 minutes.
After keeping in an oven for 40 minutes ajar, gat, cling film close and send in the refrigerator for 2 h.
CHINA - Pork in sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients: Pork - 500 g carrot - 250 g, soy sauce - 3 tbsp. l., starch -2 art. l, sugar -. 1 hours. l, cinnamon -. pinch black pepper - to taste, salt - to taste, vinegar (rice) - 1 tbsp.. L, Peking cabbage - 100 g
How to cook: meat cut into small pieces. Prepare dressing-marinade. In a deep bowl mix soy sauce, starch, rice vinegar (can replace conventional vinegar) and a pinch of cinnamon. Thoroughly mix all.
Put the pieces of meat in the sauce and mix well, so that each piece dipped in sauce. Reserve meat marinade for 30 min.
Clean the carrots peel and slicing into strips. The finished sticks of carrots spread into a pan, adding a pinch of salt and pour hot water. Once the water boils, cook the carrots for 2-3 minutes. Then the water is drained.
Cut Chinese cabbage into strips. In deep frying (or wok) warm up the oil and spread marinated meat, pour the remaining marinade. Over high heat, fry the meat on all sides, stirring constantly.
Cooked meat spread on a dish and begin to fry the carrots. Fry, stirring constantly, about 2-3 minutes, then return to the carrots and roast meat together for 2-3 minutes. Next, add the Chinese cabbage, sugar and pepper. Fry all together, stir well for 2-3 minutes.
