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Trout in white wine

Ingredients for 2:

2 medium trout
3 1/3 oz white wine
½ lemon tsp lemon juice
1 bunch green onions
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:

Place wood sticks on the bottom of saucepan. Pour wine in saucepan.
Scale and clean trout, sprinkle with salt and pepper on both sides, and put them in saucepan.
Sprinkle with cut green onions.
Cover saucepan with a tight lid, and turn heating to medium.

Fish solanka (soup)

Ingredients for 2:

½ lb sturgeon fillet
2 medium potatoes
1 tomato
1 red sweet pepper
2 marinaded cucumbers
10 black/green olives
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
2 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt, ground black pepper on taste
1 lemon
Italian parsley for decoration

Method:

Peel potatoes, clean pepper and tomato, cut potatoes, tomato, and red pepper into cubes. Mix vegetables, pour flour over it, and mix well.

Pearl Kasha with mushrooms and carrots

Ingredients:

2 cups pearl barley
2 large carrots
¼ lb pork fat (or 5 bacon stripes)
½ lb mushrooms

Method:

Wash pearl barley, put in a large saucepan, then add 6 cups of water.
Bring to boil, and boil for 15 minutes.
Cut pork fat into small cubes, fry on a skillet under lid until cuts will transparent.
Grate peeled carrots, and add them to the skillet.
Simmer mushrooms separately for 15 minutes with a few drops of melted fat.

Winter salad

Ingredients for 4:

¼ lb herring fillet
1 large potato
2 eggs
1 shallot onion
2 cucumbers
1 sweet red pepper
¼ lb canned sweet peas
2 medium carrots
Mayonnaise or mayonnaise mixed with sour cream
Cut dill, green onions – for decoration

Method:

Boil potato, carrots, and eggs separately, until ready.
Cool and peel them.
Cut herring fillet onto small cuts.
Grate eggs, cut potato, cucumbers, and carrots into small cubes.

Deli salad with crabmeat or crabmeat imitation

Ingredients for 3:

¼ lb crabmeat (or crabmeat imitation)
¼ lb celery stalks
3 hard-boiled quail eggs
1 medium shallot onion
For sauce:
1 orange
1 lemon
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Method:

Cut crabmeat into ½ inch strips, and put them in one layer on the salad dish bottom.
Cut celery stalks into thin rings.
Pour them over the crabmeat.
Slice eggs into thin circles, and put them over the celery.

Pie with cabbage and eggs

For dough:

2 cup all-purpose flour
1 pack (250 g), or 9 oz, tvorog
2 eggs
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp sugar
1/3 lb butter (or margarine)

For filling:

3 lb cabbage (or 2 lb sliced cabbage)
3 eggs
1 pack dill
1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp butter (or margarine)
Salt

Method:

Slice cabbage into short strips.
Heat skillet (or a wide, but not deep sauce pan), pour milk, and after milk is warmed up, add cabbage.

"Russian Forest" Salad

Ingredients for 4:

½ lb cold boiled veal or beef, or beef tongue
1/2 lb boiled champignons
2 medium picled cucumbers
Green salad
1 carrot
2 potatoes
Mayonnaise, salt, pepper, other species on taste.

Method:

Cut meat into short strips, boiled champignons into small cuts.
Boil potato and carrots separately, cool.
Peel and cut into small cubes, cut cucumbers into very small cubes.

Sochniki

Ingredients:

For dough:

¼ lb melted margarine
2 egg yolks
4 tbsp sour cream
2 ½ cups wheat flour
1 cup sugar
Pinch of baking soda
Salt on taste

For filling:

1 lb tvorog (or farmers cheese, or ricotta)
2 egg whites
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp sour cream
Raisins and vanilla on taste (optional)

Method:

Potato stuffed with mushrooms

Ingredients for 8:

24 medium potatoes
0.5 lb dried porcini
½ French bread
1 egg
2 leeks
1 cup any meat broth
½ cup mushroom broth (or 1 ½ cups meat-mushroom broth)
2 tbsp butter

Method:

Peel and wash potatoes. Cut off "lids" of them. Peel off the middle of potatoes.
Boil porcinis in 3 cups salt water or meat broth, and then drain them (keep the broth).
Cut them into small cubes.
Cut leeks into small cubes, fry leeks with 1 tbsp butter.

Salmon with pine nut butter

Ingredients for 4:

4 pieces salmon filets by ½ lb each
¼ cup pine nut oil
¼ cup butter
¼ cup crushed pine nuts
2 tbsp red wine
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp cut chives
1 garlic clove, crushed

Method:

Wash salmon, and put in small saucepan.
Mix pine nut oil, red wine, lemon juice, and chives, pour over salmon, and mix.
Cover saucepan with lid, and place it in refrigerator for 3 hours.

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