Main dishes

Ingredients:

1 lb ground meat (beef, pork, lamb, veal, or a mix of them)
1 large onion
3-4 medium potatoes or ¾ lb angel-hair-cut cabbage
0.5 lb cheese
Spices on taste

Method:

Peel potatoes and grate.
Peel onions, and cut into small cubes.
Cut cheese into small cubes.
Mix the ground meat, ground potatoes (or cabbage), onions, and spices together.

Then, add the cheese, and stir one more time.
Shape hand-sized patties, and cook them.

Ingredients:

½ lb vermicelli
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 cup fruit preserves (cherry, black currants, blueberries)
1 cup melted margarine or butter + 2 tbsp margarine or butter for baking dish greasing

Method:

Boil the vermicelli until it’s ready, as per instructions.
Then, drain, stir with butter or margarine, and let cool a little.

During that time, whip eggs, sugar, and fruit preserves.

Pre-heat an oven to 400 F (200 C).

Ingredients for 1:

1 whole fish
4 medium onions
Salt, greens (dill, parsley, lemon) and spices (any lemon fish spice mixes) on taste

Method:

Cut greens into small pieces, cut peeled onions into half-rings.
Mix onions and greens.

Wash and clean the fish, remove head, fins, inners and black membranes. Rub the spice mix into the inside and outside of the fish.

Put the fish in the center of a piece of foil, and stuff it with a greens-onions mix.

Ingredients:

0.5 lb boiled salmon fillets (or 1 can pink salmon)
1 lb warm potato puree
4 eggs
0.25 cup milk
1 onion
Salt, pepper, sweet red pepper on taste

Method:

Separate egg yolks and egg whites.

Blend fish fillets.

Cut the onions into small cubes.

Whip all ingredients but the egg whites together.

Grease sides and bottom of a soufflé oven-safe dish, and place the whipped mix into the dish.

Whip egg whites.

Ingredients:

0.5 lb ground chicken meat
3 medium potatoes
3 medium cucumbers, or 1 large English cucumber
3 hard-boiled eggs
0.25 lb boiled (or canned) green peas
1 bunch Italian parsley
1 tbsp cream of wheat
Salt, pepper, sauce on taste

Method:

Boil the potatoes, peel, and cut into small cubes.
Wash the cucumbers, and cut into stripes.
Peel the eggs, and grate.
Wash the parsley, and cut thinly.

Ingredients:

0.75 lb sprouts
0.75 lb mushrooms
1 large onion
9 bread slices
1/3 lb ground cheese
1 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon juice
Pepper on taste
3 eggs
0.25 lb sour cream, or plain yogurt
5 tbsp milk
1/3 tbsp salt
Pepper on taste

Method:

Cut bread slices to cover the sides and bottom of an oven-safe dish (keep the leftovers).

Cut sprouts into 2-4 parts.

Ingredients:

2 lb pikeperch
2 lb potatoes
1 large onion
½ tsp ground black pepper
3-5 bay leaves
3 tbsp butter or margarine
Greens and salt on taste

Method:

Peel the potatoes, wash, and cut into medium cubes.
Peel the onions, and cut into strips.
Mix potatoes, onions, bay leaves, salt, and pepper together.

Grease a baking sheet with butter.
Put the mix on a baking sheet in a ring shape, and place the pikeperch fillets in the middle.

Ingredients:

2 lb beef fillets
1 bunch greens
1 medium onion
2-3 bay leaves
1 whole clove
1 garlic clove
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp butter or margarine
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp ground horseradish
Salt on taste

Method:

Put the meat in a saucepan, pour hot water over it, covering it entirely, and bring to boil with medium heating.
Boil for 10 minutes, removing the foam.
Add greens, bay leaves, a whole clove, garlic, salt, and sugar.

Ingredients:

0.5 lb ripe pumpkin without the seeds and peel
2 cup rice or millet
3 cup milk
1-2 tbsp butter (optional)
1 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp ground nuts per serving (optional)
Raisins and dried apricots pieces on taste

Method:

Soak raisins and apricots pieces.

Ingredients:

1 medium onion
1 garlic clove
1/8 lb thinly cut ham
1/3 lb Arborio rice
¾ lb (300 g) meat broth
¼ lb fresh or frozen green peas
¼ lb ground Parmesan cheese
3 tbsp vegetable oil or butter
Salt and ground black pepper on taste

Method:

Pre-heat oil on a deep large skillet, cut onions and ham into small cubes, and stir-fry for 4-5 minutes with a medium heating.
Cut the garlic into thin slices, and stir-fry with onions and ham for 1 minute more.