Posts Tagged ‘garlic’

Fried Dough (Langoš)

Ingredients: 3 cups flour (~400g), 1 packet yeast (~25g), 1 egg, teaspoon salt, teaspoon sugar, 1 plain yogurt or 6 ounces of sour cream, various items for toppings (garlic, ketchup, shredded cheese, sour cream). This will make about 6 large langoshes. Prep time: 30 minutes to make dough, 4 hours to let dough sit, another 30 minutes for frying Langoše (plural of langoš, pronounced langosh) are these fried dough snacks that are very popular throughout Slovakia and the Czech Republic. You will find them offered by street vendors, in the same fashion that hot dogs are available here in Washington, Read the Rest…

Potato Pancakes (Zemiakové Placky)

Ingredients: 3 large potatoes, one egg, salt, marjoram, black pepper, half a small onion, 1-2 cloves of garlic, 1 spoon of flour, oil Prep Time: 30 minutes Fried potato pancakes (vyprážané zemiakové placky, also called haruľa) are quite popular in Slovakia. They are made out of potato dough just like lokshe, but are made out of uncooked potatoes and are fried in oil. Potato pancakes are usually eaten as a snack, but you can serve them as a side with soups and some meals. They are very similar to Jewish latkes, but they have few additional spices. Potato pancakes are Read the Rest…

Garlic Soup (Cesnaková Polievka)

Ingredients: one large potato, 1.5L (6 cups) water, 3 cloves of garlic, quarter stick of butter, 40g (1/3 cup) of flour, handful of parsley, one yolk Prep Time: About 2 hours French have their onion soup, but we Slovaks have a garlic soup. Actually, we have quite a few different types of garlic soup. In my dad’s restaurant, you can order something very similar to the French variety, with the exception that the onion has been replaced by garlic. I decided to prepare this soup out of an old cookbook called “Grandmother’s Recipes” by M. Martišová. That book lists two Read the Rest…

Toast (Hrianka)

Ingredients: good hearty bread, clove of garlic, salt Prep Time: 5 minutes I don’t know if this is how toast is served everywhere in Slovakia, but I grew up eating toasted bread with garlic scraped on it. We called it “hrianka”. It’s really tasty. The garlic gives the bread creamy, buttery taste. No butter needed. It’s really easy to prepare. Simply toast few slices of hearty bread, until they are nicely brown and crunchy on the outside. Then take a clove of garlic and scrape it on one side. Or on both sides, if you are brave and have no Read the Rest…

Sour Bean Soup (Kyslá Fazuľová Polievka)

Ingredients: beans (300g), one potato, 2 bay leaves, two cloves of garlic, 1.5L of water, 3 whole black peppercorns, 3 slices of smoked bacon, sour cream, milk, flour, salt, vinegar, sugar Prep Time: 1.5 hours, plus a day to soak the beans This weekend I wanted to go for something healthy, so I decided to make a soup. Here is the recipe for the Slovak sour bean soup, kyslá fazuľová polievka. This is one of my favorite soups, along with kapustnica and the lettuce soup. The beans (fazuľa) that grow in Slovakia are, well, bean-shaped, have spots and come in Read the Rest…