Posts Tagged ‘poppy seeds’

Poppy Rolls (Makové rožky)

Ingredients: 350g all purpose flour, 1 packet of yeast, 2 yolks, 2 tbsp powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 ml milk Prep Time: 30 minutes for baking Ala from Žiar nad Hronom sent me another recipe, this time for poppy rolls (makové rožky). Her mom made these and they look delicious! Start by preparing your standard leavened dough from all the ingredients, except for one yolk and the poppy seeds. Once the dough puffs up, roll it out into a circle, and cut into triangular wedges. Then roll these into rolls (just like when making the regular bread rolls), brush Read the Rest…

Cheap Pancakes (Lacné Palacinky)

Ingredients: 2 cups water, 1.5 cups flour, bit of salt, one tablespoon of sugar, topping of your choice Prep Time: 10 minutes to make the dough, about 2 minutes per pancake for frying Few weeks ago I showed you how my grandma Pavka makes fancy fluffy apple pancakes. In this recipe I show you how my other grandma, Terka, makes pancakes. Her pancakes (or crepes, palacinky) are simple, easy and cheap to make. They require just a few ingredients and take just few minutes to prepare. And best of all, they are just as tasty. Start by combining 2 cups Read the Rest…

Baked Buns (Pečené Buchty)

Ingredients: leavened dough, thick jam or farmer’s cheese, raisins Prep Time: 10 minutes to make the buns, 20 minutes to let the dough rest, 20 minutes for baking Pečené buchty are tasty baked buns filled with a sweet surprise. It may be plum jam (slivkovký lekvár), farmer’s cheese (tvaroh), poppy seeds (mak) or even walnuts (orechy). Either way, they are delicious! They are somewhat analogous to the American cookies, in that they are something you can always count on when visiting grandparents. I have tried baking buchty before. Although they ended up tasting great, the filling leaked out during baking. Read the Rest…

Steamed Sweet Dumplings (Buchty na Pare)

Ingredients: leavened dough, plum jam, butter, poppy seeds, ground walnuts, powdered sugar Prep Time: 30 minutes (not counting time to prepare the dough) I have a sweet tooth. This ought to be apparent to anyone by simply looking at the ratio of recipes in the Sweets category compared to the rest of the site. Unfortunately this is also apparent to my dentist. But it’s so hard not to like sweets, when Slovak cuisine is full of them. One of my favorites are sweet dumplings (buchty) on steam (na pare), which I show you how to prepare in this recipe. This Read the Rest…

Bobalky (Opekance)

Ingredients: leavened dough or few days old bread rolls, ground poppy seeds, sugar, milk, butter Prep Time: 5 minutes if you use old bread, about 2 hours otherwise Integral part of the Christmas table in many Slovak families are little pieces of sweet bread known as bobaľky, opekance or pupáčky. They are typically topped with poppies (s makom), but some people eat them with farmer’s cheese (tvaroh) or even cabbage (kapusta). In this recipe I show you how to prepare this delicious desert. Opekance are typically eaten as the third “course”. First, there is the prípitok, a shot of liquor. Read the Rest…