Posts Tagged ‘poppy seeds’

Salt Sticks (Slané Tyčinky)

Ingredients: frozen pastry dough, eggs, salt, sesame seeds, caraway seeds, cheese Prep Time: 30 minutes Today I watched my dad’s friend Janka prepare salt sticks, slané tyčinky. These are tasty snacks that are made from the flaky pastry dough (lístkové cesto, meaning “leafy dough”). In Slovakia, this dough can be purchased frozen in the supermarket. I am not sure how easily available the pastry dough is in the United States. I’ll post the recipe for the dough at a later date. Roll out the pastry dough (lístkové cesto) on a floured surface. It should be few millimeters thick. Cut the Read the Rest…

Poppy Seed and Nut Roll (Makovník a Orechovník)

Ingredients: leavened dough, ground poppy seeds or walnuts, sugar, bit of milk Prep Time: 30 minutes (if you already have the dough ready) Once you have your dough ready, it’s quite easy to turn it onto the Slovak delicacies, the poppy and walnut rolls, makovník and orechovník. Or at least my grandma made it look really easy. These two pastries are identical to each other, except that they have different filling. Start off by making the filling. For the poppy seed roll, you will need ground poppies (mletý mak). For this, you will need a poppy seed grinder (mlynček na Read the Rest…

Chocolate Covered Bananas (Banány v Čokoláde)

Ingredients: bananas, chocolate, toppings One of my favorite candies in Slovakia are little banana-shaped yellow jello pieces covered in dark chocolate. They are made by a company named Orion, and are called (quite appropriately) “Bananas in Chocolate” (external link). I think they are also commonly known as “banánky” (little bananas). Well yesterday my friend Miroslava sent me a photo of her chocolate covered bananas, along with the recipe. Here it is: Melt chocolate (čokoláda) of your choice (baking chocolate or a chocolate bar) by placing it in a small pot, which you in turn place in a larger pot containing Read the Rest…

Plum Dumplings (Slivkové Knedle)

Ingredients: milk (0.25L), flour (300g), 1 egg, 5 plums, salt, butter (quarter stick), powdered sugar, poppy seeds Prep time: about an hour My favorite thing to do in Slovakia is to visit my grandma for her not-so-healthy, but really delicious home cooking. She makes an awesome chicken noodle soup, langoše (fried dough), and various filled rolls. But my favorite are the plum dumplings topped with melted sugar and poppy seeds, slivkové knedle. I figured I’ll try making these. This was my first attempt at making these guys, and they turned out to be little bit more complicated than I had Read the Rest…