Roasted eggplant and walnut salad

 3 medium eggplants

100g feta cheese

4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

3 tbsp walnuts, chopped

2 tbsp fresh mint, chopped

4 tbsp olive oil

salt, pepper, chili, parsley

Roast eggplant (350 for 30 min or so) until very tender. Remove skin, chop flesh, place in strainer for 5 min to drain juices. Add everything else.

 

Source: Serbian Culinary Art by Jasmina Masala

Serbian beef stew

800g stew beef, in bite size pieces

oil

2 onions, finely chopped

5 red or yellow peppers, diced

5 large tomatoes, chopped

Some stock

1 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped

2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped

Parsley

Brown meat in oil, remove. Saute onions and peppers for 20 min. Add tomatoes, stock, meat, herbs, salt, and pepper. Simmer 30 min or until meat is tender. Add parsley.

Source: Serbian Culinary Art by Jasmina Masala

Wild Mushroom and Leek Soup

2 leeks, white and pale green parts, chopped

2 tbsp butter, room temperature

600g wild mushrooms, roughly chopped

5c vegetable stock

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 tbsp flour

3 tbsp milk

1 tbsp dill, chopped

1 tbsp mint, chopped

 

Saute leek in 1 tbsp butter for 10 minutes. Add mushrooms, cook 5 min. Add stock and garlic, boil, simmer, 20 min. Blend until smooth, return to heat. Blend 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp flour into a paste, add slowly to soup. Add milk, herbs, salt and pepper, simmer 10 min.

 

Source: Serbian Culinary Art by Jasmina Masala

Cevapi

Cevapi (sausages)

ground beef, pork and lamb - total 2 lb
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tsp paprika
chili, salt, and pepper to taste
bread crumbs - 1/4 cup or more?

Combine everything, knead together, refrigerate for 2 hours. Shape into sausages, grill or broil or cook in a pan. I'm not sure on these yet - they always end up a little dry, so I'm experimenting with bread crumbs, and maybe trying harder to avoid overcooking

Source: Serbian culinary art by Jasmina Masala

Sarma

Sarma (stuffed cabbage)

 

60 oz jar of sour cabbage leaves (like sauerkraut but all big leaves, not chopped)

1 lb ground beef or fake beef

2 cups cooked rice

3 onions, chopped

1 14oz can crushed tomatoes

1/2 head garlic, minced

1/2 package bacon or tempeh fake bacon, cut into small pieces

1/4 bunch parsley

salt, pepper

coriander

smoked paprika

Fry onions and bacon. Add garlic and beef, mix until browned. Add tomatoes, parsley, rice, salt, pepper, coriander. Roll this mixture in each cabbage leaf, put in a big baking pan. Heat a little paprika in oil and drizzle it across the top. Add about 2 cups of water to the pan. Bake at 425, covered with foil, for 45 minutes, then remove foil and cook for 10 more.

Source: Gordana Vlahovic

Pasulj

Pasulj - white bean soup

1 lb dried white beans (cannellini/great northern/white kidney ideally) (I wrote down 28oz, but that is a lot of dried beans! I think I've made it with 1lb and it's been plenty.)

3-4 onions, chopped

1 head garlic

4oz/5 strips bacon

2 tbsp flour

1 tbsp paprika, salt, pepper

Soak beans with salt overnight or in boiling water for an hour, drain. Add beans, 1 onion, garlic, and bacon to the pot. Boil then simmer for 1.5 hrs.

Cook the rest of the onions in plenty of olive oil, add salt pepper and flour, stir quickly so it doesn't get chunky. Add paprika, mix well, add to big pot, stir. Deglaze pan with a little water and add to big pot. Simmer 5-10 min.

Source: Gordana Vlahovic

Palachinka

Palachinka

for 5-6 palachinka:
2 eggs
2 cups milk
4 heaping tbsp flour
1/2 cup olive oil

Blend/whisk eggs and milk, then add flour.
Heat oil. Pour 1/2 cup mixture. Flip when it has golden brown spots on top.

Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers

1 head of garlic, pressed, and soaked in 2 tbsp olive oil
1 bunch parsley, washed, stems removed, chopped fine.
1 lb ground beef
1 lb ground veal
1 tbsp vegeta or 1/2 tbsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Oregano leaves (optional)
4 onions, diced
5 slices smoked bacon, 1 inch thick
4-5 tomatoes, chopped into little pieces
1 1/4 cup white italian-style rice
15-16 large peppers

Mix the garlic, parsley, meat, vegeta/salt, pepper, oregano, and 4 tbsp olive oil.
Fry bacon, then add the onions, then after they're golden add the meat mixture. Cook for about 15 minutes until it all looks more loose, then add the chopped tomatoes.
Preheat oven to 450.
Cut the top off each pepper, remove the seeds, and fill with the mixture. Pour about 1oz water into each pepper, and a little extra in the pan. Bake at 450 for about 1.5 hours. Put foil over the peppers to prevent burning.

Pita (spinach pie)

Pita (spinach pie)
8-10 bunches green onions (5/6 per bunch)
3 bags - 9oz spinach (I think this means 3 * 9oz)
2 stick butter
3 tbsp olive oil
5 tbsp milk + 1 cup
4-5 tbsp flour
16oz cottage cheese
16oz feta cheese
one egg per person
16oz phyllo dough sheets

Grease baking pan (for later). Preheat oven to 400.
Melt a stick of butter and 5 tbsp milk in another pan until it melts. Leave on the side.
Steam spinach until it shrinks, set aside.
Cut roots off onions and cut into 1cm pieces. Melt a stick of butter and the olive oil, and fry the green onions in the pan, stirring frequently. After 10-15 minutes, add the spinach. Stir 2-3 minutes, take off burner, add 1 cup milk, and mix; then add flour and mix very well- you want a paste-like consistency. This paste can be made the day before if necessary, but same-day is better.
Mix cottage and feta cheese and eggs, make into another paste.
Layer greased baking pan with two sheets, then grease with butter/milk mix. I think it's sheets, grease, sheets, then make it like a package around the outside, folding in over the couple of sheets in the middle to cover up the gaps. Do that with half of the the spinach/onions mix, then with the egg/cheese mix, then with the other half of the spinach/onion mix. Then the last ones, you grease and layer until the top. But don't grease the top sheets yet; cut into 8 pieces. Then grease it, making sure the corners are greased and tucked in.
Bake at 400 for 45 minutes.
Serve with yogurt. You can also make it with just the egg mix, or just the spinach mix.