Czech food
Somebody said that Czech food required reprogramming of the culinary mindset: fat is flavour, grease is good and cholesterol is your friend. What more is typical for us? We like eating at home more that at restaurants.
Braised pork roast & sauerkraut (it is not too healthy, but we like it)
Ingredients:
- 1 - 1.5 kg pork meet
- 1/2 cup (olive) oil
- salt
- caraway seeds
- 6 cups sauerkraut
- 1 cup flour
Season pork with salt and pepper, at intervals baste and heat in the oven. Cook sauerkraut in salted water with caraway seed for 10 minutes (low heat). Then thicken with flour and cook it for a while. Serve with dumplings.
Sirloin of beef with cream sauce
Ingredients:
- 600-700 g beef sirloin
- 200 g root vegetables
- 1 onion
- 50 g bacon
- 50 g butter
- 1/4 l cream
- 1 table spoon flour
- black or white pepper
- all spice
- bay leaf
- thyme
- salt
Let meat, root vegetables and all the spice in water for 1-2 days. Fry the cut vegetables on but-ter in the pan (later add the cut onion). Roast the meat from each side on the vegetables. Baste meat with hot water, spice it up, then roast it in the oven, (baste it occasionally with water). Take out ten-der meat from the oven, fry it and roast it in the oven. Thicken gravy with flour and add the cream. Take the meat out, mix the thicken vegetables and then cook it for a while. Serve with dumplings.
Side dish Dumplings:
- 500 g flour
- 1 yolk
- 1/4 - 3/8 l milk
- 200 g rolls
- 1 piece (big as a pea) yeast
- salt
Put the flour to the bowl and crumble the yeast to the flour. Twirl the yolk, add the salt to it and pour the flour. Work up the dough, until it is lustrous, making blisters, which are bursting and it does not stick on the stirrer. Put little flour on the dough, cover it with a towel and leave it. One hour later meddle it with rolls, which are mindset (can be fried). Put it to the boiling, salt water and boil it for ten minutes. Cut it hot with a thread into thin slices.
Czechs like drinking beer after a good dinner. Czech beer has been brewed there since the 10th century. Recently the best known are Plzen (Pilsner Urquell) and Budvar (Budwaiser), but there is a dozen other really good beers (Kozel, Krusovice, Radegast, Starobrno, ...). The American Bud has its origins in the original Budvar which has been brewed for the last 300 years in Ceske Budejovice, Southern Bohemia. Beer experts say that the original Czech Budvar is better than the American copy. Check it yourself while you are there.
Enjoy it!