Red mullets with veggie's

Ingredients:

• 6 smaller red mullets
• 40g. flour
• 2,5-3dl. oil
• juice of 1 lemon
• salt and pepper
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 onion
• 500g. tomatoes
• 500g. courgettes
• 500g. aubergines
• 3dl. white wine

Clean fish, wash, wipe well, roll in flour and fry in heated oil (about 2 dl.). When fried, drip them with lemon juice, add salt, pepper and chopped parsley (1/2 bunch). Peel courgettes, cut into cubes, peel aubergines, cut into cubes, salt and leave to stand about 30 minutes. Then rinse with cold water and drain.

Cook slowly courgettes and aubergines, in heated oil add salt, pepper and chopped parsley (1/2 bunch). Rub a fireproof dish with cut garlic, grease with oil (left over from cooking) place in fried fish, sprinkle with chopped onion. Cover with peeled tomatoes, cut into rounds, then with cooked courgettes and aubergines.

Bake in the oven preheated to 175°C about 30-35 minutes. Pour wine over at times while baking

Red mullets with veggie's

Thick soup with leeks and cheese

Ingredients:

• 500g. leeks
• 50g. butter
• 40g. flour
• 2dl. cold and 8dl. warm water
• 80g. kashkaval
• 2 eggs
• 1dl. thick yoghurt
• salt
• 1tbsp. chopped celery leaf

Trim leeks, wash, cut into thinner rounds, wash again and drain. Heat butter, add leeks, cook slowly until slightly soft, add flour, fry together until brown, pour in cold and then warm water. Simmer for about 15-20 minutes.

Towards the end of cooking add grated or crushed cheese. Beat egg yolks well with thick yoghurt, add some soup, mix and add to the ready soup. Before serving add celery and salt to taste.

Thick soup with leeks and cheese

Aubergine sauce

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe aubergines
• 1 onion
• 1/2dl. oil
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon honey
• salt and pepper

Peel aubergines, cut into cubes, add salt, leave to stand for a while, then rinse and drain. Peel onion and chop finely. Heat 3 teaspoon of oil, add onion, cook it a little, then add aubergines, pour in some water and simmer covered until tender. Then pass through a sieve, add the rest of oil, lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper.

Mix all well with a mixer. Serce aubergine sauce very cold with roast or fried fish.

Aubergine sauce

Bosnian tufahije

Ingredients:

• 6 cooking apples
• 200g. walnuts, finely chopped
• 100g. sultanas
• 500g. sugar
• 200g. whipping cream

Tufahije is a Balkan dessert made of walnut-stuffed apples stewed in water with sugar, very popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tufahije were introduced during the Ottoman rule, the dessert probably originating from Persia. Here are the directions for preparing:

Peel and core the apples and than mix the walnuts and sultanas. Arrange apples on a baking dish and fill with the walnut mixture. Dissolve the sugar in 1l. water and pour over the apples. Bake until the apples are soft but not soggy! Serve cold with whipped cream.

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Bosnian tufahije

Romanian thick fish soup

Ingredients:

• 2 onions
• 1-1,5dl. water
• 2 carrots
• 1 parsley root
• 1 parsnip
• 1 celery root
• 1-2 bayleaves
• peppercorns
• salt
• 1-1,5kg. freshwater fish
• 30g. oil
• 30g. flour
• 1 teaspoon red paprika pepper
• 1dl. sour cream
• 1 egg yolk
• juice of 1 lemon

Pour water into a deeper pot. Peel onion, cut into slices. Scrape carrot, parsley, parsnip and celery, cut lengthways and put into cold water together with bayleaf, some salt and a few peppercorns. Heat and simmer until vegetables and tender. Then strain soup and heat it again.

Cut cleaned fish into bigger pieces and simmer in strained soup until tender. Heat oil, add flour, fry until slightly brown, add red paprika pepper, pour some cold water and then somesoup. Mix all and pour into the soup with cooked fish. If necessary add more salt and pepper and simmer for a short while. Add cooked and chopped roots to the soup.

Before serving, beat egg yolk with sour cream in the soup dish, add lemon juice and stirring all the time pour into the soup. With this thick fish soup can be served croutons.

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• Romanian cabbage soup with bacon
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Romanian thick fish soup