Monday, September 20, 2010

Macedonian dinner rolls (Kiflichki)

Ingredients:
  • 3 1/4 cups bread flour
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast
Mix the yeast in the water. Combine the flour Macedonian dinner rolls (Kiflichki)with sugar and salt, then pour the water and make a dough. Add the butter one tablespoon at a time and knead the dough. Leave to rise in a warm place for an hour. Cut the dough in two and roll each piece as thin as possible. Cut 8 triangles from each piece and make rolls.

Arrange rolls on a baking sheet, brush with eggyolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds, flax seeds, caraway seeds, poppy seeds or salt. Put the baking sheet in a lukewarm oven and leave the rolls to rise again for an hour, then bake them at 170°C, around 15-20 minutes.

Source: Sitnoseckano.blogspot.com

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Balkan wine festivals

B&H
  • Wine Fest in Sarajevo
Bulgaria
  • Vinaria in Plovdiv
Croatia
Macedonia
  • Vinoskop in Skopje
  • Tikveski Grozdober in Kavadarci
Romania
  • Romanian Wine Festival in Bucharest
Serbia
Slovenia

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Main dish of mixed vegetables

Ingredients:
  • 2 lbs various vegetables (peppers, eggplant, okra, zucchini, potatoes, etc)
  • 1/2 cup oil, divided
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 1 cup peeled chopped tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp chopped parsley
  • salt and pepper
After cutting off inedible tips of vegetables, wash and slice them into 1-inch squares. Sauté vegetables in half of the oil and remove them from the frying pan. Sauté onion and tomatoes in the remaining oil, and season with parsley, salt, and pepper.

Put everything in a stock pot with a cup of water, cover tightly, and simmer until almost all moisture has cooked away. Serve hot, accompanied by steak, meatballs, or any other main dish. Serves for 4 people


Published in: The Best of Albanian Cooking by Klementina and R. John Hysa
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