VEGETABLE TARTS

Vegatable tarts - Latvian traditional meal.

To do our dish we need:

• coarse rye or wheat flour - 1kg 
• water - 400 g 
• margarine - 100 g 
• sugar - 20 g 
• a little bit of salt 
• 4 eggs 

Potato filling: 

• potatoes - 500 g 
• milk - 50 g 
• butter - 30 g 
• a little bit of salt 

Carrot filling: 

• carrots - 800 g
•  sugar - 100 g  
• a little bit of salt
   sour cream - 50 g  
•  fluor - 30 g 

First you must boil unpeeled carrots. Then peel potatoes and boil them in salted water. Then sift course rye or wheat flour in bowl, mix with margarine with your fingers. Heat water to 20 - 25`C, add sugar, salt and 3 eggs knead into the fluor mixture until a stiff dough forms that can be easily rolled. Roll dough into a sheet of 2-3mm thickness, cut out round shapes 10-15 cm in diameter. Fold up edges of each round to a height of 1-1.5 cm, and place on a greased baking tray. Fill each case with potato filling and then carrot filling. Brush with beaten egg and and bake in a moderate oven for 10-15 minutes, until the top is browned.

 Potato filling: when potatoes are boiled, drain them and mash. Add boiled milk and butter, salt and mix well.

 Carrot filling: when carrots are boiled, then peel them and grate. Add salt, sugar, sour cream and flour and mix well. 

We all were enjoyed our meal and we hope you will too! 

Labu apetīti, bon appetit, gero apetito, smacznego!😋

 

Potatoes noodles - Polish Traditional Meal

To do our dish we need:

• potatoes - 1kg
• flour 1/3kg
• allspice
• bay leaf
• bacon - 15 dag
• one egg
• sour cabbage - 0,5kg
• butter - 1/4 of cube
• 3 carrots
• salt and pepper

First you must peel all the potatoes. Then gate them and add flour. Add it untill mass gets thickened. Then mix it with egg and add some salt. Ready-made mass put on a plate sprinkled with flour. To prevent the mass blacken you also have to sprinkle it with flour. Now add little pieces of mass to boiling water. Don't forget to stril it while cooking. When the noodles are ready strain and rinse it with cold water.

Peel carrots, cook them in salted water then cut into cubes. Melt the butter in the pan. Add carrot put some sugar and fluor to taste.

Wash sour cabbage, add allspice and bay leaf, now cook it all.

Cut becon into small cubes and fry.

Put noodles on a plate, serve them with:

• sour cabbage
• bacon
• carrots

We all were enjoyed our meal and we hope you will be too! Smacznego, labu apetiti, gero apetito, bon appetit!