TRADITIONAL SERBIAN CHEESE PIE

SRPSKI RECEPT OVDE

Ingredients:

v  ready-made pie crusts

v  2 medium pieces of Cheddar cheese

v  3 eggs

v  some oil

v  some salt

v  250 ml yogurt

Preparation:

In a bowl, mix 3 eggs, 2 pieces of Cheddar cheese, some salt, some oil and 250 ml of yogurt. Grease a baking pan and start arranging the pie crusts. First sprinkle the crust with some oil then put it in the pan. Line up three crusts in that way, each of them sprinkled with oil, then spread some filling on every third crust. Continue in this way until you have spent all the crusts. After you have arranged them all, cut the pie with a knife into big squares, but be careful not to cut them all the way to the bottom because the filling will pour out into the pan. Sprinkle the pie with some oil and put it in the oven preheated to 250 degrees Celsius. When it becomes brown lower the temperature of the oven to 150 degrees and check occasionally with the toothpick if the pie is baked. Stick the toothpick into the pie and if it comes out clean then the pie is baked, but if it doesn`t leave the pie in the oven for a little while, always the colour, and if it is necessary lower the heat to 100 degrees Celsius to make sure the pie doesn`t get burned. 

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PITA GUŽVARA 2

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Sastojci:

v  gotove kore za pitu

v  2 srednje felije sira

v  3 jajeta

v  malo ulja

v  malo soli

v  jogurt

Priprema:

U posudi izmešati 3 jajeta, 2 felije sira, malo soli, malo ulja i jedna čaša jogurta. Podmazati pleh za pečenje i ređati kore. Svaku poprskati sa malo ulja i staviti u pleh, svaku treću koru premazati filom. Kada ste poređali sve kore u pleh isecite nožem pažljivo pitu na veće kocke, ali ne do kraja da ne bi fil iscureo u pleh. Poprskajte pitu odozgo uljem i pecite u rerni prethodno zagrejanoj na 250 stepeni. Kada pita porumeni smanjiti temperaturu na 150 stepeni. Povremeno proveravati da li je pita pečena uz pomoć čačkalice. Ako ništa ne ostane na čačkalici kada je izvučete iz pita onda je ona pečena. 

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CHEESE PIE

SRPSKI RECEPT OVDE

Ingredients:

v  2 medium pieces of Cheddar cheese

v  2 eggs

v  1 dl oil

v  2.5 dl milk

v  some salt

v  1 tablespoon baking powder

v  ready-made pie crusts

Preparation:

In a bowl smash two pieces of cheese, add 2 eggs and combine well. Then add 1dl oil and 2.5 dl milk, some salt and a tablespoon of baking powder. Grease a baking dish and cover the bottom with one crust, spread some filling on it, then take crusts one by one, smash them in your hand first, then soak each of them in the filling and arrange them in the baking pan. When the pan is filled with crusts, fold the edges of the bottom crust, (which were sticking outside the pan), over the arranged crusts and spread the remaining filling. Take the last crust and cover the whole pie with it, tuck its edges in the pan. Sprinkle the last crust with some water and put the pie in the preheated oven to bake. 

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PITA GUŽVARA

ENGLISH TRANSLATION HERE

Sastojci:

v  2 felije sira

v  2 jajeta

v  1dl ulja

v  2,5 dl mleka

v  malo soli

v  1 prašak za pecivo

v  gotove kore za pitu

Priprema:

Izgnječiti dve felije sira, dodati 2 jajeta i dobro izmešati. Zatim dodati 1 dl ulja, 2,5 dl mleka, malo soli i jedan prašak za pecivo. Podmazati tepsiju i obložiti je jednom korom koja se poprska pripremljenim filom. zatim uzimati jednu po jednu koru, gužvati ih u ruci, umakati u fil i ređati u tepsiju. Kad je tepsija ispunjena, ivice donje kore, (koje su bile izvan tepsije), preklopiti preko naređanih kora i premazati preostalim filom. Uzeti još jednu koru i njome pokriti celu pitu, a njene ivice podvući uz ivice tepsije. Poslednju koru poprskati vodom i staviti pitu u zagrejanu rernu da se peče. 

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SPANISH PIE – MY WAY OF MAKING IT

SRPSKI RECEPT OVDE

Ingredients:

v  3 to 4 eggs, depending on the size

v  two mugs of 250 g of corn flour

v  1 mug of white flour

v  1 mug of oil

v  1 mug of yogurt

v  teaspoon salt

v  one packet of baking powder

Filling:

v  two medium pieces of cheese

v  4 slices of smoked meat

v  one sausage or frankfurter

v  2 to 3 pickles

v  several pickled mushrooms

Preparation:

Whisk the eggs and add corn flour, white flour, salt and baking powder stirring all the time. Add oil and yogurt, stir well with a fork to break all the lumps from the flour, until the mixture becomes smooth. Add cheese crumled with your hand, slices of smoked meat cut into small pieces, diced sausage or frankfurter, pickles chopped into cubes and chopped mushrooms. Stir it slowly with a fork. Grease the baking pan and sprinkle it with some flour on the bottom. Pour the mixture into the pan and bake it at 180 degrees until browned. Then turn down the oven at 100 degrees and slowly check it with a toothpick to see if it is baked. If the toothpick comes out clean then take it out, but if not then leave it for about 5 min. more and then turn the oven and check again.

Serve it alone for breakfast or dinner with a glass of yogurt or milk. 

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TRADITIONAL SERBIAN CORN BREAD CALLED "PROJA"

SRPSKI RECEPT OVDE

This corn bread can be eaten alone, served as a whole breakfast with sour sausage during winter and a glass of yogurt or milk during summer. However, it can also be eaten with any meal instead of bread. I prefer eating "proja" for breakfast or dinner without anything else, except yogurt or milk.

Ingredients:

v  3 eggs

v  3 mugs of corn flour (a mug should be of 250 g)

v  3 mugs of white flour

v  1 mug of oil

v  1 mug of yogurt or mineral water

v  teaspoon salt

v  one packet of baking powder

v  some cheese (put 2 or 3 large pieces of cheese)

Preparation:

Whisk the eggs and add the mugs with corn flour, white flour, oil and yogurt or mineral water, stirring with the fork well all the time until all the lumps are broken. Put baking powder and salt. Add the cheese crumbled by hand and stir slowly. Grease the baking pan and sprinkle some flour over the bottom. Pour the mixture in and bake at 250 degrees for about 15 to 20 min. Then turn off the oven and check with a toothpick or a knife whether the corn bread is baked. If the toothpick or a knife does not come out clean then leave it for 10 more minutes, but if they do then "proja" is baked. You can take it out of the oven and leave it for 5 min. to cool down, but not too much because it is better when eaten warm.

Serve your “proja” with sour sausage, yogurt or milk. 

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BURNS WITH SESAME

Ingredients:

- 1/2 l milk
- handful of sugar
- some yeast
- 7 mugs of flour
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups of oil
- 1 egg
- some margarine
- sesame




Preparation:

Before I begin with the recipe I must say that I use coffee cups and milk mugs of 250 ml as a measurement for this dough.

Take one cup of milk out of 1/2 l and pour it into a mug. Put a piece of yeast, teaspoon of sugar and tablespoon of white flour. Leave the mug somewhere warm, but not too hot, for about 20 min. or until the yeast rises.
When it rises, put it into the bowl with the rest of the milk, add 2 cups of oil, 2 teaspoons of salt, a handful of sugar and 7 mugs of flour. Knead the dough and if necessary add some more flour but be careful not to make the dough too hard. After kneading it into a smooth and elastic dough cover it and leave it somewhere warm, but not too hot, until it doubles in size.
When the dough has risen enough turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and kneed again until smooth and elastic, Stretch the dough to the width of 1 finger.
Take out the dough with a glass or a mug, as in the photo.

After you have taken out all the burns, knead the rest of the dough again, stretch it and take out the burns with the glass or the mug. Repeat the process until you have used all the dough.



Place the burns onto the greased and floured baking pan, as in the photo. Allow them to rise for an hour.

Coat the burns with an egg yolk (I use the whole egg for coating not only the yolk). Sprinkle with sesame seeds and put a piece of margarine on top of each one, as shown in the photo.
Bake at 200 degrees C until they become brown.

Materijal:

- 1/2 l mleka

- šećer

- kvasac

- 7 jogurtskih čaša brašna

- 2 kašičice soli

- 2 šoljice zejtina

- jaje

- margarin

- susam

Priprema:

U 1/2 l mleka staviti jedno parče kvasca sa malo šećera da nadođe (ja odvojim od 1/2 l malo mleka za jednu šolju i tu stavim kvasac sa malo šećera i obavezno jednom kašikom brašna, pa onda kad nadođe sjedinim sa ostatkom mleka). Kad nadođe staviti sve u vanglu i dodati 2 šoljice zejtina, 2 kašičice soli, šaku šećera i 7 jogurtskih časa brašna. Zamesiti testo i po potrebi dodati još malo brašna da se lepo umesi ali voditi računa da testo ne bude tvrdo. Ostaviti na toplom mestu da odstoji 1 sat.

Nakon toga premesiti testo i razvući koru do debljine jedne polovine prsta (meni su slađe kada ih razvučem što više, tako budu hrskave a ne hlebaste kada se ispeku). 

Vaditi testo čašom za vodu i ređati pogačice u podmazani pleh. 

Ostatak testa, nakon što izvadite čašom pogačice, premesiti i ponovo razvući pa vaditi čašom  i sve tako redom dok se ne potroši sve testo.

Ostaviti da naraste 1 sat. Premazati jajetom (neko premazuje samo žumancetom ali ja koristim celo jaje). Odozgo posuti susamom. Preko svake staviti parče margarina i peći na 200 stepeni. 

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BIRD`S NEST

Ingredients: 

- 250 ml yogurt
- baking powder
- teaspoon salt
- flour


Filling:

- ham (salami)
- a few diced pickles
- diced cheese
- oregano



Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees C.
Pour 250 ml of yogurt, 1 packet of baking powder, teaspoon of salt and as much flour as you  need to get smooth dough, similar to the one for bread. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and non sticky. Put it aside for 10 min. After that divide the dough into small balls and stretch each ball with a rolling pin. Make a small dent in the middle of each stretched ball with a finger and fill it with diced ham or salami, pickles, cheese and oregano. Put some tomato sauce over the filling and finish with grated cheese.
Bake until the dough becomes light brown. To check if it is baked insert a toothpick into the dough and if it comes out clean it is baked.

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PTIČJE GNEZDO

Sastojci: 

- 2 čaše jogurta od 250ml
- 1 prašak za pecivo
- kašičica soli
- brašno po potrebi


Nadev: 

- šunka (salama)
- nekoliko kiselih krastavčića
- sir iseckan na kockice
- origano
- marinirani ili sveži šampinjoni


Priprema:

Sipati 2 čaše jogurta od 250ml, 1 prašak za pecivo, 1 kašičicu soli i brašno po potrebi. Umesiti testo slično kao testo za pogaču. Ostaviti da odstoji 10min da malo nadodje. Od tog testa odvajati loptice i razvući oklagijom Napraviti malo udubljenje na sredini i u to udubljenje stavljati nadev (šunku iseckanu na kockice, sir iseckan na kockice, nekoliko kiselih krastavčića iseckanih na kockice i origano, takođe i marinirane ili sveže šampinjone iseckane sitnije). Preko nadeva možete staviti malo kečapa ili ajvara, po ukusu. Preko svega toga ja narendam i malo kačkavalja.

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POGAČICE SA SUSAMOM

Materijal:

- 1/2 l mleka
- šećer
- kvasac
- 7 jogurtskih čaša brašna
- 2 kašičice soli
- 2 šoljice zejtina
- jaje
- margarin
- susam

Priprema:

U 1/2 l mleka staviti jedno parče kvasca sa malo šećera da nadođe (ja odvojim od 1/2 l malo mleka za jednu šolju i tu stavim kvasac sa malo šećera i obavezno jednom kašikom brašna, pa onda kad nadođe sjedinim sa ostatkom mleka). Kad nadođe staviti sve u vanglu i dodati 2 šoljice zejtina, 2 kašičice soli, šaku šećera i 7 jogurtskih časa brašna. Zamesiti testo i po potrebi dodati još malo brašna da se lepo umesi ali voditi računa da testo ne bude tvrdo. Ostaviti na toplom mestu da odstoji 1 sat.
Nakon toga premesiti testo i razvući koru do debljine jedne polovine prsta (meni su slađe kada ih razvučem što više, tako budu hrskave a ne hlebaste kada se ispeku). 

Vaditi testo čašom za vodu i ređati pogačice u podmazani pleh. 

Ostatak testa, nakon što izvadite čašom pogačice, premesiti i ponovo razvući pa vaditi čašom  i sve tako redom dok se ne potroši sve testo.

Ostaviti da naraste 1 sat. Premazati jajetom (neko premazuje samo žumancetom ali ja koristim celo jaje). Odozgo posuti susamom. Preko svake staviti parče margarina i peći na 200 stepeni. 

  

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ŠPANSKA PITA NA MOJ NAČIN

ENGLISH TRANSLATION HERE

ŠPANSKA PITA


POTREBAN MATERIJAL:

- 3 do 4 jaja, zavisno od njihove veličine
- dve jogurtske čaše projenog brašna, po mogućstvu domaćeg, kukuruznog ali može

i kupovno
- jedna jogurtska čaša belog brašna
- jogurtska čaša zejtina
- jogurtska čaša jogurta
- kašičica soli
- jedan prašak za pecivo

NADEV:

- dve srednje felije sira
- 4 parčeta suvog mesa
- jedna kobasica ili viršla
- 2 do 3 kisela krastavčića
- nekoliko šampinjona iz tegle

PRIPREMA:

Umutiti jaja i dodati projeno i  belo brašno, kašicicu soli i prašak za pecivo.
Odmah u to dodati i zejtin i jogurt. Sve dobro promešati dok se ne razbiju sve
grudvice od brašna i dok masa ne postane žitka. U tu smesu dodati felije sira
izmrvljenog rukom i to promešati.
Iseckati na kockice suvo meso, kobasicu ili viršlu, krastavčiće i šampinjone.
To dodati u prethodno promešanu smesu i sjediniti mešajući viljuškom.
Podmazati tepsiju zejtinom i posuti brašnom. Peći na 180 stepeni dok ne
porumeni. Proveriti čačkalicom ili viljuškom da li je pečeno i ostaviti još
malo da stoji u isključenoj rerni.

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DOBRA STARA PROJA I U NOVOJ 2015 GODINI

ENGLISH TRANSLATION HERE

POTREBAN MATERIJAL:

- 3 jaja
- dve jogurtske čaše projenog brašna (bolje je domaće, belo, kukuruzno brašno)
- jedna jogurtska čaša belog brašna
- jogurtska čaša zejtina
- jogurtska čaša jogurta ili kisele vode
- kašičica soli
- jedan prašak za pecivo
- dve do tri felije sira, zavisno od veličine felije

PRIPREMA:

Umutiti jaja i dodati projeno i  belo brašno, kašičicu soli i prašak za pecivo. Odmah u to dodati i zejtin i jogurt ili kiselu vodu. Sve dobro promešati dok se ne razbiju sve grudvice od brašna i dok masa ne postane žitka. U tu smesu dodati dve do tri felije sira izmrvljenog rukom i to promešati. Tepsiju podmazati zejtinom i posuti brašnom. Peći na temperaturi 200 do 250 stepeni, dok ne dobije rumenu boju. Ja lično pečem na 250 stepeni i to traje 15 do 20min. Nakon toga isključiti rernu i proveriti čačkalicom ili nožem da li je proja pečena. Ukoliko ima tragova na čačkalici ili nožu ostaviti proju još desetak minuta u isključenoj rerni.
Po želji možete posuti susam preko proje pre pečenja.

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