My intention was make balls from carrot, parsnip and meat. But I bought by mistake white radish. But result was amazing and very tasty 🙂
Carrot in balls gives juiciness and moisture. And indulgence 😉 Almost vegetarian 🙂
Continue reading “Meat and Carrot Balls. Porgandi ja lihapallid”
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls are dish what is known, I believe, in everywhere. But every nation has its own recipe, something different, which give for this dish special touch and make it different,
Cabbage rolls are an everyday dish in Estonia. Ok, it takes some time for preparation, so we probably make them for weekend dinner.
In my recipe, Cabbage leaves stuffed with minced meat. But you can stuff them using only vegetables,
It’s also one of those dishes that combines everything in one: your proteins and some vegetable, Obviously, you still want a few side dishes, it’s perfect with potatoes or rice or some buckwheat
For some reason we have three different foods: meat balls, served usually in sauce. Small meat balls: frikadellid, we are using in soup. And ” kotlet”- what is flat shape minced meat “ball”. Kotlet is served as main dish with potato and sauce and salad.
We have saying: where are two Estonians, there are three opinions and four political parties ( and as added our president Kersti Kaljulaid .. five tweets and six Facebook posts and seven online headlines which has a different message.
I believe that on the internet there are at least billion food photos, And at the same time, I believe that at least half of it is staged and better than in real life.
In real life, we do not know, how and what people are eating.
When I talk about Estonians in my blog I certainly generalize.
One important topic is the sauce. When I say: Estonians making the sauce. It means a different thing:
A friend told me, that there are only a few families who care cook some sauce. Most people do not make the sauce at all; some of them use a cold sauce, which means sour cream with some greens.
but I am about to tell you about the real warm Estonian sauce that makes Gordon Ramsay swoon.
To cook a typical Estonian sauce you should mix cold water with some flour and pour the mixture into the boiling cream or milk. and yes, there are different understandings and schools:) Some people prefer milk, some cream with 10% fat and some people cream with 35% fat,
And one more interesting fact. In Estonia, there are two words that can be used to call a ” sauce”. Similar to the English word ” sauce” we have ” soust”. ” soust” is more rustic and thicker,. The second word is “kaste”, which is coming from the words watering, moistening.
This is easy and very quick Sauce, which probably do not need any recipe. But, because this is very traditional in Estonian food-table, let it be:)
For Soup
– per eater 1/2 carrot
– 1 potato per eater
– 1 onion
– 1 tablespoon butter Continue reading “Meat Ball Soup. Frikadellisupp”
Serve with boiled potatos.
Soundtrack Põhja-Tallinn “Meil on aega veel”
Estonian Cuisine. Eesti Toit. 