Potato cutlets with mint chutney

Of course I visited slums! With a guide. We went into the private houses and places where people worked. On a street I felt smell of different dishes. The most delicious smell came from potatoes with mint sauce.

"Potato cutlets with mint chutney"

Chutney:

- 250g mint leaves

- 1 chopped onion

- 3 green chillis

- juice of 3 lemons

- salt, pepper

The cutlets:

- 2 kg potatoes boiled and mashed

- 1 tb spoon cumin seeds

- 1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground

- 3 tsp vegetable oil

- salt

Whizz the ingredients for the mint chutney in the blender and mix.

Combine the mashed potatoes with other ingredients. Shape the mixture into small cutlets. Heat oil on a pan and place potatoes into the pan. Cook from the both sides.

Serve with the chutney.

Baked sour fish

I was in Mumbai for a few days. I loved to feel the warmth of the sun on my face. I know, I know. It is not healthy and I will be old very soon. So what? I enjoyed the smell of the spices and I tried them in different dishes. For ex. mango powder...

"Baked sour fish"

- 6-8 portions of any white fish, boneless

- chopped garlic

- chopped ginger

- 1 teaspoon chilli powder

- 1 teaspoon tandoori masala

- 1 teaspoon mango powder

- 3 tablespoon dried breadcrumbs

- salt

-oil

Put fish into mixed chilli powder, garlic, ginger and masala.

Mix the mango powder with breadcrumbs.

Arrange the fish on a greased baking tray. Put breadcrumbs on it and drizzle the oil over.

Bake about 20 min at 180 st C.

Cheese tart with plums

You would struggle to find anything more suitable for an autumn afternoon than this combination of delicate ricotta and mascarpone cheese together with plums. This can't be beaten.........at least not in my kitchen.









"Cheese tart with plums"

Dough:

-1 and 2/3 glasses of wheat flour
- 60 grams of sugar
- 150grams of cold butter cut into pieces
- 1 egg
- 2 Tsp of full cream

Mix well and place in fridge for 1 hour.

Topping:

- 250 grams of mascarpone
- 300 grams of ricotta
- 160 grams of sugar
- 3 Tsp of honey
- 3 eggs
- 0,5 kg of peeled plums


Place the dough in a baking tray and bake in an oven for 20 min at 180 C.
Afterwards, while the dough is cooling, mix the cheese, honey and sugar, add the eggs and 2 Tsp of wheat flour. Spread the cheese mixture on the dough and place the plums on top. Bake for a further 30 minutes.

Rowanberry liquer

Rowan Berries have healing effects on the digestion, the liver and the lung.

The most funny method to try the taste of rowanberry is a home made rowanberry liqueur.

"Rowanberry liqueur"

- 1 kg rowan berries

- 1l strong spirit /or vodka/

- 2 cups sugar

- 0,25 l water

Pick the rowan berries after the first frosts /or put them to the fridge for one night/. Then dowse several times with boiling water.. Tip into a demijohn and add 1 l of alcohol. /If it is a spirit add a glass of clean water/.

After two weeks prepare a syrup from the sugar and water. Boil, skim, add the spirit drained off from the rowan and leave for one day. Then strain through filter-paper into bottles. Wait a few months ;)

Pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms

I love pierogi... not only stuff with cabbage. I put sweet cheese inside or sometimes nice fruits... Depends on the day and on the season of the year...

"Pierogi with cabbage"

- 450g flour

- 1 egg

- 2 tablespoons oil

- water

For stuffing:

- 150g dried mushrooms or 100g fresh

- 1 onion

- 1 spoon of butter

- salt, pepper

Sieve flour on a table, adding 1 egg and oil and 2 spoons warm water. Knead very thoroughly until there is no sticking to the table.

Pour water, add mushrooms and wait until will be soft. Cut them and fry on a pan with onion, salt and pepper.

Cook the cabbage and slice.

Mix cabbage and mushrooms together and cool it.

Cut out circles from the rolled - out dough and stuff before closing up pierogi.

Cook in a large pan of salty water. Serve hot with a butter.

Potato pancakes

My favorite dish since i was a little girl :) My grandma did the best in my all life...

"Potato pancakes"

- 1 kg potatoes

- 1 onion

- 1 spoon flour

- 1-2 eggs

- salt

- pepper

Peel the poptatos. Grate finely. Add chopped onion, eggs and flour. Mix thoroughly and put aside. Fry thinnish pancakes on an oil until brown on both sides. Serve with fresh cream.

Forest mushrooms in a cream

I am not the biggest fun of forest's mushroom. But my friend Anita knows how to prepare them in the best way...

- 1 kg fresh mushrooms

- 3 tablespoons of fresh oil

- 1 big onion, sliced

- a cup sour cream

- salt

- pepper

Wash and slice mushrooms. Fry onion lightly in the oil, add mushrooms, salt and pepper. Cook on a low flam mixing from time to time. Pour in cream, simmering on for a while. Serve with bread or potatoes.