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Smells like my childhood

Both my mother and my grandmother cook a lot with vegetables which makes for light

dishes versatile in texture and flavours. These rolls are delicate and need some patience while

assembling since the blanched greens are fragile. The filling mixture of rise and meat is subtle

which allows the flavour of greens to come through. 

M

Sorrel rolls

Ingredients

1 medium onion

30 leaves of greens (sorrel, Swiss chard, spinach)

300gr minced meat

1 clove of garlic

3 spoons of cooked rice

1,5dl tomato juice

2,5dl water

1 tsp smoked or regular paprika spice

Parsley fresh or dried

Couple of tbsp of olive oil

1/2 tsp sugar

Salt and pepper to taste

Proces

Cook the rice and let it sit in a strainer to get dry.

In a small sauce pan heat up olive oil to medium heat then sweat finely chopped onion until soft.

Add the meat and stir it with wooden spoon until the released water evaporates.

Combine with garlic, rice, paprika and salt.

 

If any leaves have thick middle part (parting between two sides of the leaf) carefully remove it. Wash the leaves. Cook the leaves in boiling water until they release green color, it takes seconds. Alternatively lay leaves in a big baking tray and pour water over them, this way there is less chance of them getting tangled. Throw away the water.

Spread out one leaf on flat surface or in your hand, fill it with 2tsp of meat filling then roll into tight roll.

Place the rolls in a baking dish with high sides.

Combine water, tomato juice, sugar and parsley. Let it come to a boil.

Cover the rolls with the tomato sauce.

Cook the rolls on a medium heat, let them come to a boil then lower the heat and let it simmer for 30-40min.

Details

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Dessert time

One thing I love about serbian spring/summer is fruit and cherries are among my favourites.

I have lived in Sweden for seven years now and I have yet to buy my first cherries there (fresh or frozen) so this was highly anticipated treat! And I indulged!

M

Grandmother’s lazy pie

200gr soft butter
240gr sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2 tbsp sour cream
250gr cake flour
800gr-1kg cherries
Couple of tbsp icing sugar

Turn on the oven to 200°.
Oil/butter and flour the baking dish.
Mix butter with half of the sugar until combined, ca 5-6min, then combine with the egg yolks.
Add baking powder, vanilla sugar, sour cream, flour and continue to combine with the wooden spoon or with the hands. Add more flour if needed, the dough should be soft.
Mix egg whites with the other half of the sugar until stiff peaks. Combine with the cherries.
Cover the bottom of the baking dish with the half of the dough by spreading it with the hands.
Spread the filling over the dough.
Grate or roll out the other half of the dough and transfer it over the filling.
Bake for around 30min or until the pie is golden brown.
Sift icing sugar over the cooled pie then cut in pieces.

In grandmothers kitchen

Skadarska

Under the window

Leftovers

Old

Strolling the streets