Posts Tagged ‘leeks’

Sledzie

Sledzie

3/4 Chop onion – finely sliced.
1/4 Leek – sliced.
Boil 1 litre water and 1/3 litre apple cider vinegar bring to boil with 5-6 pimento and one bay leaf. Add salt and sugar to taste.
Then add leeks and onion until wilted (3-4 minutes)
Strain
Once it cools, wash the matias herrings to remove oil and allow to drain.
Chop to whatever size you wish.

In another bowl add mayonnaise, and grate one apple to add to the mayonnaise.
Mix together, and add with other ingredients, adding the herrings last.
May need to add lemon or sugar or mayo to taste.
Add 1/3 cup of cream to mellow the flavor.

Barszcz

Take all veges, carrots, parsnips, onion, garlic, celery, leek, dried mushroom, and bay leaves and pimento, 1-2 cabbage leaves or heart of the cabbage. Capsicum. Seasoning, salt, stock cube or vegetta.

Bring to boil and simmer for 1.5 hours. Strain and throw away veges leaving a clear broth.

Boil chopped beetroots and when cooked, strain and leave clear broth (recycle the beetroot for a beet salad).

Add juice from 1 large can of whole beetroots. Mix the two broths plus canned juice from beets together.

Chop fresh garlic into this broth – 5 cloves (or more to taste)

Warm till very hot, but do not bring to boil. (will lose flavour). Can add dried mushrooms, caraway seed and continue seasoning to taste, even adding sugar to taste.

(for perfect taste, add 1 sache per 3 litres with the originally created vegetable, added while still very hot broth ‘kucharek barszcz czerwony’ available at Gaganis.