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Latvian cuisine

Sweet dishes, cakes, drinks

55. Curd pudding Grind butter or margarine with sugar, vanilla, lemon zest and egg yolks (until sugar dissolves), combine with curd, add washed raisins, ground crackers, sour cream, mix well and add whipped proteins. The mass is laid out in a greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs form, sprinkled with breadcrumbs on top, covered with slices of butter and baked in the oven. Cottage cheese […]

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Cheese, cereal, pudding

8. "Cheese" from the pork head The pork head is chopped so that the skin on the front side remains intact, the brains are removed. The head is soaked in cold water for 4–5 hours, then the skin is scraped well, washed again and put into boiling water together with the tongue, roots, salt are added (pepper, bay leaves are put later) and boiled until half cooked. Then the head [...]

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Meat dishes

31. Lamb stewed in caraway sauce Cut lamb with bone into 3-4 pieces per serving and stew with spices. The resulting broth is used to prepare a white sauce with cumin, which is added to the hot sauce, and then boiled. Put meat and grated garlic in the sauce. The dish is served with boiled potatoes, sprinkled with herbs on top. Lamb 150, onions 25, carrots [...]

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Soup.

12. Beetroot soup with meatballs Finely chopped onion and egg are placed in minced beef or low-fat pork, pour in a little broth or water, add salt, pepper, crushed crackers. The resulting mass is well knocked out, then small balls (meatballs) are formed with wet hands. Beets are boiled or baked in the oven, peeled, chopped on a grater. Chopped and fried with [...]

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Fish in the Latvian cuisine

1. Baltic herring with white marinade Prepared herring is rolled in flour, fried with whole carcasses, cooled and poured with white marinade. Herring 150, flour 10, vegetable oil 10, white marinade 100; for the marinade: onions 600, carrots 125, vinegar 500, sugar 35, bay leaf 2, allspice 2, cloves 1, salt. 2. Herring roll marinated Herring, depending on […]

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About Latvian cuisine.

Latvian cuisine The Latvian table actually consists of 70-75% of cold dishes: beetroot and other salads, meat and fish snacks, eggs, cheeses and dairy products (curdled milk, cottage cheese, sour cream), which mainly determine its flavor range, since the latter are an integral part of most dishes. Eggs are also widely used as ingredients in almost all cold snacks, [...]