Goulash ingredients: – 400g beef – 5 onions – 1.5 tbsp paprika – salt and pepper to taste – sunflower oil for frying onion – 3 tbsp flour for the sauce
Knedlíky ingredients: – 500g potatoes – 150g flour – 50g semolina – 2 eggs – 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1 Goulash 1.1 Cut beef in 2-3cm pieces 1.2 Chop onion and fry for 4 min in sunflower oil 1.3 Add beef and cook for 1.5 hours, add water when needed 1.4 Add 3 tbsp flour, mix well and cook for another 30 minutes, add water when needed 2 Knedlíky 2.1 Mix boiled potatoes, flour, semolina and salt: mix well 2.2 Form two sausages 5cm diameter 2.3 Put the sausages in the boiling water, covering the sausages, boil for 20 minutes at medium heat 3 Serve Goulash with Knedlíky and dill!
City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas
Bing Crosby
I always tried Trdlo when being in Prague! Today I ventured to cook it myself – Christmas aroma filled up my kitchen and brought back some nice memories, flavour of frozen snowy morning and sparkling garlands. I can’t wait for Christmas eve to come to enjoy Trdlo again with a cup of cocoa.
Filling ingredients: – 20-40g grated butter for buttering carton rolls – 60g brown sugar – 1tbsp grated nuts or walnuts – 1tbsp cinnamon Method: 1 Filling 1.1 mix in a cup sugar, cinnamon and grated nuts 1.2 grate butter and keep it in a bowl at room temperature while the dough is being prepared 2 Dough 2.1 Warm up milk to 35C and add crushed fresh yeast and 1tbsp sugar: whisk until smooth and leave in a warm place for 15 min 2.2 Add grated butter, 2 egg whites, 1 egg yolk, salt: whisk well 2.3 Add flour constantly mixing, knead a dough and leave in a warm place under cloth for 30 min 3 Trdlo 3.1 Preheat the oven to 190C 3.2 Knead dough with a stretch and fold technique for 2-3 min and separate into 10 equal pieces 3.3 Form a long 0.8cm diameter rope out of each dough piece 🙂 3.4 Wrap paper towel carton rolls with a baking paper: butter baking paper with fingers 3.5 Wind up a dough rope around a buttered paper towel carton roll 3.6 Butter Trdlo surface with fingers before rolling in nuts-cinnamon-sugar mixture 3.7 Roll well each Trdlo in nuts-cinnamon-sugar mixture 3.8 Bake Trdlos for 15 minutes at 190C: serve hot!Jingle bells-jingle bells…
