Czech cuisine

The first Czech dishes are simple and fairly simple. It is easy to prepare and Czech pork soup and soup with dumplings and potato soup with sour cream.

But first place in the table occupied by the Czech dumplings. Neutral Czech dinner is impossible to imagine without them. Dumplings made from unleavened or leavened dough, stuffed with mostly plums, berries or other jam. Boiled in salted water, sprinkle with poppy seeds and sprinkled with oil. Dumplings of dough usually served with meat sauce or cabbage. Very popular as dumplings from raw or boiled potatoes. Dumplings are served as a garnish, they are eaten with sauce or stuffing, sweet dumplings served for dessert&# 8230;

Prepare as "dumplings in a napkin" and "twisted dumplings." To prepare the dumplings in a napkin ready dough is wrapped in a damp cloth, fasten the two ends of the nodes and suspended over a saucepan of boiling water. So for twenty minutes, it is steamed. Then one knot is untied, so that the dough could be dismissed, and held it over the steam for another half hour. Ready knedli removed from the napkin and while still hot cut circles, but not with a knife and the thread.

Twisted dumplings - dumplings stuffed with it. They are usually served as a main dish with a salad or sauce of green. The dough for them are made from grated boiled potatoes. A filling can serve as meat, stewed with onions and spices and mushrooms, cooked vegetables or simply salted or smoked bacon. In the Czech Republic love to feast on pork with cabbage. Small neat pieces of pork at first lightly fried. Add the chopped onion rings, they are still some time stewed with spices. Then add finely-finely shredded cabbage and long stew over low heat.

The most characteristic feature of national cuisine - a wide range of cold meals and snacks.

Among them, various vegetable salads (red pepper, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce, cabbage), mayonnaise, sour cream or flavored vinegar with sugar, lemon juice; stuffed tomatoes, cucumbers. By the way, mayonnaise is used not only to prepare cold meals and snacks, but also the second hot dishes, many sauces.

Very popular sandwich sandwiches with various masses who call pomazankami. Pomazanki made of horseradish, cream cheese, radish, eggplant, beautifully decorate.

Czech cuisine widely uses a variety of spices and spicy vegetables - ginger, marjoram, thyme, parsley, celery, nutmeg, onion, red and sweet peppers, etc.