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BULGARIAN TRADITIONAL DISHES FOR CHRISTMAS EVE

TheChristmas Eve celebration occupies a special place in the Bulgarian ritual calendar.

All the family members come togetherfor a holiday dinner in the

evening before Christmas. They make wishes for fertility and prosperity throughout the year.

7, 9 or 11 meatless dishes are traditionally prepared. They consist of boiled beans, peppers stuffed with rice or leaves, boiled corn, pie, pumpkin, dried fruit, garlic, honey, walnuts, wheat, fruits, ritual bread (bread with a silver coin).

People believe that to whom the golden coin from the loaf falls, there will be health and success for him throughout the year

PITA CHRISTMAS BREAD

To prepare the bread you need:

1 kg flour 220 g butter

200ml milk 130g yoghurt

5 eggs 1 teaspoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of salt

hard yeast, as big as a box of matches

Preparing:

1. Bolt the flour and mix with the fresh milk and the yoghurt.

2. You beat 4 eggs with 1 tea-spoon of sugar and salt; dissolve the yeast using a little bit of the fresh milk and add it into the egg`s mixture.

3. Put both the mixtures together and kneed.

4. You divide the dough into 7 even pieces. Use a rolling pin to roll out them in circle 40cm/diameter/. The last one /7^th/ you roll out 30cm, grease soft butter and wind as a “snail”.

5. Put the “snail” in the middle of the dish you`ll use to bake the bread.

6. The other 6 pieces you put together, so you`ll make a circle of 6 pieces. Don`t forget to grease butter between them.

7. Divide this circle into 12 triangles. Wind and put them round the “snail”

8. Leave it to raise for about 30 min.

9.    You bake in the oven /170 degrees temperature/ until the bread is ready.

BANITZA form TRUN

To prepare it you need :

400 g flour 100 g fresh butter

4 – 5 eggs 300g white brine cheese salt

Preparing:

Make a doughnut out of the flour, some water and salt. Roll out in sheets.
Smash the cheese and beat the eggs.Put it together and mix.

Sprinkle over each sheet some melted butter and put on it the mixture, then put another over it-until you finish the sheets and the mixture. Bake at normal heat.

The dish is served warm with youghurt.

STUFFED CAPSICUM ith BEANS

Ingredients:

20 dried capsicum 1/2 kg. dried beans
2 onions 3 cloves garlic
50 gr. flour 1 carrot
1 bunch of parsley Red pepper Salt

Preparation and serving:

Put the capsicum in warm water and leave it for 1 hour. Cook the beans. Chop fine the carrot and the onion, then add them to the cooked beans. Add as well the fine chopped parsley and the flour. Stir the mixture to make it homogeneous. Fill in the capsicum with the mixture and put in a baking tin, covering the capsicum openings with flour to seal it during the baking. Bake it for about 30 min. at 200°С.

VEGETERIAN SARMI
To prepare it:
100 g vegetable oil
The leaves of one middle -sized salted cabbage
200 g rice- cleaned and rinsed tomato paste
1 spoonful chopped onions
red pepper, black pepper, salt

Stew the onions with the oiluntil it gets soft. Put the rice and stir. Add the red pepper and the tomato paste. Salt the mixture ,add some water and leave it to cook for 5 -10 minutes.

The rice must remain semi-cooked.

Fill the leaves of the cabbage with the mixture. Put all the pieces – sarmi - in a pot , add some

lukewarm water, press with a dish and leave it in the pot. Cook at low heat.

Serve the sarmi hot with a yoghurt dressing or sprinkle with parsley.

COOKIES PEACHES

To prepare it you need :

1kg flour  4 eggs 400 ml oil 500 g sugar

10 g baking soda 200g marmalade

harmless coloring - yellow and rose



Preparing:

Beat the eggs with the sugar.

Carefully add – without stopping the beating- the oil and the flour mixed with the baking soda.

Shape small balls from the doughnut.

Bake them and glue them in pairs with the marmalade.

Dip   the cookie from one side in the yellow coloring and from the other in the rose.

Roll the cookies in crystal sugar .

CHRISTMAS BISCUIT
To prepare it:

400 g flour 200g sugar
2 eggs 70 g fresh butter 60 ml milk
Salt, baking soda, cinnamon, citric acid

Beat the butter with the sugar to obtain a fluffy cream. Add the eggs and the milk and then the flour with the citric acid and the baking soda and also add the cinnamon and a bit of salt. Roll out of the doughnut a single sheet. Take a cup, cut with itround biscuits and bake them in a heated oven.



OSHAV (Dried fruit compote)

      To prepare it:
300 grams dried fruit (prunes, apples, pears, quince)
4.5 beans cloves
sugar or honey to taste
2-3 pieces of geranium

Preparing:

• Dried fruit can be soaked in cold water the night before or boil with sugar.
• geranium leaves are finally added for flavor.

Date de création : 28/11/2009 ¤ 23:51
Dernière modification : 28/11/2010 ¤ 16:59
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