Slovakian Cabbage Bread Recipes

SLOVAK HALUSKI

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain.
• Melt butter in a skillet over low heat; cook and stir onion until onion is softened and butter is golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Add cabbage and toss to coat. Place a lid on the skillet; cook cabbage mixture, stirring occasionally, until cabbage is tender, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove lid and continue to cook until cabbage begins to brown, 5 to 10 more minutes.
• Mix noodles and cabbage together in a serving bowl; season with salt and pepper.

SLOVAKIAN CABBAGE BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375.
• Melt margarine in large skillet, then stir in cabbage, onion, salt and pepper.
• Cover and let cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes until tender crisp.
• Stir occasionally.
• Separate dough into 20 biscuits and press over bottom and 1/2 inch up sides of a 13x 9 pan or a 12 inch pizza pan.
• Spoon hot cabbage mixture over crust.
• Bake at 375 for 18-25 minutes or until deep golden brown.
• Cut into triangles or squares and serve hot with melted butter.

TRDELNIK - SLOVAK/CZECH SWEET PASTRY

Steps:

• Please read the description part first, as it's essential for this recipe. Thak you.
• First stiff into large mixing bowl flour and powdered sugar. Make a small hole in the middle and place into it crumbled fresh yeast. Pour lukewarm milk over the yeast. Let it rise for about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile melt the butter.
• Add egg yolks into the bowl, pour in melted, but not hot butter, add pinch of salt.
• Mix together to make fairly firm dough, well worked (use stand mixer, it's easy).
• Let the dough rise for 20 minutes in warm place.
• Divide into five equal parts, make loafs.
• You can let it rise for another 20 minutes (it's better, but not necessary if fresh yeast used, a must with dry yeast).
• Roll out each loaf into 2/3 inch diameter /caster?/ - you know what I mean, thin, cylindrical shape, like a small snake :-)).
• lol.
• Wrap the dough tighty around the BUTTERED "trdlo" wooden stick. Let it stand for ten more minutes (support the ends, so it will be in the air).
• Glair with the last egg, cover all around with chopped walnuts and granulated sugar.
• Bake as described above over hot coals on the grill. Results MAY be achieved with oven, but . . . .
• The pastry need to be turned pretty often during baking, and baked until golden red color. Baking time is not determined, since baking over hot coals and on open air, but from my experience about 20 to 40 minutes, also depends on size you making.
• When cooled down a little,
• slide the baked pastry of the wooden stick, cut into individual servings, sprinkle with powdered sugar, enjoy.
• Also you can cover it in various nuts, coconut and such.
• Makes five, baked on two feet long, three inch diameter wooden stick.
• I tried to have your reading bit more enjoyable, if there is something not so clear (this recipe is VERY unusuall), feel free to ask.
• Tomas Sedlacek.

SLOVAK STUFFED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bring a pot of water to a boil.
• Mix beef and pork together. Stir in onion, cooked rice, parsley, salt, pepper, garlic salt and 1/2 can of tomato soup. Mix well.
• Core head of cabbage, place in boiling water and boil until partly cooked. Separate leaves and trim stems. Reserve about 24 to 32 whole leaves. Cut remaining leaves and line the bottom of large roasting pan.
• Lightly pack a small handful of the meat mixture and place in the center of a cabbage leaf. Fold top part of leaf over mixture, then fold in the sides and roll until mixture is completely encased. Lay rolls on top of torn cabbage leaves in pan. Place sauerkraut evenly over rolls. Lay bacon on top of sauerkraut. Sprinkle with 1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar. Mix chopped tomatoes and soup with water and pour over rolls. Add additional water to reach top of cabbage rolls.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 1/2 hours or until cooked through.

TRADITIONAL SLOVAK HALUSKI

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on paper towels. When bacon is cool, crumble and set aside.
• Place potatoes into a food processor and process until pureed, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and stir in flour, eggs, baking powder, and salt to make a sticky dough. Set dough aside.
• Fill a large pot about half full of lightly salted water and bring to a boil. Ladle large spoonfuls of the sticky dough to a small cutting board and use a knife to chop the dough into tablespoon-size pieces; as you cut off a piece, drop it into the boiling water. Let the dumplings boil over medium heat until they float, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove dumplings with a slotted spoon to a large serving bowl.
• Sprinkle bacon crumbles and a handful of shredded brick cheese over each batch of dumplings; continue to make, boil, and transfer dumplings to the bowl, sprinkling each batch with bacon and brick cheese. When all dumplings are made, gently stir the haluski to mix all ingredients.