The Jewish cuisine is a unique phenomenon! The matter is that it doesn't exist at all. During the long and complicated history representatives of this nationality were scattered all over the world. This is why Jewish cuisine includes sweet stuffed fish in Poland style, and hot dishes of Mexican and Argentina Jews, saccharine sweets from Morocco, and spicy food from Bukhara. Eclecticism is supposed to be the most precise term for cuisine! But all this abundance of tastes is united by a system of check and balances - the laws of kashrut. It manages all the culinary process both in Africa and Saint-Petersburg. Igor Vukolov learns how to prepare stuffed carp and famous vorschmack* according to all the rules of kashrut.

*In Jewish cuisine, vorschmack is made of chopped herring, without meat, sometimes adding chopped hard-boiled egg and grated fresh apple. It is served as a cold appetizer.


Recipe «Stuffed Gefilte fish»

Recipe «Forshmak»  

Recipe «Strawberry soup»

Stuffed Gefilte fish

recipe serves 6 persons; preparation time ~ 30 minutes; cooking time ~ 30 minutes
Ingredients:
1 kg. carp fillet, 3 boiled potatoes, 300 g. mushrooms, 3 onions, 2 eggs.

Directions:

Cut out fish fillet. For this make a deep cut along the spine. Cut meat with skin out of the spine. Put out large rib bones (the small ones will dissolve while heat treatment). Try not to harm skin while cutting meat. Put skin aside.

Prepare stuffing. Chop mushrooms and onion finely. Roast in a pan. Mince fish fillet and boiled potato. Add raw eggs and toasted mushrooms and onion. Salt and pepper to taste.

Prepare dough. Mix eggs and milk. Add dry yeast and stir thoroughly. Pour flour carefully to avoid lumps. Blend everything and put in a dark place to make the dough rise.

Stuffing. Lay foil in a hardboard. Oil it with vegetable oil. Lay fish skin.

Lay fish skin

Spread minced meat above the way the stuffing may be wrapped with skin. There supposed to be a roll. Wrap it into a foil avoiding gaps. Twist edges tightly.

Bake in oven for 30 minutes. Cut stuffed fish into slices and serve with vegetables and greenery.

Forshmak

recipe serves 6 persons; cooking time ~ 30 minutes
Ingredients:
300 g. slightly salted herring fillet 1-2 apples, 2 boiled eggs, 100 g. white bread, 1 onion, 100 g. butter, grind black pepper.

For sauce: 2 boiled egg yolks, vegetable oil, black ground pepper.

Directions:

Cut herring fillet, removing thoroughly all bones. Mince fillet. Cut crust off bread. Soak crumb in some cold water or milk. Mince egg whites, onion and peeled apple. Mix all ingredients, add melted butter and squeezed crumb of white bread. Blend thoroughly. Make small cutlets. Prepare sauce. Grind egg yolks until smooth. Add vegetable oil, blend until watery. Taste and salt to taste. Serve forshmak on slices of roast black bread and decorate with sauce and greenery.

 

Strawberry soup

recipe serves 1 person; cooking time ~ 10 minutes
Ingredients:
100-150 g. fresh strawberry, 5 g. ginger root, 30-50 g. sugar, fresh mint leaves.

Directions:

Peel ginger root (a small one), cut it finely. Chop mint leaves finely.

Add strawberry, ginger, sugar, chopped mint leaves and some cold water to a blender. Whip all ingredients until potato mash. Pour it out to a bowl, serve with mint leaves.