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Slow Cooker Borscht

Recipe: Slow Cooker Borscht

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cabbage
  • 2 carrots
  • 3 beets (2 red, 1 yellow)
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • ½ lb. beef stew meat
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 4 small potatoes
  • Tomatoes – 10 ounces, diced
  • 3 oz. tomato paste
  • 1 cup beef broth or more
  • ½ cup red wine vinegar
  • ¼ tsp. caraway seeds
  • ½ cup fresh parsley
  • 1 tsp dry dill
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • Fresh dill
  • Crème fraiche

Instructions

  1. Place beef, beats, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, onion, and garlic in slow cooker.
  2. Whisk together beef broth, tomato paste, vinegar, dry dill, parsley, bay leaf, caraway, salt and pepper.
  3. Pour mixture over beef and vegetables, adding more broth to cover as needed. Cook on low for 8.5 hours.
  4. Set heat to high and add stir in shredded cabbage. Cover and cook for 30 minutes or until cabbage is tender. Serve with crème fraiche and fresh dill.

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Lox Latkes

Recipe: Lox Latkes

Ingredients

  • 8 medium yellow potatoes
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tsp. pepper, coarsely ground
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 large yellow onion
  • 1/2 tsp. Maggi seasoning (or replace with 1/2 cube chicken bouillon)
  • Vegetable oil
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/4 cup fresh dill
  • 1 lemon
  • Smoked salmon
  • Capers

Instructions

  1. Peel and grate potatoes (large grate). Place potato shards in a towel and squeeze to remove starch juice.
  2. Mince onions.
  3. Mix potatoes with onion, salt, pepper, vinegar, eggs, and Maggi.
  4. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan (1/4 inch thick). Fry hand-formed pancakes (squeezed to removed excess juice) until golden brown on each side. Smaller pancakes are perfect for hors d’oeuvres!
  5. Mix sour cream with dill.
  6. Peel lemon and cut into small wedges.
  7. After pancakes have cooled on a paper towel, place a slice of salmon on each piece along with a dollop of dill-cream, capers, and a lemon wedge. Add coarsely ground pepper.

Cooking time (duration): 1 hour

Number of servings (yield): 6

Meal type: hors d’oerves

Culinary tradition: German

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