Turkey Meatball And Cabbage Soup with Chinese Twist
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Stuffed Peppers with Rice and Swiss Chard
By Olga February 27, 2012
I love stuffed vegetables, especially – sweet peppers. This recipe inspired by Food and Wine. Great combination, I added classic pine nuts into filling and omit curry.
Russian Turkey and Cabbage Meatballs – Lenivie Golubtsy
Golubtsy is very popular Eastern dish. In original recipes it’s meat and rice stuffing into cabbage or grape leaves. I made it with collard greens and kale. This recipe is popular variation, it’s name mean lazy, easy goluptsy. Chopped cabbage is added in meat and rice mixture. Some make it really easy: they don’t make meatballs and just fry it as is.
Lamb soup with chickpeas–Azerbaijan Piti
By Olga February 17, 2012
This soup or stew is popular across Azerbaijan and some parts of exUSSR. Traditionally, piti is cooked in individual pots, but I made only two portion in a small saucepan. Original recipe says: first the juice from the stew is poured over pieces of old bread and they are eaten together with some raw onion and sumac. The meat, chestnuts and chickpeas are then tipped onto the plate, mashed together with more sumac and raw onion. We ate it like any other soup, maybe it’s not authentic but sure tasty. In modern recipes potato is used as well as chestnuts, so I used both.
