Zrazy is meat roll with stuffing, cooking in Lithuanian, Belarusian, Polish and Ukrainian cuisine. But it can also be potato zrazy – croquettes with fillings. The most popular fillings are mushroom, meat or chicken liver.

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Bake it in jars, close while still hot with lids, wait for click-sound from lids… These buns can stay in cool place about a month. Any time you can open it, add whipped cream, or jam, or liquor, or nothing and have it with cup of tea. Cottage cheese, cream cheese and ricotta can be used. Use any favorite seeds, I added flax and chia, but sunflower and sesame works great too. Recipe adapted from La Perla Blog (Russian).

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If you do not know how to use a strange black ball-like roots, here’s an option. A simple salad of two ingredients – black radish and onion. The sweetness of onions reduces the sharpness and bitterness of radish. This salad is perfect for the Central Asian rice dishes, such as a pilaf or plov. If you fill that radish taste too sharp, cover it with cold water for half an hour, then drain in a colander and use.

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Easy vegetable cakes, great hot, with sour cream. Some add chopped scallion and curry, but this Russian version – with dill and garlic. Plain and simple.

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