English-language recipes and cooking videos around Slovakia

Estonian recipes: Stewed sauerkraut (video included)

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Estonian recipes: Estonian biscuit cake, Eve-Külli style (video included)

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Estonian cuisine: When fish rules the table

“I AM very proud to have the family name Kala, which means fish in Estonian, and I told my husband long ago: if we marry, the fish will be there,” said Eve-Külli Kala, the Estonian ambassador to Slovakia, while preparing Estonian herring dishes at her Vienna residence, adding that fish is an essential part of Estonian cuisine.

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Estonian recipes: Herring in sour cream (video included)

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Preparing Croatian pašticada is neither a simple nor short endeavor, according to Croatian Ambassador to Slovakia Jakša Muljačić.

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Croatian cuisine: Love for meat, tradition

MAKE small holes with a sharp knife to a round piece of steak or beef and fill them with salty pieces of garlic, smoked bacon and five pieces of clove, Jakša Muljačić said while passionately explaining the first steps for making Pašticada, a traditional Croatian dish. The Croatian ambassador to Slovakia placed the meat in a bowl and poured red wine, vinegar and Prošek, a sweet dessert wine from southern Dalmatia, saying that the meat needs to rest in this marinade overnight.

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Croatian recipes: Pašticada (video included)

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Potato mushroom cream soup served with chive oil and potato chips

Regional taste with touch of French cuisine

If you like tradition and quality, both the menu and the interior at St Hubert restaurant in Bratislava will hit the spot. Chef Pavol Cibulka, an apprentice of Monsieur Jean Brouilly, the renowned and successful Michelin-rated French chef, has prepared with his team a selection of specialities. The hunter-style restaurant in the Apollo Hotel has been rated as the best hotel restaurant in Slovakia several times. The walls are decorated with hunting trophies including wolf and bear skins as well as dozens of antlers which nicely complement the variety of tastes and the type of food offered. Guests who prefer spacious rooms, comfortable seating and the colours of nature will certainly find the restaurant appealing.

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Roberto Martini and his wife Flavia presented Italian cuisine, with a focus on seasonal autumn ingredients.

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Italian cuisine: 'Good for body, purse and health'

OLIVE oil, parmesan, fusilli and penne pasta, grapes, pomegranate, basil, eggplant and apples elegantly arranged on a large table with autumn leaves and a small Italian flag leave no doubts about the type of cuisine that Roberto Martini and his wife Flavia were about to introduce to their audience.

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Italian recipes: Risotto with squash (video included)

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Italian recipes: Pasta with tomatoes and melanzane (video included)

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Portuguese recipes: Favas de coentrada (baby beans with chorizo and coriander) (video included)

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Dried and salted codfish is used widely in Portuguese cuisine even today, says Ana Maria C. Ribeiro da Silva.
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Portuguese cuisine: Visiting the land of 1,000 fish recipes

THERE are more than 1,000 ways to prepare codfish, said Ana Maria Coelho Ribeiro da Silva, who is in Slovakia representing the country with Europe’s highest fish consumption per capita, adding that Portugal’s codfish tradition goes back to the 15th century.

Portuguese recipes: Bacalhau com Broa (codfish with corn and wheat bread) (video included)

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Portuguese recipes: Papos De Anjo (egg cakes in syrup) (video included)

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Marios Kountourides, the Cypriot ambassador to Slovakia, preparing Cypriot meals with his wife Sandrine.

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Cypriot cuisine: Old times in a dish

CYPRIOT cuisine is like a historical map of Cyprus, with “traces of different nations, which emerged through the country’s rich and sometimes turbulent history”, said Marios Kountourides, the Cypriot ambassador to Slovakia, while preparing Kleftiko, an oven-baked lamb dish with potatoes, seasoned with oregano and salt.

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