My hubby is albanian, looking for easy authentic recipes to surprise him?
Answers:
A few here
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something without dog or horse may be a welcome treat for him
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Beans on toast./
MUSAKA - ALBANIAN STYLE
8 to 10 potatoes, peeled, washed & sliced thin
Fry in butter.
6 eggs
1 1/2 lb. hamburger
3 onions, simmered
1 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. plus paprika
Salt & pepper
1/2 qt. milk, scalded
Fry hamburger and mix these ingredients.
Arrange a layer of sliced potatoes on bottom of 15 x 9 x 1 1/2 inch casserole or baking pan. Top with a layer of hamburger mixture. Repeat a layer of potatoes and hamburger finishing top with a layer of potatoes. Mix the scalded milk with well beaten eggs slowly. Pour this egg-milk mixture over casserole to barely cover top layer. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Serves 8.
Goat knuckle surprise. 2&1/2 lbs of desicated goat knuckles, four onions(skin on), Twelve potatoes (well sprouted), gleaned carrots, 2 cups pig fat, 1 cup flour and cheap brown wine (to taste). In an old metal barrel half, over an open fire, brown the floured goat knuckles in 1/2 the pig fat. add the onions whole as well as the potatoes and carrots and free-pour some of the brown wine until the contents is covered. Simmer uncovered until the liquid reduces to 1/3 and the meat easily falls off the bone and the tendons lose their snap. In a seperate pan, add remaining pig fat to flour and some brown wine. Cook over open flame until it reduces to a thick sause (consistancy of pancake batter) . Plate the contents of the barrel and cover with the sauce and serve - enjoy.
Ok so these should help.
Chicken With Walnuts (Pule me arra)
500 gr. Chicken
3-4 tablespoons butter
? cup of tea peeled walnuts
5-6 cloves garlic, crushed
pepper
sail
1-2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons vinegar
5-6 cups water
? Simmer chicken in water seasoned with salt to taste until tender, about 1 hour. Remove chicken from cooking water, reserving 1-cup stock. Cool chicken slightly, then cut into 4 portions.
? Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet. Add chicken pieces and saute until lightly browned. Remove chicken pieces and keep warm.
? Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Add flour.
? Cook and stir until lightly browned. Add reserved stock, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Simmer over low heat until heated through, about 5 minutes. Spoon sauce over
chicken pieces.
Baked Lamb with Yogurt (Tave kosi)
1,5 kg lamb leg or shoulder
Salt,
pepper
? cup butter
2 tablespoons rice
1 kg yogurt
5 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon flour
? Cut meat into 4 serving pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dot with ? cup butter and bake at 350 degrees, basting now and then with pan juices, about 40 minutes, or until well browned.
? Stir rice into pan juices. Remove baking pan from oven and set aside while preparing yogurt sauce.
? Combine yogurt with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in eggs until smooth. Set aside.
? Melt remaining ? cup butters and adds flour. Saute until smooth. Add yogurt mixture and stir until smooth.
? Pour yogurt sauce in baking pan, stirring it with meat pieces, and bake at 375 degrees 45 minutes. Serve hot.
Fried Meatballs (Qofte te Ferguara)
Serve these hot with French fries or mashed potatoes.
? kg ground meat (lamb, beef or chicken)
1 slice stale bread, broken up
2 tablespoons chopped feta cheese
1 union, finely grated
Salt, pepper
Crushed dried mint leaves
? cup flour
1 cup oil
? Combine meat, bread, feta cheese, onion, salt, pepper and mint to taste. Form into ?-inch thick patties, cylinders or balls. Roll in flour and fry in oil heated to 350 to 365 degrees.
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One of the answers was definitely abusive, and intended to be. Avoid horse and pork meat. Even if he's not Muslim, he probably won't be used to pork.
Haven't time to give recipes, but try a site for Turkish food - it's very similar, especially dishes from northern Turkey such as börek. Stuffed vine leaves, stuffed aubergine and peppers. Use minced lamb if you can get it.
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