Multi-cuisine

Multi-cuisine recipe posts on this blog describe dishes common in several cuisines or for which we don’t know the precise origin.  These dishes are characteristically “Eastern European” without belonging specifically to one national cuisine. Typically regional variations exist.

Květáková polévka

Cauliflower soup Květáková polévka

Czech cauliflower soup (květáková polévka) is simple yet very satisfying. The Slovaks also enjoy this soup (they call it karfiolová polievka). When a single fresh vegetable is in season–or when scarcity provides only one–soup can turn it into an entire meal. Soup can serve as a light dinner on a warm night or after a larger lunch. Or it can serve as a starter to a more substantial meal. Unlike much of Europe, in America we tend to eat our largest meal at suppertime. But cauliflower soup makes a perfect evening supper in a Czech or Slovak household.

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Syrnyky sweet cheese pancakes

Syrnyky Sweet Cheese Pancakes

Syrnyky fried cheese pancakes, made from sweet farmer’s cheese, are popular in several East Slavic as well as other cuisines. The fresh, unaged curd cheese in this recipe goes by many names: quark, tvorog (творог), syr (сир), white cheese and farmer’s cheese among them. Even strained cottage cheese would work in syrnyky, the Ukrainian name for these sweet cheese pancakes.

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