Mediterranean Cuisine As It Once Was – Autumn Food

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By Marko Cop

Autumn is the beautiful time on the Mediterranean, olives and grapes are ripening, it's cooler and wonderful to just stay in the moment and eat some old-fashioned food.

Lunch

Cabbage Soup With Rice


Preparation:

Chop the onion finely and braise it on the olive oil. Add the parsley, garlic and chopped cabbage. When the cabbage turns completely yellow add some stock with tomato paste or tomato juice, salt and pepper to taste. Cook until cabbage is soft. To finish add the rice and cook it until rice is cooked. Add water if necessary.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 small onion

parsley

2 garlic cloves

1 pound of cabbage

1 tablespoon of tomato paste

salt and pepper

½ pound rice

Cooked Mutton

Mutton is especially good in the autumn. Cook it slice into half inch pieces and serve with tomato sauce.


Preparation:

Take the meet, wash it well and place in the large pot, fill with water and cook slowly. When the water starts to boil add the vegetables, salt to taste and cook for two hours.

Ingredients:

1,2 pounds mutton carrots

celery

onion

celeriac

salt


Preparation:

Place the tomatoes in boiling water for a couple of second to release the skin from the body (if using canned tomatoes take off all the skin) peal them, and cook in little water. When cooked place the tomatoes in blender and make tomato juice. Return the juice back to stove and add breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, finely chopped garlic, basil and parsley. Cook for half an hour until cooking cream consistency. Serve hot with mutton.

Tomato Sauce

Serves 4

Ingredients:

1 pound ripe tomatoes

(use caned if they are not in season)

parsley

1 garlic clove

1 tablespoon olive oil

salt and pepper

sugar

basil

1 tablespoon breadcrumbs


Preparation:

Finely chop cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, onions and potatoes . Braise the onion until golden, add the garlic, chopped vegetables and parsley. Cook until the water evaporates then add the water with tomato paste mixed in. Cook with the lid on until all vegetables are cooked, approximately one hour (Potatoes take longer).

In this manor you can also prepare: cabbage, peppers, zucchinis, eggplant and tomatoes. Add tablespoon of pesto when preparing this vegetable mix.

Mixed Fried Vegetables

Ingredients:

½ cabbage

2 kohlrabi

4 carrots

2 potatoes

1 tablespoon olive oil

little onion

2 garlic cloves

parsley

1 teaspoon tomato paste

Grapes

Dinner


Preparation:

Clean fish grill first. Chop the onion, carrot, celery and parsley, and braise them on olive oil until golden. Add the garlic, bay leaf and rosemary. When the vegetables start to boil, add the vinegar and pour hot over the grilled fish. Marinated this way it can hold for couple of days. When served cold sprinkle with lemon.

Cold Marinated Grilled Fish

Ingredients:

2 pound fish (mackerel or tuna)

1 onion

1 carrot

parsley

celery

rosemary

2 garlic cloves

2 bay leafs

2 tablespoons vinegar


Preparation:

Cook the beans, strain and add olive oil, salt and pepper while hot. Chop the onion as finely as you like and add vinegar when the beans cool down.

Bean Salad

Ingredients:

white beans

olive oil

salt and pepper

2 onions

vinegar

All recipes have been modified so contemporary ingredients can be used.

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