Croatian Lamb Brodet Recipes

CROATIAN LAMB "BRODET"

Steps:

• Sauté onion in mixture of butter and olive oil.
• Add carrot, bacon and celery and sauté it shortly.
• Cut the meat to walnut size.
• Sauté meat until gets colour and starts to release liquid.
• Than add wine and cook until liquid partly evaporates.
• Add water to cover meat and cook until it is soft (about 90 min; add water if necessary).
• Before it is done add nutmeg powder, salt, pepper.
• Cook for more 10 min and add before mixed yolk, cheese and lemon in "brodet".
• Cut the fire, and wait 10 minute before serving.
• Serve with noodles or flour gnocchi.

CROATIAN LAMB/MUTTON CHOWDER (AJNGEMAHTES)

Steps:

• Put cold water in a pot (appropriate large pot).
• Rind carrots, onion, parsley, celery and put all other ingredients into water. Boil and after it boils reduce heat and cook for 3 to 4 hours.
• In the meantime, cook green peas until almost done and put aside.
• Take another pot and heat olive oil and put flour in it and fry until it become slightly brown (brownish). Add just a little soup in it and mix hard until it become creamy; than add filtered soup.
• Cut carrots into small cubes; add green peas and some lamb meat; of course cut it into small pieces.
• Cook for more 30 minutes on low fire. You can also add noodles if you like.
• Before serving add sour cream and freshly minced dill and serve.

CROATIAN FISH "BRODET"

Steps:

• For this meal you have to have large round pot with low rim.
• Put olive oil in a pot and sauté the onion until it is soft.
• Put fish in (if it is too big cut it in portions), fry very shortly. Add vinegar and cook gently for 2 more minutes.
• Add garlic and bay leaf. DO NOT STIR with any kind of ladle, just shake the whole pot (if you have wooden flat ladle, you may move fish a bit).
• Add tomato, salt, pepper, raisins and water to cover fish.
• Cook open for 50-60 minute on not too strong fire.
• Add water if evaporates too quickly.
• Try it: if it's too sour, add sugar.
• At the end add parsley leaves and some more olive oil.
• Serve with hard corn mush (polenta, as we say).