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Flemish Vol-au-Vent

A vol-au-vent is the French name for a baked puff pastry batter. The name means ‘windblown’ and describes the lightness of the pastry.
A round opening is cut in the top and the pastry cut out for the opening is replaced as a lid after the case is filled. In Flanders the pastry is filled with a chicken, meatball and mushroom sauce.

Instructions
  • Make small meatballs from the minced meat and boil them in the stock until cooked
  • Rub the mushrooms clean and fry them in little butter or margarine
  • Season the mushrooms with salt and pepper
  • Remove the bones, grease and skin from the boiled chicken
  • Cut the chicken in small pieces
  • Make a white sauce with the butter or margarine, flower, cream and stock and add the egg yolks and lemon juice
  • Mix in the mushrooms, chicken pieces, meatballs and grated cheese
  • Heat the baked puff pastry batters in the oven
  • Remove them from the oven and fill them with the hot sauce
  • Serve with fries or rice.
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Slovenian Cottage Cheese

Sirovi Štruklj is one of the most characteristic dishes, known all over Slovenia. Štruklji are made from different kinds of dough and can have a wide range of fillings; they can also be baked or cooked, sweet or savory. Until the 1930’s they used to be prepared at holidays and festivities and to celebrate the end of major farm work. The most special kind of štruklji, especially during spring and summer, is prepared with tarragon filling. Other widely known varieties are those with cottage cheese filling, walnut, apple and poppy seed štruklji, along with many others.

Ingredients

  • 4 baked puff pastry batters
  • 1 boiled soup chicken
  • 250 g/8,8 oz minced meat
  • 150 g/5,3 oz grated cheese
  • 250 g/8,8 oz mushrooms
  • 100 g/3,5 oz butter or margarine
  • 100 g/3,5 oz flower
  • 1 l/1 quart chicken stock
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1,5 dl/0,15 quarts cream
  • juice of 1,5 lemon

Serves

  • 4 people

Preparation time

  • 10 minutes

Cook time

  • 40 minutes

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