The recipes are from the e-Twinning project: ‘’A recipe book and traditional foods.’’

These recipes are the most representative of each country, that participated in the program.

We would like to thank all the teachers, students and schools who helped in the completion of this

recipe book.

The book was created by Tsatsou Sofia2nd Primary School Perea Greece

Christmas recipes

PolandOlsztyn Catholic Primary School

Pickled vegetablesIngredients

• 4 kg cabbage / cauliflower / 1 kg red peppers, 1 kg carrots, 1 bunch of celery .For the marinade : 700 ml vinegar, 200 g salt, 300 g sugar - boil on the stove .

Bulgaria, Kindergarten Iskra

2nd Primary School Perea Greece

• Kourampiedes• Ingredients:• 1 kilo flour• 2 cups butter• ¾ cup sugar• 1 tsp baking powder• 250 gr. Almonds• 2 vanillas• Rosewater• Icing sugar• Instructions:• Mix the butter and sugar.• Add the baking powder, flour and vanillas.• Knead the ingredients into soft dough.• Add the almonds.• Cut out shapes with the dough.• Place them on a tray.• Bake for 25 minutes.• Sprinkle them with rosewater and icing sugar.• Good luck!• Sofia Tsatsou, Fasoli Eirini

10 Primary School Athens Greece

Italy

ANDEZENO school

Latvia• Gingerbread Men Cookies • • (310 g.) purpose flour• ½ tsp baking soda• ¾ tsp salt• 1 tsp ground ginger• ½ tsp ground cinnamon• ¼ tsp ground cloves

Turkey• TURKISH MENEMEN• SCRAMCLED EGGS WITH VEGETABLES• -2 CUPS GREEN PEPPER,CHOPPED• -1 CUP DICED TOMATO• -1 SMALL ONION CHOPPED• -2 EGSS BEATEN• -3 BSP OIL• -1/2 SP SALT• -1 PINCH OF BLACK PEPPER• PLACE THE OIL AND ONIONS IN A PAN AND SAUTE THE ONIONS FOR 2-3

MINUTES OVER LOW MEDIUM HEAT.THEN ADD PEPPERS AND SALT.CLOSE THE LID AND COOK UNTIL THE PEPPERS BECOME SOFT BY STİMMİNG OCCOSİONALY ADD TOMATOES ,STIR AND COOK FOR 5-6 MINUTES WITH LID CLOSED.FINALLY ADD THE BEATEN EGGS AND STIR .ITS DONE WHEN THE EGGS ARE COOKED.MENEMEN İS VERY GOOD AND FAMOUS DISH.

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Poland Strzylowice• Christmas dishes in Poland• • Polish Christmas breakfast• • Traditional Christmas Eve supper called Wigilia is meatless, usually consists of

barszcz (borscht) with uszka (small dumplings) – a classic Polish Christmas Eve starter, followed by fried carp, carp fillet or cod with apple & leeks fresh salad, carp in aspic etc. traditionally carp (fried or Jewish style) provides a main component of the Christmas Eve meal across Poland. Other popular dishes, for the next day, include pickled matjas herring, rollmops, pierogi with sauerkraut and forest mushrooms, fish soup, kiełbasa, hams and bigos (savory stew of cabbage and meat) and vegetable salads. Among popular desserts are gingerbread, cheesecake, various fruits like oranges among others, poppy seed cake makowiec (makówki in Silesia), fruit compote, kluski with poppyseed, kutia sweet grain pudding in the eastern regions, like (Białystok) and ginger bread. Regional dishes include żurek, siemieniotka (in Silesia), and kołduny - mushrooms or meat stuffed dumplings in the eastern regions.

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Polish Rolmopsy or Herring Appetizer

TurkeyTurkish Manti

INGREDIENTS

• 1 KG FLOUR• 2 EGGS• SALT • BLACK PEPPER• MINCED MEAT• YOGHURT• BUTTER• SAUCE

CroatiaChristmas lunch

Ingredients :flour, eggs, salt

TurkeyStuffed vine leaves

• Ingredients :• -500 g vine leaves -1 kilo of

onions• -1.5 cups of rice -chopped mint

leaves • -1 water glass of olive oil -a pinch of salt • -3 cups of boiling water -2,3 lumps of

sugar• -1 tablespoon pimento -1 lemon

Breakfast recipes

LAVASH is Armenian traditional unleavened bread. It is the most widespread type of bread in Armenia. Lavash is made by flourflour, waterwater, and salt.

Armenia 16rd Primary School Vanadzor

0.5kg flour should be mixed with warm water and a little salt and make the dough.

Flour

watersalt

Cyprus Lythrodontas Kindergarten• Cyprus breakfast Recipe• • Traditional bread• 2 kg flour• Warm water• Oil• Salt• Instant yeast powder• Sesame • • Breakfast• Bread (our own)• Olives (green and black) • Traditional cheese “halloumi”• Tomatoes• Cucambers• Anari (soft type of cheese)•

Our bread is ready!!!

2nd Primary School Perea GreeceCheese pie-Kourou

• Ingredients:• 1 cup yoghurt• 1 cup sunflower oil• 1 tsp salt• ½ kilo self raising flour• 300 gr. Feta cheese• 2 eggs• 1 egg (mixed)• Instructions:• Mix all the ingredients together.• Roll into small balls.• Put them on a baking tray.• Brush each cheese pie with a little egg.• Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. •

PolandOlsztyn Catholic Primary School

Bulgarian breakfastSmall sandwiches

• Small slices of bread• Cheese• Butter• Parsley• carrot

TACHINITahini is a product which is part of the nutritional choices of our diet. It is rich in calcium and has a lot of vitamins (B1, B2).Tahini is a natural product and is produced from crushed sesame seeds (Seasamun Indicum).HONEYHoney is aromatic and sweet. It comes from the plant's nectar, which is collected by bees. The bees change it into a thick liquid for their food. They save this in their honeycomb. It is a natural substance which can be used in a number of foods.YOGHURTYoghurt is made from boiled milk which has thickened with the help of microorganisms. This food has great nutritional value with a lot of calcium and helps in the therapy of bowel disorders.FETA CHEESEFeta cheese is made from goat and sheep milk and is rich in calcium.

Healthy breakfast 2nd Primary School Perea Greece

United KingdomSt Thomas Becket Catholic School London

Omelettes

• 1 block of cheese• 4 slices of ham• 4 eggs

Method1.Firstly crack open 4 eggs into a bowl.2.Secondly grate the cheese.3.Thirdly,chop your ham and cheese and gently tip them into the bowl.4.Then mix them together (carefully)5.Then add a sprinkle of salt and pepper.6.Then turn the cooker on.7.Pour the omelette mix into a frying pan.8.Leve them in the cooker till they get golden brown.

9. Them eat them as quick as you can.Enjoy!!!These are nice at lunch with a nice glass of water. By William sparrow

10o Primary School AthensOlive oil

• One of the main ingredients of this recipe is olive oil. Olive oil, which comes from the olive tree, has its roots back in ancient Creece. After a controversy between the Goddess Athena and the God Poseidon on by whom would the city be named after, the Goddess Athena won by offering a piece of olive tree.

Creek Pancakes with honey and cinnamon for breakfast

• For dough:• 1.5 cups of lukewarm water• 2. 3 vanillas• 3.big spoon sugar (tablespoon)• 4.500 gr. Flour (til it becomes porridge)• 5.olive oil• For sprinkle:• Sugar or honey (as much as you like)• Cinnamon (as much as you like)• How to perform• Warm the olive oil in a non stick frypan• When burnt (hot enough), put the dough slowly using a big

spoon• Calculate that 4 spoons of dough fit in a small frypan• Cook until brown on both sides and are ready to serve

Poland JarostyMy favorite breakfast

Poland StrzyzowiceScrambled eggs

• Ingredients:• • 12 eggs • 1/4 cup heavy cream • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter • 1/4 teaspoon salt • • Directions:• 1 whisk together all ingredients except butter.• 2 Place your butter in a skillet warm butter up until you see little white foamy bubbles gathering.• 3 Pour egg mixture to skillet.• 4 DO NOT OVERSTIR!• 5 Let cook about a minute under medium heat, then take spatula through middle of eggs.• 6 Mix slightly.• 7 Cook eggs until preferred texture.• 8 Eggs should be completely golden yellow, there should be no other color in eggs at all.• 9 These are the fluffiest, most wonderful textured eggs you will ever have.• 10 I hope you like them.•

ItalyScuola dell’Infanzia di Arignano

La nostra colazioneOur breakfast

CroissantIngredienti:

Pasta sfogliaMarmellata

1 UovoZucchero

Ingredients: Puff pastry

Jam 1 Egg Sugar

Latvia• Because Latvian location is on the east coast of the

Baltic Sea, the main food are cooked from fish.• The agricultural products are the main of the Latvian

traditional food contents. They are potatoes, wheat, cabbage, onions, eggs, and pork. Also one of the Latvian traditional foods are boiled gray peas with bacon.

Carnival recipes

SpainPancake

To make a

pancake you

need : Flour,

salt, milk,

eggs, sugar

and butter.

CroatiaFritule

2nd Primary School Perea GreeceTRUFFLES

• 250 gr Butter• 2 pkts Petit Beurre Biscuits• 1 cup chopped walnuts• 5-6 tbls cocoa powder• 2 bags of chocolate truffle• 2-3 tsps liqueur

PROCEDURE• Mix the butter,cocoa and walnuts.• Break the biscuits into small pieces and add to the mixture.• Mix all the ingredients.• Make small balls and roll them into the truffles.

RECIPE FOR CARNIVALFROM INFANT SCHOOL OF

ANDEZENO-ITALY

BUGIE

Poland OlsztynCarnival snack- finger foods

• Cook brussels sprouts semi-hard with salt and half a teaspoon of sugar (about 15 minutes). Be careful not to boil Brussels sprouts, because then loses its color. Cook is not covering the pot with a lid.

• When cooked, drain off any water and stir with a spoon of butter brussels sprouts. On skewers stuffed sequentially cherry tomatoes, cheese, and at the end of the warm brussel sprouts. Arrange shashliks in the glass, creating a bouquet.

Milk pie• Ingredients• 2 kilos of milk• 4 spoons of meal• 2 ½ spoons of flour• 2 cups(of coffee) oil(for the crème)• Salt• 5 handfuls sugar• 6 eggs (at the end)• 4 sheets of filo pastry (in - between the sheets pour

some oil and cinnamon)

10o PRIMARY SCHOOL OF ATHENS(children with special needs)

Latvia• Cheese pancakes

• • Ingredients• Flour wheaten 2,5 glasses• Sugar of 100 g• Egg 5.p.• Butter of 200 g• Milk 3 glasses• Cheese of 300 g• Salt

Party recipes

Cyprus• Lythrodonta’s Kindergarten • • Almond candy Recipe • • 2 glasses ground almonds• 1 glass sugar• 1 glass white sugar• ½ glass rose water•

Vanadzor N16 primary school Vanadzor N16 primary school

For eTwinning

Cook Time

Prep time: 1 hourCook time: 30 minReady in: 1 hour 30 minYields: 40 servings (baklava pieces)

Ingredients

4 cups of flour0.7 lbs (300g) of butter4 eggs0.7 lbs (300g) of sour cream2 cups of sugar0.7 lbs (300g) of walnuts1 teaspoon of baking soda3-4 tablespoons of natural honey

CroatiaMotanice

Cyprus BOUREKIA small pies

• 6 glasses of flour 1 kilo unsalted white cheese

• 1 spoon of salt ½ glass of sugar and more if you like

• ¾ glass olive oil rose water• 2 glasses lukewarm water 2 tea spoon cinnamon•

PortugalGrandmother’s Pumpkin Cookies

INGREDIENTS:

• RED PUMPKIN : 2,5KG• FLOUR :5 SPONS• SUGAR: 5 SPONS

CyprusLythrodontas kindergarten

Cake with Cyprus cheese (haloumi) • 5 eggs• 0,5 a glass of Olive oil• ¾ of a glass milk• 1 medium-sized haloumi (Cyprus cheese) cut in small cubes• 2 teaspoons of peppermint • Bake for 40 minutes at 170°C • Bon appetite!

Our haloumi cake is ready!!!!

2nd Primary School Perea GreeceIce-cream cakes

• Ingredients• 100 gr. Butter• 100gr. Sugar• 2 vanillas• 2 eggs• 125 gr. Flour• Ice cream cones• • Procedure• Beat the butter and sugar.• Add the eggs.• Slowly add the dry ingredients.• Mix well.• Fill 2/3 of the cone with the mixture.• Bake for 15 minutes in pre heated oven .

Picture food

Italy Arignano

GOOD LUCK RECIPE FOR SPRING

ANDEZENO-ITALY

2nd Primary School Perea Greece

CroatiaStrawberry cake

Easter recipes

Croatia

2nd Primary School Perea Greece• Ingredients:• Eggs• Vinegar• Egg dye• • • Instructions:• Put water in a big pot.• Add half a cup vinegar and egg dye.• Add eggs and wait 10 minutes.• Our eggs are ready!• Good luck!

Armenia 16rd Primary School VanadzorFish Ishkhan

ItalyColomba di Pasqua

900 g flour 10 g of yeast 75 ml of water 200 g of butter 320 g of sugar 310 g of milk at kutia temperature 70 g of cream 1 egg 5 egg yolks 30 g of icing sugar 65 g almond flour 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 5 g of salt grated orange peel 250 g of whole almonds 130 g of chocolate drops

For the frosting of the dove: 50 g almond flour 100 g of sugar 30 ml of water 1 egg white

LatviaEaster cake

• You will need:• • • Flour - 5.5 cups, • • Yeast - 50 g • • Milk - 1.5 cups, • • yolks - 10 pcs., • • Protein - 3 pcs., • • sugar - 1 cup • • butter - 250 g, • • raisins - half a cup, • • lemon peel - 3 teaspoons • • vanilla sugar - 3-4 teaspoons, • • Salt - to taste.

CINNAMON STICKS A LOAF OF STALE BREAD BEATEN EGGS

SUGARMILK

Torrijas are very popular in Spain.

A torrija is a slice of bread soaked in milk and beaten eggs and fried in a pan with olive oil.

We often eat Torrijas as a dessert in Easter time, so…

…ARE YOU READY FOR EATING THEM THIS YEAR?

Italy AndezenoBREAD FOR ESTER

• 100 g. of butter • 200 g. Of sugar• 33 g. of flour • 2 eggs for dough• 1 egg for each garnishment• Colored sugar for garnishment• Let the dough rest for 30 minutes

10o Primary School Athens GreeceEaster Lazarakia

We will need: 1) 500gr. hard flour

2) 1 sachet of dry yeast3)3 / 4 cup lukewarm water4)4 cups of sugar5) 1/3 cup of olive oil6) ½ tsp cinnamon7) a pinch of trimmed clove8) 1 sachet anise9) a few cloves for the eyes

The Saturday of is the

Saturday before Great Week, when people celebrates their first Easter, the "Uprising" of Lazarus. "Lazarika"is a custom that varies from place to place. In Central Greece, Macedonia and Thrace during the custom only girls participate ,"The Lazarines", as they are called. Lazarines with a basket decorated with flowers, go from house to house and sing

Spring recipes

CroatiaScrambled eggs with wild asparagus

2nd Primary School Perea GreeceA dessert with yoghurt and strawberries

Ingredients

• 400 gr. Yoghurt• 10-15 strawberries• 3-4tablespoons strawberry jam• 16 biscuits• 2 tablespoons icing sugar• Procedure • In a plastic cup break a biscuit into small pieces.• Cut the strawberries into halves.• In a bowl mix the yoghurt and sugar.• Add the strawberry jam.• Mix all the ingredients.• Put strawberries into the cups.• Add the mixture and stir.• Your dessert is ready.

LatviaApple pie

Eggs mix with 1 cup sugar. In egg with sugar put the 1 cup of sifted flour.

In a form lay out dough and from above lay out apples. Bake in oven for

35 minutes.

10o Primary School Athens GreeceSpring cookies

Ingredients 1. 2 cups sugar

2. 4 eggs3. 250 gr. butter4. ½ cup milk5. orange zest6. 1 kilo flour7. 4 teaspoons baking powder8. 2 vanilla9. ½ teaspoon soda ½ teaspoon salt

ArmeniaVanadzor 16rd Primary School

• Ghapama• 3 hours, for 15 person• Ingredients• 1 middle pumpkin• 1 glass rice• 1 glass different dried fruits• 1 glass nuts• 1 small glass oil (or butter 2 table spoon)• Cinnamon• Bahar• Salt• Preparation• Cut topping of the pumpkin as it becomes cover for it. Then clean kernel of the pumpkin.

Cut dried fruits and nuts and heat in the oil.

Add the rice, honey and cut fruits and nuts so to fill the half of the pumpkin.

Pull water to cover the rice.

Close the pumpkin with its top and cook it in oven till the water sucks in the rice and the pumpkin is cooked.

Summer recipes

LatviaCheesecake

• Ingredients: curd 1 cups; flour 1/2 cups; tablespoon sugar; 2 eggs; 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel.

• Mix eggs with sugar. In curd add eggs with sugar, curd vanilla extract, lemon juice, flour and all this is mixed well. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes.

• BON APPETIT!!!

10 Primary School Athens Greece

Greek Stuffed Tomatoes RecipeWhat we need:

• 12-15 tomatoes, green or red peppers, courgettes, aubergines or what we like • oil • 200 g. rice • 4 onions • 4 cloves garlic • 2 carrots • 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped • Little mint and fennel (if you have) • Little breadcrumbs • Potatoes • Salt and pepper

CroatiaFried pilchards with potatoes

Italy AndezenoHand made ice cream

INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PERSONS• 4 egg yolks • 160 grams of brown sugar • 200 ml of cream to assemble • 1/2 liter of milK • 200 gr. dark chocolate (or half a vanilla pod to the

cream if you want it)

2nd Primary School Perea GreeceTraditional Greek Salad

• Ingredients:• Tomatoes• Cucumbers• Olives• Green peppers• Feta cheese• Olive oil• Oregano• Salt

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