I want to win him over with food?

Question

My boyfriend is from Albania. He once said that nobody can cook like his mother and I want to show him that I can cook, but, I am creole and I only cook creole dishes, american dishes and soul food. Where can I find an authentic Albanian recipe?

Answer 1

Chicken With Walnuts (Pule me arra)

500 gr. Chicken
3-4 tablespoons butter
? cup of tea peeled walnuts
5-6 cloves garlic, crushed
pepper
sail
1-2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons vinegar
5-6 cups water

? Simmer chicken in water seasoned with salt to taste until tender, about 1 hour. Remove chicken from cooking water, reserving 1-cup stock. Cool chicken slightly, then cut into 4 portions.
? Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet. Add chicken pieces and saute until lightly browned. Remove chicken pieces and keep warm.
? Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Add flour.
? Cook and stir until lightly browned. Add reserved stock, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Simmer over low heat until heated through, about 5 minutes. Spoon sauce over chicken pieces.




Baked Lamb with Yogurt (Tave kosi)

1,5 kg lamb leg or shoulder
Salt,
pepper
? cup butter
2 tablespoons rice
1 kg yogurt
5 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon flour

? Cut meat into 4 serving pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dot with ? cup butter and bake at 350 degrees, basting now and then with pan juices, about 40 minutes, or until well browned.
? Stir rice into pan juices. Remove baking pan from oven and set aside while preparing yogurt sauce.
? Combine yogurt with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in eggs until smooth. Set aside.
? Melt remaining ? cup butters and adds flour. Saute until smooth. Add yogurt mixture and stir until smooth.
? Pour yogurt sauce in baking pan, stirring it with meat pieces, and bake at 375 degrees 45 minutes. Serve hot.





Fried Meatballs (Qofte te Ferguara)

Serve these hot with French fries or mashed potatoes.
? kg ground meat (lamb, beef or chicken)
1 slice stale bread, broken up
2 tablespoons chopped feta cheese
1 union, finely grated
Salt, pepper
Crushed dried mint leaves
? cup flour
1 cup oil
? Combine meat, bread, feta cheese, onion, salt, pepper and mint to taste. Form into ?-inch thick patties, cylinders or balls. Roll in flour and fry in oil heated to 350 to 365 degrees.




Lamb without vegetable from Permeti

500 gr. Lamb
3-4 tablespoons butter
1-2 large unions (sliced)
? tablespoon flour
1 teacup milk
parsley
2 eggs
1 grain lemon-juice
sail
pepper

? Mix lamb with butter and onions together. Cook and stir until lightly browned.
? Roll in flour, stir some times, then add milk and a little water.
? Simmer over low heat until heated through.
? Remove from heat. Let cool and roll in eggs and lemon-juice.
? Stirring eggs and lemon-juice in chinaware, with a little cold water and rolling in gravy of meat.
? Mix this stock with lamb and roll in butter and cutting parsley and in the end sail pepper.
? Serve it its sauce.




Vine leaves stuffed with lemon and eggs

150 gr. pig salmagundi
150 gr. veal salmagundi
50 gr. Polished rice
3 unions, finely grated
fennel, finely grated
a little grease, finely grated
vine leaves
2 lemons
4 soupspoons butter
3 soupspoons
flour 4 yolk of eggs
garniture
salt
pepper

? Mix together in a bowl rice salmagundi, unions, fennel, salt, pepper, 50 gr. Cool water.
? Scald vine leaves. This mixture roll up in vine loaves.
? Put those inside a pot and insert 1 ? lemon-juice and water till pour all the components. Bring to boil. Set aside.
? Melt butter and add flour. Add a little juice. Bring to boil.
? Mix the eggs and remaining flour. Simmer for few minutes.
? Serve with sauce and tomatoes garniture.




Baked lamb with water-melon

500 gr. Lamb
? teacup oil
10-15 small unions
500 gr. Potatoes
10 carrots
2-3 pieces cerely
1-2 biting pepper
parsley, finely grated
salt
pepper
1 laurel leafage

? Cut meat into 4-5 serving portions. Roast meat in oil heated, until lightly browned.
? Fry unions in oil as usually, add sauce, 2 glasses with hot water, salt and pepper.
? Simmer meat over low heat not until in the end.
? All the other vegetables and fry in a large skillet and then put those in a baked.
? Pour the meat and the remaining gravy of meat, biting pepper, finely grated, and laurel.
? Simmer those over a low heat and then bake those.
? Serve hot with vegetables and the juice.




Turkey-cock with corn bread

1 small turkey-cock
4-5 fresh unions
100 gr. Butter
salt
pepper
1 corn bread
1 lemon

Prepare turkey-cock.
Rub turkey-cock with salt, pepper, butter and lemon.
Roast it and dot with its juice.
Fry a small of butter with fresh unions, finely grated, then add juice, a little water and simmer. Crush corn bread.
Roll in the juice.
Boil it several times.
Put pap on a plate and cut turkey-cock into pieces. Serve hot.




Lamb entrails roasted in a spit

Entrails of lamb
1 pair intensive lamb
marjoram
salt
pepper
oil or ? coffee-cup butter
1 lemon

? Clean lamb entrails very well.
? Put intensive lamb in a bowl, and mix with salt, pepper and marjoram.
? Then pour a little oil.
? Cut intensive lamb, lungs, livers, glands, grease into small square forms.
? Put in a bowl and mix with salt and pepper just like intensive lambs.
? Spit in a rod the entrails, then heart, and repeat this ordering, till in the end. With one of the intensive lambs cover completely all those.
? Tie the intensive lamb in a such manner that it can't liberate during the bake. Dot during the bake with a mixture of oil-butter-lemon-juice.




Fricassee (Tasqebap)

500 gr. A leg of lamb
3 tablespoons oil
tomatoes
2-3 unions (sliced)
1 glass wine
1 foliage laurel
sail
pepper

? Cut meat into small pieces. Simmer unions over low heat until heated through. Add meat and stir until lightly browned.
? Roll in wine, then add sauce, sail, pepper, laurel, a little water and simmer over low heat.




Cookies in Syrup (Sheqerpare)

2 cups sugar
? cup butter, softened
2 eggs
2 cups flour
? teaspoon baking soda
? cup water
? teaspoon vanilla extract
2 to 3 whole cloves

? Mix 1-cup sugar and butter in bowl. Add yolks and stir until smooth. Add flour and baking soda and still until soft dough forms.
? Roll out dough. Cut into 2-inch rounds. Place on baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees until pale gold, 20 minutes.
? Meanwhile, make syrup. Bring remaining 1-cup sugar and water to boil in saucepan and cook until syrup spins a long thread, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat and season with vanilla and cloves to taste.
? Remove cookies from oven when golden and cool. Pour hot syrup over cookies. Serve at room temperature.




Halvah with butter

600 gr. Flour
450 gr. Butter
150 gr. Almonds
1 kg sugar
cinnamon
lemon
? Make syrup. Mix 1 ? water, lemon-juice, sugar. Bring to boil. Set aside.
? Melt butter and put it over low heat.
? Fry almonds, add flour, then add syrup. It's ready.

Answer 2

I admire you effort to make him seem at home. But since he has had Albanian food most of his life, why don't you cook him an authentic creole dish? He can be opened up to a whole new tastes and you can still prove that you can cook. Plus creole food is sooooo yummy!! You can also learn some of his favorite recipes from him and his mom. That may bring you both closer to each other, your respective cultures, and the family. ;)

Answer 3

I am married to an Albanian man...i have been to Albania a couple of times, and wanted to cook in thier tradition at home as well....a reallly really easy thing to do is make an Albanian style salad...just cut up a tomato, a cucumber, a little bit of onion, some green pepper..then drizzle some oil (olive oil) on it..then sprinkle with some salt...also...the tave kosi is my husbands fave so use that recipe above...ALSO...

Albanian pies are generally made of thin pastry leaves which can be rolled out at home or bought as FILO dough at a supermarket. Most of the pies prepared by Albanian cooks are not sweet; instead, pie fillings are almost always salty. Thus, a piece of such a pie may well serve as the main dish of a meal.

Spinach Pie (Albanian Name: Byrek me spinaq)

Ingredients:

1 cup oil, preferably olive oil
1 1/2 packets (or about 30) pastry leaves (Filo Dough)
1 1/2 pounds spinach, chopped
1 cup diced feta cheese
1/2 cup chopped green onions
2 eggs
salt, half teaspoon
(NOTE: A medium-sized, round baking pan is recommended because it's more authentic but any medium-sized baking pan will do).

Cooking Instructions:

Brush the baking pan with some of the oil, and start laying the pastry leaves inside. First, lay two leaves, sprinkle or brush with oil, then lay two other leaves, and repeat the procedure until half of the leaves are laid. Make sure that they cover the pan by hanging them about one inch over the edges of the pan.
Sprinkle spinach with salt, then mix well by hand. Add the feta cheese, oil, onions, eggs and salt, and spread this mixture over the already laid pastry leaves. Finish by covering the spinach with the rest of the pastry leaves repeating the first-half procedure and then roll the hanging edges of the bottom leaves over the pie (think of a pizza crust), sprinkle top with oil and bake moderately at 3501_F for about 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve hot, accompanied with buttermilk, or beaten yogurt, thinned down in cold water or with chilled stewed prunes. Enjoy it.

and my favorite...

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baklava-I/Detail.aspx
baklava!

ask him to ask his mom to send you an albanian cookbook, and a little pot to make turkish coffee..just dont expect him to know how to make anything, guys dont cook at all there!

fried eggs for breakfast..tons of bread...plain yogurt (kos)

Answer 4

Does his mother like your creole dishes? Show that you are a great cook in your own right and then learn Albanian dishes from her. You'll win over the boyfriend and the mother.

Aloha

Answer 5

Get some recipes from his Mom. Find out what he likes/his favorite dishes are. Enjoy the cooking experience together. He may be able to share some new recipes with you and vice versa.

Answer 6

seems like the lady before has plenty of albanian recipes. but please consider this: the taste and flavors of ingredients in other parts of the world are going to be different than ingredients you get here. the textures, the techniques - it's all going to be slightly different.

so maybe think about incorporating a traditional albanian recipe into a creole meal. i promise you, whatever you do is just not going to be the same as his mama used to make. show him what YOU can do - make it yours.

and send me some biscuits. ;)

Answer 7

I just did a google search for Albanian food, try these sites.

http://www.albaniantranslators.com/recipes.html
http://www.joycesfinecooking.com/albanian_recipes.htm
http://www.gourmed.gr/recipes/albanian/?gid=1&nodeid=16
http://www.albaniancookbook.com/recipes.html

Good luck!

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Answer 9

Here are recipes for the appetizer, main dish and dessert!

This salad is simple and easy and served as an appetizer:
Tirana's Romaine Salad

one head of romaine lettuce
1 bunch of green onions, chopped
2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
salt
Pepper
olive oil
lemon juice

Wash the lettuce and break the leaves into bite-size pieces. Toss in a salad bowl and decorate with chopped green onions and egg slices. Add salt and pepper to taste. Right before serving, add olive oil and lemon juice to taste.
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Lamb Stew with Okra

12 oz Okra, fresh or frozen
2 med Green peppers, diced
2 cup Celery, diced
4 oz Onion, diced
4 Cloves garlic, pressed
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/2 cup Water
1 lb Roasted lamb, in bite size cubes
1/4 tsp Thyme
Paprika
Grated lemon rind

Cook okra until liquid evaporated in skillet or Microwave dish, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Add green pepper, celery, onion, garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 10 minutes. Stir to prevent vegetables from sticking. Add water, lamb and thyme and simmer, covered, over Low heat for 20 minutes until heated through. Sprinkle with paprika and garnish with lemon rind.
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Sheqerpare (cookies in syrup)

2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter softened
2 egg yolks
2 cup flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup water
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 whole cloves

Mix 1 cup sugar and butter in bowl. Add yolks and stir until smooth. Add flour and baking soda and stir until soft dough forms.
Roll out dough. Cut into 2-inch rounds. Place on baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees until pale gold, 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, make syrup. Bring remaining 1 cup sugar and water to boil in saucepan and cook until syrup spins a long thread, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat and season with vanilla and cloves to taste.
Remove cookies from oven when golden and cool. Pour hot syrup over cookies. Serve at room temperature.
This recipe yields about 30 (2-inch) cookies.

Answer 10

go to a book store and ask. but if i was him i would want some of what youre cooking im from southeast texas near cajun country.the cooking where hes from is alot like russian. its very basic. ask him to ask his mom to send you recepies

Answer 11

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