Food in the Czech Republic

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Food in the Czech Republic
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• Its very important what we eat, and how we eat,
  because food is one of the basic things for
  people.

• Lots of people, especially teenagers, stop eating
  meat, because of concerns of animals. These
  people are called vegetarian.

• Traditional Czech cousine is however a bit
  unhealthy and people can get fat.

• Most people usually have 3 meals a day breakfast
  (or elevenses), lunch and dinner (or supper) and
  something to drink with every food (Scientist
  recommend drinking at least two litres of water a
  day).

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Breakfast

• The day begins with breakfast, which consist of
  something to drink (tea with lemon and sugar, hot
  chocolate, or black coffee etc.) and something to
  eat (rolls, bread with butter, jam, honey, etc.)
  and usually fruit.

• Quite a lot of people eat cereal or cornflakes
  with yoghurt, milk, chocolate, hazelnut and so on.

• Some people dont eat this food, because they
  dont have enough time.

• In some families they eat warm breakfast toast,
  pancakes, scrambled eggs or hot sausage.

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Breakfast

• Cold breakfast
• Warm breakfast
• Drink
• Snack in the school

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1. Cold breakfast

• A slice of bread, rolls or buns with
• Cheese
• Marmalade
• Honey
• Ham
• Roquefort
• Bacon
• Paste
• Salami
• A bowl of cereals or corn flakes
• Cake

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2. Warm breakfast

• Scrambled eggs
• Fried eggs
• Pancakes
• Hot Saussages
• Buttered toast
• Breakfast should include fruits or vegetables.

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drink

• We usually drink for breakfast
• A cup of tea
• A cup of coffee (with milk)
• A glass of mineral watter
• A glass of milk
• A cup of cocoa
• A glass of juice

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3.Snack in the school

• A slice of bread, rolls and buns with something
• Cake
• Doughnut
• Sandwich
• Croissant
• Baguette
• Waffle

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Lunch

• Lunch is usually warm and consist of some soup, a
  main dish usually with vegetables or salad and
  something to drink (beer or soft drinks - mineral
  water, lemonade, juice or just soda). We can have
  dessert in a restaurant.

• Most people and children have their meal at a
  school canteen, or a local canteen, but some
  people prefer going to a restaurant. Somebody has
  lunch at home.

• At around noon we have our lunch. In our country
  it is the main meal of the day.

• Some people prefer sweet food.

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Menu

• Soup
• The Main dish
• Sweet lunch and dessert
• Cold drinks
• Soft drinks
• Alcohol drinks

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1. soup

• In the Czech Republic soup is favourite
• Clear soup with liver balls
• Garlic soup
• Potato soup
• Chicken soup
• Tripe soup
• Pea soup
• Beef soup
• Vegetable soup

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Clear soup with liver balls

• Ingredients
• ½ lb beef liver, ground
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of dry breadcrumbs
• 2 tablespoons of flour
• 2 tablespoons of butter or beef marrow
• 1 clove garlic, mashed
• ½ teaspoon of grated fresh lemon rind
• ¼ teaspoon of pepper
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 dash of marjoram, drounded
• 1 dash of mace
• 2 quashes of consomme

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Recipe

• Mix ground beef liver with butter, garlic, lemon
  rind, marjoram and mace.
• Beat in eggs and then bread crumbs, flour, salt
  and pepper.
• Let it stand in room temperature for about 1
  hour.
• Shape into small balls (size of ping-pong balls),
  bring consomme to a boil, drop in liver
  dumplings.
• Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
• (Dumplings should be hard).

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2. Main dish

• Czech typical salt food is
  Roast
• pork with
• Fried
  dumplings Rabbits with potato Vienna
  steak and cabbage
• dumplings and cabbage
• Goulash
• Sirloin
• with Fried
• cream cauliflower
• sauce
  Spinach with meat and
  potato dumplings
• Potato pancakes
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• Fried cheese with chips Fried chicken steak
  
• Tomato sauce

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Braised pork roast sauerkraut

• Ingredients
• 1 - 1.5 kg pork meet
• 1/2 cup of (olive) oil
• salt
• caraway seeds
• 6 cups of sauerkraut
• 1 cup of flour
• Season pork with salt and pepper, at intervals
  baste and heat in the
• oven. Cook sauerkraut in salted water with
  caraway seed for 10
• minutes (low heat). Then thicken with flour and
  cook it for a while.
• Serve with dumplings.

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Sirloin with cream sauce

• Ingredients
• 600-700 g beef sirloin
• 200 g root vegetables
• 1 onion
• 50 g bacon
• 50 g butter
• 1/4 l cream
• 1 table spoon of flour
• black or white pepper
• all spice
• bay leaf
• thyme
• salt

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Recipe

• Let meat, root vegetables and all the spice in
  water for 1-2
• days. Fry the cut vegetables on butter in the pan
  (later add
• the cut onion). Roast the meat on each side on
  the
• vegetables. Baste meat with hot water, spice it
  up, then roast
• it in the oven, (baste it occasionally with
  water). Take out ten-
• der meat from the oven, fry it and roast it in
  the oven.Thicken
• gravy with flour and add the cream. Take the meat
  out, mix
• the thicken vegetables and then cook it
• for a while.
• Serve with dumplings.

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Side dish Dumplings

• Ingredienst
• 500 g flour
• 1 yolk
• 1/4 - 3/8 l milk
• 200 g rolls
• 1 piece (big as a pea) yeast
• salt
• Put the flour to the bowl and crumble the yeast
  to the flour. Twirl the yolk,
• add the salt to it and pour the flour. Work up
  the dough, until it is lustrous,
• making blisters, which are bursting and it does
  not stick on the stirrer. Put
• little flour on the dough, cover it with a towel
  and leave it. One hour later
• meddle it with rolls, which are mindset (can be
  fried). Put it to the boiling,
• salt water and boil it for 10 minutes. Cut it hot
  with a thread into thin slices.

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3. Sweet lunch and dessert

• Some people sometime have sweet lunch
• Fruit dumplings with
• cherries, strawberries,
• blueberries, apricots,
• peaches, bilberries or
• cream.
• Pancakes with marmelade, fruits and whipped cream
  or sundaes
• Desserts
• ice cream
• cakes
• pudding
• Pancakes

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5. Hot soft drink

• Tea
• (black, fruit, green and herbal)
• Coffee
• (black, white, etc.)
• Hot chocolate
• Capuccino

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6. Cold soft drink

• Mineral water
• Juice
• Lemonade
• Coke
• Soda
• Milk
• Squash
• Water

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7.Alcohol drink

• Favourite alcohol in the Czech Republic
• Bottled and draught beer
• Mead
• Mulled wine
• White and red wine
• Rum
• Whisky
• Plum brandy (slivovice)
• Vodka
• Champagne
• Absinth

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Dinner

• Czechs may have pancake, potato pancakes, pizza
  or goulash.

• Cold and quick supper may consist of some
  vegetables, some bread of
• pastry (ban, twist,
• roll) and some
• salami, butter,
• cheese etc.

• The Czech evening meal is not so nutritious, if
  people have a hot meal at midday.

• We can also cook some soup or have some dish from
  a tin.

• Some people prefer hot dinner too.