Zharkoe Pork Recipes

ZHARKOE PORK

Steps:

• Place pork in 4 qusrt pot and salt and pepper to taste. Cover pot and let meat steam over high heat, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon olive oil and brown meat, stirring occasionally, 6-8 minutes.
• Mash garlic cloves, summer savory, and 3/4 teaspoon salt in mortar and pestle. Put garlic paste into and small bowl and grind the coriander and fenugreek seeds in the mortar and pestle.
• Add garlic paste and 1 teaspoon olive oil to pork and stir over medium heat 1 minute. Add onion, bell and jalapeno peppers and coriander/fenugreek and cook until onion is softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add 1 cup water and bring to bowl. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour.
• Add parsley and pickles and serve over grits.
• For the grits:.
• Bring 3 cups water and 3/4 teaspoon salt to a boil. Stir in grits, return to boil, then simmer, stirring, until thickended, about 18 minutes.
• Increase heat to medium-low and add cheese a few cubes at a time while stirring until it is all melted inches.

ZHARKOYE (RUSSIAN STEW)

Steps:

• Peel potatoes, wash, cut into cubes and fry in butter until light golden.
• Slice onion, carrot, and roots, fry in butter until golden.
• Cube beef and fry in butter until light brown.
• In a ceramic pot, put beef, potatoes, onion, carrot, roots, garlic, season with salt and pepper and pour in the broth.
• Cook in the oven for 30 minutes at 350, or crockpot for 4 hours on low.
• 10 minutes before done, add sour cream and sprinkle with green.
• Serve Zharkoye with salad from fresh vegetables, pickles, sauerkraut and greens.