Easy Eastern European Recipes
By Barbara Rolek, About.com Guide
- Easy Appetizer Recipes
- Easy Soup Recipes
- Easy Salad Recipes
- Easy Main Course Recipes
- Easy Vegetable Recipes
Easy Appetizer Recipes
Eastern Europeans believe in gracious hospitality and a "meal before the meal" is a given in most homes. Easy appetizers range from simple platters of smoked meats, cheeses and pickles to herrings in cream sauce.
- Polish Rollmops Recipe
- Serbian Quick Kajmak Recipe
- Serbian Ajvar Roasted Eggplant-Pepper Spread Recipe
- Croatian / Serbian Cevapcici Sausages Recipe
- Polish Stuffed Eggs Recipe
- Salmon-Asparagus Rolls Recipe
- Russian Blini Recipe
- Bulgarian Eggplant-Pepper Spread Recipe
Easy Soup Recipes
Eastern European soups can be served warm and cold. They are so hearty, they can be the main course, but most cooks use them to stimulate the appetite for the delights that are to follow.
- Bulgarian Cold Cucumber Soup Recipe
- Quick and Easy Mushroom-Barley-Bacon Soup Recipe
- Hungarian Cold Peach Soup Recipe
Easy Salad Recipes
Eastern European cuisine is based on fresh, seasonal ingredients and nowhere is that seen more clearly than in their salads. They can be hot or cold, lettuce based or a medley of brined vegetables.
- Polish Rhubarb-Carrot Salad Recipe
- Polish Beets with Sour Cream Recipe
- Beets with Orange Zest Recipe
- Salmon-Asparagus Rolls Recipe
Easy Main Course Recipes
Eastern European main courses place a heavy emphasis on comfort food. These easy recipes will have you wowing your guests in no time.
- Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe
- Polish Smoked Sausage and Sauerkraut Recipe
- Polish Breaded Pork Cutlets Recipe
- Serbian Hamburger Recipe
- Beef Cube Steak Recipe
- Smoked Pork Chop Recipe
- Grilled Chicken Breast Recipe
- Grilled Salmon Recipe
- Filet Mignon with Sundried Tomato Butter Recipe
- Cabbage-Noodle-Pork Cassrole Recipe
- Breaded Meat Patties Recipe
- Turkey Fillets with Gorgonzola Sauce Recipe
Easy Vegetable Recipes
Eastern European cooks pride themselves on cooking with the seasonal bounty, whether from their own garden or the farmers' market. Cabbage, mushrooms, kohlrabi, cucumbers are all favorites and, by their very nature, vegetables are quick and easy to prepare.
- Roasted Peppers in Oil
- Beets with Orange Zest
- Czech Creamed Brussles Sprouts Recipe
- Cauliflower Polonaise Recipe
Easy Starch Recipes
Starches go beyond potatoes and rice in the Eastern European kitchen. Discover wonderful grains from bulgur wheat to buckwheat groats and how easy they are to prepare.
- Bulgarian Baked Polenta Recipe
- Boiled Potatoes with Onion and Dill Recipe
- Kasha with Mandarin Oranges and Raisins Recipe
- Polish Raisin-Almond Stuffing Recipe
Easy Fruit Recipes
Fruit is the preferred dessert in Eastern Europe and recipes abound for elaborate cordials to fresh fruit served au naturel with, perhaps, a dollop of sweetened whipped cream.
- Bulgarian Roasted Peach Recipe
- All Abolut Peaches
- All About Strawberries
- All About Blueberries
- All About Cherries
Easy Bread Recipes
Bread is indispensable to Eastern Europeans and is served at just about every meal. Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Hungarians and Lithuanians love their rye breads. Serbians, Bulgarians and Romanians prefer corn flour breads. But nearly every Eastern European country has its standby white bread. All breads are easy to prepare, they just take time. These are some of the easier breads since they require no sourdough starter and fewer rises.
- Polish Buttermilk Rye Bread Recipe
- Polish Potato Bread Recipe
- Light Rye Bread with Caraway Seeds Recipe
- Russian Rye Bread Recipe
- Bulgarian Bird of Paradise Bread Recipe
- Serbian White Bread Recipe
- Hungarian Beer Breadsticks Recipe
- Hungarian Sour Cream Rolls Recipe
Easy Dessert Recipes
Every guest in an Eastern European home is offered, at the very least, cake and coffee (or tea). Desserts range from simple butter cookies to strudels to nut rolls to elaborate tortes and other cakes. Many traditional dessert recipes are very easy to prepare.
- Czech Bar Cookies Recipe - Cukrovi
- Czech Bublanina Dessert Recipe
- Bulgarian Roasted Peaches Recipe
- Bulgarian Rice Pudding Recipe
- Croatian Nut Roll Recipe
- Shortcut Gingerbread House Dough Recipe
- Peach Dumpling Dessert Recipe
- Rustic Plum Tart Recipe
- Easy Hungarian Esterhazy Torte Recipe
- Polish Apple Cake Recipe
Easy Beverage Recipes
Whether with a strong demitasse of coffee, sweet tea, ice-cold vodka, mulled wine or plum brandy, Eastern Europeans believe in toasting to your good health, good wealth, good life! Some cordials require long aging periods and others do not. Here are some of the faster alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages recipes.