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Vegetables & Preserves

75 recipes in this category

Vegetable dishes, pickles, jams, and preserves — traditional ways to cook and preserve the harvest.

A deep ceramic bowl of dark green Swiss chard stew with potato cubes and tomato in a glistening olive oil broth, on a dark oak table with a slice of crusty bread.
vegetables preserves

Swiss Chard in the Coastal Way

A hearty chard stew with tomatoes, potato, garlic, and olive oil, slow-cooked to a rich, soupy finish.

Total time: 115 min
Servings: 6
A white ceramic serving dish filled with green beans, kohlrabi sticks, potato rounds, and green peas coated in a creamy pale béchamel sauce.
vegetables preserves

Various Vegetables in Béchamel Sauce

Four garden vegetables — green beans, kohlrabi, potatoes, and peas — boiled, sautéed in butter, and finished in a rich egg-yolk béchamel.

Total time: 70 min
Servings: 4-6
A rustic ceramic plate of pale golden vegetable dumplings glistening with toasted breadcrumb butter, dusted with grated hard cheese, on a dark oak table.
vegetables preserves

Vegetable Dumplings

Hearty Central European dumplings of seasonal vegetables and stale bread rolls, boiled and finished with toasted breadcrumb butter and grated cheese.

Total time: 75 min
Servings: 4-6
A rustic cast iron pan of golden-baked wax beans in a pale custard, fresh parsley scattered on top, on a dark oak table.
vegetables preserves

Wax Beans Baked with Eggs

Tender yellow wax beans braised with onion and sweet paprika, finished under a golden milk-and-egg custard — a comforting Central European oven dish.

Total time: 85 min
Servings: 4-6
A rustic ceramic bowl of creamy white bean salad dressed with olive oil and scattered with parsley, served on a dark oak table.
vegetables preserves

Dalmatian White Bean Salad

A traditional Dalmatian bean salad with slowly emulsified olive oil, mellowed red onion, fresh herbs, and a bright wine vinegar finish.

Total time: 500 min
Servings: 4
A deep ceramic bowl of layered cabbage and potato salad with sour cream, served on a dark oak table with a linen napkin.
vegetables preserves

Sweet Cabbage and Potato Salad with Sour Cream

Layered Central European salad: vinegar-marinated cabbage and spring onion, alternated with boiled potato and celeriac, finished with sour cream.

Total time: 530 min
Servings: 6
Three firm tomatoes stuffed with creamy celeriac and mayonnaise filling, arranged on a dark ceramic plate on an oak table.
vegetables preserves

Tomatoes Stuffed with Celeriac and Mayonnaise

Firm tomatoes hollowed and filled with boiled celeriac bound in mayonnaise — a cool, elegant appetizer from the early 20th century table.

Total time: 60 min
Servings: 6
Three firm tomatoes stuffed with pale crayfish meat and paprika mayonnaise, arranged on lettuce leaves on a dark ceramic plate.
vegetables preserves

Tomatoes Stuffed with Crayfish or Crab

Firm tomatoes hollowed and filled with crayfish or crab meat, topped with sweet paprika mayonnaise — a refined cold appetizer from the early 20th century.

Total time: 40 min
Servings: 6
Three ripe tomatoes stuffed with tuna and pickle filling, lids replaced, topped with mayonnaise on a dark ceramic plate.
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Tuna Stuffed Tomatoes with Pickles and Mayonnaise

Ripe tomatoes hollowed and filled with oil-packed tuna, dill pickles, and red onion, topped with mayonnaise — a classic no-cook cold appetizer.

Total time: 50 min
Servings: 6
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