By enjoying the diverse food traditions, we realise that eaters across cultures are actually surprisingly alike.

CZECH REPUBLIC

We chose the typical raw material for our country – potatoes. And we chose a national dish – „BRAMBORÁK“ POTATO PANCAKE (It is a small flat cake of grated potatoes mixed with flour and egg and fried.)

It is a typical dish for our region. When is a festival or a fair - everywhere they prepare it.

https://youtu.be/ZescPOaWhuA

PORTUGAL

We chose eggs to prepare a typical Christmas dessert -  Pão de Ló (Sponge Cake)

It was recorded by a family at home

CROATIA

Apple pie with caramelized apples

written by Martin Jenei

Ingredients:
For the dough:
Butter
Egg
Sugar
Flour
For the apples:
Apples
Sugar
Cinnamon
Grated Nutmeg
Butter
A little lemon juice

1. Take 250g of butter and cut it into smaller pieces. Crack one large egg and put the egg into the bowl along with the butter. Mix the butter and egg until the eggs have stuck to the butter and the butter has been crushed into smaller chunks.
2. Next, add 4 tablespoons of white sugar and mix untill the sugar has combined with the butter. Next, add 220g of flour to the bowl. Mix the flour with the butter-egg-sugar mixture with your hands (make sure to wash them first) until the mixture is completely coated in flour and until you get a nice yellow dough. Split the dough into to equal halves and refrigerate both the halves until you start assembling the pie.
3. Next, make the apple filling: Take 7-9 large tart green apples, wash them and remove their cores. Cut the apples into slices. Next, dice them lengthwise and widthwise into little cubes. Put the diced apples into a bowl and add 6 tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon to taste, and a pinch of grated nutmeg. Stir the apples until all the apples are completely coated.
4. Heat a pan up to medium heat and melt some butter. Once the butter has melted, put the apples into the pan and heat them for about 6-8 minutes until you see the butter and suagr melt into a sticky, stretchy brown caramel. Make sure all the apples are caramelized thouroughly. Once the apples have finished caramelizing, put them into a separate bowl. Repeat this process until all the apples are caramelized. Leave the apples to cool for about half an hour.
5. Once the apples have cooled, assemble the pie: take the refrigerated dough halves and roll them out with a rolling pin. Take a rectangle shaped baking pan and cover it's bottom with baking paper. Make sure that the rolled out dough is similar in surface area to the bottom of the baking pan. Put one of the rolled out dough halves on the bottom of the baking pan. Next, put all of your caramelized apples onto the dough and spread them out so the entirety of the dough is evenly covered with the caramelized apples. Then put the other rolled-out dough halves on top of the apples.
6. Make some preparations for baking: whisk one egg until you get an orange liquid. Coat the top of the pie with the egg, so that the pie will look glossy and shiny after baking. Poke holes with a fork on the top of the pie so that there can be some airflow and so that the pie doesn't explode in the oven. Bake in an oven on 170 degrees Celsius for about an hour.
7. Take the pie out of the oven, let it cool, cut it into pieces and enjoy!