Apple Strudel
Apple strudel is a traditional Czech pastry that has its origin in Austrian cuisine. It’s a very popular dessert in Czech cuisine and across Central Europe thanks to the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Apple strudel is quite easy to prepare thanks to the option of buying prepared pastry dough.

Ingredients:
phyllo or flaky pastry
4-6 apples
cinnamon, sugar
egg
powdered sugar
raisins, walnuts (optional)

Instructions:
1 Roll out the pastry in a slim rectangle.

2 Grate apples and put them on the dough. Add raisins or chopped walnuts if you want.

3 Sprinkle apples with cinnamon sugar. 

4 Roll up dough into a long cylinder and close both ends.                     

5 At last brush strudel with whisked egg.

6 Put in preheated oven 180 - 200°C for about 20 minutes until strudel has nice golden colour.

7 Dust with powdered sugar. Apple strudel can be served with whipped cream.

Garlic soup
 

Ingredients

250 g potatoes
3-4 cloves of garlic
1.5 l of water
marjoram, salt
1 beef bouillon cube
1 egg
2 slices of bread

Instructions:
1 Cut the bread into cubes and toast.
2 Cut the potatoes into cubes, put them in cold water and boil them.
3 When the potatoes are tender, add the broth cube, marjoram, salt and crushed garlic.
4 The total boiling time should be about 25 minutes, depending on the size of the potatoes
5 Finally, add the poached egg.

Notes: This Czech soup is very popular in cold winter days. You can use a vegetable bouillon cube.

Czech Meatloaf
Meatloaf is a favourite Czech meal, but also a favourite in other countries across the world. Here is a classic easy Czech meatloaf recipe, but you can come across filled meatloaf with gherkin, sausage and egg.

Ingredients:
1kg of ground meat (mixed beef and pork)
1-2 onions
3-4 garlic cloves
2 eggs
salt, pepper
marjoram
2 old rolls
200ml of milk
breadcrumbs
oil

Instructions:
1 Cut rolls into small cubes and pour milk over them.                             

2 Chop onion and fry shortly.                                                                      

3 Mix meat with salt, pepper, minced garlic, marjoram, eggs and fried onion.                                                                                                   

4 Also add soaked rolls from milk.                                                               

5 Mix all together and add breadcrumbs if needed. Meat shouldn’t be too sticky but also not covered in breadcrumbs.                              

6 Form in 2 loaves and put in greased pan.                                                

7 Put in preheated oven 180 -200°C for 60 - 75 minutes. Sometimes pour a little water and baste.
8 Serve with potatoes, mashed potatoes or simply bread.

Here are some recipes we tried too. 

Lentil salad 

Stewed carrots, pork and potatoes

Spaghetti with minced meat springled cheese

Bulgur with vegetables

Yoghurt dumplings covered fruit sauce