Latvian cuisine - 8 cooking recipes

It is enough just to name the products from which Latvians prepare food, such as Latvian flour and cereals (primarily pearl barley), Latvian peas and beans, Latvian potatoes and other vegetables, as well as Latvian milk and dairy products - Latvian curdled milk and kefir, Latvian cottage cheese with sour cream. And among the Latvian meat products, the most common Latvian ones are pork, and, less commonly, beef and veal, and poultry. When Latvian chefs prepare Latvian national dishes, in this process they widely use Latvian herring, sprat, and herring. Most Latvian dishes made from smoked and salted pork are preferred to be cooked and served with a variety of Latvian vegetable side dishes. If we talk about first courses of the national Latvian cuisine, today the most popular in Latvia are Latvian sour milk soup, Latvian bread soup, as well as Latvian putra and cabbage. You may ask – what is this Latvian putra? Let us explain, this is a thick Latvian stew, which is prepared from various cereals (mainly pearl barley), seasoned with Latvian milk, or Latvian meat and lard. And Latvian cabbage is a national dish, which is prepared from cabbage. Among other things, this dish can be prepared from a wide variety of fresh and pickled Latvian vegetables, beet tops, Latvian sorrel and a number of wild Latvian plants. Latvian cooks use Latvian peas and beans quite widely when preparing food. The most favorite dishes of Latvians are considered to be thick porridge made from Latvian peas and beans, as well as Latvian pearl barley. Very tasty food - boiled Latvian peas with fried bacon and round dumplings made from Latvian peas or beans with Latvian buttermilk or kefir. All of Latvia loves to cook fried hemp mass - Latvian Komi, Latvian lard pies, Latvian blood sausage, Jan cheese from Latvian cottage cheese, Latvian bubert (semolina porridge with whipped cream) and much more. If we talk about drinks, then Latvians have a very Black coffee and Latvian beer are considered popular. In hot weather, the refreshing drink Latvian sbiten will perfectly quench your thirst. Here it is prepared from Latvian rye flour, diluted with water and left for fermentation.