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                VERESHCHAKA - PORK AND BEETROOT CASSEROLE

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Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Meats                            Ethnic

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
 500       g            Pork (spare rib or loin)
  50       g            Bacon, streaky
   2                    Onions
 400       ml           Beetroot rassol or kvas
   1       tb           Sugar
                        Salt to taste
   6                    Peppercorns, black
   3                    Allspice berries
   2       tb           Rye crumbs
                        - or oats
                        - or barley
                        Chervil, fresh
                        - or lovage
                        Cream, sour
   1       tb           Parsley, chopped

  Cut the meat into cubes and brown in the bacon fat or with streaky bacon.
  Remove the meat from the pan and lightly brown the onions in the remaining
  fat. Transfer the meat, onions and bacon to a casserole add the beetroot
  rassol or other liquid, sugar, salt, peppercorms, allspice berries and
  grain, and set covered in a medium oven to cook for about one hour. If
  after half an hour the casserole seems too dry, water may be added until a
  satisfactory consistency is achieved. Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs and
  a little sour cream if liked.
  
  Beetroot Rassol - The liquid in which beetroot is preserved. Kvas - a
  Russian beer, sweet, mildly acid and mildly alcoholic made from wheat, rye,
  buckwheat and sometimes barley with sugar and water.
  
  From:The Food & Cooking of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain
                  Penguin ISBN 0 14 046.471 9
 


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