Bigoss
The recipe was told by Mela Ragine, Kraslava

- sauerkraut
- fresh cabbages
- meat
- onions
- carrots
- salt
- pepper
- tomato sauce
- dried plums
- small sausages
Press juice from sauerkraut and place in a special cast iron pot, add sliced fresh cabbages, mix thoroughly. Add fried meat with onions and carrots. Add salt and pepper. Add tomato sauce, cut dried plums, mix well and bake in the oven. From time to time remove the dish from the oven and mix it. You can add sausages.
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Pierogi
The recipe was told by Mela Ragine, Kraslava

For dough:
- 1 egg
- salt
- 1,5 glass hot water
- flour
Whip the egg and add salt and hot water. Mix and slowly add flour to make the thick dough. Continue thoroughly mixing with your hands. Roll the dough and cut round forms. The filling is placed in the middle and the dough folded over to form a half circle. Boil the salted water in a saucepan. Put the dumplings into the water and cook for 3-4 minutes. They can be served with melted butter or sour cream. Filling can be different.
For filling:
- boiled potatoes
- cottage cheese
- dill
- salt
Mash potatoes with a fork, add cottage cheese, mix. Add dill and salt.
For filling:
- carrots
- mushrooms
- onions
- salt
Fry mushrooms with onions and carrots, add salt according to your taste.
For filling:
- stewed cabbages
- onions
- meat
- salt
Fry meat with onions, add stewed cabbages and salt.
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Zhureks
The recipe was told by Mela Ragine, Kraslava

- meat
- sausages
- carrots
- fresh cabbage
- onions
- yeast (made from rye flour)
- salt
- eggs
Put the meat into the pot to cook and, when it is ready, add sliced carrots, onions, cabbage. Add yeast to the soup. Add salt according to your taste. When the soup has cooled a little, shake everything. In special cases, soup is filled into emptied round bread loaves, add a cut boiled egg, little fried sausage can also be added.
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Milk soup with vegetables
The recipe was told by Zenta Meldere, Kraslava
- young potatoes
- cabbage
- carrots
- milk
- salt
Cut potatoes and cabbage. Grate carrots. Place the vegetables into boiling water, add salt. When the vegetables become soft, add milk and bring to boiling.
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Golupci
The recipe was told by Zenta Meldere, Kraslava
- rice
- pork
- cabbage
- pepper
- salt
Cook rice and cabbage until they are almost ready. Mix minced meat with rice and fill cabbage leaves with this mixture. Pour tomato or some other sauce on ready golupci and stew for about 20 minutes.