Recipe for:KAFTELES (Russian chicken/beets)?

Question

I am looking for a Russian recipe that uses ground chicken and beets.

Answer 1

Patties w/Beetroot: Kafteles - meat

Serving: 16 or more

Ingredients.

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First step:

5        Medium  Beetroot, Peeled and sliced

5 Liter  Glass container jar.

Put the beet root in the jar, fill with water nearly the top.

cover with Nylon seal wrap ,keep for 3 weeks to 1 month in

dark place to marinate.  

Every 10 days if there is some foam on top, scrape it with a

spoon . The water will become very dark red and like light

jelly

Second step:

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2  cups    Marinated beet root slices.

1  pound   Ground Chicken meat,

2          Onions cut into small pieces (Divide 1+1)

1          EGG

2 Tabls    Matzo meal

3 Teasp    Sugar  (2 + 1)

4 Tabls    Oil For frying (2 +2)

3 Cups     Beetroot marinate water( I'll call it from now

           on "Borcht").

2 Cups     Water

1          Lemon juice

           Salt and Pepper.

Directions:

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In a wide saucepan fry lightly  1 onion with 2 Tabls oil.

Add the Borcht and water. Bring to boil. With a spoon

scarp off the foam from the top. Continue to do so till all

is gone.

Add the sugar and some salt. It should not be salty at all.

Add the lemon juice and taste. It should be sweet and sour

taste. Cover and let it simmer for 15 - 20 minutes.

Mean while,

In a skillet fry lightly the 2nd onion with the other

2 tabls oil .

In the food processor ground fine the marinated beet root.

Add the fried onions  with the ground meat, the egg, 1 teasp

sugar, matzo flour,and some salt and pepper.Continue to ground

till all is well blended.

Make 16 or more small patties, Fry them like hamburgers.

Transfer them to the saucepan, let them to simmer for another

1/2 an hour.

Keep in refrigerator.

Note. This dish is better to prepare 2 - 3 days before serving.

      To serve, warm it up a little. preferable at room

      temperature.

Enjoy.

Answer 2

Kafteles for Pessach (Beetroot and Ground Meat Patties)

---------------------------------FIRST STEP---------------------------------

5 Midiume Beetroot . Peeld and

-slice

5 l Glass container jar

--------------------------------SECOND STEP-----------------------------

2 c Marinated beet root slices

1 lb Ground Chicken meat

2 Onions cut into small pieces

1 Egg

2 Tabls Matzo flour

3 ts Sugar;

4 Tabls Oil For frying

3 c Beetroot marinate water

2 c Water

1 Lemon juice

Salt and Pepper

Serving: 16 or more

First Step: Put the beet root in the jar, fill with water nearly the top.

cover with Nylon seal wrap ,keep for 3 weeks to 1 month in dark place to

marinate. Every 10 days if there is some foam on top, scrap it with a spoon

. The water will become very dark red and like light jelly

Second step: In a wide saucepan fry lightly 1 onion with 2 Tabls oil. Add

the Borcht and water. Bring to boil. With a spoon scarp off the foam from

the top. Continue to do so till all is gone. Add the sugar and some salt.

It should not be salty at all. Add the lemon juice and taste. It should be

sweet and sour taste. Cover and let it simmer for 15 - 20 minutes. Mean

while,

In a skillet fry lightly the 2nd onion with the other 2 tabls oil .

In the food processor ground fine the marinated beet root. Add the fried

onions with the ground meat, the egg, 1 teasp sugar, matzo flour,and some

salt and pepper.Continue to ground till all is well blended.

Make 16 or more small patties, Fry them like hamburgers. Transfer them to

the saucepan, let them to simmer for another 1/2 an hour. Keep in

refrigerator.

Answer 3

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