Nikolai Valuev eats three kilos of meat daily
Roasted pork fore shanks and beans as favored by Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Valuev, a heavyweight boxing champion from St. Petersburg, is very tall in stature and solid in build. His height is 213 cm and his weight is 150 kilos. He reportedly consumes about 3 kilos of meat a day. That is the reason why his typical lunch is full of meat dishes such as Argentinean beefsteaks, lamb chops, baked pork fore shanks, which are eaten with a variety of side dishes. However, Valuev steers clear of foods that do not agree with one another e.g. potato and meat.
Nikolai’s mother usually cooks his most favorite eats when he comes back home after winning yet another tournament. Since his childhood years, Nikolai has had a special liking for Olivier salad, borsch, blini with salmon roe filling, and syrniki, thick pancakes with cream cheese.
Cooking instructions for roasting pork fore shanks
Ingredients: 5 pieces of pork fore and hind shanks; 400 grams of white beans; 2 onions; 100 ml of cooking oil; 2 tablespoons of tomato puree; 2 grams of thyme; 1 bay leaf; salt and pepper according to taste.
Put the beans in cold water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 20 minutes, discard water and fill the saucepan with fresh water. Cook gently for some time. Chop the shanks into small fragments and deep-fry them in fat. Put the shanks into another saucepan, and use the remainder of fat for frying finely cut onions. Add tomato puree and small particles of garlic. Pour in the water in which the beans were cooked; add some salt, a bay leaf and the deep-fried shanks. Cook at medium heat until the meat is ready. Cover the meat with beans and place the saucepan into the oven. Roast for 15 minutes.
Dinner
Crab salad as favored by Alexei Nemov
The Olympic champion in gymnastics Alexei Nemov believes his mother-in-law is a treasure. The mother of his wife is an excellent cook. Moreover, she also passed down her cooking skills to her daughter. “I love all kinds of food. However, I’m especially fond of dishes made with fish. I don’t mean some exotic seafood. I’m into traditional recipes, something plain and tasty with no frills on it. I’d have a couple of beers to wash my fish down. Needless to say, my favorite crab and green apple salad tops the list,” said Nemov.
Cooking instructions for a crab salad
Remove the shells of five hard-boiled eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Grate the whites. Place the whites into a large bowl, and spread the shreds of an onion over the whites. Add 100 grams of grated cheese and 50 grams of butter. Cover with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Cut 250 grams of crab flesh into fine sticks and put them above the mayonnaise. Then grate an apple and place the bits into the bowl. Add more mayonnaise. Allow to settle for 20 minutes. To top it off, garnish the salad with crushed yolks.
Translated by Guerman Grachev
Pravda.ru
