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Potato Draniki with Chicken and Forest Mushrooms
Ingredients

6 potatoes
1.5 tablespoons of flour
1 egg
2 onions
400g of chicken fillet (about 0.9 lbs)
120g of forest mushrooms (about 4.2 oz)
Vegetable oil, to taste
50g of sour cream (about 1.8 oz)
1 cup of chicken broth
Salt and spices, to taste

Instructions
Peel the potatoes and grate them finely. Add salt to the grated potatoes. Peel one onion and chop it finely, then mix it with the potatoes. Beat in the egg and add the flour. Mix everythin…

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Daily consumption of 7 grams of olive oil reduces the risk of death from dementia by 28 percent, according to a team of researchers from Harvard University.
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The local architectural firm ZNera Space has designed a project the world has never seen before. It’s an autonomous urban center in the heart of Dubai—a futuristic ring-shaped city called Downtown Circle that will radically transform the skyline of this megacity.

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