Serenyve Lotus Crystal
Title : Sorceress/ GC's Official PallaPalla Posts : 901 Join date : 2015-07-14 Age : 25 Location : Romania
| Subject: [Info] Food & Dishes 31st August 2017, 10:22 am | |
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Cabbage rolls – “Sarmale”Cabbage rolls are made of ground meat (usually pork, but also beef, sheep, poultry, or even fish) mixed with rice and other ingredients and rolled into cabbage leaves. In some regions cabbage rolls are served with cooked corn meal and sour cream. We usually eat these during Christmas and Easter. They can also be made with fresh vine leaves which start growing during spring while the cabbage ones are eaten mostly during winter. I personally prefer the last ones more but it totally depends on the person who tastes them. Greaves with onions – “Jumări cu ceapă”We all know that this food, obtained by frying pieces of bacon, is not recommended because of its high cholesterol content. Nevertheless, around Christmas many people enjoy some golden colored greaves with some salt and red onions. Juuuust make sure you wash your teeth very well after or else people might find out what you ate a few hours ago Beef salad – “Salată boeuf”Despite its French name, this food is traditional in Romania, and it originates from the Salade a la Russe or Russian salad. The Romanian beef salad consists of boiled and cubed carrots, parsley roots, eggs, potatoes and beef, enriched with pickles and peas, and mixed with mayonnaise. Not my personal favourite since I'm not into mayonnaise that much. However if you're a fan of it this dish is definitely for you!
Grilled sausages – “Mici”“Mici” or “mititei” meaning “little ones” are a kind of grilled sausages that usually come in a cylindrical shape, consisting of ground beef, which is often mixed with ground pork and ground sheep meat. Garlic, black pepper and hot paprika are used to flavor this tasty food, usually served with mustard. Ok. So you come to Romania you have to eat mici. If there is something to celebrate they never miss on the table here. Because they are simply sooo tasty! Tripe soup – “Ciorba de burtă”There are two common recipes of tripe soup traditional in Romania; one of them is made with sour cream, and the other one is served with garlic sauce and vinegar. Besides tripe, which is calf stomach cut into strips, this soup contains carrots, turnip cabbage, celery roots and beef hocks. Have you eaten too much meat for the past days? Well... this soup is the key to "clean" your stomach. Rissoles from Moldova – “Pârjoale moldovenești”Made mostly in Moldova but in other regions of the country as well, rissoles are fried meat balls made from ground pork occasionally mixed with ground sheep meat, beef or poultry, with eggs, dried bread crumbs, garlic, herbs and salt added to it. Oh my... so I just love these. One of my favourite food just because they go so so well with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and such! Sweetbread – “Cozonac de casă”To bake a truly delicious sweetbread always represents a challenge. Old experts say that the quality of the flour used is very important, but kneading the dough with a firm hand and baking the bread in a tightly closing oven make a significant difference as well. When you'll feel the smell of this coming out of the oven and you'll taste it... you'll understand why we bake this so much during Christmas and Easter. The more cocoa... the better! Sweet dough figurines – “Mucenici moldovenești”Sweet dough figurines are a dessert baked for a traditional holiday to celebrate the first 40 martyrs of Jesus. In the honor of the martyrs, women from Moldova bake 40 figurines from dough using a recipe resembling that of sweetbread. I haven't seen many people lately baking these. Probably because they take a lil' more time. My grandmother however never misses a chance to bake them. And I can tell you... they're absolutely yummy! Curious of more? Check out this site with a variety of romanian food & dishes including the ones I told you about! |
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