Chasing the Donkey

Romanian cuisine brings a mix of ingredients and is heavily influenced by Balkan, Turkish, Serbian, German, and Hungarian cuisine.

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It's made with minced meat (usually pork or chicken) mixed with spices, rice, and onions. It is then wrapped in sour (fermented) cabbage leaves.

Sarmale

Ingmar app

2

Mamăligă, served as a side dish for sarmle or with sour cream and Romanian cheese, is made from corn flour boiled in water with a pinch of salt and a few drops of sunflower oil.

Mămăligă

My spoon

3

Mici is really tasty and very popular at barbecues, street food festivals, cottage weekends, and birthday parties. All you need is minced pork and beef. Garlic, spices, and sodium bicarbonate

Mititei or mici

Roman's Cuisiens

4

Considered the ultimate hangover cure, trap soup is made from beef stomachs, vegetables, and special bones and is heavily flavored with garlic and soured with vinegar.

Ciorbă de burtă

Jo Cooks

5

This is made from fresh pork, recently slaughtered, that is fried in its own fat in a deep pan.

Mititei or mici

PM

6

From the same pig sacrifice, Romanians make a crunchy, salty starter called jamari with fried pieces of bacon and lard.

‎Jumari

Savori Urbane

7

This is a traditional Romanian dessert. It is a type of sweet bread filled with sweet walnut paste, poppy seed paste, or Turkish delight and raisins.

Cozonac

OM

8

Lamb drub is a festive Easter dish that looks like a meatloaf with a hard-boiled egg inside. Bread dipped in minced lamb, green onions, eggs, and milk is baked with freshly chopped herbs.

Drob de miel

icooking

9

It is a doughnut-shaped mixture of cottage cheese and semolina that is first fried and then covered in sour cream and jam, preferably blueberry.

Papanasi

Chefkoch

10

It is a doughnut-shaped mixture of cottage cheese and semolina that is first fried and then covered in sour cream and jam, preferably blueberry.

Salată de boeuf

H&C