Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each minced garlic...
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon oil
3 each to 4 zuchini

Directions:

Clean and wash the zuchini, then cut in medium sized pieces. Boil in salt water. When ready, drain, place in the salad bowl, pour oil, vinegar, garlic and 2-3 tablespoons from the boiling liquid. Garnish with some chopped parsley and dill.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

3 each zuchini
1 each onion (to taste)
3 tablespoons oil, vinegar (to...

Directions:

Wash and clean the zuchini, cut into pieces and set to boil in salt water. After they get soften, let drain and cool. Then squeeze dry and chop with a wooden chopper. Then place in a bowl and beat with oil just like the eggplant salad. Add finely chopped onion, pepper, salt and a little vinegar. Arrange on a plate and garnish with tomato slices and some chopped dill.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each carrot
1 each medium celery root
2 each small cucumbers
1 each big apple
3 each nice tomatoes
5 each to 6 ripe plums...
0.5 cup sour cream, juice...
1 teaspoon confectioner's...

Directions:

Clean the carrot and celery root, julienne, place in a salad bowl, add thinly sliced cucumbers and apple, peeled, seeded and sliced tomatoes, sliced plums or pitted sour cherries. Mix everything with the sour cream to which you added lemon juice, sugar and salt, just before serving.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon oil, vinegar to...
4 each oz/100 gram olives
1 each herring
1 each onion
1 each pickle
1 each carrot, a handful...
3 each to 4 big potatoes
1 each small beet

Directions:

Boil separately the beet, potatoes, carrot and peas or beans. Let cool. Thinly slice the potatoes, carrot and beet and then mix with the peas or beans, chopped onion, and rounds of hard boiled eggs and pickle. Add salt, oil and vinegar. Mix well and let stand at least an hour to mix the flavors. Arrange in salad bowl. Keep the herring in warm water for 5-6 hours, with the belly split open. Remove all bones, cut into finger thick strips and add to the salad. Arrange everything in the salad bow...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each small beet
3 each to 4 big potatoes
1 each carrot, a handful...
1 each pickle
2 each hard boiled eggs
1 each onion
3 tablespoons oil, vinegar to...

Directions:

Boil separately the beet, potatoes, carrot and peas or beans. Let cool. Thinly slice the potatoes, carrot and beet and then mix with the peas or beans, chopped onion, and rounds of hard boiled eggs and pickle. Add salt, oil and vinegar. Mix well and let stand at least an hour to mix the flavors. Arrange in salad bowl.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
3 each to 4 tomatoes
2 each Potatoes
1 each small parsley...
1 each small carrot
1 each onion
3 each qts/3 liter water
1 teaspoon chopped parsley...
0.5 cup sour cream, salt

Directions:

Set to boil the julienned carrot, parsley root and onion, the green beans cut in pieces, cubed potatoes. After boiling for a little while, add the peeled, seeded, and cut tomatoes and the salt. Fry the flour in butter and add to the soup, stirring continuously. Add the chopped parsley and dill and let boil, covered, at low temperature, for a few minutes. When serving, mix soup with one tablespoon of sour cream per individual soup bowl.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

3 each qts/3 liter water
1 each onion
2 each Carrots
1 each celery root
1 each parsley root
2 each Potatoes
2 each Green peppers
1 each piece cabbage
1 each big tomato
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon flour, salt

Directions:

Boil the vegetables in salt water, at low heat, for one and a half hours. Sieve. Fry the butter with the flour in a pan and pour the sieved soup on top, stirring continuously. Let boil for a minute or two longer and then add the chopped parsley.

Time:

2 hr 20 min (10 min to prepare, 2 hr 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each qts/2 liter water
2 each big carrots
1 each celery root
2 each Potatoes
2 each Green peppers
1 each piece of cabbage
1 each onion
1 each parsley root

Directions:

Set to boil the julienned carrot, parsley root and onion, the green beans cut in pieces, cubed potatoes with sour cream in a covered pot, for two hours. Strain and add salt.

Time:

35 min (15 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

6 each hen portions...
4 each medium quinces
2 tablespoons flour
2 each to 3 tablespoons...
2 teaspoon sugar, salt

Directions:

Fry the hen pieces with a tablespoon of lard until yellow. Add 1/2 teaspoon of flour and salt, cover with water and simmer, covered. In the meantime, peel the quinces, cut into thick slices, remove seeds, dredge with flour and fry in lard on both sides. When the meat is almost done, add 1 teaspoon of caramelized sugar to which a little chicken broth or water was added and 1 teaspoon of regular sugar. Place the quinces over the meat, cover the pan and simmer. Do not stir, but shake the pan oca...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

6 each hen portions...
4 tablespoons oil
7 each oz/200 g olives
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
1 teaspoon flour
3 each onions
1 teaspoon vinegar or 1/2...
1 each lump sugar, salt
1 each bay leaf

Directions:

Fry the hen pieces in 2 tablespoons of oil, add 3-4 tablespoons of water and simmer. Every now and then, turn the pieces, adding 2-3 tablespoons of water. When the meat is half done, add washed and pricked olives. Separately, fry the chopped onion in two tablespoons of oil until yellow. Add the flour, let fry a little longer, then add a cup of chicken broth or water, tomato sauce, salt, sugar, bay leaf and wine or vinegar. Pour this sauce over the meat and let boil until the meat is done. You...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

12 each little turkey...
1 tablespoon lard
1 teaspoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
1 each small Onion
0.75 each lbs/750 g chestnuts
0.5 teaspoon sugar, salt

Directions:

Fry the turkey pieces with lard until yellow. Pour chicken broth or water to almost cover, add salt and a whole onion and simmer, covered, until the meat is almost done. Remove the onion. Separately fry the flour until yellowish, add the turkey boiling liquid and caramelized sugar (1 teaspoon) to which a little more of the turkey boiling liquid has been added. Pour this sauce over the turkey pieces, add 1/2 teaspoon sugar, salt, butter and the boiled and peeled chestnuts. Be careful to keep t...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

12 each little turkey...
1 tablespoon lard
1 teaspoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
1 each small Onion
0.75 each lbs/750 gram...
0.5 teaspoon sugar, salt

Directions:

Fry the turkey pieces with lard until yellow. Pour chicken broth or water to almost cover, add salt and a whole onion and simmer, covered, until the meat is almost done. Remove the onion. Separately fry the flour until yellowish, add the turkey boiling liquid and caramelized sugar (1 teaspoon) to which a little more of the turkey boiling liquid has been added. Pour this sauce over the turkey pieces, add 1/2 teaspoon sugar, salt, butter and the boiled and peeled chestnuts. Be careful to keep t...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon flour
1 tablespoon rice
2 each Green peppers
1 teaspoon sugar
1 each onion
1 each parsley root
1 each carrot
2 each lbs/2 kg tomatoes
1.5 each qts/1,5 liter water
1 tablespoon butter
0.5 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon chopped dill, salt

Directions:

Boil the tomatoes and vegetables. Mix the tomato liquid with the vegetable liquid, add salt, sugar, rice and sliced peppers, as well as a mixture obtained by frying the flour with butter and adding some soup. Let boil until the rice is done, then add the chopped dill. Before serving, beat some sour cream in. Serve hot.

Time:

25 min (10 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1.5 each qts/1,5 liter water
2 each lbs/1 kilogram...
1 each big carrot
1 each big parsley root
1 each onion
2 each Green peppers
1 tablespoon chopped dill,...
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon flour
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons rice, salt

Directions:

Wash the tomatoes and set to boil with 1 pint/500 ml water. When the tomatoes have softened, strain. Grate the carrot, parsley root and onion and set to boil with 1 qt/1 l water, until all vegetables are tender. Then strain and add the tomato liquid to the vegetable liquid. Also add rice, quartered green peppers, salt and sugar, letting everything boil, covered, until the rice is half done. Add the flour fried in oil and let boil until the rice is done. Add chopped dill, parsley and lovage. T...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon grated onion,...
0.5 cup oil
2 tablespoons club soda, Roe...

Directions:

Crush the roe with a fork in a small bowl. Remove the membranes and mix with the moistened and then squeezed bread. Mix in the same direction, adding the oil drop by drop. After all the oil is used up, add the grated onions, lemon juice, mix, adding the club soda last. Garnish with pitted olives cut to resemble flowers.

Time:

25 min (15 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each suckling pig
3 each eggs
2 each white bread slices
2 tablespoons lard
1 each onion
4 each oz/100 gram...

Directions:

Grind the heart, liver and spleen from the piglet, with a raw onion and the crustless bread slices (previously soaked and squeezed). Beat three eggs in a bowl, mix with the ground meat, adding salt and pepper, chopped parsley, the raisins (to taste) and a finely chopped lard fried onion. Fill the piglet with this filling, sew it and place in the oven. Instead raisins, you can add 2-3 tablespoons rice boiled in salt water, then rinsed in cold water and mixed with a tablespoon of butter and a l...

Time:

50 min (10 min to prepare, 40 min to cook)

Meal type:

Dinner

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each suckling pig, salt
0.5 cup rum
1 tablespoon oil

Directions:

As soon as the piglet was slaughtered, place in a large basin, spray some rosin on it and then pour some hot water. Turn the piglet on all sides so that it softens. Then remove from the basin onto a cutting board and remove all hairs. (It will be very easy.) Rub with a clean cloth and then singe over an open flame. Then place in a basin with tepid water. Wash and scrape with a knife. Rinse with cold water, then slit open on the belly, from the tail to the neck. Remove the intestines and innar...

Time:

15 min (5 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

0.5 teaspoon confectioner's sugar
1 cup sour cream
2 each bunches green onions
3 each hard boiled eggs
4 each big potatoes
1 each bunch carrots
2 each bunches radishes
5 each to 6 small Boston...
1 tablespoon lemon juice or...

Directions:

Wash the lettuce, cut it in pieces, arrange in a salad bowl, add carrots, radishes and the boiled potatoes, everything sliced very thinly. Then add the sliced onions and sliced hard boiled eggs. Mix the sour cream with the lemon juice, sugar and salt. 5 minutes before serving, mix the vegetables with this dressing. You can also prepare this salad with mayo instead of sour cream. In this case, add just two sliced hard boiled eggs and prepare a mayo from the other two eggs.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

0.5 tablespoon rice for each...

Directions:

Pick over the rice, rinse in cold water and put in the soup to boil slowly until done, stirring from time to time. The rice may be also boiled separately in water, then added to the soup after having been rinsed with cold water.

Time:

25 min (10 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons rice
6 tablespoons sour cream
6 each lemon slices,...

Directions:

Boil the rice in salt water. When done, strain, rinse in cold water and let drain. Put the rice and lemon slices into the bowl and pour the hot, strained soup on top. Add the sour cream, mixing well.

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

4 each eggs
1 tablespoon sour cream
1 tablespoon Milk
1 teaspoon butter, salt,...

Directions:

Break the eggs into a bowl, beat until foamy, mix the milk and salt and then pour in the hot buttered pan. Fry at low temperature, and after the bottom has started to brown a little, turn onto the other side and let it brown too. When it is ready, roll like a jelly roll and place onto the plate. Turn onto a cutting board and cut into thin strips. Place in the soup bowl and pour the strained soup on top.

Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each egg
1 tablespoon water, flour,...

Directions:

Sprad the noodles onto a clean surface and let dry for another 15-20 minutes. They may be boiled in the soup or separately in salt water. Strain, rinse with cold water and serve separately at the table.

Time:

25 min (10 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 each egg, Beef or...

Directions:

Beat the egg and lemon juice in the soup bowl and pour the soup on top a little at a time, stirring continuously. Serve with boiled rice.

Time:

30 min (10 min to prepare, 20 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each eggs
0.5 teaspoon butter or lard
5 each to 6 tablespoons...

Directions:

Beat the butter with the eggs. Add the cream of wheat a little at a time (like a rain), stirring continuously. The paste obtained should be the thickness of sour cream. Add salt. After the soup was strained into a clean pot, set to boil. When it comes to the first boil, take teaspoonfuls of the cream of wheat paste and drop them into the soup. Grease the teaspoon first to make it easier. The soup must boil slowly. After all the paste has been used up, cover the pot and let boil slowly for 10 ...

Time:

20 min (10 min to prepare, 10 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each eggs
2 each to 3 tablespoons...

Directions:

Beat the eggs with a fork, add the flour a little at a time and the salt. Mix with a spoon until you get a sour-creamlike paste. Set to boil the soup strained into a clean pot and when it comes to the first boil, pour the paste a little at a time, with the help of a fork. Cover the pot and let boil for a couple of minutes.