Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons vinegar, salt
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon flour
2 each lbs/1 kilogram...
3 each qts/3 liter water
1 teaspoon butter, boiled...

Directions:

Clean the beets, wash and grate. Set to boil with the water for 30-40 minutes (uncovered). Strain and then add to the liquid the salt, sugar and vinegar. After it comes to another boil, add the butter mixed with the flour and sour cream, mix well and let it boil for a little while. Serve with boiled noodles or toast.

Time:

30 min (15 min to prepare, 15 min to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

6 each ears of corn
6 each qts/6 liter water
1 each carrot
1 each parsley root
1 each onion
2 cups Milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 each egg salt
0.5 teaspoon chopped dill

Directions:

With a very sharp knife, remove all kernels of corn. Set to boil the ears of corn with the chopped onion and vegetables. After boiling for one hour, strain and then set the clear liquid to boil again, with the corn kernels, at slow temperature, for half an hour. Strain again, sieve the kernels, mix with the strained liquid and set to boil again. When it comes to a boil, add the flour mixed with butter and milk. After coming to another boil or two, remove from heat and serve with a beaten egg,...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon butter or oil,...
1 each onion
1 each parsley root
1 each carrot
0.5 each lb/250 gram dried...
3 each qts/3 liter water

Directions:

Pick over and wash the beans and pre-soak in tepid water the preceding night. Then drain this water and set to boil in fresh tepid water. After boiling for a minute or two, change the water. Repeat this procedure three times. The last time, add, in addition to the beans, the onion, carrot, and parsley root. Let boil, covered, at low temperature. When the beans are tender, remove the carrot and parsley root, strain, then sieve the beans with the onion. Thin with a little of the strained liquid...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 each lemon slice (with...
1 each lb/500 gram spinach
0.5 cup sour cream, salt,...
3 each qts/3 liter water

Directions:

Wash and pick over the spinach. Set to boil with the water. After boiling for a little while, remove from heat and sieve everything. Set to boil again, adding the lemon, salt and butter. Let boil for another minute or two, then add the sour cream mixed with flour.

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:

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:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each qts/2 liter water
1 each medium cauliflower
1 each parsley root, 1...
1 each onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon chopped dill
0.5 cup sour cream, salt

Directions:

Grate the parsley root, carrot and onion and boil in water until tender. Strain, add salt and a mixture of fried flour and butter, liquefied with some of the boiling liquid. Add the cauliflower in small bunches and boil at slow heat until the cauliflower is tender. Pour in the serving bowl on top of the dill mixed with the sour cream.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

3 each qts/3 liter water
0.5 each lb/250 gram lentils
1 each onion
2 each garlic cloves
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon flour
0.5 teaspoon dry thyme, salt

Directions:

Pick the lentils over, wash and pre-soak in tepid water the night before cooking. In the morning, throw away the water and set to boil with 3 qts/3 liter cold water, finely chopped onion and the garlic cloves. When the lentils are almost done, add salt and let boil until done. Add flour fried in oil and mixed with a half teaspoon of thyme and then pour some lentil liquid on this fried flour. Let boil for a little while longer.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon butter or oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 each onion
1 each carrot
1 each parsley root
0.5 each lb/250 gram dried...
3 each qts/3 liter water
1 teaspoon chopped dill,...

Directions:

Pick over and wash the beans and pre-soak in tepid water the preceding night. Then drain this water and set to boil in fresh tepid water. After boiling for a minute or two, change the water. Repeat this procedure three times. The last time, add, in addition to the beans, the onion, carrot, and parsley root. Let boil, covered, at low temperature. When the beans are tender, remove the carrot and parsley root, strain, then sieve the beans with the onion. Thin with a little of the strained liquid...

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

7 each oz/200 gram dried...
2 each Potatoes
1 each onion
1 teaspoon butter
1 each hard boiled yolk
0.5 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon flour, salt,...

Directions:

Boil the peas with the vegetables. Strain and sieve only the peas and potatoes. Thin with some of the boiling liquid and set to boil with the hard boiled yolk which you have previously mixed with butter, flour and sour cream and thinned with a little boiling liquid. Mix well, add salt and chopped dill and let boil for a minute or two. Serve with croutons.

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:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

3 each qts/3 liter water
1 each big onion
2 each big carrots
1 each big parsley root
1 each celery root
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon caraway, salt,...

Directions:

Boil the julienned vegetables with a tablespoon of caraway. When ready, strain, set the liquid to boil again and add a mixture of fried flour and butter and the salt. Let boil for a little while more. Serve with croutons fried in butter.

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 lb/500 gram carrots
1 each onion
0.5 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon butter
0.5 cup sour cream, salt,...

Directions:

Julienne the carrots and onion and set to boil until the carrots are tender. Strain, then sieve the carrots and onion. Add the puree obtained this way to the strained liquid and set to boil again, with the sugar, salt and butter. Let boil for a few minutes and then add sour cream when serving. Serve with croutons.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each qts/2 liter water
1 each lb/500 gram potatoes
1 each onion
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon flour
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 teaspoon butter, salt,...

Directions:

Boil the cubed potatoes with the finely chopped onion. When they are done, strain. Sieve the potatoes and thin with some of the boiling liquid. Add salt and set to boil. When the soup starts to boil, add the sour cream well mixed with the flour. Let boil for a minute or two, add the chopped parsley and butter. Serve with toast.

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:

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:

3 hr 10 min (10 min to prepare, 3 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each lbs/1 kilogram beef
3 each qts/3 liter water
2 each Carrots
1 each parsley root
1 each celery root
1 each green pepper
1 each onion and a few...
5 each juniper berries...
1 each bay leaf...

Directions:

Set to boil the beef with the cold water. Let the pot uncovered until the liquid starts foaming. Remove this foam periodically with the slotted spoon until foaming stops. Add the vegetables, juniper berries, bay leaf and a little salt. Cover the pot almost but not completely and let boil, at low temperature, for 3 hours. When it is ready, strain into another pot. The soup has to boil slowly to be really tasty. Serve with the desired accompaniment (noodles, dumplings, rice, etc.).

Time:

3 hr 10 min (10 min to prepare, 3 hr to cook)

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each lbs/1 kilogram...
3 each qts/3 liter water
2 each Carrots
1 each parsley root
1 each celery root
1 each green pepper
1 each onion
5 each juniper berries...
1 each bay leaf...

Directions:

Set to boil the beef with the cold water. Let the pot uncovered until the liquid starts foaming. Remove this foam periodically with the slotted spoon until foaming stops. Add the vegetables, juniper berries, bay leaf and a little salt. Cover the pot almost but not completely and let boil, at low temperature, for 3 hours. When it is ready, strain into another pot. The soup has to boil slowly to be really tasty. Serve with the desired accompaniment (noodles, dumplings, rice, etc.). Serve with t...

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:

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:

3 each lbs/1,250...
3 each qts/3 liter water
1 each carrot
1 each parsley root
1 each celery root
1 each onion
1 each bay leaf
2 each to 3 juniper...

Directions:

Set the beef to boil with the cold water. Remove foam, add the cleaned and quartered vegetables, juniper berries and bay leaf. Let boil, covered, at low temperature, for an hour. Add salt and let boil for another two hours. Remove the vegetables, remove the meat which will be used as filling for the pies and strain and degrease the soup. Serve in cups with meat pies (see Dough, French I or Dough, French II) or with pancakes with meat.

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:

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:

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:

3 tablespoons grated sheep's...

Directions:

Grate the cheese in the the soup bowl and pour the hot, strained soup on top. Serve with croutons.