Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons vinegar, salt
2 tablespoons oil
1 each medium cauliflower

Directions:

Wash the cauliflower, divide in flowerets and boil in salt water. Drain and place in salad bowl. Pour a dressing made of oil, vinegar and salt on top.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

4 each peppers
1 each lb/500 gram tomatoes
3 tablespoons oil
4 each onions
2 each big eggplants
4 each bellpeppers

Directions:

Roast the eggplants, peel while still hot and then leave on a slanted cutting board to drain. During this time, boil the tomatoes and strain, roast the peppers, peel them and cut into very thin strips. Finely chop the onions and then fry in hot oil until soft. Add the chopped eggplants, pepper strips, tomato paste and salt. Continue frying, stirring continuously, until most of the liquid is absorbed. Arrange on a plate and serve cold.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons oil, salt
1 each lb/500 gram tomatoes
5 each onions
12 each peppers

Directions:

Wash the peppers, take the cores out and cut into very narrow strips. Chop the onions and fry in hot oil until soft. Add the peppers and tomato paste made from 1 lb/500 g tomatoes. Adjust the salt and let fry at slow heat until most of the liquid is absorbed. Serve cold.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon oil
3 each to 4 leeks, salt

Directions:

Wash the leeks and cut into thin rounds. Salt and add oil and vinegar.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each to 3 tablespoons...
1 each hard boiled egg
3 each to 4 bunches of...

Directions:

Wash and thinly slice the radishes. Sieve the yolk and mix with sour cream; pour onto the radishes. Add thinly sliced egg white, salt and mix well.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon vinegar, salt, a...
2 each to 3 tablespoons oil
12 each nice peppers

Directions:

After the peppers are roasted and have sat covered, peel and remove core and all seeds. Cut into 1 inch thick strips, place in salad bowl, add oil, vinegar an salt. Decorate with seedless tomato slices.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.

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.

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:

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

Meal type:

Soup

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each qts/2 liter water
0.5 each qt/0.5 liter borsh
10 each oz/300 gram green...
1 each small carrot
1 each onion
1 each small parsley root
4 each Tomatoes
1 each green pepper
1 tablespoon oil
0.5 teaspoon flour, chopped...

Directions:

Set to boil in salt water, the finely chopped carrot, parsley root and onion. Add the beans, cut into pieces. When it starts to boil, let it for a few minutes, then add the pepper and peeled and seeded tomatoes (sliced). Fry the flour in the oil, add some vegetable liquid to it and then add this mixture to the soup, stirring as you do it. Let boil until the beans are tender. Add the borsh and chopped parsley and dill and let boil for a few more minutes. You may serve this soup cold as well.

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:

2 each to 3 celery roots
2 each to 3 apples
2 tablespoons oil, vinegar to...

Directions:

Julienne the peeled and washed celery and mix with the peeled and thinly sliced apples. Add oil, vinegar and salt.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

2 each big eggplants
1 each onion (to taste)
3 each to 4 tablespoons...

Directions:

Roast the eggplants, peel while still hot and then leave on a slanted cutting board to drain. Chop with a wooden or glass chopper, place in a bowl and then mix, using a wooden spoon, with a little oil at a time, until it whitens and becomes foamy. Add finely chopped onions (to taste), pepper and salt. Place in a a salad bowl or on a plate and garnish with tomato slices and rounds of green pepper.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

28 each oz/750 gram green...
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons vinegar, salt
2 each minced garlic...

Directions:

Clean, wash and boil the beans. Drain, place in salad bowl and mix with oil, vinegar, salt and garlic to which 2-3 from the beans boiling liquid has been added. Garnish with a few sprigs of parsley.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

1 each lb/500 gram potatoes
2 each onions
1 each pickle
1 each hard boiled egg
2 each to 3 tablespoons...

Directions:

Wash, boil, peel and let cool the potatoes. Then slice very thinly and mix with salt, thinly sliced onions, pickle rounds, oil and vinegar. Place in salad bowl and garnish with rounds of hard boiled egg. You can also add some tomato slices.

Time:

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

Meal type:

Salad

Ethnicity:

Romanian

Ingredients:

6 each big bellpeppers
2 each to 3 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon vinegar, salt

Directions:

Roast the peppers, turning on all sides. Place in a pan, cover with a clean cloth and then a lid and let sit for 20 minutes. Peel, arrange in salad bowl, add salt, oil and vinegar and garnish with tomato slices.

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:

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.