COOKBOOK

Sarmale

INGREDIENTS:
2 kg sour cabbage
450 g minced beef
50 g of rice
200 g onions
frying oil
2-3 tablespoons of tomato sauce
2 leafs of bay
salt
pepper

First thing you need to do is to cut the onion in little pieces, then cook it for a bit in the frying oil, after mix it with the rice and the minced beef and add the spices of your choice, in general we use salt and pepper. After mixing the composition you need to put it in the cabage leafs and roll it, put it in a big pot with some water, tomato sauce and bay leafs, let it boil for 2-3 hours then enjoy.

Mici

INCREDIENTS:
minced beef
chopped garlic
salt
pepper
paprika
onion powder(optional)

This is a very simple recipe, you just need to mix all the incredients then form the composition like you see in the photo, then grill them for about 3 minutes on each side.

Racitura

INCREDIENTS:
pork leg/ striped chicken
2-3 carrots
4-5 cloves of garlic
salt
pepper
2-3 bay leafs
1-2 packs of gelatin

For this recipe you need to boil all the incredients together except the garlic, after boiling all of then till they all done, you will need too strain the water wich the incredients boiled in and add the gelatin in it then mix it, add the pork/chicken in a big boul with the carrots and the minced garlic and pour on top of it the mixture of the flavored water (broth) from the incredients and the gelatin then leave over night and serve overthorowed on another plate.

Bulz

INCREDIENTS:
1l water
300g corn flour
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon oil
cheese

This aswell is a very easy traditional recipe, you need the water to be boiling with the salt and oil then add the corn flour and mix the composition for 5 minutes, after that put it on a plate and let it cool for a bit then form some smaller balls of it with blocks of cheese in the middle and grill for a bit, the final result is delicious.

INCREDIENTS:
2.5 kg eggplant
1 kg red pepper
3-4 onions
250ml oil
500 tomato sauce
2 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon pepper
2 bay leafs

Zacusca

Zacusca is basicaly a paste of backed/cooked vegetables, you will need to bake the eggplant and the red pepper then fry the onion and add all the vegetables with the oil, condiments and tomato sauce to a long boil( around 2 hours) and mix it constantly so it dosen't burn, after that process you will need to put the composition in jars an let it rest for about at least 2 days before consuming, the taste of it is fabulous despite the simplity of it.

Iahnie de fasole cu carnati

INCREDIENTS:
500g beans
2-3 onions
2 tablespoons oil
1 carrot
3-4 cloves of garlic
4-5 tablespoons tomato sauce
salt
pepper
2 bay leafs
sausages

First you will need to boil the beans and fry the chopped onion, carrot and garlic and add the condiments, after all done mix everything with the tomato sauce and optional you can grind the composition to give it a texture like mashed potatoes, to serve put it on a plate and place on top of it the fryed sausages.

Cozonac

INCREDIENTS:
550g flour
350ml milk
25g dryed yeast
200g butter
180g sugar
2 egg yolks
vanilla essence
lemon/orange peel
50g cacao

Start by mixing the milk with the dryed yeast and 80g od sugar and let it sit for 15 minutes to room temperature, then add 2 egg yolks,100g of melted butter and the lemon/orange peel and vanilla essence and mix it all, then add the flour and mix for about 20 minutes and then leave the dough sit for 30 minutes, for the chocolate mixture mic 100g of melted butter with 100g of sugar and 50g of cacao and put it all together like you see in the photo, bake for about 35-40 minutes and enjoy.

Papanasi

INCREDIENTS:
400g cottage cheese
300g flour
15g baking powder
2 eggs
5g salt
50g sugar
lemon peel
500ml oil
sour cream
jam

Mix the cottage cheese with the 2 eggs and orange peel then add the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar and dont mix it for too long beacause it will get too hard, cut the dough in circular shape and make little balls of dough like in the photo then fry them in the oil and serve them with sour cream and jam.