🇷🇴Romanian Recipes
Discover Romanian cuisine — sarmale, mămăligă, mici, ciorbă, and hearty Carpathian-Balkan home cooking.
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Romanian cuisine blends Balkan, Ottoman, Hungarian, and Slavic influences around pork, cornmeal, and soured soups. Sarmale (cabbage rolls), mămăligă (polenta-like cornmeal), mici/mititei (grilled minced-meat rolls), and ciorbă (sour soup soured with borș) are staples. Distinct from Hungarian and Bulgarian cooking through the centrality of mămăligă and the sour-borș souring tradition.
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Cornmeal (mămăligă)PorkCabbage (fresh & soured)Borș (fermented wheat bran)Sour cream (smântână)Telemea cheeseDill & lovagePaprikaBeansGarlic
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Romanian Cheese Doughnuts (Papanași) — Fried Curd-Cheese Rings with Sour Cream and Jam
Papanași are beloved Romanian fried cheese doughnuts, often ordered after ciorbă or a hearty plate of mămăligă. The crisp rings and small caps are finished with smântână and sour cherry jam.
45 min 6 590 cal
