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Other 10 Romanian delicious foods

11. Bean paste with smoked meat – “Iahnie de fasole cu afumătură”

Bean paste, a traditional culinary delicacy originating from Transylvania can’t be missing from festive lunches and dinners. Besides, this dish is a fasting period favorite as well.

12. Baked potatoes – “Cartofi copți”

Oven baked potatoes are another food fondly remembered from our childhood. They can be prepared with rosemary, onions or bacon, but probably baked potatoes with butter remain the greatest favorite.

13. Cabbage a la Cluj – “Varză a la Cluj”

Even though cabbage a la Cluj is simply considered “messed up cabbage rolls” by many, this prejudice is not entirely true. This food is traditional in Transylvania, but has become very popular in other regions as well.

14. Potato goulash with smoked meat – “Gulaș de cartofi cu afumătură”

This traditional Transylvanian goulash is very special. It is basically a kind of stew, but the ingredients used confer an interesting flavor to it. In its original location, potato goulash is usually served with potato noodles, but cream of wheat or flour noodles are a customary side dish added to it as well.

15. Sweet bread – “Cozonac de casă”

To bake a truly delicious sweetbread always represents a challenge. Old experts say that the quality of the flour used is very important, but kneading the dough with a firm hand and baking the bread in a tightly closing oven make a significant difference as well.

16. Transylvanian vegetable soup with pork – “Ciorbă ardelenească de porc”

This Transylvanian favorite contains tarragon, which, combined with pork, adds a very special flavor to the soup.

Oven baked bread “Pâine de casă în cuptor”

Nobody would be able to resist crunchy crusted homemade bread freshly out of the oven. Traditionally, bread used to be made from whole wheat ground at a stone mill, mixed with water, salt and leaven.

17. Sweet dough figurines – “Mucenici moldovenești”

Sweet dough figurines are a dessert baked for a traditional holiday to celebrate the first 40 martyrs of Jesus. In the honor of the martyrs, women from Moldova bake 40 figurines from dough using a recipe resembling that of sweetbread.

18. Beef salad – “Salată boeuf”

Despite its French name, this food is traditional in Romania, and it originates from the Salade a la Russe or Russian salad. The Romanian beef salad consists of boiled and cubed carrots, parsley roots, eggs, potatoes and beef, enriched with pickles and peas, and mixed with mayonnaise.

19. Baked pumpkin – “Dovleac copt”

We all can remember the taste of pumpkins baked in our grandparents’ kitchen. Baked pumpkin is one of the healthiest desserts due to its rich antioxidant and vitamin content.

20. Tripe soup – “Ciorba de burtă”

There are two common recipes of tripe soup traditional in Romania; one of them is made with sour cream, and the other one is served with garlic sauce and vinegar. Besides tripe, which is calf stomach cut into strips, this soup contains carrots, turnip cabbage, celery roots and beef hocks.