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Main Dishes

Quince with meat

Very old and tasty recipe

Ingredients:

* 500 g quinces
* 400 g meat (lamb, pork, chicken, beef)
* 2 onions
* 400 g potatoes
* tomato paste
* salt, pepper
* water
* parsley

Preparation:

Pork steak in the oven

A delicious easy to make dish

Ingredients:

* 1 kg of fresh tender pork meat
* pepper
* oil, red wine
* crushed garlic
* laurel leaves

Preparation: Place the steak sliced into 2 cm thick slices into a baking tray and pour on top a sauce made out of the above ingredients. Keep it at a very small fire until tender. Serve it with boiled cubed potatoes and sprinkle some chopped parsley on top. Wash it down with red wine.

(The Romanian name of the dish: Friptura de porc la cuptor)

Paprikash

Once you try this one, you'll never want to eat something else

Ingredients:

For the dumplings: 150 gr flour, 2 spoons butter, 4 eggs, salt, pepper.

For the sauce, meat:

* 1 kg veal
* 1 spoon paprika
* 2 spoons lard (or oil)
* 3 onions
* 1 spoon flour
* salt, pepper
* 2 bellpeppers
* 1 spoon tomatoe paste(salsa)

Orsava

Stew with dried fruits and meat

Ingredients:

* 500 g veal
* 1 kg dried fruits (apples, pears, quinces, plums)
* salt, pepper, paprika
* onion, carrot, celery
* sour cream
* tomatoes paste

Preparation:

Boil the meat with the vegetables until soften. Remove the foam. Add salt, pepper, paprika and the dried fruits cut in pieces. Leave to boil for other 15 minutes. Remove water if too much. Add tomatoes salsa. Serve hot with sour cream and home made bread. Wash it down with wine.

(The Romanian name of the dish: Orsava)

Nettles with polenta

This is a spring time dish, very nutritious and full of iron.

Ingredients:

* 1 kg nettles
* 3 spoons flour
* salt, pepper
* 1 coffee cup of milk
* 2 spoons butter
* 2 cloves of garlic

Preparation:

Clean and wash the nettles. Use gloves against the irritation. Boil them and they dry out. Add milk, butter and flour. Mix well to incorporate. Cut the garlic into small pieces and throw it over the nettles. Boil some 5 more minutes.

Mushrooms stuffed with livers

Even tastier than the ones stuffed with brains

Ingredients:

* 1 can mushrooms (or one kilo of fresh ones)
* lemon juice
* butter
* chicken livers
* 1 egg
* parsely, chives, fennel
* salt, pepper
* 1 glass cherry

Preparation:

Prepare exactly as the Mushrooms stuffed with brains, but replace brains with tender chicken livers, broiled and then chopped.

(The Romanian name of the dish: Ciuperci umplute cu ficatei de pasare)

Mushrooms stuffed with brains

A bit curious, but the taste is unique

Ingredients:

* 1 can mushrooms (or one kilo of fresh ones)
* lemon juice
* butter
* brains (preferable big, like sheep, beef)
* 1 egg
* parsely, chives, fennel
* salt, pepper
* 1 glass cherry

Preparation:

Mushroom stew

Easy, tasty, nutritious.

Ingredients:

* 150 gr butter
* 1 mug sour-cream
* 1 kg mushrooms (2 cans)
* dill, parsli, (fresh or dry)
* 1 spoon flour
* 3 onions
* 1 clove of garlic

Preparation:

Mushroom pilaf

That is the tasty one!

Ingredients:

* 2 cans of mushrooms (or 1 kg fresh)
* 1 onion
* 300 gr rice
* oil
* salt, pepper

Preparation:

Moldavian stew

Cholesterol? What cholesterol?

Ingredients:

* 500 gr pork meat
* 250 smoked sausages
* 300 gr cheese
* 3-4 spoons lard (oil)
* 10 garlic cloves
* 250 gr pork liver
* 1-2 pork kidneys
* 5 eggs
* salt, pepper

Preparation:

Minced meat balls with sour-cream sauce

Delicious and saucy.

Ingredients:

* 500 gr veal
* 300 gr bread core (heart, the sponge of the bread)
* 2 eggs
* 1 onion
* 500 gr pork
* 100 ml milk
* a generous amount of fresh, green dill
* flour
* 100 ml butter (or oil)
* salt, pepper
* 800 gr sour-cream
* 2 spoons dried mushroom powder (optional but strongly advised)

Preparation:

Meatballs

Served both as a main dish and as appetizers.

Ingredients:

* 500 g ground pork
* 500 g finely chopped onions
* 2 eggs
* 100 ml oil
* 6 slices white bread
* 1 head garlic (minced)
* salt and pepper to taste
* 1 bunch parsley
* 1 bunch dillweed (chopped)

Preparation:

Little meat balls

Very taste with mustard and horse-radish.

Ingredients:

* 1 kg veal
* 250 gr lamb
* 250 gr horse (optional)
* 500 gr pork
* 1 spoon salt
* 1 head garlic
* pepper, chili
* thyme
* 3 spoons sour-cream or 1 spoon dicarbonate
* 1 spoon cumin, rosemary, juniper
* 1 spoon sweet paprika

Preparation:

Leek with olives

Excellent, juicy!

Ingredients:

* 3 pieces of leek
* 3 tomatoes
* dill
* salt, pepper, paprika
* lemon juice or small glass white wine
* small glass oil
* 1 onion
* 100 gr black olives
* 3-4 garlic cloves

Preparation:

Jellied pork

This is a traditional Christmas dish, and could be found on all Romanian tables.

Ingredients:

* 1,5 kg pork feet and/or head, plus ears
* 1 onion
* 2 carrots
* 1 parsnip
* 1 parsley root
* 1 celery root
* 2 bay leaves
* 3-4 juniper berries
* 3-4 garlic cloves
* salt

Preparation: