Authentic Romanian Recipes With Cheese And Cabbage Craze!

In general Romanians like eating different delicious kinds of food. Here you can find authentic Romanian recipes, which are usually cooked on special occasions, or you can try them whenever you like. Therefore you can find out two recipes: traditional cheese ball and cabbage rolls.

You know, when they want to eat something nice, Romanians do not lose time, so let us begin with the cheese ball which can be found in the list of any authentic Romanian recipes books. This dish is ready in about one hour.

The ingredients needed are 350 grams corn flour, half a teaspoon of salt, 1 liter and a half of water, for a corn flour sauce. Then, for the stuff, you need 4 eggs, 50 grams butter, and 300 g cheese, preferably two different kinds of cheese. Here we have to mention that the best types of cheese for this dish are bellows cheese (“branza de burduf) and a kind of salty cheese called “telemea”.

First, you have to cook a quite soft corn flour sauce and boil the eggs. Meanwhile you must have available an earthen pot, which is a symbol of authentic Romanian recipes. In order to obtain the best outcome you have to keep this pot in cold water for 15 minutes, and then rub it with plenty of butter, so that the cheese ball will not stick to the pot.

When the corn flour sauce is ready, you can pour a third of it into the pot, and put on its top the bellows cheese after you have flaked it using a fork, a little butter (about 1 teaspoon) and two halves of eggs. Then cover it with another third of corn flour sauce, and then put the salty cheese on it, together with the other two eggs and finally the last layer of corn flour sauce.

To continue with, cabbage rolls are famous too in the list of authentic Romanian recipes. It is true that it takes you about half an hour to prepare them, and if you want to cook them in the oven, you can spend with them one hour and a half.

The ingredients you need are 1 kilo mince, 2 medium sized onions, a bunch of verdure, 200 grams rice, 2 spoons tomato paste, 1 teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of pepper, 2 leaves of laurel, 1 hot pepper, medium sized sauerkraut (which you should keep in water in order to make it release salt, two hours before). You can also use raw cabbage, but you have to scald it first.

As far as equipment is concerned, you need specific kitchen utensils and a Romanian earthen pot. Besides, as home appliances, you can use the cooker, which of course must have an oven, kitchen robot or mince maker. Hack meat using a kitchen robot or a mince maker. Mix the mince with the rice, the chopped onion, the verdure, after you minced it too using a knife, tomato paste, salt and pepper. Then you have to choose cabbage leaves and put the mixture onto them and roll them.

These two authentic Romanian recipes are an expression of Romanian essential jobs in the past, which were shepherd and rich farmer, who used to enjoy eating, drinking a little natural wine or brandy and then telling jokes and feeling great.