The Best Of Romanian Cuisine - Food For The Soul
John Doyle
Romanians are a people, who relish their food. Especially on an occasion, you will find a Romanian piling up his table with all sorts of delicacies. Food habits are a hot topic these days, with specialists in medicine and nutrition advising us to eat healthy food like fruits and raw vegetables, which are seasonal, locally grown and fresh, meaning that we should not go after too many exotic foods.
Romanians know what healthy food means, but that does not mean they give up their famous food. Romanians have special traditional food. As in every country, there are different regions with different original famous specific food.
For example, take the cuisine of Transylvania. They make a particular Sunday meal according to their tradition, which consists of a chicken noodle soup. This soup is not an everyday kind of soup either. It has to be prepared at home and, moreover, the chicken has to be raised in their own home poultry. This soup is so special that you can find it in any Romanian cookbook or list of recipes.
Several items of Romanian cuisine, which are considered as traditional as the famous noodle soup, are actually borrowed from the cuisine of other cultures. For instance, they usually have a special dish of schnitzel, an Austrian item, along with fried potatoes every Sunday after returning from the church. Like many other people in the world, the Romanians have a long established tradition of going to church on Sundays. And having schnitzel with the finest quality wine and palinca (a strong drink made from grapes or prunes) is almost like a ritual which they are practicing till date.
Preparing sweet dishes is also a very complicated and time consuming event in Romania. Many varieties of pies and cookies are made usually by the women. Vanilla, nuts and cream are also used extensively in the process of making pies and cookies. Baking for these sweet dishes are done usually in a wood stove and a traditional clay oven is used for baking bread.
The homemade bread is a big, spongy affair and is still made with traditional ingredients without any artificial additives. It contains potatoes and wheat flour as in the past. It remains one of the famous traditional preparations, because it is delicious, with a crunchy outer crust and soft inside.
Whether there are special original traditional famous Romanian food specialties, or some borrowed influences, the variety of the cooking department is huge. No matter what we are talking about, all the results can be categorized as tasty.
In this era of beautifully packaged food around the world, people tend to buy food, which has a more appealing package. Mostly these people are from the younger generation, and have never got an opportunity to taste something fresh from their own home garden or a chicken raised in their own home poultry.
But Romanians can still afford to be traditional in their cooking habits. This does not mean, however, that all Romanians cook at home and eat only traditional delicacies. Many Romanians have got used to dining on processed food of the heat and serve variety, especially those, who have got to cope with a hectic schedule.
But the superb conventional culinary delicacies of the Romanian people should be tried by everybody, because they are in a class of their own. Once you have tried them, it is virtually impossible not to fall in love with these delicious goodies, for example the scrumptious 'sarmale' or cabbage rolls, or the 'ciobra' (broth) or the soups.
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