What are the Famous Local vegetarian dishes/food of Bucharest ,Romania ?Romanian dishes largely consist of lots of vegetables, cereals, vegetable oils, milk, dairy products and not to forget meat .
Romanian Cuisine is a mash of different dishes of several traditions with which it came into contact, but it has not lost the originality.
When Romania got introduced with Europe, Maze and Potatoes became the staple food of the country . Some even says that maze contributed a-lot in the health improvement of Romanians in 16th Centuries.
Yes , Vegetarian food is quite easily available in Romania . It has a long list of vegetarian dishes if you compare with few other European countries .
Sarmale , though non vegetarian but is the national dish of Romania .
Nope , food in Romania is not expensive ! If Compared with other countries it has got very inexpensive meal in its menu .
Vegetables , Vegetable Oil , cereals and meat are the main ingredients that are used in Romanian Cuisines.
Zacusca
Pufuleții
Covrigi
Găluște cu prune
Salam de biscuiți
Salată de vinete
Fasole bătută
Zacusca
It is a very Popular vegetable dish of Romania . This vegetable spread is made from roasted eggplant and peppers. Zacusca is prepared in Autumn, when all the ingredients are easily available .
The beauty if it is that it can be eaten any time of the day be it after breakfast or in dinner .Oven or Grill can be used to cook vegetables to give it an awesome smoky flavour . Check recipe
Pufuleții
Puffcorn is an extruded puffed corn snack in which you will find corn grits, rice, wheat, or other cereals. It is quite famous in Romania. Puffcorn is often flavoured with cheese, oil, chili, onion, or garlic powder, and many other spices.
This particular snack is quite famous in other parts of the world also .
Covrigi
It is quite similar to pretzels. It consist of crispy salted bread topped with seeds, sesame or large salt grains.
There will not be any sugar stuff in this. Covrigi is the plural form of the Romanian word covrig.
These are a popular snack food in metro parts of Romania. The most famous covrigi are found in Buzau.
Găluște cu prune
Plum Dumplingis a traditional Romanian dessert.
These Delicious plums are covered in a potato dough and in sweet buttery bread crumbs.
The most required ingredients to cook these plum dumplings are Semolina ,icing Sugar , butter , egg , flour , breadcrumbs and potatoes 🙂 Check recipe
Salam de biscuiți
These are made to look like slices of salami. The most popular time for it is near Christmastime, especially in Romania.
It’s should be a combination of cocoa powder, butter, sugar, rum extract (or other real liquor), crumbled cookies, and usually Turkish delight.Check Recipe
Salată de vinete
This is served on bread with tomatoes and cheese .This dish is usually served in summers .
Traditionally dressing the eggplant salad was done with sunflower oil, diced onions, salt and lemon juice or vinegar.
Vinegar was used in the past because of less popularity of lemon those days Check Recipe
Fasole bătută
It is is a bean-based paste and you can also call it dip. This is traditionally made by mashing beans and mixing with vegetable oil.
Then some chopped onions are added in this. This dip is quite famous in Romania which is eaten with vegetables .
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