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Cuisine of Oltenia
As I said before Oltenian people enjoy eating fresh vegetables but these people like their green stuff so much that in time they have developed a lot of vegetable soups – weeds such as leek, dock, orach, nettles, all kinds of beans, amaranth, green onion and many others – used separately or mixed up – make delicious local broths an soups. Oltenians like their soups to be sour – so lemon juice, borsch, vinegar, yogurt, tomato juice, sauerkraut juice or some green spices are used to get this flavor; among Oltenian spicy herbs parsley and lovage are the most appreciated. Vegetables are used a lot even when soups are cooked with meat. For those who like Romanian tripe soup or borsch (usually served with garlic, sour cream and a hot chili pepper) it is important to say that here tripe soup is cooked with vinegar and horse radish and with no garlic at all!
Oltenian sausages are famous – this dish is a symbol of Oltenia, the motherland of Constantin Brancusi – an internationally famous sculptor. These sausages are made from equal amounts of beef and pork chopped finely and mixed with garlic, pepper and salt; then the paste is stuffed into sheep guts. In the end the sausages have to be smoked – dry for two hours.
Oltenians also enjoy polenta and all kind of pies made of “malai” (a sort of corn flour, used also to cook polenta) which are still backed in the “?est” in the countryside. Traditional Oltenian dishes are "ghiveci calugaresc" (Monk’s hotchpotch), "tochitura olteneasca", mici (they seem to be a kind of sausages with no gut cover which are grilled on a barbecue) and "carnati oltenesti" (Oltenian sausages), "ciulama de pui cu mamaliga" (veloute with chicken and polenta), "saramura de peste" (a kind of fish soup), "mancare de praz" (a leek dish), "gutui cu piept de pui" (chicken breast with quince), "rosii umplute cu carne si orez/doar orez" ( tomatoes filled with minced meat and rice or with rice only) and many others.
Author: Irina Petre
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