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Tocană
Tocană, also known as tocăniță, is a Romanian cuisine, Romanian stew prepared with tomato, garlic and sweet paprika.Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook - Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman
pp. 311-312.
Traditionally, it is consumed with a cornmeal Mush (cornmeal), mush named ''mămăligă''. The dish has a history of being consumed by shepherds in the Romanian mountains.The Multicultural Cookbook for Students – Carole Lisa Albyn
p. 97.
Derived from the Latin "toccare" into the modern "toca", the term is sometimes rendered a ...
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Romanian Cuisine
Romanian cuisine () is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character. It has been influenced mainly by Ottoman cuisine, Ottoman and Turkish cuisine but also a series of European cuisines in particular from the Balkan cuisine, Balkan Peninsula, Greek cuisine and Hungarian cuisine as well as culinary elements stemming from the cuisines of Central Europe. Romanian cuisine includes numerous holiday dishes arranged according to the mentioned season and holiday since the country has its religious roots in Eastern Orthodoxy. Romanian dishes consist of vegetables, cereals, fruits, honey, milk, dairy products, meat and game. Various kinds of dishes are available, which are sometimes included under a generic term; for example, the category ''ciorbă'' includes a wide range of soups with a characteristic sour taste. Variations include meat and vegetable soup, tripe (''ciorbă de burtă'') and calf f ...
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Stew
A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been Cooking, cooked in Soup, liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, pork, venison, Rabbit as food, rabbit, lamb and mutton, lamb, poultry, sausages, and seafood. While water can be used as the stew-cooking liquid, Stock (food), stock is also common. A small amount of red wine or other alcohol is sometimes added for flavour. Seasonings and flavourings may also be added. Stews are typically cooked at a relatively low temperature (Simmering, simmered, not Boiling, boiled), allowing flavours to mingle. Stewing is suitable for the least tender cuts of meat that become tender and juicy with the slow, moist heat method. This makes it popular for low-cost cooking. Cuts with a certain amount of marbling and gelatinous connective tissue give moist, juicy stews, while lean meat may easily ...
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Mămăligă
Mămăligă (;) is a polenta-like dish made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania, Moldova, south-west regions of Ukraine and among Poles in Ukraine (''mamałyga''), Hungary (''puliszka''), the Black Sea regions of Georgia (country), Georgia and Turkey, and Thessaly and Phthiotis, as well as in Bulgaria (''kačamak'') and in Greece. It is also eaten in Italy, Switzerland, Southern France, Slovenia, Croatia, Brazil, often with the name ''polenta''. History Historically a peasant food, it was often used as a substitute for bread or even as a staple food in the poor rural areas. However, in the last decades it has emerged as an upscale dish available in the finest restaurants. Maize was consumed by Romani people, Romani slaves in Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as Muslims, Muslim slaves, who were Prisoner of war, prisoners of war. Roman influence Historically, porridge is the oldest form of consumption of grains in the whole of humanity, long before the appearanc ...
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List Of Stews
This is a list of notable stews. A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables, such as carrots, potatoes, beans, onions, peppers, tomatoes, etc., and frequently with meat, especially tougher meats suitable for moist, slow cooking, such as beef chuck or round. Poultry, pork, lamb or mutton, sausages, and seafood Seafood is any form of Marine life, sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including Fish as food, fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of Mollusca, molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussel ... are also used. Stews See also * Fish stew – includes a list of many fish stews * List of Azerbaijani soups and stews * List of fish and seafood soups * List of Japanese soups and stews * List of soups * List of Spanish soups and stews References {{Soups ...
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Tochitură
Tochitură () is a traditional Romanian and Moldovan dish made from pork cut into small cubes, (tochitură comes from the verb "a topi" which means "to melt") cooked over low fire in their own fat and juices, usually in a cast-iron pot. It is traditionally served with over-easy eggs and mămăligă.Enache, D. ''Bucătăria unităților gastronomice'', Ed. Sport-Turism, București 1975 The ''tochitură moldovenească'' is the Moldavian version and the ''tochitură ardelenească'' is the Transylvanian version. Tochitură is made in two main varieties: with or without tomato sauce and can be made from beef, lamb or chicken (depends on the area - Moldova, Transilvania, Oltenia, Muntenia, Dobrogea). In order to not be confused with a stew, the amount of tomato sauce should be minimal (and usually added at the end) so the meat will cook in its own juices. The version with tomato sauce is the most common and is prepared in most restaurants, but is less "traditional." The one without ...
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Mush (cornmeal)
Mush is a type of cornmeal pudding (or porridge) which is usually boiled in water or milk. It is often allowed to set, or gel into a semisolid, then cut into flat squares or rectangles, and pan fried. Cornmeal mush is especially popular amongst Amish people as well as in parts of the Midwestern United States. In Eastern Europe, milk is poured over the meal once served and cooled down, rather than being boiled in it. Cornmeal mush is often consumed in Latin America and Africa. See also * Cornbread * Grits * Gruel * Hasty pudding * Hominy * Hushpuppy * Johnnycake * List of maize dishes * List of porridges * Mămăligă * Milho frito * Polenta Polenta (, ) is an Italian cuisine, Italian dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains. It may be allowed to cool and solidify into a loaf that can be baked, fried or Grilling, grilled. The variety of cereal used is ... * Pudding corn * Samp * Ugali References * * * Cuisine of the So ...
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Shepherds
A shepherd is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of Pastoralism, pastoralist animal husbandry. Because the occupation is so widespread, many religions and cultures have symbolic or metaphorical references to shepherds. For example, Jesus called himself the Good Shepherd, and ancient Greek mythologies highlighted shepherds such as Endymion (mythology), Endymion and Daphnis. This symbolism and shepherds as characters are at the center of pastoral literature and art. Origins Shepherding is among the oldest occupations, beginning some 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, their sheep meat, meat and especially their wool. Over the next thousand years, sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested that the Shepherd Neolithic industry (archaeology), industry of Lebanon m ...
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Lamb And Mutton
Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat) is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries'', and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep. Generally, "hogget" and "sheep meat" aren't used by consumers outside Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Scotland, and Australia. Hogget has become more common in England, particularly in the North (Lancashire and Yorkshire) often in association with rare breed and organic farming. In South Asian and Caribbean cuisine, "mutton" often means goat meat.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd edition, June 2003Italian, make similar or even more detailed distinctions among sheep meats by age and sometimes by sex and diet—for example, ''lechazo'' in Spanish refers to meat from milk-fed (unweaned) lambs. Classifications and nomenclature The definitions for lamb, hogget and mutton vary considerably between ...
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Pörkölt
Pörkölt () is a meat stew which originates from Hungary, but is eaten throughout Central Europe. In Hungary Pörkölt is a Hungarian stew with boneless meat, paprika, and some vegetables. It should not be confused with '' gulyás'', a stew with more gravy or a soup (using meat with bones, paprika, caraway, vegetables and potato or different tiny dumplings or pasta simmered along with the meat), or ''paprikás'', which uses only meat, paprika and thick heavy sour cream). Pörkölt, paprikás and gulyás are considered national dishes of Hungary. There are different pörkölt variations from region to region. In most parts of Hungary, pörkölt is made with beef or pork. The word ''pörkölt'' means 'roasted'. Pörkölt is made of meat, onion, and sweet paprika powder. Tomatoes or tomato paste, green pepper, marjoram, and garlic are common additions to the basic recipe. If no paprika powder is available, a mild or heatless chili powder is a suitable substitute but may slight ...
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