Rich and multicultural, Romanian Christmas food is a temptation for anyone with an appetite for large and succulent portions with meat as the almost omnipresent main ingredient. As Romanian people make a feast of all major religious celebrations, food is bound to be abundant and delicious.

Christmas             recipes

Julfa with hemp mousse

Ro: julfă cu cremă de cânepă

This traditional dish is the kind of desert that your grandma would make, but unfortunately it is very hard to find in restaurant menus, mainly because it’s not very good looking, is time-consuming to make, and hemp seeds are nowadays quite expensive.

It is prepared a few days before Christmas and eaten only on Christmas Eve.

Ingredients: 

flour, water, salt, oil, hemp seeds, sugar

Process:

cinderella

       (Cenusareasa)

Cinderella is one of my favorite cakes my mom made, and I wanted to share the recipe with you

Cinderella

                    (Cenusareasa)

for Cream:

1 l milk

200 g sugar

3 chocolate pudding 

200 g dark chocolate

300 g butter

Ingredients:

  for 4 layers

2 eggs

180 g sugar

180 ml milk

140 ml oil

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon lemon juice

30 g cocoa

600-800 g flour

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Process:

Mix eggs with sugar, milk and oil for about 5 minutes, then add the baking soda quenched in lemon juice or vinegar, cocoa powder and  flour. Add the flour until you get a dough that no longer sticks to your hands. We weigh the dough obtained, then divide it into 4 parts.

Wrap each ball of dough in cling film and let it rest at room temperature, then spread each ball of dough on the baking layer  , prick with a fork from place to place and put in the oven and bake it. 

cream: boil the pudding, add the chocolate and wait for it to cool. We mix the soft butter at room temperature a little and over it we add 1 lg of chilled cream. Divide the obtained cream into 4 and grease each layers.

good appetite!!!

-Cozonac-

    Sweet bread

Cozonac is a classic, simple, sweetened yeast bread with origins in Romania. Traditionally made during Easter and Christmas, this citrus-scented sweet dough is twisted around a nutty filling, creating a spiral design when baked.

Ingredents

1 kg of flour

 50 g fresh yeast or 14 g dry

 350 ml (max. 400 ml) warm milk 

250 g sugar

 4 eggs 

150 ml of oil or 100 ml of oil and 100 g of melted butter 

3 sachets of vanilla sugar or two teaspoons of extract or core from a vanilla pod 

grated peel of 2 lemons and an orange 

15 g of salt (weighed!)

Filling:

 300 g colored Turkish delight

 150 g ground walnuts

 100 g sugar 

50 g cocoa

Extra:

 1 yolk 

50 ml milk

Moldovian Stew 

                     ( Tochitură Moldovenească )

There is nothing like the famous Moldavian stew, and there is no exaggeration in saying that this is the ultimate Romanian dish, as it combines the best traditional foods Romania has to offer

It's Romania on a plate!  

Process :

 - Cut all the meat into small pieces 

- Heat the oil and brown the meat 

- Boil the four eggs 

- When the meat is browned , add the sausages and spices

- Put one egg  in each plate over the meat and cover with grated cheese   

    Ingredients :

Homemade Chocolate

          -Ciocolata de casă-

   Ingredients:

-powdered milk 

-cocoa

-sugar

-water

-butter

-peanuts

-nuts

-pistachio

-raisins

    Process:

1. We sift the powdered milk and cocoa powder into a bowl.

2. Next, we make a syrup using sugar and water leaving it to boil for about 5 minutes, then we proceed to add butter.

3. We add the powder mixture into the syrup.

4. After, we mix everything together ,we add the raisins , hazelnut and walnuts.

5. Once we finished the chocolate mixture ,we put it in molds and then in the fridge until it hardens.