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  • Dobrudja Pies

    Dobrudja Pies

    A province situated between the Danube and the Black Sea, Dobrudja boasts a kind of cuisine with powerful Oriental influences owing to the Turkish and Tatar community living there. Today, we’ll bring you the recipe of a pie specific to Dobruja and a recipe of shuberek, cooked by the Turkish and Tatar community.



    The pie can have a sweet or salty filling and it consists of sheets that can also be twisted around the filling; the filling can also be put on top the dough sheets that are hand creased. You need at least half a kilo of sweet or salty cheese, mainly mutton cheese, 6 eggs and of course, thin pastry sheets. Always bake the Dobrudja pie in a round tray. Mix half a kilo of sweet or salty cheese with three eggs. Put the filling on the dough sheet greased with a little bit of oil and then roll it in the shape of a sausage. Put the rolls in the tray spiral wise from its edge to its middle. Bake the pie in the oven for about a quarter of an hour until it gets nice and brown. Then pour on it half a kilo of thick yogurt mixed with 3 eggs. Leave the tray in the oven for another 20 minutes and then serve the pie right away either with a glass of yogurt, or a glass of wine if you baked a salty cheese pie.



    Shuberek is a mutton or beef pie specific to Dobrudja. You need flour for the dough, minced meat, a few onions, cooking oil, pepper, salt and a little bit of peppermint. Knead the dough with flour and some water, gradually adding salt and flour. Roll out the dough into thin pastry sheets. In a bowl mix the minced meat, chopped opinions and add pepper and peppermint. Put the filling on half a sheet and cover it with the other half of sheet. Press the pastry on its edges and fry the shuberek in hot cooking oil. Enjoy!

  • Recipes from Dobrudja

    Recipes from Dobrudja

    A province stretching between the Danube and the Black Sea, Dobrudja has many strong oriental influences because of its Turkish-Tartar minority. These influences are also visible in the regions cuisine.



    Dominated by fish and mutton dishes, the food of Dobrudga also includes poultry meat, beef and pork. The main dishes are usually accompanied by rice and vegetables side-dishes. Sheep dairy products, such as yoghurt and telemea, a white cheese similar to Greek feta cheese, are also used in the preparation of other dishes. Some of the regions typical dishes are different types of fish soup, marinated fish, fish stew, rice pilaf, different salads, mutton sausages and spit-roasted lamb, as well as Turkish dishes such as kebab, cured sausages, moussaka, made with aubergines, minced meat, green peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, and rice side-dishes.



    Last but not least, Dobrudja is well-known for its sweet dishes with raisins and Turkish delight, not to mention baklava, which is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of unleavened dough filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey.



    While consisting of vegetables such as tomatoes, green peppers, onion and cucumbers, the Dobrudjan salad is different from other salads. It also includes two hard-boiled eggs, olives, cream, telemea cheese, lemon juice and thyme. Chop the tomatoes into medium-sized pieces, finely-slice the cucumbers and the green peppers lengthwise and the onion. Mix everything together. You can also add some lettuce, finely cut. Prepare a sauce mixing the boiled yolks with some cream, finely cut egg-whites and finely-cut olives. Add a bit of lemon juice and ground thyme and mix components well into one another. Pour the sauce into the salad bowl with the vegetables, and grate the telemea cheese on top. This salad can also served as a side-dish for grilled meat.



    We end with another typical, mouth-watering dish from Dobrudga: mutton shish kebab. You need one kilo of mutton leg, several onions, pepper, ground thyme and some wine. Finely slice the meat, add a bit of salt and marinate it in wine, thyme and pepper for a couple of hours. Grill the meat on a skewer together with the onion and serve with pickles or sauerkraut salad.


    Enjoy!