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FOODIE, THE BREAKFAST CLUB


THE BREAKFAST CLUB – THE TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN BREAKFAST



Today I am inaugurating a new section on my blog which I suggestively called
“The Breakfast Club”. Each week I will cook a breakfast from a different country
of the world and share my results with you. As I can’t say that I am a great
cook you can expect some major fails in the kitchen as well. I thought about
this for a while now because I wanted to share with you my love for food but I
also wanted to combine it somehow with my passion for traveling. This is how The
Breakfast Club was born.

I will start The Breakfast Club with the traditional morning meal from my own
home country, Romania. When I was a child breakfast used to be a treat in my
family because my mother only used to make it on the weekends. During the week,
she would go to work early while me and my sister would go to kindergarten,
where we used to have our breakfast. While when I was little I used to have the
traditional Romanian breakfast, which includes eggs, cheese, meat and
vegetables, when I became a teen I discovered cereals and for years Cini Minis
was my friend for breakfast. Later, while in Uni, I traded breakfast for coffee
and ever since pretty much stopped eating in the morning. But I want to change
this, as breakfast is such an important meal of the day, boosting your body’s
energy levels to start your day on the right foot.

 


WHAT IS THE TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN BREAKFAST?

As I said before, the Romanian breakfast includes a selection of cold and hot
dishes, some of them unique to my country. As the traditional Romanian cuisine
has been influenced during the history, each region of the country has its own
variation of breakfast, with some common elements.

One food that will never miss on a Romanian breakfast plate is the egg. You can
have it either boiled, fried or in an omelette, it will always be there.
Sometimes, if you are opting for an omelette, it will be made with bacon and
onions.

Cheese is another important element of the traditional breakfast and of the
Romanian cuisine in general. Our traditional cheese is called telemea and it is
made from sheep’s milk. It is a semi-soft white cheese with a crumbly texture,
quite salty. The best telemea comes from a bucket full of brine, directly from a
farmers market (they are very common in Romania and that’s where people go to
shop for fruits and vegetables, not at the supermarket).

Cheese seller in the farmers market




WHAT IS ZACUSCA?

Every autumn, in most of the Romanian kitchens, mothers and grandmothers will be
spending hours making zacusca, a vegetarian spread based on open fire grilled
eggplants and ball peppers, which is afterwards bottled in jars and stored for
the winter. Zacusca is eaten then for breakfast, spread on a slice of the
Romanian typical bread, franzela. Zacusca is a very loved typical Romanian food.



Bread is essential in the Romanian household. Just to let you know, in 2014 for
example, 2 tonnes of bread (worth over 1 billion euros) have been sold in my
country. Thinking that the average price of a loaf is about 15 pennies, you can
imagine how much bread that means. Practically, Romanians buy and eat bread
every day. The traditional loaf is called franzela, it’s oval shaped, fluffy on
the inside and crusty on the outside. During breakfast, you can choose different
spreads to have on it: zacusca, fish roe salad or grilled eggplant salad. Some
people prefer the sweet version so they spread butter and jam on their slices of
bread.

 


HOW ABOUT THE MEAT AND VEGETABLES?

In the past, when most of the people lived in the countryside, breakfast used to
be prepared with whatever products they grew in their gardens. The tradition has
been kept and therefore there will be at least a tomato or some slices of
cucumber on the plate.

Back then, the most accessible meat the villagers would have was slanina, which
they would eat with onions. Slanina is made from the pork’s belly or back fat
together with the animal’s skin. The pieces of fat are cut into slices and kept
in salt for 3 weeks, then taken out and smoked for another 2-3 days. While back
then it was very common, today it is expensive and rare to find even in the
farmer’s markets, unless you make it yourself.

The meat we usually use for breakfast is called “sunculita taraneasca” which is
a fatty piece of meat that still has the pork’s skin on it, boiled and then
smoked. Some people prefer fried sausages though.

Meat display in the farmers market



For my traditional breakfast, I have used a few of the most common ingredients
that you will usually find on the plate if you order it at a restaurant in
Romania: fried egg, cheese, bread with zacusca, a few vegetables and sunculita
taraneasca. I should admit though that it wasn’t much cooking involved, just a
visit to the Romanian shop for some key items.

 

Which other country’s breakfast would you like me to cook next week?

 


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ROMANIAN BREAKFAST


Course Breakfast
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1


INGREDIENTS

 * 1 egg
 * 3 spoons zacusca (found at any Romanian shop)
 * 1 slice bread
   
 * 3 slices smoked ham
 * 1 tomato
 * 2-3 slices cucumber
 * 1 spring onion


INSTRUCTIONS

 1. Fry, poach or boil the egg
    

 2. Arrange all the items on the plate
    


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 1. Monidipa Dutta says:
    
    
    I love every Romanian food. And this breakfast is super tasty. I never had
    the recipe but thanks for sharing it here.
    
    16th May 2019 at 5:08 pm
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