Grill recipes

To make a grill people in Romania use pork, chicken, sausages and the traditional minced meat rolls. Sometimes fish is used in grill recipes, such as mackerel, particularly in springtime, catfish or carp.

Ștefan Baciu, 30.07.2016, 13:28

Because the latter two are large fish, they are usually chopped into slices, 2-3 centimetres thick. A 2-3 kilogram carp could be turned into a real delicious grill dish. After slicing it, the carp should be left to pickle for an hour or so in a sauce made up of white wine, a teaspoonful of pepper and another one of salt. Then place the slices on the grill with a couple of tomatoes that will be later used in the preparation of a garlic sauce. After the tomatoes have been grilled, peel and mash them into a puree. Add to this puree a couple of mashed garlic cloves, which have previously been mixed with a little bit of oil. Mix all these ingredients until you get a homogeneous cream, which should be poured over the grilled fish.

Another interesting grill recipe are joints roasted on the spit, although this dish may take more time to prepare. You need a kilo of pork butt, or any other kind of fatty meat, and be cut it in small 3 cm cubes. Place all these slices on a 30 cm spike with onion, mushrooms and bell pepper slices between them. These spikes are all placed on the grill but care should be taken to rotate them in order to grill them properly on either side. You can serve them hot with French fries and a pint of cold beer. However, nothing compares with the traditional ‘mititei, a staple in the Balkans cuisine consisting in minced pork, beef or mutton rolls mixed with various spices. Prepared just like the Turkish kebab, they are very much like the Serbian dish called ćevapčići. They usually go well with bread and mustard. Enjoy!