No food in the world compares to the taste of preparations by my mother at home. That vapourous food in which that priceless person from your life knew how to drip love. I thought to disclose you the receipe of that delicious stew made by my mother since I know about myself. I understood that this Romanian cuisine delicacy draws its origin from the Daco-Romans and it is customary for the Romanian mass. It would bear the name of ”Oltenian reed”, but the way of preparation varies from one area to another, the fact is that the basic ingredients are kept regardless of region. Since the main ingredient is mutton, this is an ideal preparation for Easter.

Ingredients needed:

1 kilo mutton tender meat (shoulder)

4 spoons of oil

2 sweet peppers

1 big onion

500 g of potatoes

4 tomatoes

4 cloves of garlic

3 bay leaf

Paprika
Salt
Piper
Thyme
Parsley

How to prepare:

Peel the onions, cut them accurate, sprinkle the salt and place it in hot oil tempered for 5 minutes. Be sure to mix from time to time not to catch. Add meat cut into pieces, cooked and washed with cold water, then cover with boiling water enough to overcome the meat about two inches. The vessel is covered with a lid and placed over low heat. When it penetrates the meat, cut sweet fair, clean potatoes and cut them into small cubes, then add leaves over meat and let it to boil for another 10 minutes. Then put peeled and sliced tomatoes, the bay leaves, pepper for taste, crushed garlic and sprinkle little thyme. It leaves until it boils and then give the right taste of salt, pepper and put the stew in the oven for declining the sauce.

In the meantime take a more vigorous of corn polenta, water and salt to taste. When removing the stew from the oven wash it in a shower of parsley.

Stew is served on a bed of polenta with tomato peppers or cucumbers salad.

Wait, do not start yet to prepare the delicious food until I will divulge you my mother’s secrets:

If the onion is too peppery hold it for 10-15 minutes in a bowl of cold water after you have peeled it.

After the polenta is done, place it hot in bowls greased with margarine, let for 5 minutes, then flip it on a platter.

That’s it, good luck to cooking and bon appetit!