A simple and tasty fasting dish from Țara Lăpușului (Lăpuș Land): boiled potatoes, mashed and mixed with fried onions, served with a sauerkraut juice sauce. A recipe that never disappoints.
🥣 Ingredients
- potatoes
- oil
- onion
- flour
- sauerkraut juice
👩🍳 How to prepare
Boil the potatoes and mash them. Fry an onion in oil and, once fried, add it over the potatoes and mix. In a saucepan, fry a little flour in oil, then add the sauerkraut juice. Serve the potatoes with the sauerkraut juice sauce.
📖 The story of the recipe
Recipe from Dunca Ileana, 93 years old, from Șieu, Cupșeni commune, in the heart of Țara Lăpușului. “Moare“ is the local word for the juice of pickled cabbage, kept in barrels so that nothing from the rich autumn was wasted.
🔍 What’s next
Find more traditional Maramureș recipes collected by the Maramureș Museum in Sighetu Marmației in the Gastro section of our newspaper. Also try the mushrooms with garlic from Ruscova, another autumn fasting dish.
Recipe source: Maramureș Museum Sighetu Marmației – Maramureș GastroEtnoArt. Photo source: Chefi.ro (Shutterstock).
