Traditional Romanian recipe - Potatoes with garlic and tomato juice
Today I wanted to make an easy, simple recipe with the potatoes I bought yesterday.
So I looked online for recipes to get inspiration. I landed on a video from a Romanian food blogger and I used her recipe.
She said this is a very common dish made in the villages from Moldavia but also in Dobrogea regions of Romania.
I remember my grandma used to make something like this quite often during fasting periods, like we have now before Christmas.
It's very simple, cheap recipe with just a few ingredients and very yummy.
Ingredients
potatoes - about 1,5kg - peeled, washed and sliced into quarters
garlic - a few cloves - cut into halves
tomato juice - about 200 ml
water - about a cup
thyme
rosemary
salt - half teaspoon per kg of potatoes
black pepper
sweet paprika
olive oil - 2-3 tbsp
1-2 bay leaves
Instructions
Put the potatoes in a deep tray. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well so each potato gets some herbs and sauce on it.
This is how mine looked like:
Cover with a wet parchment paper instead of aluminium foil, it's way healthier. It will look something like this:
Place in the preheated oven, medium-high heat, for 20-30 minutes. Remove the parchment paper and let them for 10 minutes more.
Until they look kind of like this:
Serve with a sprinkle of fresh parsley leaves next to some sautéed mushrooms or with pickles or with anything you want :)
Bon appétit!
Namaste
If you're interested in more vegetarian, gluten free recipes, check out these other recipes on my blog:
Delicious raw-vegan chocolates - gluten free, dairy free
Traditional Romanian food - mashed beans with onion and garlic - vegan, gluten free
Sautéed mushrooms and cauliflower puree - Gluten free, vegetarian yummy recipe
My first homemade gluten free pizza that actually tastes like GOOD pizza
Gluten free, no fry, crunchy zucchini sticks
Potatoes & mushrooms "lasagna" - A dream come true
Don't tease us, please. I am officially hungry now :)
Me too! They look delicious. :-)
I will post a warning from now on: "Don't read this if you're hungry!" :)))
yummy ! that looks good, in crete we ate something like that but it was with lemonjuice
good idea with the lemon juice, I might try a recipe like that next :)