Romani cuisine

Romani cuisine, sometimes derisively called "Gypsy food", is the cuisine of the ethnic Romani people. There is no specific "Roma cuisine"; it varies and is culinarily influenced by the respective countries where they have often lived for centuries. Hence, it is influenced by European cuisine even though the Romani people originated from the Indian subcontinent. Their cookery incorporates Indian and South Asian influences, but is also very similar to Hungarian, Jewish cuisine, Eastern European cuisine and Romanian cuisine. The cuisine of Muslim Romani people is also influenced by Balkan cuisine and Turkish cuisine.

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Romani dishes are usually made hot and spicy with the use of spices, such as paprika, garlic and bell peppers. Potatoes are also a staple in their diet. A traditional Romani dessert is pirogo. The recipe consists of eggs, raisins, walnuts, pineapple, sugar, butter, egg noodles and cottage cheese.[1] Another traditional dish cooked by Romani people is sarma, salmaia or sodmay, which is made from cabbage stuffed with meat and rice.[2] Romanis consume dishes consisting of stuffed peppers, especially on holidays and special occasions. Romani people also cook pufe (made from fried flour), xaritsa (fried cornbread), bogacha (baked bread) and xaimoko (a meal consisting of rabbit meat). They serve their meals with kafa (coffee) and chao (tea) with sugar and milk or lemon.[3] In Maribor, Slovenia, there is a Romani restaurant called Romani Kafenava.[4] Some itinerant European Romani people cook hedgehog stew.[5]

List of Romani dishes

References
  1. The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students - Page 132
  2. Memories of a Gypsy - Page 17
  3. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans - Page 62
  4. Sullivan, Meghan Collins (16 May 2014). "Introducing Roma Cuisine, The Little-Known 'Soul Food' Of Europe". NPR.
  5. Byghan, Yowann (2020). Sacred and Mythological Animals: A Worldwide Taxonomy. McFarland, Incorporated. p. 133. ISBN 9781476679501.
  6. Hancock, Ian F. (2002). We are the Romani People. ISBN 9781902806198.
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