Today's dish: Plescoi Sausages
Plescoi sausages are simply awesome! I mean, I personally love them. And what do you know, I hear they are a quite famous trade mark around the world.The spicy delicious sausages come from Plescoi, a Romanian village in the Sub-Carpathians area, Buzau. The original recipe includes mutton, fat mutton, the fatter the better :) garlic and/or paprika. The sausages must be smoked and dried in the wind and then fried for no longer than 1 minute in hot oil.
The sausages were first "cooked" this way by serbian grocers who found the taste of the Romanian local mutton so awful that they decided to spice it up strongly and smoke it until it became edible.
So it is actually fixing a bad recipe that made the sausages famous. Well, this is only a rumour. What matters is that today they are so famous around the country that you can find them anywhere: at the butcher's, in supermarkets and in most of the restaurants, especially in Bucharest. However we are not very sure if the recipe is always the original one.
The sausages must not contain minced meat and the spices must be carefully measured and added to the mixture. They are always served with "mamaliga" and sometimes with cheese and fried eggs. YUMMMY!!
You can also eat them with a garnish of white potato salad, containing mustard, vinegar and pepper. It is lovely if you could have a small glass of "tuica" (romanian vodka) along or a dry red wine. If not, then a fine mug of nice cold beer would do just fine. :)
Try the Plescoi sausages in Caru' cu Bere or in Nicoresti. They taste delicious. Normally they are no more than 12 13 RON in most of the restaurants around. Enjoy!
