#mititei

[vegehana-food]

✿ ミティティ | Mititei ・牛肉や羊肉のひき肉にニンニクやスパイスなどを混ぜて筒状に形を整え、炭火で焼いた肉料理。屋台やレストランで提供されていることが多く、フライドポテトやマスタードが添えられているのが一般的です。ルーマニアでは5月1日の「メーデー」を祝って、バーベキューやピクニックに出かける習慣があり、その際にミティティを食べることもあるのだとか。

[69decartofiprajiti]

[ilsa-fireswan]

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Today’s episode of Cooking With Fanfic comes courtesy of an actor interview talking about foods they missed from home. One of them mentioned mititei, or mici, a fresh Romanian sausage. Sounds delicious!

Mititei- Authentic Romanian Grilled Sausages Recipe

Mititei- Authentic Romanian Grilled sausages are made with ground beef, garlic and other spices. They are served with mustard, bread, and co

Day 1: prep the meat

Naturally every time I cook non-native recipes I find myself lacking local sources for something. In this case, savory and coriander. Luckily I still have a small amount of both from a random find at a gourmet store. (I did, however, place an order for more!)

Beef suet I can get from my local butcher and I opted for ground pork to use the first time since I couldn’t find lamb. I’ll probably try a beef only version later, since I try not to eat pork, but I’m going with the recipe the first time!

Day 2: shape and cook the meat

Everything needs to sit overnight to let the flavors marinate, so plan ahead! I did cook some right away to test the flavor blend and it was good but it was much richer the next day.

Normally this is a hand shaped log but I got the brilliant idea that maybe I can extrude it with a plastic bag.

Worked like a charm! I used the top of a plastic water bottle for a tip, so the bag wouldn’t tear out at the seams from pressure.

I’m planning to put some of the logs in the freezer to chill before cutting, since that part was still really sticky. But clean up was a breeze and they were much more uniform than the ones I shaped by hand.

I really meant to get a photo of it all plated, but it was so good and we gobbled it all up. 🤣

Traditionally it’s served with potatoes, mustard and beer. But since I’m not a big fan of two of those, I just ate it with hashbrowns. It’s garlicky and a little like a sage breakfast sausage, but so much better. Next time I’m going to hand shape some larger sausages and serve them on a potato bun with grilled onions!

10/10, will become a regular part of my repertory. It’s easy, only 15 minutes hands on; the recipe scales up/down easily for however much I’ll want to prep; and if I make this for a bbq I will be a huge hit for very little effort.

[theseromaniansarecrazy]

What’s the most popular dish in your country? We love mititei / mici here. I’m hungry right now... (Map made by Culture Trip.)

[nimuekauna-blog]

I will admit that I learned brassica mash at an old job. I used to work at a Paleo food cart that made a really tasty Brassica Mash. However I have majorly tweaked the recipe to suit my own standards, and thus feel comfortable claiming this as my own creation. The recipe could serve 4 people as a side, but it's also about enough to have mici and brassicas for a week's worth of work lunches. The thing I'm most proud of with this recipe is the inclusion of gelatin broth gathered after roasting a chicken. I didn't add vegetables to the roasting pan last time I cooked a chicken, so all the drippings are pure beneficial goodness. I collect it and let it cool in a jar so that the fat can separate and float to the top, and save it to add to broth or vegetable sautés...or things like this. Gelatin is great for hair, skin, nails, and gut health. It also adds a satisfying richness to anything it's added to. The mititei(or mici) are an experiment.... but a successful one. When I was a kid my mother had a friend who was a missionary in Romania, and I remember hearing her talk about "meachee" and described ...spam, essentially. She said they eat it raw or cooked, almost every meal, and she thought maybe it was all the undesirable leftovers from the meat industry. There were rat meat jokes. Mici had kind of a legendary status in my head as the daringest of foods. I excitedly tried some at a food cart a few summers ago and fell in love with it. It's not any of the things my mother's friend insinuated. These don't have rat meat, but I did add offal in the form of chicken livers. Brassica Mash 1 small head of cabbage, quartered 1 head of broccoli, chopped into flourettes 1 small yellow onion, quartered 6-7 cloves of garlic, crushed and pealed Sea salt to taste 3 tablespoons of chicken gelatin 1.5 tablespoons of grass fed butter Chop everything up into manageable pieces and lightly steam them. You want them cooked, but just barely. Softened, but not soft. Place steamed vegetables into a food processor and grind them until you have a chunky cut vegetable confetti. Add sea salt. Add butter and gelatin. Process again until everything is finely chopped but not mushy. Done. .... Mititei 1/2 lb bacon ends and pieces 1/2 pound ground lamb 1/4 lb chicken livers 1.5 tsp black pepper 1 tsp thyme 1 tsp ground juniper 1.5 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp sea salt Place chicken livers and bacon ends and pieces in a food processor and turn them into whipped meat. A mousse like consistency is ideal. Add this to the ground lamb and thoroughly mix with your hands, until homogeneous. Add in all your spices and the baking soda. Mix it well, and let it sit in the fridge for 24 hours. The next day, preheat the oven to 425 f. Then form small logs and place them in a cast iron skillet or on a baking sheet. Ovens differ, so keep an eye on them. Turn them occasionally. They should get pretty dark on the outside and be done within a half hour.

[ilsa-fireswan]

Remember my foray into Mici (Romanian sausages)? They are FABULOUS as meatballs in a red pasta sauce.

I’m also quite fond of they way my family gives me the side eye when I announce a new recipe and then come sniffing into the kitchen like some kind of cartoon wolf.

[69decartofiprajiti]

[69decartofiprajiti]