The Secret Of The Delicious Moldovan Kebabs Mititei

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Myths are small sausages that are prepared in Moldova and Romania. They can be baked in the oven or grilled or even better - grilled. After all, this dish is traditionally grilled. If you know recipes for mitii and are able to prepare them properly, you can change the starter menu and not worry about what to cook for a picnic, if you are tired of kebab on a skewer.

Preparation of mitites

Sliced meat sausages can be found not only in Moldovan cuisine. However, the myths have a unique taste. For this reason, it is impossible to prepare them in Moldovan style if you do not know how to cook them in Moldova or Romania.

The basis for the myths is beef or lamb, which is almost always mixed with pork to make the dish juicy. Other types of meat, including poultry, are not recommended for making Romanian kebabs. Mititei are prepared from finely minced meat. To get it, the meat must be rolled through a meat grinder twice.

The filling will be tastier if you prepare it yourself. It is best if the stuffing is at least half of the vegetables and about a quarter or even a third of the meat cut from the neck or thigh, where there is a lot of fibrous connective tissue, through which the stuffing will be thicker. Purchased minced meat is unlikely to meet these requirements for proportions in the mixture of mitites.

The viscosity of the filling can be increased by adding starch.

Myths should be about 8-10 cm in length, usually 2 cm wide.

The grill on which they are to be baked must be greased with vegetable oil or lard so that the sausages do not burn and stick.

If you bake the mitts in the oven, bake in a water bath. First, you will protect the oven from contamination and it will become juicier. When grilling Moldovan sausages on a barbecue, they should be sprinkled frequently with water. The goal is the same - make the sausages juicy.

Myths are served with corn, green peas or stewed beans. A fresh vegetable salad will also go well. In winter it can be replaced with pickles.

Mititei in Moldavian

Necessary products:

beef - 0.9 kg

lard - 100 g

garlic - 5 cloves

water - 100 ml

vegetables - 50 g

sol

black and red pepper - to taste

Method of preparation:

Wash the meat. Drain it on paper towels. Remove the tendons. Cut the pulp into pieces of 50 grams. Put them in a bowl, sprinkle with salt. Cover with a towel and leave for a day in a cool place. If you do not have much time or do not want to delay the preparation of the Moldovan sausage for the next day, leave the meat in a cool place for at least 2-3 hours.

Roll the meat through a meat grinder.

Press the garlic with a press. Add it to the spice filling. Put celery, finely chopped. Add salt and a spoonful of fat to the meat and stir. Add water and mix everything by hand. Knead the minced meat well, place it on the cutting board.

Put the minced meat in a cool place again and leave for 3-4 hours if you are not in a hurry. If necessary, this time the time can be reduced to an hour and a half.

After moistening your hands with vegetable oil, so that the minced meat does not stick to you, shape it kebabs 8-10 cm long, about 2 cm wide. Place them temporarily on parchment paper soaked in oil.

Grease the griddle and arrange the kebabs. Bake on the grill or in the oven. If baking in the oven, preheat it to 200 degrees and bake for about half an hour. They will be grilled three times faster.

To prepare mitites according to the classic recipe of Moldova, you need to be patient and follow the technology clearly. If you miss at least one stage or slightly change the technology, Romanian-Moldovan kebabs may not turn out well. For example, the meat may not be thick enough and viscous enough, so the mites will crumble and will not look appetizing.

But if everything is done correctly, you can be proud of your culinary masterpiece and hear countless compliments from guests.