Mămăligă is cornmeal boiled with water and salt and cut with a thread, served with sour cream and cheese or beside sarmale, tochitură and stews; in Romania we have verified places to eat it in Bucharest. Start with where to eat Mămăligă in Bucharest.
Mămăligă · Bucharest
Mămăligă is cornmeal boiled with water and salt and cut with a thread, served with sour cream and cheese or beside sarmale, tochitură and stews.
Before maize, mămăligă was made with millet flour; maize replaced millet gradually and helped against the famines of the 17th and 18th centuries, and cooked peasant-style the dish served as a bread substitute. Wikipedia describes it as boiled water, salt and cornmeal, traditionally cooked in a cast-iron pot, cut with sewing thread because it sticks to metal. Vatra serves it with cow's cheese, sour cream and a fried egg, and Caru' cu bere, Hanu' Berarilor and La Mama list it as a side.
Where to eat in Bucharest:
- Vatra
- La Mama Universitate
- Caru' cu bere
- Hanu' Berarilor Casa Oprea Soare
Where to eat Mămăligă in Bucharest: the editor picks
