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Moldovan Tocană

Name: Moldovan Tocană
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Moldova
Ingredients: 500g Pork Shoulder; 3 Onion; 2 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 2 tsp Paprika; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Bay leaf; 3 tbsp Sunflower oil; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; A pinch Dill; 200ml Water; 200g Corn grits

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pork and onions slowly stewed with tomato and paprika — a Moldovan home stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tocană is a stew made widely in Moldova and Romania: pork or chicken is stewed with lots of onion, tomato, and paprika until thick. It's sometimes made with mushrooms or vegetables instead of meat. Eating it with mămăligă (cornmeal porridge) is the Moldovan standard.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Moldovan kitchen, yellow cornmeal porridge is turned onto a wooden board beside a pot of red stew and cut with a thread.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pork Shoulder 500g
Onion 3
Tomato 2
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Paprika 2 tsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Bay leaf 1
Sunflower oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Dill A pinch
Water 200ml
Corn grits 200g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cube the pork, salt, and brown in oil.
Add the sliced onion and sauté until soft.
Add the chopped tomato, tomato paste, paprika, garlic, bay leaf, and water, cover, and simmer 1 hour.
Stir the corn grits into salted boiling water for 20 minutes to make the porridge.
Scatter the stew with dill and serve with the porridge.

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