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Mujdei

Name: Mujdei
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Moldova
Ingredients: 1 head Garlic; 1/2 tsp Salt; 3 tbsp Sunflower oil; 3 tbsp Water; 2 tbsp Sour cream

Side Dish

⏱ 10 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Garlic pounded and thinned with salt and oil — the garlic sauce essential on the Moldovan table.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mujdei is a potent garlic sauce eaten in Moldova and Romania: garlic is crushed in a mortar and thinned with salt, sunflower oil, and water or broth. It's eaten with grilled meat or fish, mămăligă, or zeamă. Some versions add sour cream to mellow it.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a charcoal-grilling day in a Moldovan home, a small bowl of white garlic sauce sits beside a plate of grilled pork.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Garlic 1 head
Salt 1/2 tsp
Sunflower oil 3 tbsp
Water 3 tbsp
Sour cream 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the garlic.
Crush in a mortar with salt into a smooth paste.
Gradually add the oil, mixing.
Thin with water.
Mix in sour cream if you like.

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