🥟 Weekly meal plan

Eastern European Comfort Food

Stews, soups and traditional dishes from Romania, Georgia, Hungary and Poland. Soul food, authentic and nourishing.

2 people 7 days ~€33–45 / week 115 ingredients

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Day	Lunch	Dinner
Monday	Štrukli Štrukli originates from the Zagorje region of northern Croatia, where it was long a family dish passed down through generations, prepared mainly for holidays and Sundays.	Shkmeruli Shkmeruli takes its name from the mountain village of Shkmeri in the Racha region, where it's said a local cook first pan-fried chicken and finished…
Tuesday	Polenta with Cheese & Sour Cream Mămăligă is the unwritten bread of Romanian cooking — a simple cornmeal porridge that fed the countryside from one end of the country to the other for centuries.	Storceag Storceag is the great fish soup of the Danube Delta, the signature dish of the Lipovans — Russian Old Believers who settled in the reed-laced…
Wednesday	Burek Burek arrived in the Balkans through Ottoman influence, but Croatians quickly adopted it as an everyday dish, available in nearly every bakery from six in the morning.	Romanian Cheese Pastry Plăcintă cu brânză is one of the oldest baked goods in the Romanian countryside, part of a wide family of stretched-dough pastries that stretches…
Thursday	Romanian Cabbage Rolls Sarmale are, without exaggeration, the dish that defines a Romanian celebration table.	Romanian Pan-Fried Meatballs Chiftele are Romania's everyday pan-fried meat patties, easily confused by outsiders with mici, the country's famous skinless grilled sausages, but…
Friday	Radauti Sour Chicken Soup Ciorba rădăuțeană is one of the youngest of the Romanian classics — it is said to have been invented in the 1970s by Cornelia Dumitrescu at a…	Romanian Sour Meatball Soup Ciorbă de perișoare is one of the cornerstones of Romanian home cooking, a sour meatball soup eaten across the country from Sunday lunch tables to roadside diners.
Saturday	Ostri Ostri means "spicy" in Georgian, and the stew earns the name — it stands out as one of the few dishes in Georgian cuisine built around real heat…	Romanian Stuffed Bell Peppers Stuffed bell peppers are one of Romania's most common home-cooked main courses, built on the same rice-and-minced-meat filling found across the…
Sunday	Romanian Grilled Minced Meat Rolls Mici, or mititei, are the soul of any Romanian barbecue — little rolls of minced meat seasoned with garlic and spices, grilled over coals until they take on that fragrant crust.	Romanian Eggplant Salad Salată de vinete, Romania's smoky eggplant salad, is a late-summer staple built around the season's cheapest and most abundant vegetable.

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115 ingredients

All ingredients for the week, sorted alphabetically. Estimated ~€33–45 for 2 people.

💰 ~€33–45 / week 115 ingredients

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