The tastiest recipe yet!

This recipe actually originated in Italy, but is made by Romanians, as well! It is soooo easy! It looks like you spent hours slaving, when, in less than 1 hour (first time ever trying it) it was ready to put in the oven! Awesome recipe!

It is called, "Pollo Italiano" (Italian chicken, I think is the way it translates)

You will need-
Chicken:
2 lbs. Chicken breast (de-boned and no skin)
1-1 1/2 c. mushrooms
1 1/2 c. shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 c. soy sauce
pepper and any other spices you want to use (I used oregano, dill and parsley), all to taste
1 c. water

1. Cut the chicken in 1/4 - 1/2 inch slices, horizontally, across the largest part of the breast. You almost want to filet the chicken.
2. Put it in a container to marinate it in the soy sauce while you are preparing the filling.
3. Chop up the mushrooms.
4. Add the cheese and spices and mix well.
5. Spread out foil, and place the chicken pieces on it, one right after the other. This will look like you have one super long piece of chicken. (You might need to use two foot-long sections of foil... that's OK. It makes it easier to handle)
6. Spread the filling evenly down the center of the pieces of chicken.
7. Fold the edges of the chicken up over the filling.
8. Pull the edges of the foil up and fold them together over the chicken, snugly (you don't want the chicken flopping around, but neither do you want to break the foil).
9. Put the rolls of foil-wrapped chicken in a 9x13 pan.
10. Add about 1 cup of water to the pan.
11. Bake at about 350*F for 30 minutes.
12. Serve hot, with sauce (if you like it) spread over it.

Sauce:
1/4-1/2 c. sourcream
1/4-1/2 c. mayonaise
2 pieces of garlic, crushed
salt and pepper, to taste

1. mix everything together well.
2. When the chicken is ready, spread some over each piece of chicken.

This goes great with:
potatoes-mashed, boiled, baked, etc.
salad
corn, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, cooked spinach, etc!

Try it! And Pofta Buna! :D

Stuffed Roast

Well, here is another recipe I just tried out this week! This one is a bit more complicated, but not very. It is actually called a meat roll, but in English, it makes more sense to call it stuffed roast. This is a super flavorful dish! Enjoy! :D

Ingredients:
2 lbs. Roast Beef, uncooked
2 c. mushrooms (you can use a can of mushrooms, cuts out a step :D)
2 c. lunch meat, ham, cut in squares
2 eggs
1 c. sour cream
2 c. mozzarella, grated
1 sm-md onion, chopped
salt
pepper
parsley
soy sauce
bag for baking (like sometimes is used for turkeys)
several toothpicks

1. Cut the roast through the middle horizontally, but don't cut it all the way through. You want to make a type of pocket that will be folded over when the stuffing is put into it.
2. Pour the soy sauce over that and let it marinate several hours in the fridge.
3.Just before you're ready to stuff the meat and put it in the oven, mix the rest of the ingredients together. Add salt, pepper and parsley to taste.
4. Spread out the meat. Spread the stuffing mix on one half of the meat and pull the other half of the meat over on top of it. Secure with the toothpicks.
5. Place the meat in the baking bag. Pour just a tad of olive oil over the meat. Seal up the bag.
6. Bake for 1 hour at 350* (depending on your oven)
7. You can serve it with sour crout, pickles, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, etc.