Scovardă
is a type of stuffed pastry similar to
empanadas
An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Spanish, other Southern European, Latin American, and Iberian-influenced cultures around the world. The name comes from the Spanish (to bread, i.e., ...
popular in
Romania, mainly
Transylvania. They are usually referred to by the plural form "scoverzi".
Preparation
The dough is folded around the stuffing which usually consists of different types of cheese, including
urdă
Urdă (; sq, urdha, indefinite form ''urdhë''; sr, / ; bg, урда, извара, urda, izvara; mk, урда, изварка, urda, izvarka; uk, вурда, vurda; hu, orda, zsendice) is a sort of whey cheese commonly produced in South ...
.
Dill can also be added to the cheese stuffing.
: Variations:
*
fruit preserve
Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread.
There are many varieties of fruit preserves globally, distinguished by the method ...
filling
* no filling and the resulting scoverzi are covered with
powdered sugar, resembling
pancakes.
They are cooked by
pan frying in
sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower (''Helianthus annuus''). Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and in cosmetic formulations as an emollient.
Sunflower oil is primarily composed ...
.
See also
References
Dumplings
Pancakes
Romanian desserts
Cheese dishes
Stuffed dishes
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