Zacusca

A wonderful day at the beginning of autumn, the sun was long overdue, so I decided to take a short walk through the forest near my house.

A few dozen meters to the north, a wonderful beech forest begins and continues after a few hundred meters with a fir forest.

We started the climb on the smoothest part, where there is a path made by wild animals and even the anilals of the people in the neighborhood!

A few minutes after I left home, in a small clearing, I saw a mushroom and said to check what kind it is. Of course it was edible and so I changed the destination of my walk.

I got off the path and started looking for mushrooms in the clearing and in the places where the sun reached. I was not a little surprised when, after a few meters, I found another mushroom and another one and so on.

After 20 minutes of searching I found about 50 mushrooms. Now the question was how I was going to take them home. I didn't have a bag, I didn't have a bucket, so it was a problem.

I took off my shirt and put all the mushrooms in it. Quite inconvenient to transport, especially since the mushrooms were wet and had already started to release their water.

I got home, put them in a bowl and said to go to the forest again, maybe I'll find something. And I had a good idea, today I found almost 15 kg of mushrooms.

What is zacusca?

"zacuscă" is a word of Slavic origin, originally meaning "snack" or "appetizer"

The Slavic root of the word (kus) means tasty, delicious or to bite!

Types of zacusca

Donut snack

Zucchini with mushrooms

Bean cobbler

Eggplant courgette

Lipovinese fish zacusca

Trout sausage

What do we need?

-mushrooms

-red pepper

-tomatoes

-pepper

-onion

-carrot

-salt

-pepper

-mustard seeds

How do we prepare it?

All the ingredients are washed and cleaned.

Put the mushrooms in the boiled water for 5 minutes, then drain.

With a food processor, mix all the vegetables for a few minutes.

The resulting paste is boiled for a few hours on low heat

Place in jars and sterilize in boiling water.

Now we have to wait for winter!