I know that you’re drooling at the photo below, so let me get down to the business of describing what these tasty-looking fellows are.
They are called papanasi and are a famous Romanian dessert. The dough is mixed with a soft creamy cheese, similar to ricotta. It is then deep-fried or boiled ,left like this or holed in the middle and stuffed with marmalade or jam. It is served hot with a side of sour cream(if they are stuffed) or marmalade of any kind (if they are simple) . It’s high in calories, but who cares… you gotta live once in a while.
Ingredients:
For the dough:
1 kg 300 g cottage cheese
4 eggs
6 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons semolina
4 tablespoons sugar
1 vanilla sugar
salt
For the crumbs:
3 tablespoons butter
8 tablespoons crumbs
6 tablespoons granulate sugar
Directions:
In a bowl mix cheese, salt, eggs and sugar. Add the flour, semolina and vanilla sugar and mix everything till you have a dough.
To prepare the crumbs, put the butter to melt in a pan and when is done add the crumbs and let it on the fire till is golden (2-3 minutes). Stir all the time When is done take the pan of the fire, add the granulate sugar and mix it. Put the crumbs on a plate.
Put water in a pan with a pinch of salt to boil. Meanwhile, start doing papanasi. (which are some balls of dough of 4 cm diameter ). Put papanasi in the water and boil them 7-8 minutes covered and then, stop the fire and leave them covered for another 5-6 minutes. Semolina in them will swell and they will be very tender.
Cover papanasi in crumbs and serve them hot with any kind of marmalade or jam. I use wild fruits jam, because is a little bit sour and goes great with all the sugar. Enjoy!
Cooking Without Limits 
Yummy !
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I have never heard of these–I will have to try them! Yum!
Brings back memories of good food in Bucharest.
What is your top 3 romanian food?
Wow – they look fab – and now I’m hungry!
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These sound great, I must try! Will pin next 🙂
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O.M.G. I think I NEED these. Right now.
Wonderful, thank-you, now I will know what to cook when my son chooses Romania in our cook the world game:
http://thisisourparadise/2014/02/03/sushi-lamingtons-and-dormice
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I love desserts & also am so into keeping my body balanced to never have health problems like I did when I was growing up. That was a problem & always had sugar to get me fired up when starting with blood sugar problems & being low. I really have made a lot of changes & still enjoy good desserts. I am trying to make this recipe of Papanasi which will be a stimulant for later on & helps when taking it with me to our home buffets we have in our neighborhood.
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Rodney
It’s a very healthy recipe. I make it for my little one and he loves it. Of course, I love it too. Hope you like it.
I love this dessert cuz it makes me feel so jazzed like having coffee does.
I loved it & am trying others you have also
Thanks for liking my post, I’m going to try yours!
These look delicious! I will keep them in mind next time I need to bring food to a potluck.
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These look amazing!!!
Thank you so much for the Like!!
Thank you. You are welcome.
Thank you for liking a post Your recipes look so yummy:)
These look yummy. I shall give them a go.
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Thanks for visiting my blog:) you have a awesome blog. Looking forward for ur future recipes..
Feel like tasting:)looks delicious
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The crumbs you use in the recipe – just regular bread crumbs or a sweet curb like graham cracker crumbs? These sound great!
Regular ones.
Wow! This look great! 🙂
Thanks for liking the post . Have a good one
these looks yummy!! will try to make this weekend. from http://zabblog.wordpress.com/
This will be my first Romanian food recipe. Thank u!
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Reblogged this on I-NETRADIO.
These look yummy. Thanks for the visit to Chicklets in the Kitchen. I appreciate it.
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Reblogged this on whatscookinginbournemouth and commented:
This sounds like my kind of pudding! Love the idea of serving with a sour tasting jam, rasberry, blackcurrent or plum springs to mind.
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I’m so happy to have discovered your blog and the Romanian recipes you share here. It brings back happy memories for me. Years ago, I spent a month in Romania (mainly in Costisa, Piatra Neamt and Bucharest). What I remember about the cuisine is a lot of meat being served at every meal, which isn’t how I normally eat so it was an adjustment. Anyhow, there were many good meals and fun memories and I can’t wait to try making these Papanasi. Now I’m off to see all your other recipes.
Welcome to my blog. I am happy you like our food, with or without lots of meat.
Couldn’t resist reblogging these delicious dumplings. I don’t want to lose track of this recipe. I’m so glad you posted this.
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Reblogged this on Brooksie Buzz and commented:
Let’s talk Romanian cuisine. That’s not something you see much of here in the Chicago area where I’m hanging out these days. I spent a month in Romania several years ago and was recently reminded of that time after coming across a blog sharing Romanian recipes. This one for Papanasi caught my eye. One look at the photos of these Romanian dumplings and I’m sure you’ll feel the same too. So here’s a reblog of Cooking without Limits’ Papanasi recipe. Enjoy!
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Reblogged this on Just Desserts.
Wonderful!
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Thanks for the idea. Now I know what I can make for my boyfriend’s family during X’mas (they are Romanian).
Enjoy!
LOL! That’s right! You’ve got to live once in a while!
So what else is new? EVERYTHING that tastes good is bad for you…I’ve long since given up and given in…to my taste buds. This recipe looks fabulous!
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my mouth is watering after reading this, they sound DELICIOUS
As a cheese maniac, this sounds like the ultimate dessert. But does boiling really work? Can’t be as nice as fried, I suppose. The crispness, the hot cheese… yum! I will give it a try. Thanks. Love the mouth watering photos.
Fried is good but not so healthy. So, I went with a healthy recipe. Enjoy!
These sound yummy!!! Thanks for posting!
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Oh, dear, I’ll have to try to fit it in before the New year resolution! Looks tasty!
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As a person born of Romanian speaking parents, in the former Yugoslavia, who moved to Canada at age 7, and having lived here for over 50 yrs, I’m rediscovering some of my Romanian culinary roots late in life. My half-Hungarian, half-Romanian nephew introduced me to papanasi so I made a batch a while ago.
http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/138875.html
Other Romanian recipes are tagged appropriately although some of the early posts on LJ are bare of pictures since the picture archive links expired.
http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/tag/romanian
We have a rich food culture. I like when people try our food and teach other people about it.
My mother’s repertoire of Romanian dishes was limited to things she and my dad enjoyed so there were a lot of things I never got to try. She wasn’t big on sweets, nor did she bake a lot so I never got cozonac cu nuca at our house. I DID get baklava with walnuts, walnut torte, crepes and even cream puffs though.