Market Grill · Spiced Sausage
Cârnaţi de Pleşcoi
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The recipe is built on mutton rather than pork — a legacy of the sheep-herding hills around Buzău — and the links are dried and smoked, then grilled and eaten with mustard.
Sheep meat is hand-chopped with suet, garlic, and hot pepper, stuffed into sheep casing, then wind-dried and beechwood-smoked. They're grilled and sold at markets around Buzău, where the village of Pleşcoi has made them for centuries.
Why it's made this way: Pleşcoi's sausages earned EU Protected Geographical Indication status in 2019, only the sixth Romanian food to be protected this way and tied to a single area around Buzău.
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