Borș de burechiușe

Borș de burechiușe

A plate of burechiușe (Romanian dumplings with mushrooms)
Alternative names	Borș de burechițe
Type	Soup
Place of origin	Romania
Region or state	Bukovina
Main ingredients	Dough, mushrooms, ciorbă

Borș de burechiușe or borș de burechițe is a Romanian and Moldovan dish specific from the regional cuisine of Moldova and of Bukovina. Burechiușe or gălușcă also known as urechiușe (little ears) is a dough in the shape of a ravioli-like square which is filled with mushrooms such as boletus edulis, and sealed around its edges and then tossed and subsequently boiled in a ciorbă.^{[1][failed verification]} The borș de burechiușe are traditionally eaten in the last day of fasting at the time of the Christmas Eve.^{[2][failed verification]}

Etymology

In Bukovina and Moldavia regions, the word borș is a synonym of the soup called ciorbă.^[3] The etymology of burechiușe is not clear. Burechițe may derive its name from the Turkish^[4] börek, indicating cultural and culinary influences coming from the Ottoman Empire. It could also take its name from that of the mushroom boletus, burete in its rhotacized Romanian language version, by the pattern of the ravioli.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Börek
• Ciorbă
• Colțunași
• Chiburekki
• List of soups
• Moldovan cuisine
• Romanian cuisine
• Food portal

Notes and references

1. Alexander Reinhardt, Gazeta de agricultură - Credințe și tradiții de Ajun și Crăciun
2. Suceava-Tradiții și Obiceiuri în Bucovina de Bobotează
3. "Ciorba or Bors". World Food (in Romanian).
4. Alan Davidson (21 August 2014). The Oxford Companion to Food. OUP Oxford. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-0-19-104072-6.