Saramură facts for kids
Saramură is a Romanian "sauce" for marinating. It can be found in the nature: water containing salt; salt water spring or it can be home made by boiling water with salt and other ingredients (depends on the taste like garlic, pepper, chili, etc). The sauce is used in the household (to preserve some foods as meat, fish, etc), in agriculture, in the tanning industry. After beeing marinated and dried the alimentary goods can be smoked or cooked or they can be eaten as they are. Recipes vary greatly, the common part being meat /fish grilled (sometimes on a salt bed). Usually the dish includes vegetables, mamaliga, polenta, potatoes, etc. (The Romanian word itself means "brine".)
Lipovans would call the dish rassol, e.g., saramură de crap (carp saramura) is called karp rassol. Saramură de crap is often translated as "carp in brine" or "salted carp".
