page_title: Mămăligă
section_title: Similar dishes
hierarchical_section_title: Mămăligă / Preparation / Similar dishes
caption_attribution_description: Română: Mamaliga bucatarie moldoveneasca
context_page_description: Mămăligă is a porridge made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania. Preparing the traditional dish is also continued by Poles from L'viv whose families were resettled in the Recovered Territories after World War II. In Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Croatia, this dish is known as polenta.
context_section_description: Since mămăligă can be used as an alternative for bread in many Romanian and Moldovan dishes, there are quite a few which are either based on mămăligă, or include it as an ingredient or side dish. Arguably, the most popular of them is sarmale (a type of cabbage roll) with mămăligă.
  Another very popular Romanian dish based on mămăligă is called bulz, and consists of mămăligă with cheese and butter and roasted in the oven.
  Balmoș (sometimes spelled balmuș) is another mămăligă-like traditional Romanian dish, but is more elaborate. Unlike mămăligă (where the cornmeal is boiled in water) when making balmoș the cornmeal must be boiled in sheep milk. Other ingredients, such as butter, sour cream, telemea (a type of feta cheese), caș (a type of fresh curdled ewe cheese without whey, which is sometimes called "green cheese" in English), urdă (a type of curdled cheese obtained by boiling and curdling the whey left from caș), etc., are added to the mixture at certain times during the cooking process. It is a specialty dish of old Romanian shepherds, and nowadays very few people still know how to make a proper balmoș.
caption: Mămăligă
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