How to pronounce Covrigi

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /koˈvrid͡ʒʲ/. In plain English letters that is koh-VREEDGE, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Covrigi?

Covrigi is a bread or pastry of Romania. Where it comes from: Muntenia (Buzău). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Covrigi comes from

Covrigi is one of 22 signature dishes of Romania on this map.

• Pleșcoi sausages cârnați de Pleșcoi · Snack · Muntenia (Buzău)

  Cârnați de Pleșcoi are sausages of mutton spiced with hot pepper and garlic, named after the village of Pleșcoi in Buzău county, now part of the commune of Berca, where they are traditionally made.

• Sarmale · Main dish · All Romania

  Sarmale are cabbage leaves rolled around a filling of minced pork, rice, onion and herbs, slowly cooked in layers in a pot with smoked meat, tomato and dill.

• Mici · Street food · Bucharest

  Mici, also called mititei, "little ones", are small skinless sausages of minced beef, often mixed with lamb and pork, seasoned with garlic, black pepper, thyme and other spices, plus a little bicarbonate of soda that keeps them springy.

• Mămăligă · Main dish · All Romania

  Mămăligă is a firm porridge of yellow maize flour boiled with water and salt, stirred until thick and turned out onto a board, then cut with a thread.

• Ciorbă de burtă · Soup & stew · All Romania

  Ciorbă de burtă, tripe soup, is a traditional Romanian ciorbă, a sour soup, and many versions are made across the country.

• Ciorbă rădăuțeană · Soup & stew · Bucovina (Rădăuți)

  Ciorbă rădăuțeană is a Romanian sour soup thickened with sour cream, eggs and vinegar, which comes from Rădăuți in Suceava county, in Bucovina, and later became popular all over Romania.

Food of Romania

Dishes like Covrigi in other countries

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  Tutmanik, also called mesenitsa, is a traditional Bulgarian bake of thick dough with crumbled white brine cheese, yogurt and eggs.

• Gibanica гибаница · Bread & pastry · All Serbia, Serbia

  Gibanica is a Serbian layered pie, usually filled with white cow's cheese, eggs and oil, or more rarely with meat, potatoes or spinach.

• Pampushky пампушки · Bread & pastry · Ukraine

  Pampushky are small, round, fluffy buns of yeast dough typical of Ukrainian cooking, made from rye, wheat, buckwheat or mixed flour.

• Proziaki · Bread & pastry · Subcarpathia, Poland

  Proziaki are small soda breads from the Carpathian foothills and mountains of south-eastern Poland.