How to pronounce Drob

Drob is written drob de miel where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /drob de ˈmi̯el/. In plain English letters that is DROB deh MYEL, 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 Drob?

Drob is a main dish of Romania. Where it comes from: All Romania. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are lamb, offal and egg. It tastes savory and fresh.

Where Drob comes from

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Papanași · Dessert · All Romania

  Papanași are a traditional Romanian dessert, also eaten in Moldova, made from a dough of fresh sweet cow's cheese with eggs, flour, semolina, breadcrumbs and sugar.

• Zacuscă · Snack · All Romania

  Zacuscă is a vegetable spread popular in Romania, Moldova and Hungary, where it is called zakuszka, and English sources say it originated in Romania.

• Țuică · Drink · All Romania

  Țuică is a traditional Romanian spirit made only from plums and considered Romania's national drink.

Food of Romania

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• Haggis · Main dish · Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Svið · Main dish · All Iceland, Iceland

  Svið is a sheep's head cut in half, singed to remove the wool and boiled with the brain removed, sometimes cured in lactic acid.