Colțunași

Colțunași

Course	Dessert
Place of origin	Romania, Moldova
Main ingredients	Wheat flour, cherry or plum jam (powidl) or cheese
Variations	Colțunași cu smântână
Cookbook: Colțunași  Media: Colțunași

Colțunași (plural; sing: colțunaș)is a Romanian and Moldovan variant of dumplings.^[1] In some regions from Moldova it's called chiroște (plural).^[2] Colțunași is often a dessert filled with jam (usually plum), fresh sour cherries ^[3] or with cottage cheese. The savoury filling could be dill seasoned cheese (telemea or urdă), mashed potatoes or chopped meat. The dough is made with wheat flour and the colțunași are boiled in salted water as ravioli,^[4] pan-fried in oil or baked in the oven. Sometimes Colțunași is stuffed with a mixture of spinach and egg.

The word is a cognate with Slavic kolduny, a type of dumplings.

In Transylvania, the name "piroști" is used in Romanian families of German or Slavic origin and the filling can also be a whole, fresh, seedless plum. The term "colțunaș" is used by native Romanian families and are usually filled with cottage cheese and served topped with smântână ("colțunași cu smântână") or melted butter.

See also

• Burechiușe
• List of plum dishes

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