Gypsy roast

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Roast Gypsies are specially seasoned roast pork or beef. The name does not refer directly to the gypsies , but was taken from the language of the soldiers and referred to the roasting of meat in the open air, including the term gypsy meat . “ Gypsy style ” food usually means prepared with paprika , tomatoes, bacon and onions and sometimes spicy with paprika powder. Roast gypsies can also be made from cured meat.

Tradition in Switzerland

Every year at Whitsun, the Grabser roast the “Gypsy” - a traditional dish on Alp Gamperney . "Gypsies" are thinly sliced ​​marinated cookies on skewers that are roasted over an open fire. Doused with onion roux, they are eaten straight from the skewer. At the annual Chur festival , “beef gypsies”, “gypsy skewers” ​​and “gypsies” (beef with bread) are sold.

Tradition in Austria

A Gypsy roast is in Austria a steamed roast with peppers, onions, bacon, ham and pepperoni.

Origin of name and history

The defining word gypsy does not primarily stand for an ethnic group , but for a typical type of preparation or ingredients (paprika, onion, lecho, etc.). The otherwise negative connotation of the term gypsy is intended to indicate non-sedentary life in the food names , such as in the phrase "to live a gypsy life ". Most of the dishes named in this way come from Austrian cuisine and have their roots in Hungarian cuisine .

Roast gypsies were already known at least in the 19th century and were prepared , for example, in the field kitchens of the KuK Army , the Italian Army or the Swiss Army or at public festivals. On the former public holiday on Ten Thousand Knights' Day in Chur , the riflemen were fed by a field kitchen, which was responsible for preparing the zigun roast . The meat was cut so that it could be put together on a skewer and roasted over the fire, the gypsy roast was doused with fat and served on a skewer.

Victor Aimé Huber told in his travelogue about " Slavonian conditions" in 1847 how roast gypsies were roasted on a spit :

“A skilful lugare ( forest ranger , Croatian : lugar) was busy alternating large cuts of beef and bacon, sprinkled with chopped onions, on the spit, the whole thing was sprinkled with red Spanish pepper , which is called paprika and in general used instead of black pepper. Then the spit was placed in the gaffs and slowly turned around the fire. Meat prepared in this way is called gypsy roast here. "

- Victor-Aime Huber

Individual evidence

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