Today recipe is a delicious pork dish named after the Transylvanian town, Temesvár or Timisoara; it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the third biggest city of Romania. This dish is basically a pork stew with yellow beans, thickened with a flour-sour cream mixture.

Its Hungarian name is temesvári sertésborda, which translates as pork ribs, but in this case we use boneless pork loin slices that are pounded and pre-fried in lard. Bacon is a compulsory ingredient, it gives a fine smokey flavour to the dish and this is what makes it a Szekler dish.

This stew differs from pork paprikash in one thing, namely it contains fresh wax beans. If they are not available in your place, you may add green beans, the flavour will be a bit different, but still amazing. If you use frozen beans, be careful about the amount of water because frozen beans also give off some liquid.