Bulgarian Food
White Cheese - a particular variety of the increasingly popular feta cheese found in many places. It is a brined cheese, produced from goat, sheep or cow milk, and is used either plain or as an essential part of other dishes - from the "shopska salad" to the "banitza".
Kiselo Mlyako (literally meaning "sour milk") - the Bulgarian yogurt is the best produced in the world. It's popular as "Lactobacterium Bulgaricum", which grows no place else in the world
Shopska salata (schopska salata) - the most popular Bulgarian salad which contains chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and peppers sprinkled with Bulgarian white cheese
Kyopulo salad (kiopolu salad) - mix of roasted aubergines, peppers, loads of garlic and parsley
Tarator - soup of cold yoghurt, cucumber and garlic
Kavarma (kawarma) - meat and vegetable stew
Kebapcheta (kebabtcheta) - spicy mince meat-and-spices long roll - shaped and grilled.It's the local favorite!
Kyufte (kiufte) - spicy mince meat-and-spices round meat ball. The latter could include some yellow cheese inside it as well. When already barbequed, the kebapche or the kyufte is usually served with fried potatoes ("French fries") and a beer (called "bira" here) or a soft drink. try:
Kiselo Mlyako (literally meaning "sour milk") - the Bulgarian yogurt is the best produced in the world. It's popular as "Lactobacterium Bulgaricum", which grows no place else in the world
Shopska salata (schopska salata) - the most popular Bulgarian salad which contains chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and peppers sprinkled with Bulgarian white cheese
Kyopulo salad (kiopolu salad) - mix of roasted aubergines, peppers, loads of garlic and parsley
Tarator - soup of cold yoghurt, cucumber and garlic
Kavarma (kawarma) - meat and vegetable stew
Kebapcheta (kebabtcheta) - spicy mince meat-and-spices long roll - shaped and grilled.It's the local favorite!
Kyufte (kiufte) - spicy mince meat-and-spices round meat ball. The latter could include some yellow cheese inside it as well. When already barbequed, the kebapche or the kyufte is usually served with fried potatoes ("French fries") and a beer (called "bira" here) or a soft drink. try:
Chushki biurek - fried peppers stuffed with egg and feta cheese (sirene)
Sirene po shopski - white cheese (feta), egg, tomatoes, peppers, baked in a pot
Banitza (banitsa, baniz, banizza) - a delicious strudel-like pastry made with spinach or feta cheese filling
Sarmi - stuffed peppers or aubergines, stuffed vine leaves
Baklava - sweet syrupy pastries filled with walnuts
Gyuvech (giuvetch, giuvech) - a tasty stew of pork meat with paprikas (the "slav gyuvech") or just a vegetable stew (the "gyuvech zarzavat")
There are some other specialities that can only be sampled in the country itself: cheverme, kebab, baked cheese, loukanka, soudjouk, babek etc. If many of the dishes you find here seem Turkish to you - that is very much so! Bulgaria was occupied by the Ottomans for five centuries. When the Turks retreated, both parties exchanged borrowed ways and traditions.
Sirene po shopski - white cheese (feta), egg, tomatoes, peppers, baked in a pot
Banitza (banitsa, baniz, banizza) - a delicious strudel-like pastry made with spinach or feta cheese filling
Sarmi - stuffed peppers or aubergines, stuffed vine leaves
Baklava - sweet syrupy pastries filled with walnuts
Gyuvech (giuvetch, giuvech) - a tasty stew of pork meat with paprikas (the "slav gyuvech") or just a vegetable stew (the "gyuvech zarzavat")
There are some other specialities that can only be sampled in the country itself: cheverme, kebab, baked cheese, loukanka, soudjouk, babek etc. If many of the dishes you find here seem Turkish to you - that is very much so! Bulgaria was occupied by the Ottomans for five centuries. When the Turks retreated, both parties exchanged borrowed ways and traditions.
