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How to Cook dishes from Bulgaria


Bulgaria Bulgaria is home to a unique cuisine. The country, which is located in southeastern Europe, has its own native Slavic traditions, but has also been influenced by Greek cuisine, Turkish cuisine, and even Middle Eastern culinary ideas. Additionally, some people also feel that Bulgarian cuisine also has some influences from further afield, including influences from Italian cuisine and Hungarian cuisine. ,

One of the most noticeable things about Bulgarian cuisine, is the choice of ingredients - Bulgarian cuisine makes use of some quite distinctive ingredients such as sirene (a white brine cheese that can be made from cow's, goat's or sheep's milk), and kiselo mlyako (literally "sour milk") which is a type of yoghurt.

Some popular Bulgarian recipes include:
  • Shopska salad - A traditional Bulgarian salad made using diced vegetables, such as roasted or raw peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, and onions. The salad is served topped with diced or grated sirene (white cheese).

  • Lyutika - Lyutika is Bulgarian salad relish. It is made using roasted peppers, tomatoes and onions, which are finely crushed using a pestle and mortar. Flavor is added using garlic and parsley, and it is sometimes mixed with sirene (white cheese), youghurt, hard-boiled eggs, or pieces of cooked chicken.

  • Shkembe chorba - According to some Bulgarians, shkeme chorba is a national tradition, but others find the dish somewhat distasteful and even vulgar. Shkeme chorba is infact a tripe soup made from the stomach lining of cows, mixed with milk, and then seasoned using vinegar, garlic and chili peppers. There is also a legend that the soup can help with hangovers.

  • Tarator - Tarator is a cold soup, often served chilled or even with ice. It comes from the warm regions of Bulgaria lying on the Black Sea coast. The soup is made using yoghurt, cucumbers, nuts, vegetable oil and water, and is flavored using garlic and dill.

  • Elenski but - Dry-cured ham, that comes from Elena in the northern part of Bulgaria.

  • Soujouk - A spicy dry-cured sausage made from ground beef. It contains a lot of fat, and can hence be cooked in its own juices without oil - but it must cooked, as it can not be eaten raw.

  • Lukanka - Another type of spicy sausage. Lukana is made from pork, beef or veal. The sausage is prepared in a dried cow's intestine, and is hung to dry for up to 3 months. After the drying process is a complete, the sausage is then pressed, and a white fungus is alOnce dried it is pressed, and a white fungus is allowed to grow on the sausage. The fungus is removed before eating the sausage, and Lukana is eaten cold, cut into thin slices.

  • Sarma - A rolled leaf, filled with a spiced mixture of rice, ground meat, and finely chopped onions.

    Sarma

  • Banitsa - A savory pastry containing eggs and sirene (white cheese).

  • Popara - Popara is a traditional Bulgarian dish made using dry (or even slightly stale) bread. THe bread is cooked with tea, milk or water, some butter and sugar may be added, and then kajmak (clotted cream) or sirene (white cheese).

  • Gyuvetch - Gyuvetch is a casserole made using diced beef, eggplant, onions, okra, peppers, and tomatoes.

  • Selska turshiya - Pickled vegetables; cauliflower with green onions, green tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and celery.

  • Tsarska turshiya - Pickled vegetables; cauliflower with carrots, celery and red peppers.
Bulgaria is also home to a range of interesting and tasty desserts such as:
  • Halva - Halva is a sweet made using sesame-seed or sunflower-seed tahini. There is also another version of the sweets from semolina ("white halva"), and traditionally before Lent, a version of Halva is made nusing sugar.

  • Garash - Walnut cake. The cake is frosted with cream and bitter chocolate, then covered with chocolate icing.

    Garash

  • Kozunak - Sweet bread with butter, milk, sugar, eggs, and raisins, and flavored with lemon zest.
So why not discover Bulgarian food? On this page, you will find a selection of Bulgarian cookbooks.


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Bulgarian Cookbooks

The Balkan Cookbook : Traditional Cooking from Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkan Countries

By Catherine Atkinson

Southwater
Hardcover (96 pages)

The Balkan Cookbook : Traditional Cooking from Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkan Countries
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More than 70 recipes exploring the cuisines of Romania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, including soups and apppetizers, meat and poultry.

Today in Bulgaria: Everyday Regional Cooking

By Margarita Kostova

Pro-Culture Editions, Inc.
CD-ROM

Today in Bulgaria: Everyday Regional Cooking
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This is the first in our series of CD-Rom cookbooks dedicated to regional everyday cuisine. These works add all the features of Multimedia to traditional cookbooks. New technologies allow us to add video clips and original songs from each country - to add a "flavor" to your dishes, all this as well as the traditional recipe card file. An innovation in cookbooks, this CD-ROM is an interactive lesson on Balkan everyday cooking, in particular, Bulgarian. It is not only a recipe book but a tour of Bulgaria Today. Several pages of text describe the unusual traditions of Bulgarian cuisine, in particular, the important place that grandmothers hold in the preparation of holiday and celebration dishes. The recipes are easy to understand and constitute everyday cooking. As you read each recipe, a series of images appear to show each distinct step of the way to preparing a Bulgarian Family meal tonight. Another feature is the printed booklet that accompanies the CD-Rom. It came be taken to the kitchen and used as a traditional recipe card file while you cook.

Classic Recipes From Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia & Slovenia: Over 70 deliciously authentic traditional dishes shown step-by-step in 250 simple-to-follow photographs

By Lesley Chamberlain

Southwater
Paperback (96 pages)

Classic Recipes From Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia & Slovenia: Over 70 deliciously authentic traditional dishes shown step-by-step in 250 simple-to-follow photographs
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The outstanding volume on the classic cooking of the Balkan region presents a definitive collection of recipes from this fascinating area. Seafood, summer fruits and vegetables are transformed with fresh herbs and spices into piquant dishes with subtle inter-regional variations of tastes and textures.

Cooking Around the World: Romanian, Bulgarian & Balkan

By Trish Davies

Lorenz Books
Paperback (96 pages)

Cooking Around the World: Romanian, Bulgarian & Balkan
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This comprehensive guide to the food and cooking of a largely unexplored cuisine presents a superb group of recipes full of surprises.

Traditional Bulgarian Cooking

By Atanas Slavov

Hippocrene Books
Hardcover (150 pages)

Traditional Bulgarian Cooking
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Bulgaria, which stretches out and east from the Danube, is a colourful patchwork of mountains, forests, waters, and some of the best vegetable-growing land in the world. Here is a real taste of authentic Bulgarian home cooking -- characterised by a blend of South Slav and strong Turkish influences, within the framework of the great Mediterranean culinary tradition. As the world's undisputed centre of yoghurt production, Bulgaria boasts many creative and tasty dishes with this ingredient. This collection of over 140 authentic Bulgarian recipes spans the range of home cooking: stews and hearty soups; lamb, poultry, grilled meats and game; vegetarian delights; cheese pastries; desserts; and even soft drinks.

Bulgaria Food & Drink Report Q3 2006

By Business Monitor International

Released: 2006-08-01
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Bakery and Cereals in Bulgaria to 2010

By Datamonitor

Released: 2007-02-20
Digital (173 pages)
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Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Bakery & Cereals in Bulgaria. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2005 and full forecasts to 2010. Scope Contains information on 6 categories: Bread & rolls, Breakfast cereals, Cakes & pastries, Cookies (sweet biscuits), Crackers and Morning goods. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by category, as well as distribution channel data. Contains market value segmentation by demographic and socioeconomic group. Highlights The market for Bakery and Cereals in Bulgaria decreased between 2000-2005, growing at an average annual rate of -1.1%. The leading company in the market in 2005 was Chipita International S.A.. The second-largest player was Altria Group, Inc. with Kellogg Company in third place. Reasons to Purchase Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Bakery and Cereals markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.

 
 


 
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