Bulgarian Recipes

• Kiselo Mlyako - Yoghurt
  
  
• Tarator - A cold (often served with ice) soup made from yoghurt, cucumbers, nuts, vegetable oil and water, and flavored with garlic and dill.
  
  
• Shkembe chorba - A soup made from the stomach lining of cattle, mixed with milk, and seasoned with vinegar, garlic, and chili. The soup is sometimes claimed to be a hangover cure.
  
  
• Elenski but - Dry-cured ham from the town of Elena in northern Bulgaria.
  
  
• Soujouk - A spicy sausage made from ground beef. Soujouk is cooked in its own fat (without oil) and sometimes eaten for breakfast.
  
  
• Lukanka - A spicy sausage made from pork or veal, traditionally in a dried cow's intestine, and hung to dry. Once dried, the sausage is pressed to flatten it. Once prepared, the sausage may be covered in a white fungus, which is removed before eating. Lukanka is served cold, cut into finely slices.
  
  
• Shopska salad - A salad made with tomatoes, onions and cucumbers, and either raw or roasted peppers, and then covered with a layer of grated sirene (a salty white cheese that is unique to Bulgaria and Macedonia).
  
  
• Lyutika - A mixture of vegetables (roasted peppers, onions and tomatoes), crushed and flavored with garlic or parsley. Yoghurt, boiled eggs, cooked chicken breasts, or sirene (white salty cheese) are sometimes added to the mixture.
  
  
• Banitsa - A baked pastry with whisked eggs and sirene (white salty cheese).
  
  
• Popara - Dry bread cooked with tea, milk or water, with butter, a small amount of sugar, and sirene (salty white cheese) or kajmak (similar to clotted cream).
  
  
• Gyuvetch - A casserole made using beef, peppers, onions, aubergine, okra and tomatoes.
  
  
• Sarma - A leaf-roll filled with minced meat, onions and rice.
  
  
  
• Tsarska turshiya - A mixture of pickled vegetables, containing carrots, cauliflower, celery and red peppers.
  
  
• Selska turshiya - Another mix of pickled vegetables. This one is made using cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, green peppers and green tomatoes.
  
  
• Garash - A walnut cake, frosted with cream and bitter chocolate, then covered with chocolate icing.
  
  
  
• Kozunak - Sweet bread with milk, butter, sugar, eggs, raisins and lemon zest.

• Bulgarian Recipes & Cookbooks
  
  
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Bulgarian Cuisine: The Best Traditional Recipes By Dimitar Mantov Abm Komers Hardcover (104 pages) List Price: $62.50* Lowest New Price: $62.50* Lowest Used Price: $67.50* Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.* *(As of 09:04 Pacific 10 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Over the course of 35 years, the author of this book has collected more than 4,500 cooking recipes from all over Bulgaria. They reflect the thousand-year old cultural traditions and relations, as well as an important part of the present-day lifestyle of the people of Bulgaria. Bulgarian Cuisine presents the reader with some of the most popular culinary riches of Bulgarian culture.