Macedonian food

Macedonian food

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Macedonian food

Thank you for visiting this blog. Here you can find recepies from the traditional Macedonian kitchen. This blog will help you to enjoy and feel the Macedonian spirit and share it with your loved ones.



Here are some of the most popular recipes:

Turlitava
Ingredients needed:

- 1 kg of mixed meat – pork, veal, mutton
- "zarzavat" – potato, tomato, capsicum, onion, parsley, egg plant, French beans, ladies fingers …
- salt, pepper, paprika, cooking oil
How to prepare:

Chop meat and fresh vegetable and put it in pottery saucepan. Add spices, stir and then add cooking oil and water. Don’t put too much water, just enough so that turlitava is soft after cooking.
Put the saucepan in oven and cook it at 200°C for an hour and a half. During that time, stir two-three times. When the meal is ready, it has golden-red crust.

Sarma

Ingredients needed:

- pickled cabbage leaves
- rice in a cup of coffee
- 2-3 onion pieces
- 0,5 kg. mixed ground meat
- oil, red pepper, pepper, salt, spices
- 250 gr. steamed meat


How to prepare:
 
Cut the onion into small pieces and fry it on oil. Add the ground meat, red pepper, pepper, salt, spices the rice also . Then use the mixture to stuff the pickled cabbage leaves. Line them up in a pot, but first line up pickled cabbage leaves at the bottom of the pot. Put the steamed mead in between the stuffed cabbage leaves. Then, spill over some hot water and boil it on a silent fire, and them put them in the oven to bake.
By the end of the baking, you can add come oil and red pepper (which have been fried before). Cover the pieces with pickled cabbage leaves. The whole has to be dry, not very moist.


Tavče gravče

Ingredients needed:

- 500g of white beans
- 1 onion, 1 red paprika
- 100ml of cooking oil
- 2-3 pieces of red dry capsicum
- pepper, salt, plain flour, parsley, mint

How to prepare:

Wash the beans and leave them to stay in water over night. After that cook them till it starts boiling, drain the beans and put them in another pot of hot water. Then add chopped onion (1/2 of it) and capsicum. Continue to cook it till the beans are soft but integral. If there is too much water left, drain the beans. Fry the chopped onion (the other 1/2) and paprika with one spoon of plain flour in cooking oil and then add this to the beans. Put everything in a pottery saucepan and then pour some parsley, mint, pepper and salt on it. Put the saucepan in oven and bake for a while (the beans shouldn’t be too dry).


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