Štrukle, also štrukli, is a north Croatian type of pastry traditionally filled with cottage cheese (fresh cheese, svježi sir in Croatian). If you are familiar to Turkish cuisine, one could say they are Hırvat peynir böreği, Croatian börek with cheese, but as far as it is known their origin is not influenced by Turkish cuisine….
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Stonska torta 🇭🇷
The cake from Ston, a small historical Croatian town near Dubrovnik, is a traditional cake. It is mainlyprepared fror bigger festivities like Easter and Christmas. Even if it is known and made for centuries, there exist no ‘proper’ recipe – the recipes vary across families and are mostly transmitted from one generation to another. Even…
Ajvar 🇭🇷 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 🇲🇪 🇧🇦
Ajvar is a popular Balkan relish based on red peppers, and several local variations exist, the most famous one being the (North) Macedonian (n. b. strictly speaking, Macedonian ajvar is made only with peppers, while all the other versions also contain aubergines). Even if the variations are small, each country, even each family, tends to…
Pileći paprikaš 🇭🇷
This simple, but tasty chicken stew with peppers exists in several variations in the Panonic region. The most famous version is probably the Hungarian 🇭🇺 one. As far as I could check, the main difference with respect to my country’s, Croatian, one is that in Hungary you usually add sour cream, while we Croatians don’t….
Pogačice s čvarcima 🇭🇷
One of the quintessential Croatian pub food varieties, these scones with layers of dough filled with finely chopped pork cracklings are a wonderful basis for beer, lots of beer 🍻 They are not too hard to make yourself (this enables you to have as much cracklings in it as you wish, in contrast to the…
Ričet 🇭🇷
Ričet, as it is called in Croatia and Slovenia, or Ritschert in Austria (and Bavaria), is a thick soup (Croatian: varivo, German: Eintopf) from the mentioned countries. As a Croatian, I will describe the Croatian version, but as far as I know it is practically identical with the Slovenian and Austrian one. The essential ingredients…
Cooker on the Orient Express 