World Kitchen: 5 most famous Bulgarian cuisine

Bulgarian cuisine, first of all, many people associate with stuffed peppers, but in reality it is, of course, much richer and full of interesting local food. About the most popular of them will be discussed in this article.

Flavorful, simple, bright, tasty and appetizing - all Bulgarian cuisine. Dishes of this cuisine is very simple, but thanks to an interesting mix of products obtained are very fragrant and delicious. For our culinary interest lies in the fact that the products for cooking food that is easy to buy in our stores, in contrast, for example, the situation with the Japanese or Chinese cuisine.

On the Bulgarian cuisine influenced Armenian, Greek, Georgian and Turkish cuisine. It is characterized by an abundance of vegetables, which cooks in Bulgaria successfully combine with dairy products, meat, fish, and the use of products such as peppers, cheese, yogurt and beans, are very popular and meat and fish dishes. A special place is occupied by dairy products - yogurt, sour milk, goat cheese and, of course, cheese, yogurt, form the basis of many national dishes.

The most popular spices Bulgarian cuisine - fenugreek (sminduh) and savory (chubritsa), almost all dishes, there are also fragrant and black pepper, bay leaf, parsley, mint. The most famous spice mix called "Sharena salts" and consists of fenugreek, thyme, pumpkin seeds, corn, spicy and sweet pepper and salt.

Bulgarian cuisine, despite the influence it other cuisines of the world, very original, and there plenty of national dishes. Shopska is a salad, ovcharsky, Country, Snow White, cheese in shopski, Pepper-byurek, Kopolu. From the second course kebapcheta popular, sweet peppers stuffed, Chaverme, Sarmi, lying, gyuvechi, kavarma in vodenicharski. Of the first courses the most famous, perhaps, is the soup Tarator - Bulgarian version of hash on yogurt, soup Eid, Chorba. From the most popular cake baking bannitsa, Gevrek bagel, muffin Kifl.

Talk about the Bulgarian cuisine can be very long, which, of course, this beautiful kitchen fully deserves, we will begin our acquaintance with it with the most popular dishes and return to it again and again.

Recipe One: Soup "Chorba" with eggplant

You will need: 4 cups of water, 3-4 tomatoes, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 sweet peppers, 1 large eggplant? celery root, 7-8 tbsp vegetable oils? tsp ground red pepper, salt, savory, parsley.

How to cook soup chorba in Bulgarian with eggplant. Peel eggplant, cut into cubes and pour salted cold water, leave for 1 hour. Slice the celery and pepper, mix with obsushennym eggplant, pepper and salt and fry in butter. Garlic is passed through the press, tomatoes peeled and pyurirovat or grate, add to the pan roasting vegetables, stir, pour hot water, boil on low heat for 15-20min, season with savory, parsley, bring to taste - if you need more salt the and pepper.

Bulgarian cuisine, as can be seen in the soup-ciorba really very simple, but having prepared this soup you will be surprised how much it in such a basic in the preparation of flavors and aromas. Soup recipes chorba in Bulgarian cuisine very much, we have given only one of them. In addition, the soup is very popular next - Tarator.

Recipe Two: cold fermented soup "Tarator"

Need: 500ml sour milk, 3-4 cloves of garlic, 2-3 cucumber? cup shelled walnuts, vegetable oil, dill, salt.

How to cook soup Bulgarian Tarator. Milk shake up, put the cucumber, diced (peeled), pounded in a mortar with garlic nuts, salt the, season the soup with oil and cold water diluted to the desired consistency. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped herbs Tarator.

From the first Bulgarian dishes go to the second, in this group, without a doubt, the most popular dishes are the stuffed peppers.

Third recipe: Stuffed peppers "Chushka byurek"

Need: 10-12 Bulgarian peppers, 1-2 cups vegetable oil filling - 200g of cheese and cheese, dill sprigs 8, 1 egg, crumbs - 2 raw eggs, 1 cup bread crumbs and flour.

How to cook stuffed peppers in Bulgarian. Fry washed and obsushennye peppers in a large amount of vegetable oil - alternative: roast on the grill, coat with vegetable oil. Cooled peppers peel and seeds, carefully cut the stalk (as usual - through this hole we stuffed peppers). Stir shredded cheese and grated cheese with chopped egg and dill. Fill roasted peppers stuffed, roll in flour, dip in beaten eggs, breaded in bread crumbs, then fry in hot oil for 2-3 minutes on each side.

In Bulgaria, sweet peppers, which we call the bell, called "pig."

Well, from the main dishes go to snacks, the most popular of which can rightly be called Shopska salad.

Recipe Four: Salad "Shopska"

You will need: 200g of cheese, 4 tomatoes, 2 red bell pepper and cucumber, 1 onion,? bunch of parsley, vinegar, vegetable oil.

How to cook a real Sheppard's salad. Sweet pepper advance bake until slightly darkening of the skin, cool, put in the bag and tie it tightly, then peel and seeds, cut the stalk. Clear cucumbers from the skin, cut into medium-sized, grated cheese rub, scald tomatoes, remove the peel and cut into slices, chopped parsley and minced onion (or cut it into half rings), cut into julienne peppers. Mix all prepared foods, except cheese, season with oil and vinegar, put in a salad bowl, sprinkle with cheese.

Recipe Five: Pie "Banica�

You will need: 350g of cheese, 300ml water, 100g sour cream, 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon lemon juice or wine vinegar, a pinch of salt.

How to cook traditional Bulgarian Banica pie. 2.5 cups of flour mixed with oil, lemon juice, salt and water, about 5min vymeshivaya dough, put it n Astola Island, hybrids, adding the remaining flour - the dough should be medium-dense, soft, non-tacky, and cover it with a bowl for an hour set aside. Grate or crumble cheese, hammer eggs, add sour cream and mix all until smooth. Divided into 4 parts defend the dough to work with each in turn: first to the maximum subtlety roll a rolling pin, then stretch his arms so that the dough was visible through the picture (better to stretch the dough on the work surface with a pattern on it to check the degree of fineness). Lubricate each layer of stretched dough a quarter of the filling on the edges departing from 2-3cm, tuck white edges without filling it, turn the reservoir in the roll, moving away from you, ready to roll into a spiral roll, put in a greased baking center. The following three rolls to wrap this first spiral, putting not too tight. Smear cake egg yolk mixed with 1 tablespoon water, put in a preheated 180-200 degree oven and bake for 40-50min. When the cake is ready, brush it straight in the form of water (abundantly), then cover with a towel to leave 30 minutes.

Banica in Bulgaria is prepared with potatoes - "patatnik", with pumpkin and sugar - "tykvennik" with spinach or beet - "Zelena banitsa", etc. Feta cheese - a classic filling for Banicza.

We talked about the most popular Bulgarian cuisine. Try to cook any of them and get to know this wonderful cuisine, delicious dishes will please your family!