3 dishes people actually cook in Bulgaria: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Bulgaria? 3 traditional Bulgaria dishes, from Shopska salad (25 min, the quickest) to Kavarma (110 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Bulgarian brine cheese bound with yogurt and baking soda, rolled inside filo ropes coiled into one spiral.
A pork and pepper stew scented with dried savory, baked slowly in individual clay pots and finished with an egg cracked on top.
Summer vegetables buried under a thick blanket of grated sirene, the white brined cheese that gives the salad the colours of the Bulgarian flag.
Copper documents three dishes from Bulgaria: Banitsa, Kavarma and Shopska salad. Sunflower oil and onion each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are baked. Two of the three need an oven. Between them they use 23 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 23 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Sunflower oil and sirene cheese the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 16 use sunflower oil and 2 use sirene cheese. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Shopska salad is the quickest at 25 minutes. Kavarma is the longest at 110 minutes. The median is 85 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Shopska salad is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Bulgaria is part of Balkan.
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