3 dishes people actually cook in Serbia: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Serbia? 3 traditional Serbia dishes, from Gibanica (65 min, the quickest) to Pljeskavica (760 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Serbian cheese pie in which each sheet of pastry is crumpled and dipped in a mix of fresh cheese, eggs, yogurt and sparkling water before being piled into the pan.
Mixed minced meat kneaded with sparkling water, rested overnight and grilled as one wide flat patty served inside lepinja with kajmak and ajvar.
Serbian rolls of whole fermented cabbage leaves stuffed with pork, beef and rice, stewed for hours between pieces of smoked meat and finished with a paprika roux.
Copper documents three dishes from Serbia: Gibanica, Pljeskavica and Sarma. Ground beef and ground pork each appear in more than one recipe. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 24 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 24 ingredients between them, of which 5 are shared by more than one dish. Ground pork and paprika the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 15 use ground pork and 10 use paprika. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Gibanica is the quickest at 65 minutes. Pljeskavica is the longest at 760 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 300 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Serbia here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Gibanica is the shortest way in.
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