3 dishes people actually cook in Slovenia: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Slovenia? 3 traditional Slovenia dishes, from Struklji (110 min, the quickest) to Jota (850 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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A thick Karst stew of sauerkraut, borlotti beans and potatoes cooked until they break down, bound with a garlic roux and flavoured with smoked pork.
A Slovenian festive cake in which a thin sheet of yeast dough is rolled around a walnut filling scalded with cream and honey, then baked in a ring-shaped potičnik so every slice shows a tight spiral.
A stretched dough sheet spread with tarragon-scented curd cheese, rolled up, tied inside a cloth and boiled whole before slicing.
Copper documents three dishes from Slovenia: Jota, Potica and Struklji. All-purpose flour and butter each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 27 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 27 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Slovenia entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Struklji is the quickest at 110 minutes. Jota is the longest at 850 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 290 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Slovenia here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Struklji is the shortest way in.
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