Tag: Balkan Cuisine

Sarma (Sour Cabbage)

I call this sarma (od kisel kupus) or sarma from sour/pickled cabbages. You may call it dolma (Turkey, Greece, Cyrpus), sarmale (Romania), holubtsi (Ukraine), gołąbki (Poland), kåldomar (Sweden),…

Chomlek

A sumptuous beef winter stew, famously associated with a beautiful historic city called Ohrid in North Macedonia. Ohrid is one of the oldest settlements in Europe which is…

Ajvar

“Piperki za ajvar!” Peppers for ajvar! It is early autumn and the cry echoes across the pazar (food market) in Skopje from nearly all the market stall holders….