OntheBeach - Traditional Bulgarian Foods - Bulgarian cuisine is exceptionally diverse and delicious. The food of Bulgaria reflects the country’s own distinctive landscape and past, as well as the tastes and traditions of modern Bulgarians today. Learn more about Bulgarian cuisine at http://www.onthebeachreviews.com/how-to-experience-the-brilliant-flavours-of-bulgarian-culture/

1. Traditional Bulgarian foods
Bulgarian cuisine is exceptionally diverse and delicious.

2. COLD CUTS
Lukanka - a Bulgarian (sometimes spicy) salami unique to
Bulgarian cuisine.
Sujuk - Often spelled sucuk, sujuk is a dry, spicy sausage
eaten from the Balkans to the Middle East and Central
Asia.
Black pudding is a type of blood sausage commonly
eaten in Britain and Ireland.
SOUPS
Tarator - In Bulgaria, tarator is a popular meze
(appetizer) but also served as a side dish.
Bob chorba - A soup made from dry beans, onions,
tomatoes, chubritza or dzhodzhen (spearmint) and
carrots.
Shkembe chorba - Tripe soup is a common dish in
Balkan, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, and Eastern European
cuisine. According to folklore, it is said to be a hangover
remedy.

3. SALADS AND RELISHES
Shopska salad - A traditional Bulgarian cold salad popular
throughout the Balkans and Central Europe. It is made
from tomatoes, cucumbers, onion/scallions, raw or
roasted peppers, sirene (white brine cheese), and
parsley.
Snow white salad or Milk salad - A traditional Bulgarian
salad, which is made of strained Bulgarian yogurt,
cucumber, garlic, salt, usually cooking oil, dill, sometimes
roasted peppers, walnuts and parsley.
Kyopolou - A popular Bulgarian and Turkish relish made
principally from roasted eggplants and garlic.
SWEETS
The name Halva is used for several related varieties of
the Middle Eastern dessert. Tahan / Tahini halva is the
most popular version, available in two different types
with sunflower and with sesame seed.

4. DAIRY PRODUCTS
Bulgaria as a homeland of yogurt has a strong tradition in
the making of a variety of dairy products.
MAIN DISHES
Gyuvech - A Turkish, Bosnian, Romanian, Bulgarian,
Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian oven-baked meat and
vegetable stew similar to ratatouille. It is made with
meat, olives, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, herbs, and
spices.
Sarma - A dish of grape, cabbage or chard leaves rolled
around a filling usually based on minced meat, or a sweet
dish of filo dough wrapped around a filling often of
various kinds of chopped nuts.
Traditional Bulgarian grill (Skara) - Kyufte - Meatballs of
minced beef and pork meat, seasoned with traditional
spices and shaped in a flattened ball.

5. BREADS AND PASTRIES
Baklava - A rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo filled
with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together
with syrup or honey.
Simit - A circular bread, typically encrusted with sesame
seeds or, less commonly, poppy or sunflower.
Kozunak - A traditional Romanian and Bulgarian sweet
bread. It is usually prepared for Easter in Bulgaria.
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