Your
stay in Croatia is
not just a pleasure for your eyes, it is also an ideal opportunity to
please
your taste buds and savour some of the local specialties. You can sense
it while sitting at almost every restaurant table
offering popular dishes named after Croatian regions: Pag cheese,
Slavonian kulen, Drniš prosciutto, Istrian soup, Cres lamb, Gorski
Kotar belly, Kvarner shrimp, Zagorje štrukli, Ston oysters, Vis and
Komiža bread, Međimurje gibanica … The tastes of these dishes are all
different, yet have a clear link – they are Croatian and they are
excellent. All this combined in a natural harmony of distinctive wines,
quality olive oil, excellent cheeses and tasty fresh produce.
The area known
as Croatia today has been a crossroads for number of conquerors
and
merchants for centuries. A large number of good trade routes passed
through
the Croatian region, such as those for spices. All this created
different
eating habits, refined mixture of different types of cuisine and
specific
methods of food preparation influenced by Celt, Illyrian, Roman,
Oriental,
Italian, French, Hungarian to Viennese cuisine and tradition.
Traditional
Croatian cuisine is represented by a full table high quality
specialties,
taste them and you will be asking for the recipe. Croatian desserts are
well known all over the world. Variety of quality food is huge and
every
town, not to mention region has it's own local specialties.
If you are
in continental part of the country you will find variety of heavy
foods,
particularly meat, salads and side dishes. On other side, light highly
valued dietary meals with its many varieties of seafood specialties
accompanied
by cooked or fresh vegetables, olive oil, herbs and light spices could
be enjoyed in Mediterranean Croatia.
When you are in Croatia, you must
not miss: strukli, orahnjaca and turkey with mlinci of Zagorje;
gibanica
(savory strudel) of Medjimurje; kulen and fish fricassee of Slavonia;
lamb
or goat "ispod peke" of Lika (lamb or goat roasted under an earthenware
dish in the fireplace; Dalmatian prosciutto ham and cheese from the
island
of Pag; smoked meat, bacon, or sausages and fresh cottage cheese with
sour
cream of Podravina; cream slices and excellent tortes favorite sweet
things
in Zagreb, to name just few.
The secret of the fabulous taste of
Dalmatian
coastal cuisine is in its digestibility and simple preparation, yet the
idea that simplicity means everyone everywhere could prepare them would
be deceiving. The tradition of grilling and roasting fish and
delicacies
of the sea in this region has been carried on from generation to
generation,
whereby the proper grilling technique often depends on the type of wood
or wood briquettes chosen to do the gradele (grilling) and grilling
technique.
In addition to this comes the tantalizing taste of Dalmatian olive oil,
and the particular taste of the totally fresh fish and delicacies of
the
sea. You must not miss superlative seafood specialties when you are
visiting
coastal part of the country (black risotto, scampi na buzaru, fresh
fish
on gradele, seafood salads, old fisherman's soup, pasticada with njoki,
salty sardines, rozata cake and much more.
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Traditional
Croatian Recipes - A
great collection of old and new Croatian recipes. Since our family
background
had been such a mixture, my mother's Traditional Croatian Recipes
refined
that fine mixture of different types of influences in her cuisine and
preparation
of beautiful Croatian dishes, what was called lather "mother's version
of traditional".
When I started my cooking journey, my mother's recipes,
experiences of working with her, and new culinary trend with much
healthier
version of cooking, made influences and reflected in my traditional
Croatian
cooking and recipes.
The
Story About Paprenjak - The Paprenjak - the traditional Croatian
pastry is according to its ingredients - honey, walnuts and pepper,
truly
contradictory as the Croatian history itself: a sweet-peppery bite to
the
taste of many. How many times through the centuries and even in the
recent
times, have invaders grabbed at this tasty bite made of the perfect
amount
of Central Europe and the Mediterranean, tearing off the sweet glaze
and
leaving us the peppery reality!
Coolinarika
- Database of recipes from Podravka d.d.
KKuhar-
Collection of recipes and general cooking info.
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