Macedonian dinner rolls (Kiflichki)

Ingredients:

• 3 1/4 cups bread flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast

Mix the yeast in the water. Combine the flour with sugar and salt, then pour the water and make a dough. Add the butter one tablespoon at a time and knead the dough. Leave to rise in a warm place for an hour. Cut the dough in two and roll each piece as thin as possible. Cut 8 triangles from each piece and make rolls.

Arrange rolls on a baking sheet, brush with eggyolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds, flax seeds, caraway seeds, poppy seeds or salt. Put the baking sheet in a lukewarm oven and leave the rolls to rise again for an hour, then bake them at 170°C, around 15-20 minutes.

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Macedonian dinner rolls (Kiflichki)

Balkan wine festivals

B&H

• Wine Fest in Sarajevo

Bulgaria

• Vinaria in Plovdiv

Croatia

• Wine Gourmet Festival in Zagreb
• Wine Festival in Hvar
  

Macedonia

• Vinoskop in Skopje
• Tikveski Grozdober in Kavadarci

Romania

• Romanian Wine Festival in Bucharest
  

Serbia

• In vino festival in Belgrade
• Vinovdan in Krusevac
  

Slovenia

• Slovenian Wine Festival in Ljubljana

Balkan wine festivals

Main dish of mixed vegetables

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs various vegetables (peppers, eggplant, okra, zucchini, potatoes, etc)
• 1/2 cup oil, divided
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 cup peeled chopped tomatoes
• 1 tbsp chopped parsley
• salt and pepper

After cutting off inedible tips of vegetables, wash and slice them into 1-inch squares. Sauté vegetables in half of the oil and remove them from the frying pan. Sauté onion and tomatoes in the remaining oil, and season with parsley, salt, and pepper.

Put everything in a stock pot with a cup of water, cover tightly, and simmer until almost all moisture has cooked away. Serve hot, accompanied by steak, meatballs, or any other main dish. Serves for 4 people

Published in: The Best of Albanian Cooking by Klementina and R. John Hysa

Main dish of mixed vegetables

Balkan beer festivals

Albania

• Festa e birres in Korca

Croatia

• Dani piva in Karlovac
• Rujan fest in Zagreb

Macedonia

• Pivofest in Prilep
• Pivolend in Skopje
• Beer festival in Ohrid

Romania

• Beer festival in Brasov

Serbia

• Beer festival in Belgrade
• Beer festival in Vrnjacka Banja
• Dani piva in Zrenjanin

Slovenia

• BeerFest Slovenia in Ljubljana
• Festival of beer & flowers in Lasko

Balkan beer festivals

Sarma

Ingredients:

• cabbage or grape-vine leaves
• 1 coffee cup with rice
• 2 onion pieces
• 0,5kg. mixed ground meat
• 250g. steamed meat
• oil, pepper, salt and spices

Sarma is a traditional meal in the most of the Balkan countries especially for Christmas Eve. It is a heavy dish and usually eaten in the winter days. Here are the directions how to prepare this meal:

Rinse well the leaves, pour over with hot water and drain. Cut the onion into small pieces and fry it on oil. Add ground meat, red pepper, pepper, salt, spices and rice. Then use the mixture to stuff the pickled cabbage or grape-vine leaves. Line them up in a pot, but first line up pickled cabbage at the bottom of the pot.

Put the steamed meat in between the stuffed cabbage leaves. Then, spill over sarma some hot water and boil it on a silent fire and then put them in the oven to bake.

By the end of the baking you can add some oil and red pepper, which have been fried before. Cover the pieces with pickled cabbage leaves. The whole has to be dry, not very moist. You can serve sarma with sour cream or yogurt.

Sarma