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The national cuisine of Serbia is quite simple, easy to prepare and using a minimum of products. Despite this, it is very bright, satisfying and natural. Any tourist who has visited this country will find a dish here to their liking. What you should definitely try when traveling in Serbia?
Barbecue
In Serbia, one of the main products is meat. One of the meat dishes of this region is rostil, grilled minced meat. The classic recipe has 2 varieties – pleskavitsa and cevapchichi. The first is a round flat cutlet, the second is meat fingers, similar to kebabs. Rochelle meat – pork and beef, rarely lamb. Cevapchichi and pleskavitsa are served in fried pita with finely chopped onions. Roshltil is sold as in fast food outlets. So it is served in restaurants in Serbia.
Prosciutto and biscuits
Another Serbian meat delicacy is jerky or smoked pork or beef ham. The process of its preparation and ripening takes a long time – about 10 months. Cookies (with emphasis on the first syllable) are not sweet pastries, but aromatic pig roasted on a spit, which is served in the best restaurants in Serbia.
Hanger
This is a traditional Serbian dish, which is a meat chop stuffed with spices. The meat for the hanger can be very different, there are such types of dishes – smoked hanger, punena hanger and white hanger, depending on the method of its preparation.
Mixed meat
This dish is an assortment of different meat dishes, including pleskavica and cevapcici, smoked meats and Serbian sausages. All this is grilled and served on a potato pillow. A pillow soaked in meat juice turns out to be very soft and fragrant.
Stirrer
Muchkalitsa is made from thin slices of fried meat, then stewed with paprika, onions and tomatoes. Served in a clay pot, it reminds us of the familiar goulash. This dish can satisfy any strong hunger.
Sour cream and cheese
Fermented milk products and cheeses have a special place in Serbia. Here they produce white cheeses from cow, sheep and goat milk: kachkaval, sitan, hawk, zlatar, cheeses with spices and many others. You can decide on the tastes by ordering a cheese national plate at the restaurant.
Kaimak is a Serbian specialty, something between cream and fat sour cream. This is salted foam taken from freshly prepared baked cow’s or sheep’s milk. In Serbia, it is added to many dishes and sauces are prepared based on it.
Aivar and urnebes
To serve Serbian flat cakes and dishes, namaz is prepared in this country – sauces that can be spread on bread. Aivar – vegetable caviar made from baked paprika with or without eggplant; it tastes spicy and sweet. On its basis, urnebes is prepared with the addition of cheese and spices. Sauces are mainly served with meat dishes.
Chorba
This rich and hearty soup based on meat or fish is prepared not only in Serbia, but here it has its own differences and varieties of recipes. For thickening, toasted flour is added to the soup. It is based on any kind of meat or fish, as well as spicy aromatic spices and oils.
Sarma
Sarma is a filling wrapped in sauerkraut leaves. At the same time, smoked meats must be present in the minced meat – they are in harmony with the sour taste as much as possible. Sarma has a peculiar aroma and taste, and some may not like it. But to understand this, you should definitely order a sarma at the nearest diner.
Bakery products
There is a huge variety of national baked goods in Serbia, starting with traditional pita or burek made from puff pastry with fillings, ending with all kinds of sweet baked products – kifla (bun), zhuzhu (puff pastry with sesame seeds), Gibanica (pie with eggs), kofna donuts, shtapichi (spiced dough sticks), filled cornmeal muffins, jevrek bagels and many others. Bakeries in Serbia are constantly open and offer you a huge range of delicious products.
Coffee
Coffee is the main hot drink in Serbia, here the locals drink it from morning to night. “Domacha kafa” is popular – coffee brewed in a Turk, Serbs do not disdain and instant coffee “nes”. Coffee is sold everywhere and the cost is relatively low.
Boza
The national Balkan drink made from wheat or boza millet is produced by fermentation, like kvass. It tastes like a tonic and refreshing drink, which contains many useful substances.
Rakia
Rakia is an alcoholic drink of all Balkan countries. It is a homemade fruit moonshine made from pears, apples, quince, apricot and grapes, but mostly plums. Serbia even patented plum brandy Šlivovica as a trademark. Rakia is drunk from special bottles of “Ciocancic” slowly, savoring the taste and washing it down with water.
Pearl
This drink is considered a symbol of Serbia. Bermet is a semi-wine-semi-liker with a rich taste and strength up to 20%. It is produced in the northern part of Serbia. The drink is often taken home as a national presentation.