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Croatian
Food Tradition
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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. 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 smoked 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. |
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Beautiful Croatia - Croatia
is situated between central, southern and eastern Europe, because it has
a rather peculiar shape that resembles a crescent or a horseshoe. This
accounts for its many neighbors: Slovenia, Hungary, Serbian part of Serbia
and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegrin part of Serbia and
Montenegro, and Italy across the Adriatic. |
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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! |
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| Vegetarianska
Udruga - Database
of vegetarian recipes and info. |
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| Coolinarika
- Database of recipes from Podravka d.d. |
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| KKuhar-
Collection of cooking advises and recipes. |
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Adriatic sea is one of the richest seas
in the world when it comes to quality fish and shellfish (over 350 species).
If you enjoy lobsters, oysters, scampi, mussels, date shells or maybe some
other kind of high quality fresh fish complemented by tasty side dishes,
fresh salads and excellent wines, then you will be in heaven here.
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