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    Balkan Lunch Box > Recipes > Recipes By Meal Type > Breads & Pastries

    Balkan Bread and Pastry Recipes

    Breads and pastries accompany almost every Balkan dish.

    (If you've traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia or Kosovo you probably know that.)

    Here you'll find our best Homemade Bread, as well as the Traditional Balkan Bread Pogacha (Pogača). And for the chocolate lover in you, there's the Chocolate Nutella Strudel!

     

    Latest In Breads & Pastries

    Woman holding halved pogacha.

    Pogacha (Pogača): Traditional Balkan Bread Without Yeast

    Closeup of a poppy seed slice.

    Potica (Povitica) Poppy Seed Roll

    Balkan Homemade Cornbread From Scratch (Kukuruza, Proja)

    Golden bread sticks, painted with salt with just the right amount of crunch. You'll never try other bread sticks again. 

    Slanci: Balkan Breadsticks

    Chocolate Nutella strudel: chocolate infused flour caressed into dough, let to rise, smeared with huge chunks of Nutella, toped with egg yolk glaze, then baked. Tastes like heaven!

    Chocolate Nutella Strudel

    Braided Sweet Bread (Slatka Pletenica)

    Soft and flavorful buckwheat mini breads further enriched with sunflower seeds. A simple way to get you into making your own dough.

    Buckwheat Mini Breads (Hljepčići od Heljde)

    Roulade on a cutting board.

    Roulade Recipe with Plum Jam

    Bread on a blue background.

    Tepsijaš - Bosnian Homemade Pan Bread

    Overhead photograph of a pan filled with rolls.

    Buhtle - Balkan Jam Rolls

    Jam, spoon, and dough ball on gray background.

    Fried Dough Balls (Uštipci) [No Yeast]

    Overhead photo of crescent rolls in a round pan.

    Kiflice - Balkan Crescent Rolls [Cheese or Jam Filling]

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