Balkan Lunch Box

Cheat Ajvar

If you want to improve store ajvar (the famous Balkan roasted eggplant and red pepper spread), or you want to make it the easy way, here's the quickest "not from scratch" recipe. I call it cheat ajvar.

If you want to improve store ajvar (famous Balkan roasted eggplant and roasted red pepper spread) , or you want to make it the easy way, today we'll cover the quickest way to make ajvar without having to do it from scratch. I call it cheat ajvar. 

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Filed Under: Appetizers & Preserves, Vegetarian 3 Comments

No Bake Chocolate Pudding Biscuit Cake

Chocolate pudding biscuit cake: three tier no bake dessert made from ingredients you already have in your kitchen (pudding, biscuit, butter, heavy cream, sugar and milk). Because, sometimes, simple really is the best.  Chocolate pudding biscuit cake: three tier no bake dessert made from ingredients you already have in your kitchen (pudding, biscuit, butter, heavy cream, sugar and milk). Because, sometimes, simple really is the best.  Read more

Filed Under: Desserts, Vegetarian 7 Comments

Balkan Bean Soup (Stew)

YES.YES.YES! Easy to make, delicious and hearty Balkan bean soup (stew). Beans combined with meat and veggies, then thickened with a paprika based roux. Uh! Dry beans soaked, added to simmered vegetables and meat, cooked over low fire, then thickened with a paprika based roux. The result is a delicious thick soup (stew) overflowing with meaty, hearty beans processed to perfection. (BOSANSKI) In case you didn't get that, let me repeat it one more time: we're talking about soaking beans which are added to simmered vegetables and meat, cooked over low fire, ... Read more

Filed Under: Main Courses 18 Comments

Slanci: Balkan Breadsticks

Golden breadsticks, painted with salt, with just the right amount of crunch.  Golden bread sticks, painted with salt with just the right amount of crunch. You'll never try other bread sticks again.  (BOSANSKI) The fall has descended upon Sarajevo. A nice reprieve from the scorching summer. The clock moved, the temperatures fell. The sun, bright but farther, is lighting up the sky that the wind previously cleared so well, for a moment it may trick you to go outside without a jacket. But you shouldn't because it is fall, and it will snap back at you quickly. There ... Read more

Filed Under: Breads & Pastries, Vegetarian 3 Comments

Baked Romano Beans

Let's venture to the side not prepared often enough - the velvety, baked Romano beans. Lush, wide and flat beans, quartered and softened, topped with heavy cream-plus-garlic then baked. As striking in taste as it is in looks.  Let's venture to the side not prepared often enough - velvety, baked Romano beans. Lush, wide and flat beans quartered and softened, then baked with heavy cream-plus-garlic topping.  Striking.  (BOSANSKI) Although belonging to same family as string beans, these large, wide, green pods called Romano beans are a necessary upgrade. ... Read more

Filed Under: Side Dishes, Vegetarian 5 Comments