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Bansko’s cuisine

Original and diverse, the Bansko cuisine is known throughout Bulgaria with stewed dishes, unique homemade sausages and appetizers.The most typical are the kapama, chomlek, katino appetizer, bansko starets, bansko sausage and kurvavitsa, served in all taverns and restaurants in Bansko and Dobrinishte.The local cuisine, based on old recipes and clean, home-made products, is a strong argument for attracting foreign tourists, bringing them closer to the typical customs and culinary traditions of the local population.
 

Bansko kapama

kapama
It is prepared with a pre-fried in the oil, mixture of rice, thin chopped sauerkraut and checkane circles / type of local beet /, seasoned with pepper, bay leaf and salt. Then cut into large pieces of beef, pork, chicken and kurvavitsa.In a large clay pot are lined up, consecutively, whole cabbage leaves on the bottom, pieces of meat, stuffing, cabbage leaves, meat, stuffing, etc .;then we add white wine and make up with water. It is then covered with a clay lid and sealed with dough. Once it boils, it is left for around 5 hours, on a medium heat, in order to be stewed.

 

Bansko kurvavitsa

kurvavica

Beef and pork in larger pieces and giblets / heart, spleen, lung, kidney /, seasoned with leek, cumin, dill, pepper, salt and a special Bansko merudia is filled in the colon and then dried. While it is still raw, it is served fried or grilled.

Bansko sausage

sujuk

 Similar to the Bansko kurvavitsa, but made only of pork and giblets /heart, liver/.


Barkada /Bansko kachamak/

kachamak

A hominy is prepared with corn flour and is then placed in a pan with a spoon are shaped these so called "beds", which are then filled with cheese and appetizers /kurvavitsa, bacon, liver, ribs/.

Bansko Chomlek
 

chomlek

In a large clay pot are placed: a veal shank, small peeled potatoes, coarsely chopped onion and garlic cloves. It is seasoned with pepper, bay leaf and salt;oil is added, red wine, tomato paste or apetitka, a little vinegar and water. It is then covered with a clay lid and sealed with dough.Once it boils, it is left for around 5 hours, on a medium heat, to get stewed /or about 10 hours, on a low heat/.

Katino meze

katino-meze

Beef and pork fillet in small pieces are fried in oil, chopped onions are then added, some leeks and peppers. Then it is fried again and is stewed with white wine, mushrooms, apetitka, salt and a little water. It is powdered generously with parsley and is served in a clay pot.

Kostureta /beans/ with checane and bacon

Fresh beans are inserted in a saucepan to boil for about 15 minuted and then the water is changed. Small chopped bacon is added along with checane and whole dry peppers. It is boiled on a low heat for about 3 hours.

kostureta