2024-11-22

Category: Balkan

Baklava Baklava
Armenia, baking, Balkan, Desserts, ethnic, food, former Yugoslavia, Greek, International Foods, Middle Eastern, random photocopies/ Mimeographs, recipe, Turkey, unknown source

Baklava

The word baklava is first attested in English in 1650, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.The name baklava is used in many languages with minor phonetic and spelling variations. Historian Paul D. Buell argues that the word “baklava” may come from the Mongolian root baγla- ‘to tie, wrap up, pile up’ composed with the […]

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Ćevapčići
Albania, Balkan, Croatian, former Yugoslavia, International Foods, random photocopies/ Mimeographs, recipe, Serbian, unknown source

Ćevapčići

Ćevapi (Cyrillic: ћевапи, pronounced [tɕeʋǎːpi]) or ćevapčići (formal diminutive; Cyrillic: ћевапчићи, pronounced [tɕeʋǎptʃitɕi]) is a grilled dish of minced meat found traditionally in the countries of southeast Europe (the Balkans). It is considered a national dish of Bosnia and Herzegovina,[Croatia, and Serbia, and is also common in Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Slovenia, and Albania. Ćevapi […]

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