Food &Recipes

While sarma is most often eaten in late fall and early winter, stuffed peppers are eaten in summer, when they are often served for family dinners throughout Croatia. Although we often avoid preparing cooked meals during the hot summer months, in order to avoid heating up our homes, every...

Large pans with wide rims, sometimes as much as 2 m in diameter, are placed on specially designed stoves – usually cleverly adapted metal barrels. In Zagorje, Prigorje, Zagreb, but above all in Samobor, these kitchen contraptions, which go by the name of kotlovina, as does the dish prepared...

Pašticada is a dish popular in Croatia, especially in Dalmatia from where it originates. The meal requires careful preparation as the meat is stuffed with garlic, cloves, carrot and bacon, and marinated in wine vinegar overnight. Pašticada is prepared from beef or yearling beef and old recipes insist that...

Brudet, brujet, brodet or, if you will, brodetto, is the most common dish on the Croatian Adriatic, but it is especially loved throughout Dalmatia. In the Zadar, Šibenik and Split clusters culinary skills are measured against one’s ability to excel in the preparation of brudet. The magic of a...

Sarma is definitely one of the favorite dishes in Croatia and many other countries. Perfect cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat and rice are a dish you must try once in a lifetime. It`s not the easiest dish to prepare, but believe us – you won`t regret it. This...

Financially accessible and simple local ingredients and the nimble Zagorje hands which for centuries have been rolling out soft dough and turning Zagorski štrukli (typical pastry of Zagorje) into an excellent appetiser, a filling addition to soups, a tasty main meal, a fast snack or sweet dessert which is...

Dubai, July 27: Dubai’s most authentic Japanese izakaya, Fujiya Dubai, has just opened a second branch in Dubai Downtown at the Swissotel Al Murooj to complement its original branch at the Millennium Airport Hotel. Fujiya has been bringing the izakaya concept to the city since 2018, a casual style...

Elderflowers are picked in sunny weather and only those that are fully bloomed. Be careful where you pick it, polluted places and canals are by no means a good option. This is a recipe for approximately 4 L of syrup. And that means that for 10 flowers you will...

The Dalmatinska panceta, a preserved cured meat product with a rectangular shape, made from streaky bacon of the pig as well as the Dalmatinska pečenica, also a preserved cured pork meat product without the bone — are new Croatian products protected at the EU level. They were added to...