EATING IN SERBIA

Ajvar is a type of relish, made principally from red bell

peppers, with garlic. It may also contain eggplant and chili
peppers. Original homemade ajvar is made of roasted peppers,
while some industrial producers use cooked peppers, which
leads to a lower quality. Depending on the capsaicin content in
bell peppers and the amount of added chili peppers, it can be
sweet (traditional), piquant (the most common), or very hot.
Ajvar can be consumed as a bread spread or as a side dish.
Kajmak (kaymak) is a creamy dairy product similar to clotted
cream. It has a high percentage of milk fat, (typically about
60%) thick, creamy consistency and a rich taste... It is usually
consumed for breakfast or as fast food as "lepinja sa
kajmakom" (bun bread filled with kajmak) and in restaurants it
is usually served with pljeskavica. You can taste it this way, but
we recommend buing fresh kajmak at some of Belgrade`s
greenmarkets, usually made by family recipe of vendors there.
Pljeskavica is like a giant burger - traditionally it is made from
mixture of ground meats (but it can be made from any meat)
grilled with onions and served hot on a plate with side dishes,
as a burger or on fresh kajmak with a thick pita (lepinja) bread.
You can taste it in almost every restaurant, but also in fast food
restaurants all around the city - those are the places where
Belgraders often eat pljeskavitsas late at night, after going out.
You can choose yourself what kind of pljeskavitsa you`d like to
try (there are also stuffed pljeskavicas with kashaval cheese
and ham iside the meat - punjena pljeskavitsa and gourmet
pljeskavitsa - gurmanska pljeskavica) and which extras you`d
like to add (lots of types of vegetables and salads are possible
to add).
Every Serbian family has its own special recipe for the
traditional meal - sarma. Sarma is generally made of spicy sour
cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef and rice, cooked in

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the oven or on the stove, in Serbia traditionally spiced with
home made smoked bacon or other smoked meat. And that`s
the taste you wouldn`t like to miss! You can taste it in lots of
restaurants serving traditional Serbian cousine - just as any
family, every restaurant has its own special sarma recipe.
Slatko (it literally means: sweet) is a sweet similar to jam,
which is usually served in small bowl, together with a glass of
water. Slatko is usually made of wild strawberries, plums,
quinces, cherries, figs, blueberries or blackberries and it is
made that way so that the whole fruit can be recognized in a
thick syrup. Since it is very sweet, it is usually tasted by taking
one teaspoon of slatko from the bowl and than a sip of water.
You can taste slatko by buying it in a supermarket or in a health
food store. It is also a nice souvenir for friends and family.
Check slatko on your checklist and tell us which slatko you like
most!