Montenegro

🇲🇪Montenegro

Popeci

Popeći

Pork escalope wrapped around kajmak and cheese, breaded and fried so the filling runs when cut.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Priganice

Spoonfuls of slack yeast dough dropped into hot oil and fried into knobbly, hollow puffs, served hot with honey, cheese or plum jam.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Prljo

Skimmed-milk cheese left over once the cream has been taken for skorup, dried hard and grated over polenta and potatoes.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Raki

Raki rrushi

Albania's national spirit, a clear fruit brandy distilled from fermented grapes, plums, mulberries, or other fruits, 40-55% alcohol, served as a welcome drink and at celebrations, a legendary icon.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Raštan

Coarse collard leaves stewed slowly with smoked pork ribs and potato until the greens collapse and take on the smoke.

🇭🇷Venice, Croatia

Risotto al Nero di Seppia

Venetian black risotto stained with cuttlefish ink, cooked with cuttlefish, white wine, and parsley. Striking on the plate and briny on the palate.

🇲🇪Kotor, Montenegro

Sage Honey

Med od žalfije

Honey from the sage that covers the karst above the Bay of Kotor, pale, thick and distinctly herbal.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Shepherd's Boletus Soup

Čobanska krem supa od vrganja

Cep mushrooms from the Durmitor and Bjelasica forests cooked down with cream into a thick soup, served with fried bread.

🇷🇸Serbia

Shopska Salad

Шопска салата

Diced tomato, cucumber, raw or roasted pepper and onion under a thick blanket of grated white brine cheese, dressed with sunflower oil and vinegar. Named for the Shope region around Sofia.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Skadarska Pastrmka

Skadarska pastrmka is Lake Skadar trout, grilled or stuffed with rice in the Virpazar restaurant tradition.

🇲🇪Lake Skadar, Montenegro

Smoked Bleak

Ukljeva

Ukljeva is Lake Skadar bleak, a small oily fish traditionally salted, dried or grilled around the lake. Virpazar’s restaurants serve it as a local catch with simple accompaniments.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stuffed Peppers

Punjena paprika

Bell peppers stuffed with ground meat and rice, baked in tomato sauce, a popular summer dish when peppers are in season, hearty and traditional.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Sukača

Hand-stretched pastry coiled with cheese or potato and baked in a round tin, cut into wedges — the northern household's pita.

🇷🇸Serbia

Tulumba

Ridged fingers of choux-style dough deep-fried then drowned in cold sugar syrup, crisp-shelled and juicy within — the baklava-shop counter classic of Turkey and the former Ottoman world.

🇷🇸Herzegovina, Serbia

Uštipci

Torn pieces of yeasted dough dropped into hot oil and fried into irregular puffed balls, eaten hot with kajmak and cheese.

🇲🇪Podgorica, Montenegro

Vranac

Montenegro's black grape, grown mostly on the Ćemovsko plain outside Podgorica, giving dark, tannic wines that smell of sour cherry and pine.

🇭🇷Croatia

Wormwood Liqueur

Pelinkovac

Bitter herbal liqueur made from wormwood and other herbs, similar to amaro, the oldest and best-selling herbal liqueur in Croatia.

🇽🇰Sarajevo, Kosovo

Ćevapi

Sarajevski ćevapi

Small skinless sausages made of minced meat (beef, lamb, pork), grilled and served with flatbread and onions, popular street food.