Serbia

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Srem Sausage

Сремска кобасица

A dry-cured smoked pork sausage from the plain west of the capital, seasoned with paprika and garlic and hung to dry in winter.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Sremska Salama

Сремска салама

Sremska salama is a fine-ground, winter-cured salami from Srem with a clean paprika and garlic profile.

🇷🇸Serbia

Sremski kulen

Сремски кулен

Sremski kulen is a coarse, paprika-scented pork sausage from Srem and Bačka, pressed and slowly air-cured. Petrovački kulen is a local form associated with the Slovak communities of Vojvodina.

🇷🇸Serbia

Stuffed Courgettes

Punjene tikvice

Stuffed courgettes are a shared Bosnian and Serbian summer dish of hollowed courgettes filled with minced meat and rice, simmered in light tomato sauce and served with yogurt.

🇧🇦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.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sudžuk

Dry beef sausage seasoned with garlic and pepper, no pork, air-dried into a firm horseshoe and eaten raw or fried into eggs.

🇷🇸Serbia

Tamjanika

Тамјаника

Muscat of Tamjane, a Serbian aromatic white.

🇷🇸Western Serbia, Serbia

Tobacco Cracklings

Дуван чварци

Pork fat rendered and pressed until the cracklings shred into thin fibrous strands that look like tobacco leaves, crisp and intensely porky.

🇷🇸Serbia

Trešnje Slatko

Слатко од трешања

Trešnje slatko is sour-cherry spoon-sweet, traditionally offered to visitors with water.

🇷🇸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.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Turkish Coffee

Türk Kahvesi

A method of preparing unfiltered coffee using finely ground beans simmered with water and sugar in a cezve. The result is a strong, aromatic brew with a thick layer of foam, served in small cups with water. UNESCO inscribed Turkish coffee culture on its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013. The grounds are traditionally used for fortune telling.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Turshiya

Туршия

Mixed winter pickles — cauliflower, carrot, green tomato, pepper and celery — brined together in vinegar so each vegetable stains the next.

🇷🇸Serbia

Urnebes Cheese Spread

Урнебес

Crumbled white cheese mashed with hot paprika, garlic and oil into a bright orange spread, served with grilled meat and bread.

🇷🇸Herzegovina, Serbia

Uštipci

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

🇷🇸Serbia

Užička pršuta

Ужичка пршута

Užička pršuta is western Serbia’s dry-cured smoked ham, salted and matured in the mountain air around Užice and Zlatibor. The neighboring Zlatibor smokehouse tradition is part of the same regional identity.

🇷🇸Serbia

Vanilla Cookies

Ванилице

Sandwich biscuits of lard dough filled with jam, joined in pairs and rolled in vanilla icing sugar while still warm.

🇷🇸Serbia

Vasa's Cake

Васина торта

A layered cake of walnut and almond sponge with a chocolate and orange cream, named after the man it was made for in the 19th century.

🇷🇸Serbia

Vešalica

Вешалица

Thin slices of smoked pork neck grilled over charcoal until the edges catch, served plain with onion and bread.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Viljamovka

Williams pear brandy, sometimes bottled with a whole pear grown inside the bottle on the tree.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Vojvođanski koh

Војвођански кох

Vojvođanski koh is a yeast-raised streusel coffee cake reflecting the region’s German and Central European baking.

🇷🇸Serbia

Walnut Crescents

Ораснице

Small crescent biscuits of ground walnut and butter, baked pale and rolled in icing sugar while warm.

🇷🇸Serbia

Walnut Roll

Orehnjača

Traditional yeasted dough roll filled with ground walnuts, lemon juice, sugar, and milk, a holiday dessert, nutty and sweet.

🇷🇸Serbia

Wedding Cabbage

Свадбарски купус

Layers of soured cabbage and several kinds of smoked and fresh meat baked in a wide clay pot for many hours, traditionally cooked outdoors for a crowd.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

White Stew

Бела чорба

A pale stew of chicken or veal cooked in a roux with milk and cream, thickened with egg yolk and finished with vinegar and garlic.

🇷🇸Serbia

Young White Cheese

Млади сир

Fresh unripened white cheese sold in wet slabs by the kilo, mild and lightly salty, used in pies and eaten with bread and tomato.

🇽🇰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.

🇷🇸Serbia

Čorba od spanaća

Чорба од спанаћа

Čorba od spanaća is Serbian spinach soup thickened with a white roux and rice.

🇷🇸Serbia

Đuveč

Ђувеч

Rice baked slowly with pork or lamb, peppers, tomato, aubergine and paprika until the liquid is gone and the top browns.

🇷🇸Serbia

Šljivovica

Rakija made from plums, most popular type in eastern Croatia, often aged in barrels developing yellowish color, PGI protected.

🇷🇸Šumadija, Serbia

Šumadija Tea

Шумадијски чај

Rakija heated with sugar, honey and spices and drunk hot in winter, with no tea in it whatever the name says.