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Kosovo Essentials
A considered first route through Kosovo: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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12 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
Kosovo
Flia
Flija
Layered batter cooks over embers and is served with cream and honey.
Prizren, Kosovo
Tavë Prizreni
Lamb and aubergine baked into one clay dish in the restaurants along Prizren's river.
Sarajevo, Kosovo
Ćevapi
Sarajevski ćevapi
Ordered by the count — five, ten — in flatbread with raw onion and no sauce
Kosovo
Meat Under the Sač
Mish nën saç
Rugova sač roasts lamb and potatoes until the meat falls tender.
North Macedonia
Šar Mountain Kaškaval
Шарпланински кашкавал
Brined on the Sharr pastures and salty enough to sting
Prizren, Kosovo
Bakllasarm
Bakllasarëm
Bare pastry rolls flooded with garlic yogurt and hot butter at the moment they reach you.
Kosovo
Kosovar Bean Stew
Grosh
White beans and dried red pepper cooked down in a clay pot until the broth thickens
Peja, Kosovo
Peja Beer
Birra Peja
Brewed at Peja since 1971 with Rugova gorge water
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Sarma
Sarma
Rolled in leaves off whole cabbages soured in barrels the previous autumn.
Prizren, Kosovo
Tespishte
Tespište
Semolina and walnut, cut in diamonds and flooded with syrup while still too hot to touch.
Gjakova, Kosovo
Rahovec Wine
Vera e Rahovecit
Vranac off the terraces above Rahovec, sold by the litre straight from the barrel.
Kosovo
Kosovar Mantia
Mantia
Baked rather than boiled, browned on top, then wetted with stock and covered in garlic yogurt.