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Montenegro Essentials
A considered first route through Montenegro: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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10 foods to know.
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Njeguši and Cetinje, Montenegro
Njeguši Prosciutto
Njeguška pršuta
Smoked, not just wind-dried, in one village between Lovćen and the Bay of Kotor.
Njeguši and Cetinje, Montenegro
Njeguši Cheese
Njeguški sir
Matured in olive oil in wooden tubs, sold in the same village and off the same
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kačamak
Качамак
Polenta beaten with potato and cheese until it lifts off the spoon in strands.
Durmitor, Montenegro
Cicvara
Maize cooked in skorup instead of water, finished when the fat pools gold on the surface.
Montenegro
Priganice
Fried dough puffs are served with honey, cheese, or jam.
Boka and the Coast, Montenegro
Kastradina
Salt mutton dried in the bora and boiled with cabbage — Boka's Christmas meat since before
Lake Skadar, Montenegro
Lake Skadar Carp
Krap sa Skadarskog jezera
Lake Skadar carp smoked whole and then stewed with prunes
Montenegro
Raštan
Frost-picked collards collapsed into smoked pork ribs, the northern winter plate.
Podgorica, Montenegro
Vranac
The black grape of the Ćemovsko plain, tannic and smelling of sour cherry and pine.
Montenegro
Balšića Tava
Veal baked under an egg-and-kajmak crust, named for the medieval lords of Zeta.