Spreads
Lyutenitsa
Лютеница
Bulgaria
Roasted red pepper and tomato cooked down for hours with carrot, sometimes aubergine, into a thick relish. Every household jars its own in autumn; the whole country smells of pepper roasting.
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What it is
A closer look at Lyutenitsa.
Roasted red pepper and tomato cooked down for hours with carrot, sometimes aubergine, into a thick relish. Every household jars its own in autumn; the whole country smells of pepper roasting.
What to look for
Know it when you find it.
Homemade is dull brick-red and coarse; the glossy uniform supermarket kind is thickened with carrot. Eaten spread on bread with white cheese, not as a dip.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
Food rarely respects a border. These are the places the dataset connects most strongly to Lyutenitsa.
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Netherlands
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Russia
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Roasted eggplant mashed with sweet pepper, tomato and onion into a smoky spread; Soviet cookbooks called it poor man's caviar.
Cyprus
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Χαρουπόμελο
Carob pods boiled down into a dark, treacly syrup once called the island's black gold, poured over anari and bread.
Switzerland
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