Ingredients: • 6 green or red bell peppers • 6 cups vegetable stock • 2 ½ cups uncooked white rice • 1 cup chopped mushrooms • ½ cup finely chopped greens • 3 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil • 1 small onion, finely chopped • 1 grated carrot • 2 cups pasta sauce • 2 …
9 Vegetarian Dishes for Bulgarian Christmas Eve Dinner
Traditionally Christmas Eve (Badni Vecher) dinner in Bulgaria would be vegetarian marking the end of a 40 day fast. Customarily an odd number of meals will be prepared. The dishes have symbolic meanings centering around fertility and abundance: Bobena Chorba (bean or lentil soup), so the coming year will be fertile, abundant, and wealthy Zelevi Sarmi (rice …
Authentic Bulgarian Tikvenik Recipe
PREP 25 minutes COOK 20 minutes Tikvenik is a Bulgarian style pumpkin pastry made out of phyllo dough. It is the sweet version of their well-known banitsi made out of feta cheese. Although this recipe calls for canned pumpkin, most Bulgarians would use fresh grated pumpkin and even more impressive the older generations make their …
Leftover Turkey Bone Carcass SuperFood Stock
This is a recipe for leftover turkey carcass stock. Please don’t throw out the best part of the turkey, the carcass. To some this is not a very appetizing thought but the results are so flavorful and healthy. When you are done, simply freeze the stock in portions which can be used in your everyday …
Simple Heart Healthy Slow Cooker Turkey Lentil Soup
So when your holiday dinner is over, just save the turkey carcass and make stock out of it. Then you can freeze it and use it latter on to make great tasting soups like this one. Lentil soup is a popular soup or chorba in Bulgaria. Ingredients 10 cups turkey stock 8 oz dry lentils …
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Traditional Bulgarian Tutmanic
Dough: 2 + 1 white eggs 3 tbsp milk 3 tbsp warm water 2 tbsp yeast 1/5 cup melted butter 2/3 cup yogurt 2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt 3 cups all purpose flour 12 oz feta cheese 1/5 cup soft butter Filling: 1 yolk 3 tbsp milk sesame seeds for sprinkling Instructions: Dissolve the …
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Baked Jack-o-lanterns
Looking for ideas to turn those jack-o-lanterns into a yummy treat. Well here is a good one. Clean, peel and quarter pieces of raw pumpkin into bite-sized cubes (6-8 cups) Put pumpkin piece in large mixing bowl Pour over pumpkin, melted butter (1/4 cup), sugar (1/2 cup), honey (1/4 cup) and cinnamon (2 tbsps) Pour …
Bulgarian Tikvenik Pumpkin Layered Pastry
PREP 25 minutes COOK 20 minutes Tikvenik is a Bulgarian style pumpkin pastry made out of phyllo dough. It is the sweet version of their well-known banitsi made out of feta cheese. Although this recipe calls for canned pumpkin, most Bulgarians would use fresh grated pumpkin and even more impressive the older generations make their …