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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 …

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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 …

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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 …