Shopska salad
Shopska salad ( Bulgarian шопска салата / Sopska salata , Serbian - Cyrillic шопска салата / Sopska salata ) is a traditional salad of Balkan cuisine , which originates in the Serbian cuisine and Bulgarian cuisine has. The recipe was originally spread in the 20th century by Bulgarian and Yugoslav chefs from the Shopluk region and is similar to the well-known Serbian salad, in which hot peppers are also used. Similar preparations had long been known as farmer's salad in Bulgaria , Greece , Macedonia and Serbia . The Schopska salad is part of Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian cuisine and is also widespread in Southeastern European countries such as Croatia and Bosnia . The Schopska salad is the variant of a mixed salad based on fresh vegetables , as it is common in other Balkan states , such as As a farmer's salad ( Choriatiki ) in Greece, as Greek salad ( Çoban salatası ) in Turkey and in other Black Sea states such as Georgia and Russia .
The name comes from the Schopluk ( Šopluk ) region, which is located today in the border area between Serbia , Bulgaria and Macedonia , from which the adjective schopska ( šopska ) for salad was derived. The term refers to the residents of the region, regardless of their ethnicity. The Schopska salad is made from tomatoes, cucumber, raw or roasted peppers, onions, parsley, salt, lemon juice or vinegar, oil and brine cheese (Bjalo Salamureno Sirene). Bulgarians and Serbs usually eat the salad as a mezze , starter or snack.
Web links
- Adelheid Wölfl: Šopska salad: From foreigners to national salad . Der Standard , October 10, 2015 ("The Šopska salad is advertised as an old Balkan specialty, but it is an invention of the 1970s that also comes from the West.").
- Hannah Dingeldein, Eva Gredel: Discourses of the alimentary: Eating and drinking from a cultural, literary and linguistic perspective [1] , (“... whether the Shopska salad actually comes from Shopsko, the area around Sofia, or is it the so-called Serbian salad, ... “).