{"id":28,"date":"2009-04-14T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Bulgaria\/?p=28"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:33:32","slug":"eating-out-in-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Bulgaria\/food\/eating-out-in-sophia","title":{"rendered":"Eating out in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Bulgarians eat:<\/h3>\n
\"Snezhanka<\/a>

Snezhanka – a thick creamy yoghurt<\/p><\/div>\n

Although Bulgarians love their meats<\/strong>, salads and soups are also important elements of their cuisine.\u00a0 Traditional cuisine combines influences from the Ottoman Empire with peasant cooking styles.<\/p>\n

Fresh vegetables are plentiful and these are eaten raw, roasted or stewed with meat in terracotta pots.\u00a0 Meat dishes mainly comprise pork, veal and chicken which can be grilled, fried or cooked as a stew, and lots of garlic, onions, oil and spices<\/strong> are used in their cooking.<\/p>\n

Meals start with a salad<\/h4>\n

Bulgarians always start their meal with a salad.\u00a0 Shopska salad<\/strong>, made with chopped tomatoes, cucumber, fresh or baked peppers, onion and sirene (a salty sheep or cow’s cheese), is the most popular.\u00a0 A variation of the Shopska salad is Ovcharska<\/strong>.\u00a0 This has all the ingredients of the Shopska plus grated egg, mushrooms and sometimes ham is thrown in.\u00a0 Other popular salads include:<\/p>\n

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