When you drink rakia there is no other accompaniment to be had other than the world famous Bulgarian Shopska Salad. It is "The King and Queen" of food and drink.There are many regional variations with different measures of the ingredients but generally the base of shopska salad ingredients remain the same.
This particular recipe is typical and is used both in town and village in the Yambol district of Bulgaria.
Description
Shopska salads are unique to Bulgaria with wonderful complementary ingredients, that make the perfect salad for every occasion.
It derived from Sofia in Western Bulgaria many years ago, when a community calling themselves Shopi made up the recipe. It basis of this original recipe remains intact today/
Ingredients:
400 g red tomatoes
1-2 fresh cucumbers (about 200 g)
1 small hot pepper
150 g white cheese (sirene)
2 medium onions
4 medium green peppers
A few olives
A bunch of parsley
Sunflower oil
Red wine vinegar
Salt
Preparation:
Peel and chop the onions finely. Clean and remove the stem and the seeds of the green peppers (can be used with or without the skins), then slice into small rectangles.
Chop up the hot pepper and cucumber into more rectangles and mix everything together in a big serving bowl. Add salt and mix again.
Form a mountain of salad in the bowl or divide onto individual plates or small bowls. Grate or finely chop the sirene over the salad to form of an impression of a snow-capped mountain.
Garnish with one single olive on the top with a few parsley leaves.
Finally, add sunflower oil, vinegar and salt to your own taste before mixing and tucking in with your favourite rakia spirit.
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