From the community’s kitchens

Macedonian Cuisine

A central collection of Macedonian recipes — begun by the home cooks of the Macedonian community in Ontario, and widened to the dishes cooked across Macedonia itself.

140 recipes

10 home cooks

48 fasting

6 courses

Soups & chorba

Tarator

Туѓино Јабано

20 min 9 ingredients
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Veal chorba

Туѓино Јабано

2 hr 25 min 17 ingredients
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Tripe chorba

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4 hr 30 min 18 ingredients
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Chicken soup

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2 hr 20 min 13 ingredients
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Bean chorba

Туѓино Јабано

2 hr 20 min 13 ingredients
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Lentil chorba

Туѓино Јабано

1 hr 20 min 16 ingredients
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Tarana soup

Туѓино Јабано

50 min 14 ingredients
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Vegetable chorba

Туѓино Јабано

1 hr 14 ingredients
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Nettle chorba

Туѓино Јабано

55 min 11 ingredients
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Spinach chorba

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45 min 11 ingredients
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Potato chorba

Туѓино Јабано

1 hr 14 ingredients
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Pea chorba

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1 hr 5 min 12 ingredients
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Fish chorba

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1 hr 10 min 13 ingredients
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Lamb chorba

Туѓино Јабано

1 hr 50 min 16 ingredients
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Mushroom chorba

Туѓино Јабано

55 min 13 ingredients
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Kurban chorba

Туѓино Јабано

2 hr 25 min 17 ingredients

16 recipes
Recipe	Course	Contributor	Time	Ingredients
Tarator Cold summer soup of yoghurt, cucumber, garlic and walnuts — as much a salad as a soup, depending how far you let it down.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	20 min	9
Veal chorba A thickened veal broth with root vegetables, sharpened with vinegar at the table — the standard kafeana soup.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	2 hr 25 min	17
Tripe chorba Long-simmered tripe soup, thickened with a paprika roux and eaten late with garlic and vinegar.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	4 hr 30 min	18
Chicken soup Clear chicken broth with root vegetables and tarana, finished off the heat with egg and lemon.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	2 hr 20 min	13
Bean chorba The looser relative of tavče gravče: beans simmered with root vegetables and finished with a paprika roux.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	2 hr 20 min	13
Lentil chorba A thick fasting soup of brown lentils and paprika, eaten right through Lent and on any cold day.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr 20 min	16
Tarana soup A soup thickened with tarana, the dried flour-and-yoghurt grain households grated and sun-dried for the winter.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	50 min	14
Vegetable chorba A thin, sharply seasoned vegetable soup finished with a paprika roux and lemon, eaten through Lent.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr	14
Nettle chorba The first soup of spring, made from young nettle tops picked before the plant has flowered.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	55 min	11
Spinach chorba A green, brothy soup of spinach and rice, cooked all through Lent and eaten with bread.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	45 min	11
Potato chorba A thick fasting soup of potatoes and peppers, thickened by crushing some of the potato into the broth.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr	14
Pea chorba A summer soup of peas, carrot and potato in a light tomato broth, eaten warm with bread.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr 5 min	12
Fish chorba A lake-fisherman's soup: the fish is poached, boned and returned to its own broth thickened with a carrot roux.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr 10 min	13
Lamb chorba The Easter-morning soup, cooked from lamb on the bone and turned sour at the end with yolk and lemon.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	1 hr 50 min	16
Mushroom chorba An autumn soup of wild mushrooms and potato, cooked when the porcini come down from the hills.	Soups & chorba Fasting	Туѓино Јабано	55 min	13
Kurban chorba Lamb soup made from the animal offered at a village saint's day and shared by everyone present.	Soups & chorba	Туѓино Јабано	2 hr 25 min	17

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About the collection A cookbook written by a community

At the core of this collection are 32 recipes gathered from readers of Tugjino Jabano, a newspaper of the Macedonian community in Ontario. Each was written out by the cook herself, measured in cups and spoons, the way a dish is made at home.

The collection has been widened with dishes cooked across Macedonia.

The archive recipes keep their original substance; where the instructions were too brief to follow, clarifications have been added. The untouched 2005 text is preserved in the society’s archive. The photographs on these pages are modern illustrations made for the collection — the contributors’ own photographs stay in the archive beside their words.

The Fasting mark means the recipe as written contains no meat, dairy or eggs. This collection treats fish as permitted throughout the fasting periods; for the stricter days, check the ingredients yourself.

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