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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

  • Green salad Salad Fasting

    Green salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    15 min 10 ingredients

  • Savoury pâté roll Starter

    Savoury pâté roll

    Гордана Мишковска-Колева

    55 min 5 ingredients

  • Sauerkraut salad Salad Fasting

    Sauerkraut salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    10 min 7 ingredients

  • Mimosa salad Salad

    Mimosa salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    3 hr 11 ingredients

  • Russian salad Salad

    Russian salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    3 hr 11 ingredients

  • Vasa’s cake Sweet

    Vasa’s cake

    Марија Банишка

    1 hr 30 min 10 ingredients

  • Tomato and onion salad Salad Fasting

    Tomato and onion salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    15 min 9 ingredients

  • Lentil salad Salad Fasting

    Lentil salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    50 min 11 ingredients

  • Shepherd’s salad Salad

    Shepherd’s salad

    Туѓино Јабано

    35 min 14 ingredients

  • Aravanija Sweet

    Aravanija

    Гордана Мишковска-Колева

    1 hr 5 min 8 ingredients

  • Vegetable chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Vegetable chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 14 ingredients

  • Nettle chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Nettle chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    55 min 11 ingredients

  • Spinach chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Spinach chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    45 min 11 ingredients

  • Walnut salami Sweet

    Walnut salami

    Гордана Мишковска-Колева

    20 min 7 ingredients

  • Potato chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Potato chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 14 ingredients

  • Pea chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Pea chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 5 min 12 ingredients

  • Fish chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Fish chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 10 min 13 ingredients

  • Susamčinja Sweet Fasting

    Susamčinja

    Горица Јовчевска

    35 min 3 ingredients

  • Lamb chorba Soups & chorba

    Lamb chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 50 min 16 ingredients

  • Mushroom chorba Soups & chorba Fasting

    Mushroom chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    55 min 13 ingredients

  • Kurban chorba Soups & chorba

    Kurban chorba

    Туѓино Јабано

    2 hr 25 min 17 ingredients

  • Apple pie Sweet

    Apple pie

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 20 min 10 ingredients

  • Leek pie Pastry & pies Fasting

    Leek pie

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 45 min 11 ingredients

  • Nettle pie Pastry & pies Fasting

    Nettle pie

    Туѓино Јабано

    1 hr 20 min 10 ingredients

140 recipes
Photograph Recipe Course Contributor Time Ingredients
Green salad Green salad The first salad of the Macedonian spring: lettuce, spring onions and whatever green has come up. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 15 min 10
Savoury pâté roll Savoury pâté roll A French loaf hollowed out and packed again with pâté, egg and carrot. Sliced into rounds like a salami. Starter Гордана Мишковска-Колева 55 min 5
Sauerkraut salad Sauerkraut salad Winter salad of soured cabbage dressed with oil and red paprika, eaten from the barrel until spring. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 10 min 7
Mimosa salad Mimosa salad Layered salad of potato, cheese and egg under a scatter of grated yolk, made at Easter. Salad Туѓино Јабано 3 hr 11
Russian salad Russian salad The mayonnaise salad that appears on every table at New Year, at a slava and at a christening. Salad Туѓино Јабано 3 hr 11
Vasa’s cake Vasa’s cake Walnuts, orange and dark chocolate under a cloak of meringue. A classic slava cake, with instructions on how to portion it for guests. Sweet Марија Банишка 1 hr 30 min 10
Tomato and onion salad Tomato and onion salad The summer salad that stands beside the grill: ripe tomatoes, raw onion and nothing in their way. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 15 min 9
Lentil salad Lentil salad A fasting-season salad of cooked lentils, dressed while still warm and eaten cold with bread. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 50 min 11
Shepherd’s salad Shepherd’s salad A shopska salad turned into a meal, with ham, cheese, egg and mushrooms piled over the vegetables. Salad Туѓино Јабано 35 min 14
Aravanija Aravanija A semolina cake drenched in syrup. There is one rule: the cake cold, the syrup warm. Sweet Гордана Мишковска-Колева 1 hr 5 min 8
Vegetable chorba 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 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 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
Walnut salami Walnut salami A sweet ‘salami’ that is never baked — rolled in parchment and left in the cold to set. Sweet Гордана Мишковска-Колева 20 min 7
Potato chorba 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 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 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
Susamčinja Susamčinja Three ingredients and no baking: sesame, lokum and jelly sweets, rolled up and sliced. The shortest recipe in the archive. Sweet Fasting Горица Јовчевска 35 min 3
Lamb chorba 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 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 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
Apple pie Apple pie Rolls of thin pastry filled with grated apple and cinnamon, baked and buried in icing sugar. Sweet Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 20 min 10
Leek pie Leek pie A coiled lenten pie of stewed leek and rice, made through the fasts and all winter long. Pastry & pies Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 45 min 11
Nettle pie Nettle pie A spring pie of blanched young nettles and rice, made in the weeks before the nettles flower. Pastry & pies Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 20 min 10

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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.

The cooks

The original page tugjinojabano.com/cuisine.php was created by Aco Lukaroski and donated to the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society.