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
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Bean chorba
Туѓино Јабано
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Lentil chorba
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Vegetable chorba
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Nettle chorba
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Spinach chorba
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Potato chorba
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Pea chorba
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Fish chorba
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Mushroom chorba
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- Весна Огњанова Ajax, ON 1 recipes
- Гордана Мишковска-Колева Brampton, ON 4 recipes
- Горица Јовчевска Markham, ON 3 recipes
- Дијана Веселиновска Etobicoke, ON 7 recipes
- Донка Цапова Mississauga, ON 3 recipes
- Каролина Петковска Brampton, ON 1 recipes
- Кире Банишки Toronto, ON 1 recipes
- Марија Банишка Toronto, ON 1 recipes
- Марија Дика Toronto, ON 1 recipes
- Мими Toronto, ON 2 recipes
The original page tugjinojabano.com/cuisine.php was created by Aco Lukaroski and donated to the Canadian Macedonian Heritage Society.