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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

8 recipes
Photograph Recipe Course Contributor Time Ingredients
It’s Friday — tavče gravče day! It’s Friday — tavče gravče day! The national dish: Tetovo beans, a great deal of paprika, and an earthenware pan. It is fasting food by nature, which is why it is on every... Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 2 hr 50 min 10
Turli tava (fasting) Turli tava (fasting) Mixed summer vegetables baked slowly in an earthenware dish; the name is the Turkish *turli*, meaning mixed. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 40 min 12
Kompir mandža Kompir mandža Potatoes braised in onion and paprika — the plainest of the fasting dishes and the one most often cooked through Lent. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 10
Anyone fasting? Come and have fish gjuveč! Anyone fasting? Come and have fish gjuveč! River fish under an enormous quantity of onion, cooked until the onion disappears into the sauce entirely. Fasting food, written for the fas... Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 30 min 13
Stuffed carp Stuffed carp A whole lake carp stuffed with onion and carrot and baked in white wine, eaten during the fast. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 45 min 11
Fried cironki Fried cironki Small lake fish rolled in flour and fried whole — fasting food from the shores of Ohrid and Dojran. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 30 min 9
Kachamak Kachamak Cornmeal porridge stirred until it leaves the sides of the pot — mountain food, and fasting food when made with oil. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 45 min 6
Cabbage with rice Cabbage with rice Braised cabbage and rice in one pan — cheap, fasting food, and one of those dishes everybody remembers from home. Main course Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 5 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.