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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

16 recipes
Photograph Recipe Course Contributor Time Ingredients
Shopska salad Shopska salad A chopped summer salad of tomato, cucumber and pepper under a thick snow of grated white cheese. Salad Туѓино Јабано 20 min 9
Macedonian salad (roasted pepper) Macedonian salad (roasted pepper) A late-summer salad of roasted peppers and tomato, dressed with oil and vinegar and eaten with bread. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 15 min 9
Roasted pepper salad Roasted pepper salad An autumn salad of roasted peppers with garlic and parsley that keeps in the fridge and improves for days. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 10 min 7
Cold bean salad Cold bean salad Boiled beans with two kinds of onion, garlic, oil and vinegar, chilled well and finished with mint. Fasting food, and a summer dish. Salad Fasting Донка Цапова 1 hr 50 min 9
Cabbage salad Cabbage salad Finely shredded white cabbage with vinegar and oil, the winter salad set beside tavče gravče. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 45 min 9
Urnebes salad Urnebes salad A fierce cheese and chilli paste from southern Serbia, now standard beside grilled meat across Macedonia. Salad Туѓино Јабано 45 min 8
Cucumber and yoghurt salad Cucumber and yoghurt salad Cold cucumber, garlic and yoghurt salad eaten all summer beside grilled meat and beans. Salad Туѓино Јабано 40 min 9
Beetroot salad Beetroot salad Sharp, sweet beetroot salad with garlic and walnuts, eaten through the winter and during fasts. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 25 min 10
Potato salad Potato salad Plain potato and onion salad, the standard fasting-day salad, most often served with fish. Salad Fasting Туѓино Јабано 1 hr 5 min 10
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
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
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

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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.