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

Main course

Roast veal

Гордана Мишковска-Колева

2 hr 55 min 13 ingredients
Starter

Savoury pâté roll

Гордана Мишковска-Колева

55 min 5 ingredients
Sweet

Aravanija

Гордана Мишковска-Колева

1 hr 5 min 8 ingredients
Sweet

Walnut salami

Гордана Мишковска-Колева

20 min 7 ingredients

4 recipes
Recipe	Course	Contributor	Time	Ingredients
Roast veal A whole piece of veal with potatoes, celery and rosemary, roasted slowly for two and a half hours with butter and red wine.	Main course	Гордана Мишковска-Колева	2 hr 55 min	13
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
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
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

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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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