2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Shopska salad is perhaps the most emblematic dish of the Bulgarian national cuisine, presenting us to the world.
The well-known salad has an established recipe. Every Bulgarian knows that traditional vegetables for our table such as tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, roasted or raw peppers, cut into cubes, are the main ingredients of the Shopska salad. It is generously sprinkled with grated white brined cheese and parsley. The dressing is made of salt, vinegar and oil.
Shopska salad is unique in both taste and appearance. The taste provokes the receptors with its contrasting aromas of vegetables, onions and cheese and this makes it so noticeable among the appetizer suggestions. The interesting type of salad is the achieved national tricolor from the colors of the ingredients.
The popularity of this appetizer is so great that when surveying Europeans about popular European dishes, most participants indicated the Bulgarian Shopska salad.
The question of the origin of the Shopska salad. The first attempts to prepare this much-liked Bulgarian recipe are not in ancient, shrouded in the mists of history centuries, but almost in modern times.
The authors of the recipe are professional chefs from the restaurants of Balkantourist, who have prepared the food for the guests from abroad. Towards the middle of the last century a salad was created to present the Bulgarian culinary art. After several improvements, in the seventies the salad is already widely known and liked by every foreigner who has visited our country.
The options for the famous salad revolve around one of the ingredients - pepper, which can be roasted or raw, and cheese, which is added grated or crushed. Somewhere garlic or hot pepper is added for a more spicy taste.
The fragile age of this wonderful and so Bulgarian salad is due to the historical conditions in Bulgaria. The very history of nutrition in our lands suggests that this recipe could not have appeared earlier, because until the early twentieth century, the attitude of the producers of ingredients to red tomatoes was not good.
Green tomatoes were mainly used for food, and red tomatoes were intended for pet food, as red tomatoes were considered unsuitable, even poisonous. The explanation is that at that time it was cooked mainly in metal dishes, and the acid from the tomatoes when interacting with the dishes caused digestive problems, even mild poisoning.
The name of the salad is also an interesting question. It is not known who and why called the salad Shopska. It cannot be an innovative creation of completely conservative people like the shoppers. One of the assumptions is that white clothes, especially the white hat, typical of the folk costume of the shoppers, evoked associations with the white brined cheese on the salad and hence the name.
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