2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The final results of the voting for the most preferred European dish showed that the Bulgarian Shopska salad has become the most liked European dish.
The initiative of the European Parliament - The Taste of Europe, pitted against each other the most typical national dishes of European cuisine. The vote took place on the social network Facebook page of the European Parliament.
The Bulgarian Shopska salad has collected the most likes - 19,200, which put our salad in the honorable first place.
After the Shopska salad, the Lithuanian rose soup came next, and the Romanian cabbage leaves came in third.
All the inhabitants of the Old Continent could vote on the European Parliament's website, and the idea of Taste of Europe was to show the variety of delicious recipes on the continent.
The Shopska salad led throughout the campaign, and the Lithuanian cold soup followed closely.
The recipe for our national salad was also published on the Facebook page, so that every European can prepare it at home.
Although Shopska salad is quite popular in our country as a national dish, the truth is that it is not taken from the traditional Bulgarian cuisine, but was created by the master chefs of Balkantourist in the mid-50s. The Shopska salad acquired its final look in the 60's.
The selected products - tomatoes, cheese, cucumbers, onions and peppers, were purposefully chosen to recreate the colors of our national flag and to inspire patriotism in Bulgarians.
In Italy, similar salads are also prepared, which include mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and avocados and are arranged as their national flag.
Due to the popularity of the Shopska salad, some of Bulgaria's neighboring countries (such as Serbia and Macedonia) have repeatedly stated that the dish comes from their national cuisines.
Shopska salad is very popular in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as the Czechs prefer to eat it without onions and peppers, and in Slovakia they add sugar to the salad.
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