2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Although it is known as a Bulgarian specialty, Macedonians mixed the largest Shopska salad, worthy of a Guinness record. The culinary record is the work of the chefs at the Garden Hotel in Ohrid.
Volunteers from the local restaurant school, as well as chefs from Russia and Ukraine, helped their Macedonian counterparts with the 202.86kg salad.
The record was confirmed by Guinness representatives, who canceled the previous record of 86-kilogram Shopska salad prepared in Bulgaria. The certificate was officially handed over to the Macedonian hotel.
80 kilograms of tomatoes, 80 kilograms of cucumbers, 40 kilograms of cheese and 20 kilograms of onions were used to prepare the salad.
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.
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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