🥧 Banitsa
Banitsa is a traditional pastry made with layers of filo dough, filled with a mixture of:
- Eggs
- Sirene (Bulgarian white brined cheese, similar to feta)
- Sometimes yogurt or milk
It’s baked until golden and flaky and is eaten at breakfast, as a snack, or on special occasions. Banitsa is especially symbolic during New Year celebrations, when people hide lucky charms or fortunes inside.
Other iconic Bulgarian 🇧🇬 dishes
- Shopska salad – tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, grated sirene
- Kavarma – slow-cooked meat and vegetables in clay pots
- Tarator – cold yogurt, cucumber, and garlic soup
- Kebapche – grilled minced-meat sausages
If you’d like, I can turn this into a short travel-blog paragraph, or place Bulgarian cuisine in a Balkan food comparison with Serbia, Romania, and North Macedonia.