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Bulgarian cuisine (Bulgarian: българска кухня) is a representative of the cuisine of Southeastern Europe. Essentially Slavic, it shows Turkish, Greek and Middle Eastern influences, and to a lesser extent Italian, Mediterranean and Hungarian ones. Owing to the relatively warm climate and diverse geography affording excellent growth conditions for a variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits, Bulgarian cuisine is particularly diverse.

Famous for its rich salads required at every meal, Bulgarian cuisine is also noted for the diversity and quality of dairy products and the variety of wines and local alcoholic drinks such as rakia, mastika and menta. Bulgarian cuisine features also a variety of hot and cold soups, an example of a cold soup being tarator. There are many different Bulgarian pastries as well such as banitsa.

Certain entries, salads, soups and dishes go well with alcoholic beverages and the alcohol of choice for some is Bulgarian wine.

Tarator

Banitsa

• Yogurt ("Kiselo Mlyako", lit. sour milk)
• Tarator (cold soup)
• Shopska salad
• Moussaka
• Gyuvetch
• Sarmi
• Pita Bread
• Banitsa
• kebabche
• Mish-Mash
• Elenski but
• Tripe Soup ("Shkembe Chorba")
• Popara
• Bean Soup ("Bob")
• Lyutika
• Lyutenitsa
• Flat sausages (Soujouk, Lukanka)
• Sirene (white brined cheese)
• Kashkaval (yellow cheese)
• Tikvenik (pumpkin pastry)
• Halva
• Honey
• Spices and herbs
  • Merudia
  • Summer savory ("Chubritsa")
  • Djodjen
  • Samardala
• Turshiya
• Kompot
• Garash cake
  • Kadaif Dessert
  • Tolumbichki - Fried Dough

• Bulgarian wine
  • Mavrud
  • Pamid
  • Gamza
  • Melnik wine
  • Dimyat
  • Misket
  • Muskat
  • Pelin
• Rakia
  • Grape Rakia
  • Plum Rakia
  • Apricot Rakia
• Mastica
• Menta
• Beer
  • Almus
  • Ariana
  • Astika
  • Boliarka
  • Burgasko
  • Kamenitza
  • Ledenika
  • MM
  • Pirinsko
  • Plevensko
  • Shumensko
  • Slavena
  • Stolichno
  • Zagorka
• Boza
• Ayran
• Mineral water
  • Bankya
  • Devin
  • Gorna Banya
  • Hissar

• Bulgarian Cuisine
• Bulgarian Food and Drinks - Recipes and information about traditional Bulgarian meals and drinks
• Quest Bulgaria Recipe Book - 16 Traditional Bulgarian recipes with high quality photographs to download
• Bulgaria Info-Online Free Recipe Book A small PDF file with some traditional Bulgarian recipes.
• Bulgarian Beers
• Bulgarian Wines
• Eating the Bulgarian way