Istrian cuisine

Istrian cuisine shares much with Dalmatian cuisine. Soft, pink Istrian prosciutto, olives, and shellfish, particularly mussels from the Lim Channel, are greatly appreciated. Another favourite is posutice , a type of pasta served with various side dishes, salted pilchards, for example, or chicken, or venison stew.Istrian tr ffles are well–known and are prepared in a number of ways; other specialties include fried eggs with asparagus or black bryony, maneštra, a thick soup of corn, fennel, chickpeas and barley porridge, and winter maneštra with beans and cabbage. Scampi Buzara is a delightfully messy dish based on local scampi stewed in a tomato and white wine sauce.

Istrian-Primorje Domestic Dishes

· Krk sheep cheese in oil, cheese from Pag
· Istrian - Karst prosciutto with olives
· lamb stew with various vegetables
· manestra (broth) with noodles and beans
· manestra (broth) with berries and beans
· salted sardines with onions and olive oil
· brodetto (stew) of scarpina and ugor fish with cornmeal
· domestic lasagna with sardines
· mrkacici fish a la salad
· risotto with sea fruits
· busara (steam·boiled) mussels and scampi
· mackrel, sardines grilled with olive oil
· lasagna with tartuffe mushrooms
· zgvancet with fuzi, surlice
· cow entrails with cornmeal
· roasted young goat
· ravioli with cheese and broiled veal
· Cres young lamb on spit
· salads: Vrbnik tomato, radic, riga
· sweets: nuts, dry figs and dry grapes, cheese rolls, poppy·seed rolls, crostuli istrian style