Slavonia cuisine

The cuisine of Slavonia owes a lot to the Hungarians that once ruled the region. Their specialities include simple dishes with an abundance of ingredients–goulash, meat stew and fish paprikash (freshwater fish from the rivers Danube, Drava, Sava), and cold cuts–smoked ham, cured bacon, sausages and kulen (a paprika–flavoured sausage), served with cottage or dried cheese, onions and pickled vegetables. Anyway, a typical meal that we had in Osijek started with a large platter of appetisers – slices of kulen, dry cured bacon, ham and 2-3 types of cheese, along with a cottage-cheese-and-chopped onion "salad", green olives and thick slices of granary, black and white breads. No butter or oil involved at any point.

Slavonian Culinary Specialties

· Sour broth
· Slavonskian spicy sausage (“kulen”)
· Fish stew
· Guzvara pie
· Slavonian “Pastirac” stew
· Slavonian cutlet
· medallions
· Pheasant in hunter’s sauce
· Hunter’s breadballs
· Hunter’s salad
· Slavonian rollcake