Shopska salad

Shopska salad
Shopska salad as served in Bulgaria
Alternative names
  • Bulgarian salad
  • Letna salata
  • Summer salad
  • Village salad
TypeSalad
Place of originBulgaria, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, Druzhba resort, "Chernomorets" restaurant[1][2][3]
Main ingredientsTomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, sirene
Ingredients for Shopska salad
One of the first Balkantourist hotels in the Black Sea resort where the salad was invented. (early 1950s.)

Shopska salad (Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian: Шопска салата; Croatian: Šopska salata; Romanian: Salata bulgărească; Czech: Šopský salát; Albanian: Sallatë Fshati; Hungarian: Sopszka saláta; Greek: Σαλάτα σόπσκα) is a cold salad popular throughout Southeastern Europe.[4][5][6] It is Bulgaria's most famous salad and national dish.[7]

  1. ^ Per Petar Doychev, at that time he and his colleagues were assembled in the restaurant "Chernomorets" by the leadership of the resort and it was said: "Think about something new, we can not offer only several salads to the guests." The chefs brought different products and began to offer variants for a new salad - fresh vegetables: cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, onions, parsley, chopped cheese, etc. But it turned out that the offer was the so-called "Thracian salad". It was needed some other variation. The chefs suggested: "First, we will make the peppers baked! Secondly, the cheese will be grated, not chopped." Anything else? - asked the leadership. Everyone was silent. And I saw a hot pepper on the table, and as I was sitting, I picked it up and put it in the grated cheese, in the middle of the project of the new salad, and said: "Here, let the Shopi in Sofia, rejoice!" And the cooks clapped their hands and said, "Come on, let's it be called a Shopska salad!" So I became its godfather. СУ „Св. Климент Охридски”, „Антропология на Храненето”, Бистра Стоименова, „Шопска ли е шопската салата–или за флуидността на балканската кухня“, София, 2017.
  2. ^ Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, 3rd ed, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-4179-4, p. 451
  3. ^ The original recipe for the Salad was invented and established in 1954-55 in the restaurant "Chernomorets" in the resort "St. St. Constantine and Helena" ("Druzhba" 1957 - 1992). Шопската салата била "изобретена" от "Балкантурист" през 1955 г., твърди експерт. В-к Дневник онлайн, 30 дек. 2018 г. Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Gavrilova, Rayna (2005-01-01). "Golden fruits from the orchards". Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue. Council of Europe. pp. 100–102. ISBN 978-92-871-5744-7.
  5. ^ Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, Ken Albala, ABC-CLIO, 2011 Archived 2023-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 0313376263, p. 67.
  6. ^ Mangia Bene! New American Family Cookbooks, Kate DeVivo, Capital Books, 2002, ISBN 1892123851, p. 170. Archived 2023-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawlusz, Jeremy Morris as ed., Informal Nationalism After Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018; ISBN 1838608745, p .156.