Lakerda

Lakerda
TypeMezze
Region or stateBalkans and Middle East
Main ingredientsPickled bonito
Similar dishesCeviche

Lakerda is a pickled bonito dish eaten as a mezze in the Balkans and Middle East.[1][2][3] Lakerda made from one-year-old bonito migrating through the Bosphorus is especially prized.

  1. ^ Clifford A. Wright (2003). Little Foods of the Mediterranean: 500 Fabulous Recipes for Antipasti, Tapas, Hors D'oeuvre, Meze, and More. Harvard Common Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-55832-227-1. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  2. ^ Donald Quataert (2000). Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1992: An Introduction. SUNY Press. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-1-4384-1662-5. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  3. ^ Diane Kochilas, The Glorious Foods of Greece, 2001, ISBN 0-688-15457-3, p. 209 excerpt