Traditional Dishes
Eastern Rhodopes area:
What to have for Breakfast:
- Gyozlemi (thin chese pastry baked on ceramic plate)– in the Wild Farm
- Katmi (similar to pancakes, with yeast, baked on ceramic plate) – in all accommodation places
- Mekitsa (traditional Bulgarian breakfast made of deep fried dough) – in all local accommodation places
Appetizers:
- Bathed pastry (chese pastry with sheets dipped in boiling water) - in most accommodation and food places
- Cheese pastry - in most accommodation places
- Cottage cheese with butter - in all accommodation places
- Kachamak with white cheese (thick gruel made of corn flower with chese) - in most accommodation places
- Lenten loaf - in most accommodation places
- Maslenitsa (chese pastry poured with butter) - in the Wild Farm
- Patatnik (pastry with potatos, in different places may have onion, chese, baked or fried) - in most accommodation places
- Pastry with rice - in the Wild Farm
- Polenta with cheese (made of corn pastry with chese) - in most accommodation places
- Polenta with meat (made of corn pastry with meat) - in most accommodation places
- Rabbit pastry (pastry with rabbit meat with home made pastry sheets) - in the Wild Farm
- Rodopean Zelnik (pastry with sauerkraut) - in the Wild Farm
- Sweet pastry (Blachko) (poared with sweet syrup) - in the Wild Farm
Main Dishes:
- Beef Kebab - in the Wild farm, Madzharovo area
- Cock in a stew - in the Wild farm, Madzharovo area and Trifon Zarezan family hotel on the board of Kardzhali lake
- Hen in katmi (hen tortile in katmi /see above/ ) - in the Wild farm, Madzharovo area
- Hen with groats - in the Wild farm, Madzharovo area
- Pumpkin stuffed with rabbit - in the Wild Farm, Madzharovo area
- Trout baked оn a tile - restaurant Madrets, Municipality of Kardzhali
Deserts:
- Ashure (wheat with shugar/honey, walnuts/raisins)- in most accommodation and feeding places
- Cookie Cake - in a family hotel Trifon Zarezan
- Honey cake - in the Wild Farm, Madzharovo area
- Homemade tahini halva - a restaurant Madrets, Municipality of Kardzhali
- Krukmach (milk boiled until it thickens)– in the Wild Farm, Madzharovo area
- Saralii (sweet pastry with walnuts, cinnamon, oil, butter and margarin for specific taste, poured with sweet syrup) - in most accommodation and food places
- Turkish baklava (sweet pastry with walnuts poured with sweet syrup) - all accommodation and feeding places