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Croatia: Food
Basic self-catering and picnic ingredients like cheese ( sir ), vegetables ( povrce ) and fruit ( voce ) can be bought at a supermarket ( samoposluga ) or open-air market ( trznica ). Bread ( kruh ) is bought from either a supermarket or a pekara (bakery). For breakfasts and fast food, look out for street stalls or snack-food outlets selling burek , a flaky pastry filled with cheese; or grilled meats such as cevapcici (rissoles of minced beef, pork or lamb), and pljeskavica (a hamburger-like mixture of the same meats).For a more relaxed, sit-down meal, a restaurant menu ( jelovnik ) will usually include Croatian speciality starters like prsut (home-cured ham) and paski sir (piquant hard cheese), as well as a range of soups ( juha ). Typical main courses include punjene paprike (peppers stuffed with rice and meat), gulas (goulasch), or some kind of odrezak (fillet of meat, often pan-fried), usually either svinjski (pork) or teleski (veal). Mjesano meso is a mixed grill. Lamb, often roasted, is jagnjetina . Traditional dishes from the area around Zagreb include purica z mlincima (turkey with pasta noodles), and strukli (ravioli-like blobs of pasta dough with a cheese filling). One typically Dalmatian dish is pasticada (beef and bacon cooked in vinegar and wine). On the coast, you'll be regaled with every kind of seafood. Riba (fish) can come either na zaru (grilled) or u pecnici (baked). Brodet is a hot peppery fish stew. Otherwise, the main menu items to look out for on the coast are lignje (squid), skampi (unpeeled prawns eaten with the hands), rakovica (crab), ostrige (oysters), kalamari (squid), skoljke (mussels) and jastog (lobster); crni rizoto is risotto with squid. No Croatian town is without at least one pizzeria, often the cheapest place to eat and the easiest, if not the most imaginative, source of a vegetarian meal.
Typical desserts include palacinke (pancakes), vocna salata (fruit salad) and sladoled (ice cream).
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