- Istrian Cuisine -
"The specialities of Istrian cuisine as the soil grown fruits and sea fruits give its basis since centuries.
On areas around Porec the foods are made with olive oil and wine vinegar.“
Istrian tradicional foods:
Manestra: traditional vegetable soup, with pickled meat
Pastas: (Fuzi, Pasutice, Njoki, Pljukanci), homemade pastas with a different type, dressing implement with sauce, vension, chicken, beef or vesnion like zgvacet (stew)
Prsut: Istrian dried ham
Ombolo: boneless pork chop
Kobasice: roasted or grilled sausage
Sea Fruits: sea perch, sea bream, sardine, several mussels (eats an oyster rawly, while the Mediterranean mussels in their own juice, cooked with spices and wine)
Scampi, lobster: it is prepared in sauce buzara or grilled
Truffle: it is added to pasta and omelette, or to meats
Cod: with garlic and oilva it is prepared with oil
Asparagus: Istrian characteristic, it is added to scrambled egg
- Kvarner Cuisine -
"The cuisine of the coastal area and the islands is based on fish, seafood, fruit and vegetables and olive oil.
A few of the famous local delicacies: the Kvarner lagostines (scampi), fresh from the Kvarner Gulf, wild asparagi, chestnuts and cherries from Lovran..“
Kvarner specialities:
The Kvarner lagostines (scampi)
Wild Asparagi, Cherries from Lovran,
Opatija’s Camellia cake: does not contain white sugar, white flour and animal fat - its main ingredients are: orange, chocolate, marzipan, raisins, almonds, figs and carob
Krk sheep’s milk cheese
Wines: Vrbnicka Zlahtina (a quality light-yellow to straw-yellow dry
wine produced from a grape variety native to Krk’s Vrbnik Valley)
Trojscina Chestnuts,
Surlice: is a pasta and eaten with all types of goulash or seafood
Rab cake
Meat: Lamb- whilst lamb with sheep cheese is the most famous gastro product in Kvarner
- Dalmatian Cuisine -
"Dalmatian cousine is the best example for Mediterranean way of cooking. Healthy, involves lot of fish, vegetables and olive oil.
Peka is a method of food preparation, it is a true art, prepaired in a fireplace. You can enjoy it with different ingerdients, seafood, lamb.. Must have: taste the oyster from Mali Stone“
Dalmatian tradicional foods:
Grilled fish: fisherman delivering the fish, mackerels or sardines and cooks with locally produced olive oil and mediterranean herbs
Crini rizot: black risotto, cuttlefish is one of the main ingredients, responsible for the colour of the dish
Octopus under peka: octopus and potatoes and a key method of cooking is peka
Pasticada:it is a traditional Dalmatian dish, the main ingredient is beef, served with gnocchi
Dalmatian prut (prosciutto): it is a perfect appetizer, a dry-cured ham and it is also smoked,cut in thin, served with cheese and olives, came from the little town called Drnis, close to Sibenik
Paski sir: is made of sheep milk, the natural environment on the Pag
island ideal for the distinctive and strong flavour
Rozata: is a traditional Croatian custard pudding from the Dubrovnik region, name comes from the rose liqueur
Pasta: green tagliatelle with shrimp or other seafood, the pasta saouce come from the island of Korcula
"dirty pasta" is famous in Dubrovnik, the sauce made from beef chuns and special spices with sweet cinnamon falvor
Salt-marinated anchovies:typical in Vis island, ideal for winter with olives
Oyster: located on the towns of Ston and Mali Ston on Peljesac peninsula, it is famous for their oysters, 90 varieties are famed in Mali Ston's bay
