What is Ajvar?

Ajvar is a food made of peppers, eggplant, garlic and other mostly vegetable ingredients. Many people believe that this food was created in parts of Eastern Europe, specifically in Serbia and other parts of the Balkans previously known as Yugoslavia. This meal is commonly served as spreading with bread and other elements.

Some chefs in the region where Ajvar is considered a traditional food, refers to it as a "vegetable caviar". As for the etymology of the name, it comes from the Turkish word havyar or caviar, the more commonly known food made of fish roe. Caviar is a luxurious meal in many countries around the world, but Serbian salad known as Ajvar is only a caviar in the name. Although it resembles a presentation of some types of caviar, this meal is a common harvest bowl made with the production of the garden.

In the harvest season, Ajvar has long been popular with people living in communities around the Danube River. On a centuvele around, the chefs would take the harvested peppers and make them into the spreading trapy together with some of the above ingredients. While the popular use of this food in the regions around Belgrade and other nearby cities has been well documented, the real origin of this food is in some debate.

In terms of preparation, this food requires a lot of work. The chefs must first cook, then peeling peppers and eggplant, get rid of burned or blackened objects and choose seeds while cutting off peaks or other inedible parts of vegetables. Then they usually crush the remaining boiled pepper to the paste and add elements like lemon or garlic.

together with garlic, which provides a strong taste for this food, and lemon juice with the help of acidity, some chefs also use more exotic products in the production of Ajvar. Some common accessories are sugar and cinnamon, two -elements that give a bowl sweeter taste.

This span can also be administered along with DALiped popular foods, where it complements the tastes of non -regret products. Some of them include prosciutto or other types of cured ham, as well as various cheeses. Ajvar can also be administered with legumes such as hummus or greenery such as lettuce or spinach.

In today's global culinary world, Ajvar has its place, although it may not be mentioned by the name. Some modern supermarkets contain prepared meals that are quite similar to this pepper and eggplant mixture, but they can go according to simpler names like "pepper sauce" or "pepper and eggplant salsa". People understand only when looking at the origin of the bowl that understand its specific relationship to Eastern Europe. Other companies have their own versions of vegetable salads and similar meals.