Serbian national cuisine

Desserts

Serbian cuisine is also well known for sweets that are indispensable part of meal.

Sweets are served at the end of the meal.

Traditional Serbian sweets are Apple and Cherry pie, cookies made of semolina, salčići, vanilin kiflice, koh and various cakes, rich in ingredients such as eggs, butter, chocolate and walnuts, that are perfect addition for Serbian cuisine.

Tumulbe and Baklava are heritage of Turkish cuisine.

Baklava is similar to pie. It is filled with walnuts and soaked in mixture of sugar and honey. Baklava has special place in Serbian cuisine, it is part of Christmas feast and then it is called “česnica”.

Tulumbe are soaked just in sugar and water mixture, they can be served with lemon.

Heritage of Austrian-Hungarian cuisine is štrudla that become Vojvodina brand. In addition to Štrudla there is Vanilica.

Štrudla - sweet that is made of dough, look like rolls. It is filled with poppy, walnuts, cherries or carob. The most famous is Štrudla with poppy and raisins. There is even fastival in a name of štrudla - “Štrudlijada “

Pancake - sweet that is fried in oil. Pancakes are round, they can be slim or thick and they are made of mixture of flour, milk/water and eggs.

Pancake are filled with sweet stuffing, usually jam, sweet creams, honey etc.are used for stuffing. Pancakes are served in restaurants and made at households also.

Krofna (Donut) - sort of sweet fried in oil. It is made of dough with yeast and stuffed with cream or jam sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Knedle sa šljivama(Dumpling with plums) are also heritage of  Austrian-Hungarian cuisine, made of dough stuffed with plum, in a shape of ball sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

Griz i Sutlijaš(Semolina and rice pudding) - sweets, porridges, cooked in sweetened milk. Although Serbia is well know as land of fruits, fruit is rarely served as dessert. It is usually used as ingredient for cookies, cakes and pies.