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  Serbian cuisine is specific for this part of Europe and during ages adopted some influences from other surrounding countries. In the north it is easy to recognize some Hungarian meals and in the south a lot of Turkish. Serbian food is strong, based on meat mostly and the produces of milk – cheese, kaymak and other varieties of sour cream. Fish too. I will try, in short, to represent some of the most common meals that we eat here.

  Cheese may vary in taste and shape from north to south of Serbia. It can be found various types, from soft creamy sremski cheese to hard ones like sjenica cheese. They are salt, fat and piquant mostly.

Some sources say that kaymak is made only in Mongolia and Serbia, but I know it can be found in Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey too. According to Wikipedia, kaymak could be described as "a creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream" and this is the best explanation for someone who has never tasted it. Here it is enogh just to say kaymak and everyone will know what are you talking about. The best way to consume it is with dried meat or with chevapchichi. Almost every lunch we start with some kind of soup – chicken, beef, fish, lamb, with vegetables. There is one I prefer – veal cream soup.
Serbian cuisine could not be imagined without sarma and prebranac. Sarma is made from chopped beef and pork meat, rolled into the pickled cabbage leaf, then cooked. The size of one sarma is usually from 5 to 15cm, depending on what you prefer. It is fat and strong food, usual for a winter.
Prebranac is cooked white beans, the most common recipe says it is white beans, a lot of onion, salt, pepper, dry grinded paprika and oil. It is usual to put some sausages too. It can be served warm or cold.
Usual way to prepare beans is to cook it, add some bacon or dried ribs, onion, garlic, carrots and tomato sauce. Gibanica is a Serbian phyllo pastry dish, made with Serbian white cheese, less common with other cheeses. There were times when I couldn`t imagine my breakfast without one of these. Best served with yoghurt

NAMES OF SOME POPULAR SERBIA FOOD ITEMS

• Pasulj Prebranac
• Yugoslav Carrot Cake
• Serbian Carp
• Balkan Spagettii
• Balkan stuffed Green Peppers
• Serbian filled peppers
• Musaka
• Fashir
• Szerb Bableves
• Paprikas
• Seljacki Pasulj
• Cevapcici
• Prebanac
• Serbian Garlic Sauce
• Serbian spinach
• Serbian Ajvar
• Serbian rice with meat
• Traditional Serbian Cheese Pie
• Sutliash
• Kifle
• Polenta
• Serbian Pelmeni

THE SERBIAN DRINKS

• Slivovitz: This is palm juice which is distilled ass well as fermented.
• Kajsija: apricots are utilized to make this Serbian brandy that has has gained much popularity.
• Kruska: This is a local brandy made from the juice of pear
• Loza: This grape beer drink is prepared especially in the Montenegro region of Serbia
• Niksitsko pivo: This beer is special in the Niksic region.
• Vranac: A type of Serbian red wine