"Shopska" salad with Bulgarian cheese

Cookinero 11 Nov 2022

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This fresh, juicy summer salad is a dish of Bulgarian cuisine, but is popular not only in this country, but also in Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and the Czech Republic, as well as in my kitchen)) Its name comes from the name of the western ethnic group of Bulgarians - " shops". White cheese, green cucumbers and red tomatoes symbolize the colors of the Bulgarian flag. I posted it on my Instagram account quite a long time ago, but I got here with it just now)) In the original, you need Bulgarian cheese, but it turned out to be much easier to find Serbian in the nearest stores.

How to cook "Shopska" salad with Bulgarian cheese

Step 1

Wash the vegetables with soap, rinse with cold (preferably filtered) water, dry on a paper towel. Wash the greens also with cool water, rinse with filtered water and dry.

Step 2

Peel the cucumbers, remove the tips from them and cut the flesh into large cubes (about 1.5 × 1.5 cm). Put in a salad bowl.

Step 3

Cut the tomatoes in half, remove the stalks, and then cut into cubes (if you use cherry tomatoes, just cut them in half is enough). Put the tomatoes on the cucumbers.

Step 4

Cut the pepper in half, remove the stalk, seeds and internal partitions, then cut it into large cubes. Add to vegetables in a salad bowl.

Step 5

Finely chop the greens, after cutting off the long stems of the parsley and dill and the roots of the onion (if any), put in a salad bowl.

Step 6

Drizzle the salad with oil, drizzle with lemon juice and toss gently. You don’t need to salt the salad, but if you wish, you can add a little, but do not forget to mix the salad again after that.

Step 7

Wash the package with cheese with warm water and soap (so that germs do not get into the salad, since cheese is not cooked in this recipe). Open, discard serum (if any), and save (if needed). Grate the cheese on a coarse grater directly into the salad bowl and you can serve the salad to the table. Enjoy your meal!