Bosnia and Herzegovina Food and Drink Guide: Wetin to Chop and Drink

Why Bosnian food dey special

Bosnian food dey sit for crossroad of Ottoman, Mediterranean and Central European cooking. Meals full well well, grilled meat dey rule everything, and almost everything dem dey wash down with coffee. Portion big and price cheap: correct meal for Sarajevo or Mostar often cost 10 to 20 KM (around 5 to 10 EUR).

Signature dishes make you try

• Ćevapi - small grilled minced-beef sausage wey dem serve for soft somun flatbread with raw onion and kajmak. Sarajevo version come for tens; order 5 or 10.
• Burek - flaky pastry wey full with minced meat, roll for coil. Di one wey get cheese na sirnica, spinach one na zeljanica, potato one na krompiruša. Strictly, na only di meat one na burek.
• Begova čorba - one creamy okra and chicken soup, di bey soup.
• Japrak and sarma - stuffed grape or cabbage leaves with rice and meat.
• Bosanski lonac - one slow-cooked pot of layer meat and vegetables.
• Klepe - small dumplings with garlicky yoghurt.

Street food and snacks

Grab burek from buregdžinica, or warm somun bread during Ramadan. If you want sweet thing, try baklava, tufahija (walnut-stuffed poach apple for syrup) and hurmašica wey soak for syrup. Sahlep, one warm thick drink, dey show for winter.

Wetin to drink

• Bosanska kahva - Bosnian coffee, wey dem brew for copper džezva and serve with sugar cube and rahat lokum (Turkish delight). Na ritual, e no be takeaway thing.
• Boza - one thick fermented millet drink.
• Rakija - fruit brandy, often plum (šljivovica), wey dem dey offer as welcome drink.
• Sarajevsko and Nektar - di leading local beers.
• Tap water safe to drink across di country.

Dining tips and etiquette

• Coffee na social thing. To accept invite for kahva na sign of respect; no rush am at all.
• Plenty traditional aščinica place dey serve home-style stew wey dem display for trays - just point wetin you want.
• Tipping dem dey appreciate, around 10 percent; round up for casual spots.
• Pork no common for Muslim-majority areas; halal grills dey everywhere, while Herzegovina get more wine and pork.
• Try Herzegovinian wine like Žilavka (white) and Blatina (red) near Mostar and Trebinje.

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