Bulgarian food is very tasty indeed, maybe because it has so many influences from the Arabic, Turkish, Greek and Western European cuisines.
Soups are very popular in Bulgaria; there’s no lunch without soup. In summer, the most popular is a cold soup called ‘tarator’, prepared from yoghurt, water, cucumber, garlic, dill, nuts and a pinch of salt. Tourists also find it very refreshing.
For the rest of the year, there are:
1) ‘zeleva chorba’ (a kind of cabbage soup with fat meat, rice and pepper and a rather sour taste which makes it unpopular with foreigners); ‘agneshka kurban chorba’ (of Turkish origin, boiled mutton soup);
2) ‘shkembe’ (the most popular soup in the country, consisting of tripe, milk, water and spices; it is very a very good medicine for hangovers and must be consumed with chilly red pepper, garlic and vinegar).
Main courses bear the same weird names and are even tastier than the soups.
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