Food of Slovenia
Slovenian cuisine reflects its meeting of Alpine, Mediterranean, Pannonian and Balkan influences. Dumplings, stews, sausages, pumpkin seed oil, honey and potica nut roll are staples. Coastal areas favor fish and olive oil, while the mountains offer hearty, rustic dishes.
Potica
Walnut roll.
- Main dishes (6)
- Breakfast (2)
- Street food (3)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (3)
- Breads (3)
- Desserts and sweets (5)
- Drinks (3)
- Fruits and produce (5)
Staples
- potatoes
- pork
- cabbage
- buckwheat
- pumpkin seed oil
- honey
- cheese
- fish
Signature flavors
- garlic
- caraway
- parsley
- marjoram
- walnut
- tarragon
Main dishes
Rolled dough with cottage cheese or walnuts.
Key ingredients: dough, cottage cheese, walnuts
Smoked pork sausage with mustard.
Key ingredients: pork, garlicLittle filled dumplings.
Key ingredients: dough, potato, onion
Layered pastry of poppy seed, walnut, apple and cheese.
Key ingredients: filo, poppy seed, walnuts, apple, cheese
Fresh trout from Soca river.
Key ingredients: trout, butterFried potatoes with onion and bacon.
Key ingredients: potatoes, onionBreakfast
Buckwheat porridge with cracklings.
Key ingredients: buckwheat, lardBread and butter.
Key ingredients: bread, butterStreet food
Cheese or meat pastry.
Key ingredients: phyllo, cheeseFull guide →Sausage in bread.
Key ingredients: sausage, mustard
Crepes.
Key ingredients: flour, eggsSoups
Hearty bean, potato and sauerkraut soup-stew from the coast and Karst.
Key ingredients: beans, sauerkraut, potatoes, baconTurnip stew.
Key ingredients: turnip, porkSalads
Salad with pumpkin seed oil.
Key ingredients: lettuce, pumpkin seed oil
Potato salad.
Key ingredients: potatoes, vinegarFull guide →Sauerkraut salad.
Key ingredients: sauerkrautBreads
Savory bread.
Key ingredients: flourWalnut roll.
Key ingredients: flour, walnuts, honeyRye bread.
Key ingredients: ryeDesserts and sweets
Rolled yeast cake with walnuts.
Key ingredients: dough, walnuts, honeyLayered pastry.
Key ingredients: poppy seed, walnuts
Bled cream cake.
Key ingredients: custard, puff pastry, cream
Apple strudel.
Key ingredients: apples, pastryFull guide →Bled cream slice.
Key ingredients: custard, creamDrinks
Herbal soda.
Key ingredients: herbs, sparkling waterCoffee.
Key ingredients: coffeeSlovenia's well-known sparkling mineral water.
Key ingredients: mineral waterFruits and produce
Styrian pumpkin seeds and oil.
Key ingredients: oil, salad
Orchard fruit.
Key ingredients: baking
Slovenian honey.
Key ingredients: desserts
For jam.
Key ingredients: jam
Autumn roasted chestnuts.
Key ingredients: roastedDish guides from Slovenia
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Struklji 2: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Carniolian sausage - Kranjska klobasa - Klobasarna Ljubljana: ModriDirkac, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- PrekmurskaGibanica1: Sl-Ziga, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Salmo trutta: Eric Engbretson for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ajdovi zganci: myself, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Burek trokut 1: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pfannkuchen mit Zucker: Jan Homann, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Potato salad (1): SajjadF, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Turkish pogachas: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MintpoticabySara: SaraKHintz, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kremna rezina: UkPaolo, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Strudel: che, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cockta Blondie: Shabicht, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pepita de calabaza: Dmitry Makeev, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Runny hunny: Scott Bauer, USDA ARS, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Plums African Rose - whole, halved and slice: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Châtaignier 120807 1: Vassil, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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