Shopska salad is one of the most popular seasonal salads not only in Montenegro, but also throughout the Balkan Peninsula. Shopska salad is a dish of Eastern European cuisine, which is quite popular in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, the Czech Republic and other countries. The origin of this "summer" dish is considered to be the western part of Bulgaria. In ancient times local population were called "shopy". Thanks to that people the salad got its name.
The shop salad includes fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper (raw, pickled or roasted), onion, olives, salt, ground pepper and parsley, dressed with olive oil. On top of the salad is abundantly sprinkled with feta cheese, sopsky cheese (sirene) or white cheese. In Montenegro, as in many other Balkan countries, until now this salad is often cooked without mixing all the ingredients up, but laying them in a certain order from the bottom up: red tomatoes, green cucumbers and white cheese - which strongly resembles the colors of the Bulgarian flag.Lifehack: Since in Serbia and Macedonia it was once impossible to get white cheese, it was in the territories of these countries that feta cheese was added into the shopska salad, which was produced in each...