For the most beautiful holiday table, look for inspiration in dishes of Virovitica-Podravina County. True gourmets live there, great hosts, top chefs who will be happy to share their knowledge with you, and there are also delicious recipes from Podravina and Slavonia.
Paws, vanilla buns, krancli, peaches, Hungarian, honey and white pies, soft gingerbread, walnut sticks…, all tasty and fine, according to recipes from old notebooks inherited from mothers and grandmothers… In traditional variants of homemade walnuts or in more modern hazelnut variants, creamier for fingers, licking, chocolate that neither children nor adults can resist, in the form of pralines that melt in the mouth, of all sizes and shapes… U Podravina and Slavonia Christmas smells like cakes.
Each dessert is prepared with a lot of love and patience, this is where the real confectionary masters are born, who bake hundreds of kilos of cake during Advent as if it were a joke. If you want to prepare some of the sweet specialties of Podravina and Slavonia in your home, it is at your disposal online edition of the cookbook "Sweet journey through Virovitica-Podravine County".
It is a book that presents 40 great recipes directed by the well-known Croatian cooking blogger, "Domaćica" Sanja Mijac and Sandra Jadek, the undisputed "queen of cakes" from Slatina, the Croatian confectionary representative.
Savory recipes from Podravina and Slavonia
Podravina and Slavonia are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for more specific dishes. Count Janković's saber, Podravska green millinci, perfect nettle bread, fritters, grenadier, fried soup, white žganice, dizanice... will look great on your holiday table. Recipes are not a problem either. You will find them in the cookbook Gastro trip through Virovitica-Podravina County, which was designed by a famous woman from Viroviti Housewife Sanja.
Celebrate Christmas with top quality dishes and desserts from this region, where the recipes of Podravina and Slavonia will help you, and the Virovitica-Podravina County is eagerly waiting to host you.
Photo: Sanja Mijac and Matija Turkalj
