Gruel
Cicvara is prepared throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the surrounding countries. Simple appearance and intense taste, pale yellow color .
Ingredients
- 60 kg of potatoes
- 10 kg of butter
- 10 kg of cream
- 10 dkg of young or semi-fat cheese
- spoon of wheat flour
Topping: 2 dag butter and grated cheese
Meal preparation
Potatoes are boiled, peeled and mashed as for puree. Put butter in the pan, add a teaspoon of flour, stir, add cheese and cream, melt everything, and then let it boil. Potatoes are added to this and mixed.
Serving
Cicvara is placed on plates, evenly distributed and puddles are made with a spoon. Season the boiling tin with olive oil. It’s a very filling meal and it doesn’t go well with bread. Sour milk is most often served with it,
Occasions when food is made and eaten.
Cicvara is a traditional dish that our ancestors prepared almost every day or at least very often. It was impossible to imagine a house without a good kitchen. Unfortunately, the last decade has been very neglected, for no reason, because old-fashioned cicvara is a tasty and high-calorie dish, even healthy if you put good dairy products and wholemeal flour in it. Cicvara is considered a breakfast dish, but it can be prepared and eaten at any time of the day.
Related stories
Folk tale about the cicvara;
The two of them went to the mill, and “as the heat was intense, and they had weakened, they went with the horses into the shade in a valley. Here they take out the brašenice, to pawn a little, and then to continue their journey again. While slathering hard rye bread with sharp cheese, one thought: ‘Eh! that I want to fill this valley with cicvar.’ ‘Well, it’s good to spice it up,’ said another. “Then for spoons, right from Wednesday,” said the first. What a Wednesday! But from the end, then in order!’ ‘Yes, but from Wednesday! On Wednesday, all the fat is poured!’ ‘What happens on Wednesday? Would we stab a tit with a spoon? And how would you come on Wednesday, eh? Is it to tread on God’s curse?’ (…) There word by word, then it came to fists; they thrash one after the other, as if they were hit on the lips; no one looks where he hits. Their horses were frightened by this fight, and their horses were torn apart, and they rushed back home. So the two returned home waving their hands, each holding what he had caught. When they were asked in the village who killed them, they answered: ‘Cicvara’.”
