Tomato role
Primary — the tomato is the leading ingredient
Form the tomato takes
raw
Season
June to September.
What it is
Tomato, cucumber, raw or roasted pepper and onion, covered with a heavy fall of grated white brine cheese. Dressed simply, and eaten cold.
Known locally as Шопска салата.
Traditional tomato
Not identifiable to a named cultivar. Large, ripe field tomatoes.
Method
Not yet cooked and tested by the desk, so there is no method here. We would rather print nothing than a recipe we have not made.
Origins
A twentieth-century Bulgarian dish, widely eaten and closely associated with the country's summer table.
Field notes
No field notes filed from Bulgaria yet.
The Ledger
No cook or grower has yet put a record against this dish. When one does, the varieties actually used will appear here — with who recorded them and how firmly.
File a recordAudio dispatches
No dispatch has been recorded around this dish yet.
Sources
No external source cited yet. The culinary history above is held as unverified until one is.
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