Pastrmajlija
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Pastrmajlija (), also rendered as Pastrmalija (), is a Macedonian bread pie made from dough, cheese, eggs and meat. Pastrmajlija is usually oval-shaped with sliced meat cubes on top of it. Varieties use smoked or dried pork and poultry meat, while others use eggs, lard, sheep cheese, kashkaval, mushrooms and spicy pickled pepper. Its name is from the word pastrma, meaning salted and dried mutton, sheep or lamb meat (cf. "pastırma"). The Macedonian digital dictionary calls it "pastrmalija".
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Pastrmajlija
- Prepared food.image
- 250px|Pastrmajlija
- Prepared food.country
- North Macedonia
- Prepared food.region
- Štip, Sveti Nikole, Veles, Kratovo, and Negotino
- Prepared food.course
- Main
- Prepared food.type
- Pie
- Prepared food.served
- Hot
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Dough, meat
- Prepared food.calories
- 1000
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- Subclass of
- food
- Country of origin
- North Macedonia
- Material used
- dough
- Image
- PastrmajlijaAngela.JPG
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- Пастрмајлија
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Pastrmajlija (), also rendered as Pastrmalija (), is a Macedonian bread pie made from dough, cheese, eggs and meat. Pastrmajlija is usually oval-shaped with sliced meat cubes on top of it. Varieties use smoked or dried pork and poultry meat, while others use eggs, lard, sheep cheese, kashkaval, mushrooms and spicy pickled pepper. Its name is from the word pastrma, meaning salted and dried mutton, sheep or lamb meat (cf. "pastırma"). The Macedonian digital dictionary calls it "pastrmalija".
It is popular in Štip, Veles, Sveti Nikole, Kratovo, and Negotino. The city of Štip organizes an annual pastrmajlija festival called Štipska Pastrmalijada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pastrmajlija” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.