Albania recipes
Recipes from Albania: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Eastern Europe & Caucasus
Ballokume: Elbasan's Spring Festival Cornmeal Cookies
Ballokume, the spring festival sweet of Elbasan, Albania: cornmeal, butter, eggs, and sugar worked with a wooden spoon and baked until crumbly. Covers a version without ash lye, choosing the flour, bake color, and storage.
Eastern Europe & Caucasus
Fërgesë: Albanian Baked Roasted Pepper and White Cheese
Fërgesë is an Albanian dish of roasted red peppers, tomato and white cheese baked together. Substitutes for gjizë, adding smoky aroma without an open flame, managing the tomato's moisture, choosing a shallow baking dish, how it is eaten in Albania, storage, fixing mistakes and adjusting saltiness, laid out so you can cook it from shopping to reheating without hesitation.