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Gibanica
eggs
Other informationOther ingredients include milk, kaymak and lard or sunflower oil and different types of fruit and nuts

Gibanica (

multi-layered cakes
.

A derivative of the

Bosnia, North Macedonia and other regions of the former Yugoslavia. Variants of this rich layered strudel are found in Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, and Syria.[3]

Gibanica may sometimes also refer to a walnut roll, which is a sweet bread with a spiral of walnut paste rolled up inside.

Etymology

In the vocabulary of the Yugoslav Academy, as well as in the etymological dictionary of Slavic languages, the word gibanica is a derivative of the Serbo-Croatian verb gíbati/гибати, which means "to fold; sway, swing, rock". There are also derivatives like the word gibaničar/гибаничар – one who makes gibanica, one who loves to eat gibanica, and one who always imposes as a guest and at someone else's expense.[4] Some believe that the word gibanica actually comes from the Egyptian Arabic gebna (جبنة), a type of soft white salty cheese used in making gibanica.[5]

Preparation

The original recipe for gibanica included traditionally homemade

nettle, potato and onion. To speed up preparation, purchased phyllo dough can be used and sunflower oil or olive oil can be used instead of lard.[6]

Variants

Prekmurska gibanica, a Slovenian variant
Međimurska gibanica, a Croatian variant

Many varieties of gibanica and related dishes can be found throughout the Balkans; different gibanica are known as part of the national cuisines of

Banitsa.[4] Recipes can range from sweet to savoury, and from simple to festive and elaborate multi-layered cakes.[6] The so-called "chetnik gibanica" is the fatter, greasier version; it received the name after World War II.[8]

From the basic recipe, many local specialties have evolved.

Mur River.[11]

The basic concept of gibanica, a cake or pie involving a combination of pastry with cheese in differentiated layers often combined with layers of various other fillings, is common in the cuisines of the Balkans, Anatolia, and the Eastern Mediterranean. For example, a similar dish known as shabiyat (sh'abiyat, shaabiyat) is part of the cuisine of Syria and Lebanon.[12] Gibanica can also be considered to resemble a type of cheese strudel, with which it likely shares a common ancestry in the pastry dishes of the region, and the cuisines of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

In culture

Gibanica is one of the most popular and recognizable pastry dishes from the Balkans, whether served on festive occasions, or as a comforting family snack. In Serbia, the dish is eaten as breakfast, dinner, appetizer and snack,

Guinness Book of Records. Around 330 kg of phyllo dough, 330 kg of cheese, 3,300 eggs, 30 L of oil, 110 L of mineral water, 50 kg of lard and 500 packets of baking powder went into its creation.[14][15] In Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia there are festivals dedicated to gibanica. One of them, called the Gibanica festival or Days of Banitsa, is held each year in Bela Palanka. It first took place in 2005.[16] The Slovenian festival of Prekmurska gibanica and ham is held in the Slovenian region of Prekmurje,[17] and the Croatian festival of gibanica is held in Igrišće in Hrvatsko Zagorje.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ (Crumpled pie)David Tornquist (1966). Look East, Look West: The Socialist Adventure in Yugoslavia. MacMillan. p. 229.
  2. ^ "Prekmurska gibanica". visitljubljana.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Gibanica". cliffordawright.com. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  4. ^ a b Republika 2003.
  5. ^ "Gibanica" (in Serbian). republika.co.rs. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  6. ^ a b c Serbia.com 2012.
  7. ^ Bonetti, Marzia; Fabbro, Claudio; Filiputti, Walter (2000). Enovagando: Friuli-Venezia Giulia : economia, turismo e cultura. Gorizia: Digi Press. p. 89.
  8. ^ "Recept za najbolju gibanicu". bastabalkana.com. 18 February 2017.
  9. ^ "Prekmurska gibanica". slovenia.info. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  10. ^ "Međimurska gibanica" (in Croatian). medjimurski-dvori.hr. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  11. ^ "Prleška gibanica". slovenia.info. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Shaabiyat". justapinch.com. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  13. ^ Telegraf 2016.
  14. ^ "Gibanica teška tonu – Mioničani konkurišu za ulazak u Ginisovu knjigu rekorda" (in Serbian). ekapija.com. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  15. ^ "Mionička gibanica za Ginisa". Politika (in Serbian). Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  16. ^ "Takmičenje u pripremanju pita DANI BANICE" (in Serbian). manifestacije.com. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  17. ^ "Festival prekmurske gibanice in šunke" (in Slovenian). murska-sobota.si. Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  18. ^ "Festival gibanice" (in Croatian). mreza.tv. Archived from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

Sources

  • Zirojević, Olga (30 April 2003). "Gibanica". Republika (in Serbian). Vol. XV, no. 306–307. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  • "Gibanica, a pie like no other". Serbia.com. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

External links

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