Dubrovnik – Not just a cultural highlight

Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful cities in the Mediterranean area, has culinary a lot to offer. A typical dish of the city is the “šporki makaruli” - beef served with maccaroni and a delicious sauce based on onions and tomatoes. The trick is the special ingredient - cinnamon.

Other typical dishes are different sea food delicasies that go great together with Dubrovnik is especially famous for its large variety of dessert. Traditional delicacies like Fritule and Aranci will pamper your palate. We can also recommend the Kotonjata and Rozata, Dubrovnik´s answer to the French Crème Brulee. The Fritule, dough balls with powdered sugar, are a true classic around Christmas.

For people who love great food, Dubrovnik is the right place to be and Arancini, Rozata, Sporki Marakuli, Kotonjata are just some examples for the large number of delicacies you can find here!

Šporki makaruli

a bowl of food

Cooked pasta (makaruli) combined with lard and cinnamon (kanjela) is served with the beef or baby beef meat and tomatoes, parsley, garlic and the obligatory red wine. The ribanac cheese is recommended as the final ingredient to fulfil the experience.


Fritule

a tray of food

This traditional dish made of flour, sugar and water by adding lemons or apples, a choice left up to the cook, and finally covered in vanilla sugar is a dessert which will equally delight both children and adults.

a tray of food

Arancini

a plate of food

A traditional delicacy which can be used as a gift for all those who love pastry. This savoury dessert is made in almost every household in Dubrovnik by first cooking the orange peel in sweetened water and then drying them, decorating and serving as candy.


Dubrovnik rožata

a slice of cake with whipped cream

The cream is made of eggs with caramel topping usually served with sweet liqueur or fruit. The old people of Dubrovnik say that the most indigenous rožata dessert is the one made of genuine Dubrovnik rose liqueur.

a slice of cake with whipped cream

Bruštulane mjendule

a bowl of fried chicken

One of the most delicious small traditional snacks are none other than almonds dipped in sugar or, originally, bruštulane mjendule. Their sweet crunchy crust and the almond are the perfect experience. Mjendule, just like arancini, are served as candy.


Kotonjata

a piece of cake

A typical dessert made during the Christmas holidays; sweet quince jelly served with bay leaf. Chilled in nice little pots with carved bottom to make them as appealing as possible.

a piece of cake
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