Shop the Recipe: Pljeskavica

Kajmak spread like this turned into the best part of breakfast, scooped thick onto warm bread before anything else went on the table. Mlekara Šabac...

The kilo pour for the household that cooks every night. Vegeta original — 1959 Koprivnica recipe, salty-savory granule blend the Balkans built ever...

Sunday lunch back home often started with mixing this seasoning straight into the ground meat before shaping the patties for the grill. This is Pod...

Poljorad Travnicki Sir Traditional Bosnian White Cheese — Bosnian Travnik-region sirenje in the large 1.5kg (3.3lb) family format from Poljorad. Tr...

A tub of kajmak like this is the first thing on the table at a proper Serbian breakfast, spread thick and eaten right away. Balkan Farms makes this...

Ethnic Bakery Domaci Kajmak — Bosnian home-style kajmak in the 408g (14.4oz) tub, domaći meaning "homemade" in Bosnian, and the register here is ex...

These are the stuffed peppers your baka pulled from the pantry for guests, kajmak and cheese packed inside a whole red pepper. Poljorad of Bosnia a...

The Balkan grilled beef patty — pljeskavica. Wide, hand-formed all-beef patties built for char and juice. Grill or pan-sear until well-browned, the...

The plate-sized XXL pljeskavica. The supersized restaurant-style Balkan beef patty — often wider than the lepinja itself, the way Bosnian and Serbi...

Pljeskavice like this went straight onto the roštilj in the yard on a summer weekend, the smell carrying over the fence before anyone called you in...

Hina's whole roasted red peppers — Croatia's kapija country in the jar, fire-charred, peeled soft, garlic-oil bathed. Smoky-sweet, glossy red, melt...

Va-Va Original Recipe Mild — the founding-formula jar. The Macedonian mild ajvar in the recipe register Va-Va built the brand on — kapija pepper, o...

Podravka Hot Ajvar — Croatian classic, smaller pour. The starter jar of Koprivnica's 1947 hot recipe — for the apartment kitchen, the single househ...

This is the seasoning packet that turns ground beef into ćevapčići and pljeskavice the way it's done on the grill back home. Podravka's Fant blend ...