How to pronounce Lukanka

Lukanka is written луканка where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /luˈkaŋkɐ/. In plain English letters that is loo-KAHN-ka, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Lukanka?

Lukanka is a snack of Bulgaria. Where it comes from: Central Bulgaria. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are pork and beef. It tastes savory and spicy.

Where Lukanka comes from

Lukanka is one of 18 signature dishes of Bulgaria on this map. See all dishes from Plovdiv.

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  Lyutenitsa is a thick red relish of roasted peppers and tomatoes, often with aubergine, carrots, garlic and a little sugar, cooked for hours and then ground into a spread.

• Kavarma кавърма · Main dish · Thrace

  Kavarma is a Bulgarian dish baked in the oven in small clay pots called gyuvech.

• Banitsa баница · Bread & pastry · All Bulgaria

  Banitsa is a pie of thin sheets of filo pastry layered or rolled with a mixture of eggs, yogurt and crumbled white brined cheese, sirene, then baked until golden.

• Shopska salad шопска салата · Snack · Sofia region (Shopluk)

  Shopska salad is chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and roasted or raw peppers, dressed with oil and vinegar and covered with a thick layer of grated white brined cheese, sirene.

• Patatnik пататник · Main dish · Rhodopes

  Patatnik, also spelled patetnik, is a potato dish of the Rhodope Mountains in south-central Bulgaria.

• Smilyan beans смилянски боб · Main dish · Rhodopes (Smilyan)

  Smilyan beans, smilyanski bob or smilyanski fasul, are beans grown around the village of Smilyan and its neighbours Mogilitsa and Arda, on the upper course of the Arda river in the Rhodopes.

Food of Bulgaria

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• Olive ascolane olive all'ascolana · Snack · Ascoli Piceno (Marche), Italy

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• Sobrassada · Snack · Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Spain

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