How to pronounce Mekitsa

Mekitsa is written мекица where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mɛˈkit͡sɐ/. In plain English letters that is meh-KEE-tsa, 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 Mekitsa?

Mekitsa is a street food of Bulgaria. Where it comes from: All Bulgaria. People usually eat it for breakfast. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and dairy & cheese. It tastes sweet and savory.

Where Mekitsa comes from

Mekitsa is one of 18 signature dishes of Bulgaria on this map.

• 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.

• Kebapche кебапче · Street food · All Bulgaria

  Kebapche is a long cylinder of minced meat cooked on a grill, never fried or baked.

• Bob chorba боб чорба · Soup & stew · All Bulgaria

  Bob chorba, "bean soup", is a Bulgarian soup of dried beans cooked with onion, tomato, carrot and pepper and flavoured with savory or spearmint.

• Tatarsko kyufte татарско кюфте · Main dish · All Bulgaria

  Tatarsko kyufte, "Tatar kofta", is a large Bulgarian meat patty stuffed with a filling.

• Tikvenik тиквеник · Dessert · All Bulgaria

  Tikvenik is a sweet Bulgarian banitsa filled with grated pumpkin and sugar.

• Tutmanik тутманик · Bread & pastry · All Bulgaria

  Tutmanik, also called mesenitsa, is a traditional Bulgarian bake of thick dough with crumbled white brine cheese, yogurt and eggs.

Food of Bulgaria

Dishes like Mekitsa in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Mekitsa:

• Bougatsa μπουγάτσα · Street food · Thessaloniki and Serres (Central Macedonia), Greece

  Bougatsa is a pastry of thin phyllo with a filling between the layers, eaten in Greece for breakfast or as a mid-morning snack.

• Panzerotti · Street food · Bari, Italy

  Panzerotti are half-moons of soft bread dough stuffed with mozzarella and tomato, and sometimes ham, deep fried and eaten very hot.

• Lángos · Street food · Hungary

  Lángos is a disc of yeasted dough, sometimes made with potato, deep-fried until puffed and golden, then rubbed with garlic water and topped with sour cream and grated cheese.

• Jambon-beurre · Street food · Paris, France

  The jambon-beurre, "ham-butter", is the classic Paris sandwich, also simply called a parisien.