How to pronounce Rožata

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /rɔˈʒaːta/. In plain English letters that is roh-ZHAH-tah, 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 Rožata?

Rožata is a dessert of Croatia. Where it comes from: Dubrovnik. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are egg and dairy & cheese. It tastes sweet.

Where Rožata comes from

Rožata is one of 24 signature dishes of Croatia on this map.

• Pašticada · Main dish · Dalmatia (Split)

  Pašticada is beef braised for hours in a dark, sweet and sour sauce, and it is the festive dish of Dalmatia, the Croatian coast around Split.

• Zagorski štrukli · Bread & pastry · Zagreb and Zagorje

  Zagorski štrukli are rolls of very thin stretched dough filled with fresh cow's cheese, eggs and sour cream, cut into pieces and either boiled or baked with cream until golden on top.

• Soparnik · Bread & pastry · Poljica (near Omiš)

  Soparnik is a thin, round pie of Swiss chard, onion, parsley, garlic and olive oil between two sheets of unleavened dough.

• Peka · Main dish · Dalmatia

  Peka, or food cooked ispod čripnje, "under the bell", is the Dalmatian way of slow-roasting meat and fish.

• Maraschino maraskino · Drink · Northern Dalmatia (Zadar)

  Maraschino is a clear liqueur distilled from marasca cherries, small, slightly sour cherries that grow wild along parts of the Dalmatian coast.

• Pag cheese paški sir · Snack · Pag island

  Paški sir is a hard, distinctively flavoured sheep's milk cheese from the Adriatic island of Pag.

Food of Croatia

Dishes like Rožata in other countries

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• Pasticciotto · Dessert · Lecce, Italy

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• Trigona Panoramatos τρίγωνα Πανοράματος · Dessert · Thessaloniki (Central Macedonia), Greece

  Trigona Panoramatos, "Panorama triangles", also called Thessaloniki triangles, are crisp cones of phyllo pastry folded into a triangle, soaked in syrup and filled with custard cream.

• Somlói galuska · Dessert · Budapest, Hungary

  Somlói galuska is one of the best-known Hungarian desserts: pieces of sponge cake served with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

• Kaiserschmarrn · Dessert · Austria

  Kaiserschmarrn, "emperor's mess", is a thick, fluffy pancake torn into pieces in the pan, caramelised with sugar and butter, often with raisins, dusted with icing sugar and served with plum compote or apple sauce.