How to pronounce Wedding cabbage

Wedding cabbage is written свадбарски купус where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /sʋâdbarskiː kûpus/. In plain English letters that is SVAHD-bar-skee KOO-poos, 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 Wedding cabbage?

Wedding cabbage is a main dish of Serbia. Where it comes from: Western Serbia (Mrčajevci). People usually eat it on festive days and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are pork, beef and vegetables. It tastes sour and rich.

Where Wedding cabbage comes from

Wedding cabbage is one of 19 signature dishes of Serbia on this map.

• Pljeskavica пљескавица · Street food · Leskovac

  Pljeskavica is a large, flat patty of minced meat, often a mix of pork, beef and lamb, seasoned with onion and salt and grilled over charcoal.

• Karađorđeva šnicla карађорђева шницла · Main dish · Belgrade

  Karađorđeva šnicla is a rolled cutlet of veal or pork stuffed with kajmak, the thick Serbian clotted cream, breaded and deep-fried, then served with tartare sauce and lemon.

• Ajvar ајвар · Snack · Southern Serbia

  Ajvar is a thick red relish of roasted red peppers, sometimes with aubergine, garlic and chilli, cooked slowly in oil until it becomes a smooth or coarse spread.

• Mućkalica мућкалица · Main dish · Southern Serbia (Leskovac)

  Mućkalica is a Serbian stew of grilled meat and vegetables.

• Urnebes урнебес · Snack · Southern Serbia

  Urnebes, whose name means "disorder" or "mess", is a spread or salad characteristic of Serbian cooking, prominent in the city of Niš and across southern Serbia, the region it comes from.

• Pirot flat sausage пиротска пеглана кобасица · Snack · Southeastern Serbia (Pirot)

  Pirotska peglana kobasica, the flattened sausage of Pirot, is made by a special method found only in the Pirot area of south-eastern Serbia, in the upper Nišava valley on the slopes of Stara Planina, a land of herders since ancient times.

Food of Serbia

Dishes like Wedding cabbage in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Wedding cabbage:

• Pašticada · Main dish · Dalmatia (Split), Croatia

  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.

• Kig ha farz · Main dish · Léon (Finistère), France

  Kig ha farz, Breton for "meat and stuffing", is the boiled dinner of the Léon country in western Brittany, between Morlaix and Brest.

• Cocido madrileño · Main dish · Madrid, Spain

  Cocido madrileño is Madrid's great chickpea stew.

• Kapama капама · Main dish · Pirin (Razlog), Bulgaria

  Kapama is a layered dish of sauerkraut, rice and several kinds of meat, and its best-known home is the Razlog area below the Pirin mountains.