Famous Maribor Dishes and Wines

Famous Maribor dishes and wines

Slovenia is known for its delicious food which satisfies even the most demanding tastes. Our love for good food can be noted in the smallest ways like proverbs ( ‘love comes through the stomach’). Štajerska (Styria) landscapeis especially well known for its cuisine and wines.

Some of the most recognized dishes are:

Štajerskakislajuha (styrian sour soup) is prepared at the feast of koline (pig slaughter) from the feet and parts of pork head, spiced with onions, garlic, marjoram, thyme, parsley, black pepper, salt and apple or wine vinegar.

Styrian sour soup

Pohorskipisker/lonec is a typical meat and vegetable stew made of pork, beef and lamb, with the addition of buckwheat and in season also mushrooms. It could be prepared without meat, but at least one type of cereal and one type of legume must be inside.

Pohorskipisker/lonec

Pečenica (Slovene pork sausage) is a sausage usually composed of veal, pork or beef. It is also prepared at the feast of pig slaughter. Pečenica is often eaten alongside kislozelje (sauerkraut) – finely cut fermented cabbage.

Bratwurst with sauerkraut

Pohorjebunka is better-quality pork stuffed into the pork stomach and beef intestines, mildly smoked and air dried.

Pohorjebunka

Pohorježganci are made of potato and corn flour, dressed with cracklings.

Pohorježganci

Pohorje omelette is a biscuit omelette, stuffed with cranberries and topped with sweet cream, sometimes decorated with some cranberry jam.

Pohorje omelette

Styrian wines

Slovenia haswhiteandred wines, with lush or slight aromasand strong, full or light tastes. The wine-growing region of Podravje (Styria)in the Eastern part of Slovenia is especially famous for its white wines. Mostly popular is thelaškirizling, followed bychardonnay, traminec, renskirizlingandsauvignon.Red wines are primarily represented by modrafrankinja, modri pinot and žametnačrnina. A small portion of žametnačrnina has been produced for 400 years from the oldest vine in the world that still grows in Lent in Maribor.

The old vineyard

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