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Croatian Savory Baking:
50 recipes for bread, burek, pies and pastries
What you get in Croatian Savory Baking
50 recipes
50 recipes for all types of savory baked goods. From rustic bread, wholesome bread pies and succulent burek to the most popular morning pastries and delicious bite-sized party snacks.
500 photos
Each recipe is photographed to the minutest detail so everyone can master baking no matter their level of skill. Expect lots of mouth-watering full-page images you won't be able to resist.
smart ingredients
No more struggle with converting ingredients from grams and millilitres. Everything is expressed in both metric and imperial measurements: think cups, pounds, ounces and tablespoons.
stories and anecdotes
We eat with our eyes and imagination first. That's why I always tell you stories about every recipe in the book. Some dishes are truly intriguing and will make you proud of your Croatian heritage.
Bakers secrets
I will show you some easy tricks how to bake professional-grade bread and pastry without fancy equipment. Follow them and your baked stuff will outshine any bakery.
perfecft gift
This cookbook comes as a luxury hardcopy that makes a great gift. You will love it in your kitchen and, if you give it as a present, you will make your friends and family extremely happy.
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This cookbook will make you the alchemist in your kitchen
Do you wish you could eat bread and pastry like the Croatians do? Every day, at every meal but without compromising your waistline? So, what is our secret?
We simply love bread and other bite-sized snacks such as kiflice. And they love us back.
This sounds like a joke but it’s not. If you had a grandma who baked pastries on a Sunday morning or for birthday parties, you remember that feeling.
Her dough was never just dough.
Whatever substance gave those baked goods shape and bounce also pulled the whole family together.
Home bakers such as your baka or mama gave their dough a magic ingredient: love. Their baked goods were designed to give us a sense of home. The house smelled warm and fuzzy and we felt comforted and connected. Imagine being able to bake this kind of heavenly pastry?
No one in your family will ever go to a bakery again. Instead, they’ll hover around in the kitchen until that crunchy, succulent burek comes out of the oven.
My Croatian Savoury Baking cookbook will teach you how to be that wizard home baker.
First, you’ll get CLEAR-CUT recipes because baking is a combination of precision and passion. No more fluff such as ‘a pinch of this, or a handful of that’.
I measure the ingredients with such accuracy that you’ll think you’re in a lab. All this so each recipe will turn out great from the first go.
The abundance of photos guide you along, especially when a pastry requires complex shaping.
Some baking techniques are tricky - think home stretched phyllo dough. But, my step-by-step recipes are laid out in such a way that anyone can follow along.
Just peek at the example images below and see for yourself. I love demystifying everything that sounds difficult.
Once you master your favorite recipes, your kitchen will become your home bakery.
And you'll turn into an alchemist who makes the dough but in fact bakes little crumbs of love.
Click on the images to have a sneak peak into the way recipes are laid-out!
This cookbook is for you if you:
Adore breakfast from a bakery
Can’t wait to travel to Croatia and eat our bread
Remember the taste of your grandma’s kiflice but can’t find the recipe to bake them yourself
Want to wow your family and friends with delicious burek, štrukli and other ‘difficult’ pastries you were always too afraid to bake
Find comfort in baked goods but want to stop feeling guilty for enjoying carbs
Want to bake healthy and wholesome bread for your whole family
How the cookbook is organised
CROATIAN SAVOURY BAKING cookbook is divided into 5 chapters, bringing you all kinds of baked goods that you can find in a typical Croatian bakery. There are no sweets and desserts in this cookbook because you already have those recipes in the Croatian Desserts cookbook.
- 1BREAD. These recipes brings you traditional, rustic loaves that have always been the staple in Croatian households. From our famous bread under the peka bell (but baked in the oven), old-fashioned cornbread to intricately designed Easter braided bread.
- 2BUREK. This entire chapter is dedicated to the homemade phyllo pastry: from various kinds of burek filled with meat, cheese, spinach and potatoes, to our iconic štrukli and bučnica (savoury pumpkin strudel).
- 3PIES. The celebration of pogača (Croatian flatbread) that can be extremely simple but also filled with various ingredients such as Swiss chard, walnuts, anchovies and cottage cheese and cream. Star recipes include anchovy pie from the island of Vis and soparnik.
- 4PASTRIES. From braided buns topped with sesame and poppy seeds, to soft and salty finger rolls (slanci), this chapter will make you dizzy with breakfast options. Included are some recipes that are today protected cultural heritage, such as finger rolls from Varaždin.
- 5SNACKS. This chapter will make you the queen of the party. You will wow your guests with various puffs (cheese, potato, port scratchings), wine twists, crackers, and our signature kiflice filled with just about anything.
What other readers are saying:
Transport your taste buds to croatia
After her fabulous Croatian Desserts and Classics cookbooks, Andrea’s deep dive into delicious Croatian savory baking is another essential addition to your kitchen library. Once again, her traditional recipes will transport your taste buds to Croatia, and the little stories will bring you closer to the food culture.
PAUL MUSIN // editor of Croatia Week
A must-have for the croatian baker in all of us
Another master class cook book from Andrea that is not only informative and culturally aware, but easy to follow. Her recipes and instruction empower everyone from novice to expert. This book is a must have for the Croatian baker in all of us!
MOSES HERNANDEZ // Let's Learn Croatian podcast
best croatian food is baked at home
The magic of Croatian food is to be found in the home. Andrea’s book is the best way of finding this out for yourself.
ADRIAN CHILES // writer and broadcaster
ILLUSTRATED RECIPES even for the novice baker
Croatian Savoury Baking presents fifty baked goods that have sustained generations of Croatians, including hearty homestyle loaves, breakfast on the run, nostalgic delights, regional specialties, and an entire chapter of burek. The detailed backgrounds for each recipe and step-by-step photos will help even the most novice baker to turn out bakes your baka (grandmother) would be proud of!
SARAH HODGE // recipe tester and writer
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BEST croatian bakes demystified
Andrea has managed to de-mystify Croatian cuisine one dish at a time and create mouth-watering and easily approachable dishes that any person can make. Bravo.
RICHARD GRUICA // chef aka FOODZILLA
YOUR FAVORITE GO-TO EVERYDAY COOKBOOK
My beautiful Croatian Sister has written yet another great cookbook. These are the recipes I enjoyed during my youth in my mother’s farm kitchen in the Chicagoland area. I am happy to now have these recipes. Thank you, Andrea.
ROSA RAJKOVIC // James Beard Chef Finalist, Author, and Screenwriter
A FITTING TRIBUTE TO CROATIAN CULINARY HERITAGE
Andrea’s cookbooks are enjoyed by our entire family, even our grandchildren have used her recipes to make delicious dishes, which never fail. Andrea starts each recipe with a background history of each dish and easy to follow instructions. There is no need to convert from kg to pounds nor Celsius to Fahrenheit, Andrea has done it for us. We look forward to giving this latest cookbook to our family for Christmas gifts.
ROBERT JERIN // Croatian Heritage and Genealogy
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Frequently Asked Questions
We expect the book to be hot off the press by 23 October 2023. It might happen sooner too!
It is a hardcopy book! The example pages shown here are just so you get the taste of how detailed the recipes are.
The book is the same dimension as the Croatian Desserts and Croatian Classics cookbooks (25x20cm/7x9in). It weighs about 1 kg.
Everywhere around the world! We use DHL Express and your books take 5-7 days to arrive.
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ANDREA PISAC // Author
Andrea Pisac is an award-winning fiction, travel and food writer. She lived 12 years in the UK, where she got a PhD in anthropology from Goldsmiths College in London. After returning to Croatia, she launched her Travel Honestly blog where she writes about Croatian culture, food, and customs.
Andrea's earlier cookbooks, Croatian Desserts and Croatian Classics, became an instant best-seller, reaching the worldwide audience on all continents. Croatian Classics received the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in 2023.
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