Can sweet potato be combined with kulen and acacia honey, which wine goes well with carp chips, what to choose with noodles with poppy seeds...
Chef Branko Ognjenović and chefs from Požeško-Slavonska County gave answers to these questions yesterday at the Mövenpick Hotel Zagreb, as part of the promotion of Požeško-Slavonska County as a gastronomic destination.
Namely, six chefs from Požeško - Slavonia county with the famous chef Branko Ognjenović prepared autochthonous dishes in Zagreb that now have a new, modern touch, and the famous sommelier Darko Lugarić made sure of the perfect match.
Old dishes interpreted through modern cuisine
There was everything - from spicy kulen, crackling, pork fat, chicken liver and mushroom pâté, risotto with pumpkin cream, mushrooms and black pig bacon, perch fillet in wine batter, veal perkelt with cloves, roast from Slavonian black pig and a cloth with greens to baked apples in cinnamon and vanilla, plum dumplings, tachkrla... old dishes interpreted through modern cuisine with everything combined with selected wines from three vineyards of Golden Slavonia: Kutjeva, Požega-Pleternica and Pakraca.