Luchnik is a traditional Bulgarian dish, and each region has its own recipe. Its characteristic features are the universality and the possibilities for improvisations it offers. He eats both for lunch and dinner, even for breakfast. It is a wonderful appetizer for both red and white wine.

It can be prepared with different crumbs to taste and according to preference, although the classic onion is lean. Its main ingredient - onion, can be of different types: onion, shallot, white, purple, leek. The most important thing in cooking onions is to observe the ratio of the main types of products. This dish is especially popular in Central Northern Bulgaria. One of its most popular varieties is the Trojan Archer.

Here's how to prepare the Epiphany bread First recipe Ingredients: - for the dough: flour - 1/2 kg, oil - 2 tbsp, water - 2 tsp, yogurt - 150 ml, yeast - 20 g, salt - 1 tsp, sugar - 1 k. l. - for the filling: "patterned" (that is, with a little bacon) meat - 150 g, pepper - 1 pc., red pepper - 1 tsp, walnuts - 1 handful, dry savory - 1 tsp l., olive oil - 6 tbsp., onion - 6 medium heads (or 1 medium stalk of leek), salt - 1 tsp., egg - 1 pc.

You sift the flour, add salt, make a well and put the yeast in it. Add the sugar, oil and half the water. Knead the dough, gradually adding water during the kneading process. Cover it with kitchen paper or foil; rise for half an hour. Cut the onion into semicircles (if it's a leek - into pieces of 2 cm each) and stew it in a pan with oil and a little water for a short time (1-2 minutes). Finely chop the pepper and add it to the pan.

Fry the onion and pepper on low heat for 15 minutes. At this time, cut the meat into 1 cm cubes and put it in the pan. You saturate the walnuts and add them to the meat, onion and pepper. Season with red pepper, salt and dry savory. Once the meat is golden, pull the stuffing off the heat. Grease a pan with oil and flour it.

Divide the dough in two. You roll out half and put it in the pan, on top of the stuffing. Roll out the other half and cover the filling, folding the edges of the dough to stick (the goal is to keep the filling from spreading). Beat the egg yolk in oil and spread it on the onion. Bake in an oven at 180 degrees until golden.

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