Sofia Hosts Armenian Cuisine Festival

SOFIA HOSTS ARMENIAN CUISINE FESTIVAL

Balkan Travellers
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Nov 10 2009

A festival of Armenian cuisine, hosted by the restaurant Vratata
and the winery Villa Yustina and under the patronage of Armenian
Ambassador to Bulgaria Sergey Manasaryan, will take place in Sofia
between November 17 and 20.

The special guests in the Vratata restaurant will be the renowned
Armenian Bulgarian chefs Harotyun Tutyan -Arto and Larisa Mirzoyan,
according to the horemag.bg website. Arto runs the Yerevan restaurant
in the town of Plovdiv, where the Armenian community venerates his
culinary talents. The master chef’s predecessors, the publication
notes, settled in Bulgaria in 1800, and he inherited the authentic
recipes from his grandma. Arto claims that modern Armenian cuisine
is very positively influenced by Bulgarian culinary traditions.

Mirozyan, on the other hand, has cooked for such international
celebrities as singer Charles Aznavour and political figures as former
Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

Arto will be preparing dishes during the first two days of the festival
and Mirozyan – during the latter two. Among the first chef’s offerings,
there will be red beet panjar, stuffed aubergines with drained yogurt,
adjem pilaf with chicken, stuffed eggs with cheese and spices, manti
with checken giblets and karniyarik – stuffed aubergines with tender
beef and vegetables (in the opening photograph).

Larisa Mirzoyan, on the other hand, will be making ishli-kufta with
beef and pork, a red beans roll, trout in walnut sauce, aubergine
salad with walnuts and coriander, stuffed grape leaves with beef and
ginger, khorovatz – Armenian kebab made from pork with spices and
Karabah baklava.

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