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Fërgesë

Name: Fërgesë
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Albania
Ingredients: 4 Green Bell Pepper; 3 Tomato; 250g Cottage Cheese; 50g Feta Cheese; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 20g Butter; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 1 tsp Paprika; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Baguette

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Roasted peppers and tomatoes stewed with cottage cheese — a piping-hot clay pot specialty of Tirana.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fërgesë is a specialty of the capital, Tirana: roasted peppers, tomatoes, and onion are stewed in a clay pot with a white cheese like cottage cheese. The creamy cheese and sweet peppers come together, and it's eaten by dipping bread. There are versions with liver or ground meat, but the vegetable-and-cheese version is the most beloved.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a long-established eatery in Tirana, a small bubbling clay pot arrives and fresh bread is dipped into the hot cheese.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Green Bell Pepper 4
Tomato 3
Cottage Cheese 250g
Feta Cheese 50g
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Butter 20g
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Baguette To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Roast the green peppers on a grill or under a broiler until the skins blacken, peel, and cut into strips.
Heat olive oil in a pot and sauté the sliced onion and garlic.
Add the chopped tomatoes and paprika and cook down for 10 minutes.
Add the peppers, cottage cheese, crumbled feta, and butter and simmer on low for 5 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper and serve in the clay pot or dish with bread.

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