Mlinci

Mlinci on roasted chicken with sauce

Mlinci (pasta tatters) is a dish in Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian cuisine. It is a thin dried flatbread which is easy to prepare - just pour boiled salted water or soup over baked mlinci.

To bake mlinci at home, instead of buying ready backed mlinci, a dough is made of flour, salt and water, sometimes also with eggs and fat. Dough is then rolled in thin shapes about 1 mm thin and 20-30 cm wide, and baked in oven or on hot plate. Later they are broken in pieces about 5 cm in size before final preparation with hot water or soup.

Before serving, mlinci can also be quickly fried in turkey/duck/goose fat from the roasted poultry.
Turkey with mlinci is a renowned Croatian folk-cuisine specialty, especially in Zagorje and Slavonija. In Slovenia, duck or goose with mlinci is traditionally eaten on St. Martin's Day.

Mlinci can also be served by soaking the dried pieces in the dripping from roast meats. The roast meat is removed from the pan and the broken pieces are placed in the fat in the tray, and then baked for a short amount of time. The mlinci is then served as a side dish to the main roast.

External links

• Traditional Croatian mlinci with turkey recipe
• Slovenian duck with mlinci recipe
• Duck with Croatian mlinci and cucumbers in sour cream recipe