Old Town Tavern · Clay Pot Stew
Kavarma в Гювеч (Clay Pot Kavarma)
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Dishes like this were once left baking from dawn in brick ovens along the old trade routes between Constantinople and Vienna.
Pork, onions, peppers, and mushrooms are slow-cooked in an individual clay pot until the meat falls apart, then served bubbling straight from the oven. Veliko Tarnovo's old-town taverns, built into the hillside below the medieval fortress, are known for it.
Why it's made this way: Clay-pot cooking in this region goes back to Thracian times, and the technique was refined during the Ottoman era and kept alive by roadside inns along Bulgaria's old trade routes.
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