Grill Stand · Minced Meat
Ćevapi (Ćevapčići)
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Menus don't sell them by the plate — you order five, ten, or fifteen, counted like individual fingers.
Ćevapi are small grilled sausages of seasoned minced meat, served stacked inside warm flatbread (lepinja) with raw onion and a spoonful of ajvar or kajmak. Street grills cook them to order over open flame, so the smoke is often what pulls people in.
Why it's made this way: The small, fast-cooking shape traces back to Ottoman-era kebab cooking, and it spread across the former Yugoslavia because it could be grilled cheaply and quickly for busy city crowds.
Roughly what's in it
550kcal
35gprotein
40gcarbs
28gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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