Snezhanka salad or Snow White salad ('' bg, салата Снежанка'') is a traditional
Bulgarian salad, which is made of
strained yogurt,
cucumber,
garlic, salt, usually cooking oil, dill, sometimes roasted peppers, walnuts and parsley. Sometimes it is called ''milk salad'' (млечна салата, ''mlechna salata'') or ''dry
tarator
Tzatziki ( el, τζατζίκι), also known as tarator or cacık (), is a dip, soup, or sauce found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. It is made of salted strained yogurt or diluted yogurt mixed with cucumbers, gar ...
salad'' (сух таратор салата, ''suh tarator salata'').
Snezhanka (Snow White) salad derives its name from the fairy tale character
Snow White
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection '' Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as T ...
.
The reason for the name is the predominantly white color of the salad.
See also
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Tarator
Tzatziki ( el, τζατζίκι), also known as tarator or cacık (), is a dip, soup, or sauce found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. It is made of salted strained yogurt or diluted yogurt mixed with cucumbers, gar ...
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Tzatziki
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