page_title: Mekitsa
hierarchical_section_title: Mekitsa
caption_attribution_description: English: Bulgarian Mekitsi and jam. Mekitsa is known as lángos in Hungary. Deutsch: Bulgarische Mekizi und Marmelade
context_page_description: Mekitsa Mekike is a traditional Bulgarian dish made of kneaded dough made with yogurt that is deep fried. It is also found in North Macedonia and Serbia. They are made with flour, eggs, yogurt, a leavening agent, water, salt, and oil. In Serbia they are called mekike and, in some dialects, mekice, in North Macedonia mekica or pitulica, and in Bulgaria mekitsa. They are similar to Hungarian lángos and British Yorkshire pudding. Mekitsa is conventionally a breakfast dish.
  After the dough rises, it is torn into small balls, spread into flat rounds and fried in oil. In some recipes, yeast, baking soda, milk or yogurt might be used. A recipe from Silistra involves yogurt and bread soda, one from a village near Stara Zagora uses yeast and yogurt, and a recipe from Aytos suggests yeast and milk. One of the oldest known recipes contains only yeast, flour, salt and sugar and it uses water as the sole wet ingredient. It is recommended that the shaping of mekitsi before their frying be done with wet or oiled hand hands, using most commonly vegetable oil.
  When served, mekitsa is often powdered with icing sugar or garnished with jam, honey or sirene. It can also be eaten with yogurt.
context_section_description: Mekitsa (Bulgarian: мекица, romanized: mekitsa, lit. 'softness'; plural mekitsi) Mekike (Serbian Cyrillic: мекике) is a traditional Bulgarian dish made of kneaded dough made with yogurt that is deep fried. It is also found in North Macedonia and Serbia. They are made with flour, eggs, yogurt, a leavening agent, water, salt, and oil. In Serbia they are called mekike (sing. mekika) and, in some dialects, mekice (sing. mekica) , in North Macedonia mekica or pitulica, and in Bulgaria mekitsa. They are similar to Hungarian lángos  and British Yorkshire pudding. Mekitsa is conventionally a breakfast dish.
  After the dough rises, it is torn into small balls, spread into flat rounds and fried in oil. In some recipes, yeast, baking soda, milk or yogurt might be used. A recipe from Silistra involves yogurt and bread soda, one from a village near Stara Zagora uses yeast and yogurt, and a recipe from Aytos suggests yeast and milk. One of the oldest known recipes contains only yeast, flour, salt and sugar and it uses water as the sole wet ingredient. It is recommended that the shaping of mekitsi before their frying be done with wet or oiled hand hands, using most commonly vegetable oil.
  When served, mekitsa is often powdered with icing sugar or garnished with jam, honey or sirene (white cheese). It can also be eaten with yogurt. Unlike Hungarian lángos, mekitsa or is not served with mayonnaise or ketchup and is not so richly garnished.
  In North Macedonia people prepare the dish the week after a newborn is born. That is like a celebration for the newborn baby, tradition says that it should be in the house where the baby will live, but nowadays this celebration mostly happen in restaurants.
  The dish was invented in the 5th century in modern day Bulgaria, and is still relevant and popular in the Serbian, Bulgarian, and North Macedonian regions and is a common cultural dish. The name is derived from the Slavic root mek ("soft"), referring to the dish's texture. –itsa is a Slavic feminine suffix.
caption: A stack of mekitsi and jam
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