Cevapi appears as a signature dish in 1 Bosnia And Herzegovina cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cevapi · Sarajevo
Sarajevo-style cevapi are beef-only finger sausages, traditionally four-fingers long (6 to 10 cm), grilled over coals and served in a fresh somun flatbread with raw onion and kajmak cream.
Cevapi entered Bosnian cooking through Ottoman Turkish kebab tradition during the empire's 500-year presence in the Balkans. The Sarajevo standard separated from the Yugoslav-wide cevapi (which mixes beef, lamb and pork) by requiring beef-only and the four-finger length, an EU geographical-indication claim filed in the 2010s. Cevabdzinica Mrkva opened on Bravadziluk in 1963; Petica Ferhatovic opened for the 1984 Olympics; Zeljo and Hodzic anchor the same row.
Where to eat in Sarajevo:
- Cevabdzinica Zeljo
- Petica Ferhatovic
- Cevabdzinica Hodzic
- Cevabdzinica Mrkva