Mekitsa appears as a signature dish in 1 Bulgaria cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Mekitsa · Plovdiv
Mekitsa is the Bulgarian fried dough breakfast: a soft yeasted disc fried in oil and eaten hot with sirene cheese, jam, honey or powdered sugar.
Mekitsa is the Bulgarian and Balkan answer to the doughnut or beignet. The Bulgarian version uses a yoghurt-leavened dough that puffs in hot oil. Plovdiv's Mekitsa and Coffee popularised modern combinations alongside the traditional sirene-and-jam pairing, and the fried discs are eaten hot for breakfast from morning counters across the city.
Where to eat in Plovdiv:
- Mekitsa and Coffee
- Gibb Bakery
- Hali Banitsa Counter
- Hlyab Bakery Ostromila