DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Bucnica
Croatian rolled pastry filled with pumpkin, cottage cheese and sour cream.
About Bucnica
Jasmina Brozović learned to make this bučnica with hand-pulled dough under her mother-in-law's guidance. The continental Croatian pastry encloses grated pumpkin, cottage cheese, eggs and sour cream in thin rolled layers.
An egg, oil and water enrich the homemade flour dough. The pumpkin is salted and drained before it joins the cheese filling, keeping the savoury mixture from carrying too much moisture into the pastry.
The long roll curls into its greased baking pan and receives a coating of oil. It bakes until lightly browned and is served hot with plain yogurt alongside.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat, Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bucnica
Jasmina Brozović's hand-pulled savoury pumpkin bučnica.
- All-purpose flourBase
- SaltSeasoning
- EggsBinder
- Cooking oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- PumpkinBase
- Cottage cheeseFilling
- Sour creamFilling
- Pan greaseCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Plain yogurtAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual45 explicit AP wheat flour, broader wheatflour candidate.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual46/70/76-77 dough and savoury filling, sugar alternate not selected.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual47 dough and69 filling combined.
- Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual48/50/54/61/65 dough/coating oil, plant/product unprovided, original offered oil chosen over meltedbutter72.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual49/55 named lukewarm doughwater.
- Pumpkin: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual67/73/76 real offered pumpkin original rather than zucchini replacement; exact cultivar unprovided.
- Cottage cheese: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual68 original cheese over tofu alternate.
- Sour cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual71 dairy original over soy replacement.
- Pan grease: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual64 homemade-dough branch unspecified greased pan, separate from explicit dough/coatingoil; no transfer of store-phyllo83 alternate medium.
- Plain yogurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual87 explicitly served with savoury pastry.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Croatia
- CroatiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Croatian Cuisine
- Croatian Continental CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.