DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Mekici
Also known as: Мекици
Yeast-raised fried dough with milk, yoghurt and egg.
About Mekici
Gordana presents these mekici as a passed-down Macedonian fried dough, associated with family mornings, guests and celebrations for a new baby. Her published recipe uses yeast with flour, milk, yoghurt and egg.
Sugar and salt season the dough, with vegetable oil used in mixing, shaping and frying. Baking powder and rakija remain optional additions exactly as the author offers them.
The flattened rounds fry to a golden exterior around a soft, puffy interior and are served warm. This rendition selects the suggested white-cheese accompaniment, keeping it separate from the source’s sweet topping alternatives.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Mekici
Gordana’s traditional Macedonian mekici, white-cheese serving option.
- All-purpose flourBase
- Dry yeastRaising agent
- SugarSweetener
- SaltSeasoning
- MilkLiquid
- WaterLiquid
- Plain yoghurtLiquid
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
- EggBinder
- Baking powderRaising agent · Optional
- RakijaAromatic · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- White cheese (sirenje)Accompaniment · Optional
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 (gluten) source-confirmed. Conventional all-purpose flour13 confirms Wheat; broader wheat-flour candidate.
- Dry yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Original dry yeast14 retained, no instant-yeast speed branch32.
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Literal dairy17.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Plain yoghurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Literal dairy19.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Dough20/28, hand shaping34 and frying37 allocations consolidated; botanical species unprovided.
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Literal egg21/28.
- Baking powder (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional22/47; full product formula unknown.
- Rakija (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional23/46; spirit fruit/product formula unprovided, no invented grain/sulphite assumption.
- White cheese (sirenje) (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual savoury serving42 selected as optional accompaniment; dairy cheese confirms Milk, exact formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- North Macedonia
- GreeceCatalogue link pending review
- North MacedoniaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Macedonian Cuisine
- Greek Macedonian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- North Macedonian CuisineCatalogue link pending review