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Proja

Also known as: Проја

Savoury Serbian corn-flour bread with eggs and sparkling water, with feta and kajmak offered as mix-ins.

About Proja

Nevena’s starinska proja is the savoury corn bread she learned from her grandmother. Her account places it in Balkan and Serbian home cooking, including family celebrations and everyday meals.

Corn flour gives the bread a substantial, relatively dry crumb. Eggs, oil and sparkling water form this rendition, with salt providing its savoury seasoning and baking powder supporting the rise.

The bread has a browned surface and a prominent corn flavour. Feta and kajmak are offered as additions, bringing a creamy, dairy-rich contrast to its savoury crumb.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Egg.

Optional additions: Milk.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.

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Ingredients in Proja

Nevena's grandmother-taught starinska proja.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Yellow corn flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual60 first yellow over white; actual31 either permitted, no wheat-flour union from enriched Wikibooks recipe.
  • Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual62 confirms Egg.
  • Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual64 prepared product, full blend formula unprovided.
  • Sparkling mineral water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual68/79 generic type unprovided.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Baking spray: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual78 method-only required pan spray, exact product/fat/flour formulation unprovided.
  • Feta cheese (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual optional mix-in73, method80; Milk known.
  • Kajmak (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual optional mix-in75, stage not separately specified. Milk known from named dairy food; no formula reconstructed.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Serbia
  • SerbiaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

Sources & references
  1. Starinska Proja / Old Fashioned Cornbread - Nevena, The Balkan Hostess