Authentic Albanian dish – Fergese Tirone

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Fergese Tirone is one of the most authentic ones of Albanian traditional food and very typical of the capital city .

Fergese Tirone is a meat dish . Meat dishes are by far the most ubiquitous meal you’ll find in Albania. Almost all meat dishes are served with bread and/or rice, as well as some greens.

The recipe of is very old and it was created as a result of mixing the most common ingredients produced by the locals at the time such as the cottage cheese, red pepper , bay ,olive oil etc.

Are there other Tirana’s traditional dishes you’d like to enjoy but you don’t know how , take a City and Food Tour of Tirana and get a local taste .

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Ingredients:

• 500 g liver (or meat)
• 500 d cottage cheese
• 2 onions
• 1 garlic
• 1 spoon of flavor
• Hot shredded pepper
• 250 g of gravy
• 4-5 spoons of olive oil

Simple steps for preparing the dish:

• 1.In a frying pan with hot oil we pour the liver cut in small pieces and fry them until the liquid vaporise and leave them aside
• 2.In the frying pan we add oil again and fry the onions cut in slices until they get a yellow colour.
• 3.After the onions are fried we add the flavor and keep steering .
• 4.Add the hot gravy ,the cottage cheese and keep steering for a few minutes.
• 5.Add the liver ,hot pepper ,garlic and after mixing we put them in the clay pan.
• 6.Put them in the preheated oven until the oil gets on top.

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