tava oriz

Another good food that I discovered lately in my office cafe is "Tava Oriz with chicken". "Tava" is non-cute way of saying for "tavce". You know, from the tavce gravce. I could call this food "tavce oriz" too. "Tava" means something like "oven-baked" or "pot-baked". In Macedonian cuisine, there are many kinds of tava. All tava kinds are good, but, this tavce oriz is really good. It is exactly like "Hai-nan chicken rice" of Singapore. Rice is cooked with chicken so the soup or extract or whatever is absorbed to rice, so the rice becomes very tasty and chicken becomes well cooked and very soft. I should say, this is also another Asian kind of food in Macedonia.

またまたオフィスのカフェでお気に入りメニュー発見。「ターバオリス」。かわいい言い方をすれば「タフチェオリス」。タフチェは、タフチェグラフチェのタフチェ。オーブンで焼いた、とか、土鍋で焼いた、とかいう意味らしい。「オリス」はライスのことね。これがまた私が大好きなシンガポールの「ハイナンチキンライス」にそっくりなんですよー。チキンと一緒に土鍋でごはんを炊いたものなので、チキンのスープというかエキスがごはんにじっくり染み渡っていてうまい。チキンもすっかり柔らかくなっているし。ホントにまさにハイナンチキンライス。やっぱマケドニアごはん、アジアごはんに近いわ。