Ajvar is made principally from red bell peppers, with eggplant, garlic and chili pepper. Ajvar originates in Serbian cuisine, and was therefore long known as “Serbian salad”. It becаme a popular salad (side dish) throughout Yugoslavia after World War II and is nowadays popular in the Balkans. Original homemade ajvar is made of roasted peppers and depending on the capsaicin content and the amount of added chili peppers, it can be sweet, piquant (the most common), or very hot.
Ajvar can be consumed as a bread spread, a side dish, or as a salad.
