{{Short description|Slovenian walnut cake roll}} {{Infobox food | name = Potica | image = MintpoticabySara.jpg | caption = Slovenska potica is variation of rolled pastry. | image_alt = | alternate_name = Potica | country = Slovenia | region = all regions of Slovenia, Carinthia, Province of Trieste | creator = traditional folk food | type = Pastry | served = | main_ingredient = Sweet yeast dough, ground walnut, butter | variations = tarragon, quark, hazelnut, pumpkin seed, poppy seed, cracklings, bacon | calories = | cookbook = Poticza | other = }}
'''Potica''' ({{IPA|sl|pɔˈtiːt͡sa}}, also ''slovenska potica'') is a traditional festive pastry from Slovenia.
The word potica as well as some regional names for potica, like ''povtica'', ''potvica'', etc. are descended from the word ''povitica''. ''Povitica'' is derived from the verb 'poviti', which means to wrap in or to envelop, and it signifies a type of pastry that you roll. This type of dessert is common in many Eastern European countries as well as in regions bordering Slovenia, for example, in Friuli in neighboring Italy, they prepare a sweet bread called ''gubana'', in Austria, a roll called ''Kärntner Reinling''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is it pizza? No, it's potica! |url=https://www.slovenian-kitchen.com/blog-1/2022/03/05/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-potica |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Slovenian Kitchen |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Varieties== Potica consists of a rolled pastry made of leavened paper-thin dough filled with any of a great variety of fillings, but most often with walnut filling.
The most characteristic poticas are made with ground walnut, tarragon, quark, hazelnut or poppy seed, salted ones even with cracklings or bacon, and other fillings. Potica is a festive pastry and could be baked in two ways: in the oven or directly on the hearth, but original Slovenska potica is a ring-shaped pastry, baked always in the special shaped potica baking mould (ceramic, glass or tin one), called potičnik, which has a conical protrusion in the middle.
Potica is served also every Easter and Christmas in Slovenia and is still very popular even in some parts of the United States.<ref name="potica">[http://www.slovenia.info/?recepti=8321&lng=2&redirected=1 Official Slovenian recipe] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310181758/http://www.slovenia.info/?recepti=8321&lng=2&redirected=1 |date=March 10, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/pizza-or-potica-melania-trump-mistakes-pontiffs-question-during-trip-to-vatican|title=Is it pizza? No, it's potica: the pope gives Melania Trump food for thought|first=Carmen|last=Fishwick|date=24 May 2017|publisher=|accessdate=25 May 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> For example, potica is a popular offering at many local bakeries in Hibbing, Minnesota based on recipes handed down for generations in the immigrant community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacKay |first=Carolynn Purpura |date=2012 |title=Notes from Hibbing, Minnesota: The Hunt for Potica |url=http://www.americastestkitchenfeed.com/field-notes/2012/03/notes-from-hibbing-minnesota-the-hunt-for-potica/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326032940/http://www.americastestkitchenfeed.com/field-notes/2012/03/notes-from-hibbing-minnesota-the-hunt-for-potica/ |archive-date=2012-03-26 |website=America's Test Kitchen Feed}}</ref>
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px"> File:Poticza nut bread 2020.png|Potica made with mixed nuts and cinnamon Image:Potičnik.jpg|Potičnik - traditional baking mould for potica File:Velika noč - jedila hren šunka pirhi potica.jpg|Potica as part of traditional Slovenian Easter breakfast File:Potica at Kaiser's Six Point Bakery (2129648111).jpg|American potica at Kaiser's Six Point Bakery </gallery>
==Protection regime== Slovenska potica has been registered as a traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG) in the European Union since April 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety-and-quality/certification/quality-labels/geographical-indications-register/details/EUGI00000016996|title=Slovenska potica|publisher=European Union|access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Food}} * Belokranjska povitica
==References== {{Reflist}}
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