When you want a homemade croissant, stop by for Pan-pek salenjak! These, popularly called, Croatian croissants are waiting for you delicious, crispy, handmade and with a tasty traditional plum jam filling in your nearest Pan-store!

Winter is coming and in Croatia it means one thing - it's time for our favorite Pan-pek Salenjaci! We prepare and bake them so well that they are always in demand at this time of year. In fact, they are so popular that our customers are asking for them since September!

What's the secret? Main ingredient you need to make Salenjaci is pork lard, and in Pan-pek we make them following our traditional recipe, fill them with fine plum jam, the one with Podravka's signature, and we close each Salenjak cookie by hand to give it its distinctive shape. Keep reading!

Salenjaci are a traditional product very popular in Croatia, and one makes them with pork lard. In the past, their preparation was associated with „kolinje“, and today they are a favorite winter cookie and an integral part of holiday tables.

The process of making Salenjaci begins with the preparation of the leavened dough. A block of lard is then placed on the dough and sealed within the dough. Then you need to stretch and fold the dough to create beautiful, flaky layers. The process with a block of pork fat is similar to the process of making puff pastry, except that here instead of butter we use pork fat. It is precisely this type of fat that gives Salenjaci a special crispness and a flaky structure, similar to that of puff pastry, and because of the way it is prepared, this irresistible winter treat is often called a Croatian croissant.

The dough prepared in this way is finally rolled out to a thickness of about 1 cm, cut into smaller pieces and then the filling is placed in the middle of each piece of dough. At Pan-pek, we use famous Podravka plum jam, which is also a traditional product and a favorite flavor of all generations.

Our colleagues at Pan-pek hand-seal each individual jam-filled Salenjak into their final, distinctive shape and then bake it. Result? Irresistibly crispy, perfectly flaky cookies, filled with unique Podravka plum jam, with the taste of tradition and grandmother's cooking - our Pan-pek Salenjaci are recommended among customers and always beloved!