Slovenian cuisine is under a considerable influence of the neighbouring countries’ cuisines: Austria, Italy, Croatia and Hungary. Its basis is cereals, dairy products, meat (especially pork), sea and fresh-water fish, vegetables, beans, olives and grape. Slovenia has borrowed sausage, Wiener Schnitzel and strudel from the Austrian cuisine. Among popular Italian dishes, which can be tasted in Slovenia, there are almost all kinds of dishes made from pasta (testenine), potato dumplings called gnocchi, pizza (pica), risotto (rižota) and zlikrofi, which resemble ravioli a lot.Hungarian cuisine has gifted the local one with goulash (golaz), braised chicken or beef (paprikas) and palacink – thin pancakes which are filled with jam or nuts and chocolate is poured over them. Apple pie and meat double-cake (burek) relate to the main Balkan dishes.