Hungary
Paprika-rich soups and stews, sour cream, crisp lángos and grand café-house tortes. That is the short version of what Hungary cooks. Look for Goulash (paprika beef soup with potatoes and pinched csipetke noodles), Chicken paprikash (chicken in creamy paprika sauce with nokedli dumplings) and Lángos (deep-fried dough slathered with garlic, sour cream, cheese). Gulyás was the herdsmen’s kettle stew of the Great Plain; nineteenth-century nationalists promoted it as a symbol against Habsburg cooking. This atlas has 39 Hungary dishes catalogued below, from everyday cooking to food kept for festivals and special occasions.
39 dishes.
Winter salamimould-ripened pork salami, cold-smoked and aged for months
ZserboLayered walnut and apricot jam slice glazed with dark chocolate.
Zsiros kenyerBread spread with pork lard, topped with red onion and paprika.-
Fröccs
Wine cut with soda water, ordered by named ratios. 2 min to prepare. 1 glass. A cocktail recipe from Hungary.
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Gundel palacsinta
Walnut-and-raisin crêpe flamed in rum with dark chocolate sauce. Ready in 40 minutes prep and 40 minutes cooking. Serves 6.…
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Hortobágyi palacsinta
Savory crepes filled with paprikash meat, gratinéed in sauce. Ready in 30 min prep and 1 hr 10 min cooking.…
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Hurka
Liver or blood sausage bulked with rice, fried until the skin crisps. Ready in 1 hour prep and 1 hour…
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Körözött
Sheep-curd spread whipped with paprika, onion and caraway. 15 min to prepare. Serves 6. A cheese & dairy recipe from…
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Kovászos uborka
Cucumbers soured in the summer sun with bread and dill. 20 min to prepare. Fills a 3-litre jar. A fermented…
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Kremes
Thick vanilla custard between puff pastry, dusted with icing sugar. Ready in 45 min prep and 30 min cooking. 12…
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Krampampuli
Rum burned over sugar and dried fruit in a darkened room, ladled hot. Ready in 15 min prep and 20…
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Kürtőskalács
Spit-roasted chimney cake rolled in caramelised sugar. Ready in 30 min prep and 25 min cooking. 6 cakes. A street…