Hortobágy meat crêpes

by | Mar 8, 2016 | Meat dishes

Hortobágy crêpes are considered as one of the most traditional Hungarian dishes, whose recipe was created for the Brussels World Fair in 1958, although something similar was already published in the cookbook of Mrs. Kollmann in 1939. Hortobágy crêpes, which are virtually served as a hot appetizer in the restaurants, are filled with stew meat, folded up and poured over with the stew sauce combined with sour cream. Despite their fancy name, which rather serves tourist attractive purposes, these crêpes have nothing to do with Europe’s largest grassland.

Many cooks tend to use leftover stew for filling the crêpes, but I don’t recommend it – this dish is not a leftover graveyard, it deserves a fresh, savory stew, which doesn’t take such a long time to cook. The meat can be veal, pork or chicken; if you decide on chicken, instead of the dry, tasteless chicken breast use boneless thighs, so your stew will be much juicier.

Don’t use mince to make the stew, but dice the meat instead – the result will be more palatable this way. You can grind the meat afterwards, or, as I did, use a fork to mash the tender meat.
The stew sauce is drained off and thickened with sour cream and flour. Avoid adding to much flour since the goal is not to make an adhesive paste, but a light and silky sauce. The sauce can be enriched with a dash of cream, but don’t let it dominate.

Hortobágy meat crepes
Hortobágy meat crepes – photo: zserbo.com
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Hungarian cottage cheese

This is what Hungarian túró looks like

You often ask me what kind of cottage cheese (or curd cheese or farmer's cheese - call it what you want) I use in the recipes. In Hungary the store-bought cottage cheese is dry and crumbly as you can see in the picture. So if a recipe calls for túró, I mean this type. If you can't obtain túró, you can try to make your own from whole milk. Click on the link below.

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Metric system vs cup

In Hungary metric units are in use, all the recipes on this website are based on this system, so a kitchen scale is necessary. Since I’m not familiar with cup as a measurement unit, I convert grams to cups by using an online converter. The values in brackets, therefore, are only approximate volumes, so, please, double-check them before you start cooking.

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