In Hungary the most widely planted bean type is yellow bean, this variety is more popular than green bean. Yellow beans belong to the family of snap...
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Lettuce soup
It's June and lettuce plants are growing their heads industriously in our garden. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to tell you about this super...
Langalló – The Hungarian pizza
Langalló, kenyérlángos, töki pompos, Scythian pizza - they all are the names of an old Hungarian food. Langalló is a flat bread, similar to the...
Túrós csusza – Cottage cheese noodles
Túrós csusza is a traditional Hungarian pasta dish that consists of egg noodles, cottage cheese, sour cream and smoked bacon. The noodles are cooked...
Mátrai borzaska – Pork chops coated in grated potatoes
Mátrai borzaska means pork chops in potato coating, topped with sour cream, garlic and cheese. Its literal English translation means unkempt meat,...
Plum coffeecake with cinnamon sour cream
In Hungary the most common fruit tree is plum tree. Two plum trees fall to every Hungarian citizens, their number mounts up to 25% of the country's...
Chicken csorba soup
Csorba soup is an emblematic meal of the Transylvanian cuisine. There are many different csorba recipes, so you can make experiments to find the...
Variations on cucumber salad
Cucumber salad is the most popular salad in Hungary. Half of the Hungarians prefer the cucumber salad with sour cream, the other half swear by the...
Popular recipes
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.
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.