Nuts, as part of a balanced diet, are a good source of key nutrients, healthy fats, and protein, and eating them on a regular basis provides several...
Desserts
Poppy seed pie – Mákos béles
If you want a poppy seed dessert for Christmas, but you don't have time and energy to make beigli, poppy seed pie (mákos béles) is for you. The most...
Poor man’s cake
Poor man's cake is actually a bread pudding made with milk, butter, lemon zest and raisins. It's a delicious treat and an even better way to reduce...
Chocolate-sour cherry mousse cake
This mousse cake is a light summer dessert. I usually use sour cherry for the fruity layer, however, I have also made the cake with blackcurrant,...
Redcurrant-semolina cream cake
Currants are member of the genus Ribes in the gooseberry family Grossulariaceae, they have long been cultivated in Europe. The berries grow in...
Vanilla-coconut cake
This vanilla-coconut cake consists of a cake layer, which is made with egg whites, flour and coconut, and a vanilla custard enriched with coconut,...
Apple yeast pancakes
In this recipe apples are not cut into rings, but they are diced and simply folded into a thick pancake batter, which contains yeast. The yeast...
Sweet millet dumplings – Kölesgombóc
Millet (köles) was grown in the Kingdom of Hungary for centuries, it was an important food of everyday diet in the Middle Ages until its cultivation...
Meringue cookies – Habcsók
Though I'm not a big fan of meringue cookies, they are a good way to use leftover egg whites. Whipping egg whites and sugar into a light dessert...
Walnut-vanilla cake
This walnut-vanilla cake is an old family recipe. It consists of two different cake layers and a cooked cream filling, which is enriched with...
Chestnut biscuit salami
Chestnut biscuit salami is a no-bake dessert, it's ideal for those who would like to keep Christmas simple. It may have been inspired by the Italian...
Breaded semolina porridge squares
We Hungarians love breading foods. The standard three-step breading process works on a variety of meats, cheese and vegetables - and surprisingly,...
Ördögpirula – Hungarian beignets coated in cocoa
Ördögpirula translates as the devil's pills, though it feels like heaven when you eat them. If we would like to find a fitting non-Hungarian term...
Darafelfújt – Semolina pudding souffle
Búzadara or gríz - these are the two Hungarian words we use for the gritty, coarse particles of wheat (regardless of the wheat's type) that are...
Kedves szelet
Kedves szelet is an old-fashioned layered cake, which has been a beloved dessert in my family for decades. It consists of 3 soft cake layers, which...
Wafers with walnut brittle cream
The hometown of wafers known today is Vienna where the first official recipe was created by Joseph Manner in 1898. He laid the foundations for the...
Lemon bars
The recipe of these delicious lemon bars is from my grandmother's cookbook and it's more than 60 years old. Lemon bars are one of the best desserts...
Buckwheat cake
More and more people are paying attention to healthy eating. However, we tend to spend a fortune on expensive superfoods instead of discovering...
Cottage cheese pancakes
This recipe is a piece of cake - you just mix all the ingredients together and fry the batter in batches until both sides are golden brown. I...
Fruitcake
Fruitcake shows up every year at Christmas, though it isn’t everyone’s favourite holiday treat. Mass-produced fruitcakes created the classic image...
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.