Meat dishes

Tokány with pickled cucumbers

Tokány with pickled cucumbers

The easiest and at the same time the most difficult thing in making tokány is that you can cook it as you like it. There are so many variants known...

Stuffed peppers in tomato juice

Stuffed peppers in tomato juice

A light summer dish with low carbohydrate content. It's always made of sweet wax peppers, the most common type of peppers produced in Hungary....

Layered potatoes (Rakott krumpli)

Layered potatoes (Rakott krumpli)

Rakott krumpli or layered potatoes are a typical, Hungarian, baked casserole-type dish. It's made from only a few ingredients, but it contains all...

Beef shank stew

Beef shank stew

Reading the post's title a question may come up: why beef shank and not another beef part? Beef shank comes from the leg of a bull or a cow. Though...

Stuffed Cabbage

Stuffed Cabbage

Stuffed cabbage is one of the most typical winter dishes in Hungary. It spread in Hungary in the 18th century due to Turkish influence. It's...

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.

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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