Potato pasta, also known as gránátos kocka or grenadírmars, is a simple and cheap dish made from potatoes and noodles. Despite that its recipe...
Noodles
Slambuc
Slambuc is an old Hungarian pastoral dish, which is made with bacon, noodles and potatoes. It's cooked in bogrács, if not, it can't be called...
Sheperd’s noodles / Pásztortarhonya
Pásztortarhonya is a typical Hungarian one-pot meal, a great and filling legacy of old times. Hungarians' ancestors were stock-breeder and they...
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...
Sztrapacska – Potato dumplings with bryndza
Although Bryndzové halusky or sztrapacska is actually a Slovak dish, the recipe can't be omitted from my list. The Slovaks are the third largest...
Eggy dumplings – Tojásos nokedli
Here in Hungary we have some "national" dishes, which make us sentimental when we think of them, but foreigners usually react with raised eyebrows...
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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.