In Hungary wax beans or yellow beans are more popular than green beans, soup and stew (főzelék) are more often made with them. Wax beans do not...
Vegetable dishes
Krumplifőzelék – Sour cream potato stew
We often make főzelék, which is a special category in Hungarian cuisine and is a popular way to cook vegetables. Potatoes, which are cheap, easy to...
Házi paprikakrém – Homemade Hungarian red pepper paste
Have you heard of Erős Pista and Édes Anna? They are not living celebrities, but they are the brand names of the most popular Hungarian red pepper...
Cabbage in tomato sauce
Cabbage in tomato sauce is one of those divisive canteen foods in Hungary, which either appeals to you or gives you the shivers. However, homemade...
Répafőzelék – Carrot stew
This carrot stew is an old family recipe, we often cook and usually serve it with boiled pork (it can be a delicious sidedish after a pork bone...
Prepared horseradish
Easter is coming, so it's time to share the recipe of prepared horseradish. In Hungary horseradish is an inevitable part of the Easter menu, boiled...
Mushroom stew
We Hungarians can make stew from almost anything, mushroom is no exception. Packed with a ton of essential vitamins and minerals, mushrooms make for...
Lentil stew
If you are looking for a nutrient-packed, but no-fuss dish, this lentil stew can be a good choice for a hearty lunch or dinner. It’s a great way to...
Creamed zucchini
Zucchini is one of my favorite vegetables (it’s technically a fruit because it comes from a flower) to plant in our garden, it grows like crazy and...
Creamed spinach
Spinach, this leafy green vegetable that originated in Persia is considered very healthy as it’s loaded with nutrients and antioxidants. Despite its...
Lecsó with courgettes
Lecsó is a simple stew of glorious vegetables, the perfect example of a dish that is truly way grander than the sum of its ingredients. The...
Csalamádé – Mixed vegetable pickle
In Hungary main meals are often (or rather always) served with pickled vegetables. Cucumber, beet root, water melon, stuffed peppers or csalamádé...
Dill sauce
Dill is one of the most characteristic herbs of the Hungarian cuisine. Due to its tangy taste and fragrance this herb has two groups of fans: those...
Bálmos
Bálmos is an old Transylvanian dish, a kind of polenta made from coarsly ground cornmeal, bacon and sheep milk cheese. It was originally prepared...
Braised red cabbage
Braised red cabbage is the obligatory side dish of duck and goose roasts in Hungary. There are a number of ways to cook red cabbage but the most...
Savoy cabbage stew
Due to its attractive deep green colouring and crinkly leaves savoy cabbage popularity has never waned. Savoy cabbage is a very versatile brassica,...
Paprikás krumpli – Potato stew
Paprikás krumpli is a typical homemade dish, you can't eat it in restaurants. It takes only 25-30 minutes to prepare this great stew, so it's ideal...
Breaded cauliflower – Rántott karfiol
Cauliflower is usually considered a winter food, but thanks to greenhouses this great vegetable is already available whole year round and it...
Dödölle
Dödölle, ganca, gánica, cinke - all these names refer to one dish that is known and cooked throughout Hungary, a cheap peasant food that was eaten...
Yellow split pea stew – Sárgaborsó főzelék
Hungarian főzelék (vegetable stews) can be made not just from fresh vegetables, but from dried legumes, too. Split peas (sárgaborsó, felesborsó in...
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.