The main ingredient of körözött was originally Liptauer or liptói túró, a sheep-milk based cheese. Liptó was a county of Hungary until the end of WWI. Liptó got disannexed from Hungary in 1919, and now it’s part of Slovakia. Though we lost Liptó, we never stopped eating körözött.

In our days körözött is made with ship’s milk cheese, or sheep’s milk cheese and cottage cheese fifty-fifty, but there are many who just use cottage cheese. If you choose sheep’s milk cheese, don’t add salt because it’s salty enough to make a tasty spread. Main spices are caraway seeds that give its unique taste and sweet ground paprika that turns its colour into nice orange. To make the cheese spread soft and smooth, it’s necessary to combine with butter or sour cream.