Green peas are one of the ancient cultivated vegetables grown for their succulent nutritious green seeds. Peas probably have originated in the...
Made in Hungary
Lazy woman’s strudel / Lusta asszony rétese
Don't be fooled by the name of this cake, it has nothing to do with the traditional strudel, it's actually a fruity cottage cheese confection. It's...
Creamy garlic soup
"If everyone ate more garlic, the world would be a happy place" - this saying comes from the famous food author Ruth Reichl and I completely agree...
Roasted chicken legs with sausage
Chicken dishes are generally light and contain only a small amount of fat; however, it doesn't apply to the following recipe. This food is heavy,...
Coconut cookie roll – Kókuszos keksztekercs
Coconut cookie roll is an easy-to-make, no bake confection. Its dough is made from háztartási keksz, square shaped all-purpose crackers with a...
Cserta menti kanászleves
The name of this soup is another proof of the uniqueness of the Hungarian language. The English translation that can broadly describe its meaning...
Sonkás kocka – Ham square pasta
Sonkás kocka is an old member of the Hungarian pasta repertoire, which has lost some of its glamour lately. The noodles are not only cooked, but...
Fülesleves from Hódmezővásárhely
Hódmezővásárhely, a city in Southeast Hungary (25 km away from Szeged), has been one of the economic and cultural centers of the Great Hungarian...
Sour cherry – chestnut cake
The annual consumption of chestnut in Hungary is about 2000-3000 tons, most of this quantity (despite that chestnut is a versatile food that can be...
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...
Noodles with semolina – Grízes tészta
Noodles with semolina are a divisive food: it gives a lot of people the creeps, others even ask for a second helping. Though it's a 10 minute dish...
Walnut sour cherry bread pudding
This bread pudding is actually the summer version of the well known mákos guba. It's similarly made with stale crescents soaked in vanilla custard....
Likócsi pork goulash
I don't know if this soup has been named after Likócs, a garden district of Győr, or it has nothing to do with it, but it's surely one of the...
Kaiser rolls – Császárzsemle
Kaiser roll is a crusty round bread roll, originally from Austria, but due to those 51 years our country spent in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this...
Meatballs with tomato sauce
These meatballs are made from the same meat mixture that is used to stuff cabbage leaves and wax peppers. They are cooked in salty water and eaten...
Meggyes pite – Sour cherry squares
The history of pies dates back thousands of years. Archaeological finds prove that people already baked filled pastries 9500 BC. Those pies with...
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...
Stuffed chicken legs
Contrary to other parts of the world, where breast meat is almighty, in Hungary the most popular parts of the chicken are thighs and drumsticks....
Raspberry foam cake
In June Hungarian raspberries burst into season and they are busy swelling to their full splendour. Growing raspberries is a great way to enjoy your...
Borsos tokány / Pepper pork ragout
Tokány is the ancestor of the pörkölt, it was made without paprika and onion for centuries. In Transylvania stew is called tocană. Tokány can be...
Strawberry millet squares/ Epres kölesmálé
Did you know that millet can be a great base of delicious desserts? The Hungarian kölesmálé is a good example how this grain can be used in a...
Hunter style beef with bread roll dumplings
Vadas is a popular preparation method of game meat, but it works well with beef, too. Vadas or hunter style meat is a complex and rich dish with the...
Stuffed cabbage from Szabolcs
As I have written earlier, you can meet different recipes of stuffed cabbage depending on which part of the country you visit. Its name varies, too:...
Strawberry cottage cheese cake
The strawberry season lasts from mid-May till mid-June in Hungary, and market stalls are now sagging under the weight of the queen of the fruits....
Hungarian egg barley soup – Tarhonyaleves
Tarhonya, this traditional Hungarian egg-based pasta can be considered the heritage of the nomadic lifestyle of past Hungarian sheperds: wandering...
Noodles with cabbage – made in a somewhat different way
Fried cabbage with noodles is an old dish of the Hungarian cuisine, which often appears on the households' dining table. The authentic version of...
Cocoa snails – Kakaós csiga
10th January 1908 - this is the day when the first cocoa snails were born. A baker in Göd (a little town in the Danube bend, near Budapest)...
Kossuth-kifli – Walnut half moon cookies
According to the legend, the Hungarian politician, Lajos Kossuth generally stayed in the Hotel Zöldfa (Green tree) when he arrived to Bratislava in...
Lángos, the Hungarian street food
Lángos, this traditional Hungarian street food, is slowly conquering the whole world, the number of its fans is increasing day by day. Lángos...
Leipzig slices – Lipcsei szelet
It's not clear whether this cake was named after the largest city of Saxony, or its contriver's family name was Lipcsei / Leipzig, but it's sure...
Popular recipes
Flódni- Ischler cookies
- Golden walnut dumplings – Aranygaluska
Bejgli / Beigli- Lekváros derelye
- Körözött – Hungarian cheese spread
- Sólet, the slow cooked Jewish-Hungarian stew
- Zserbó / Gerbeaud Slices
- Sajtos stangli – Cheesy sticks
- Vargabéles
- Hungarian pork jelly – Kocsonya
- Házi rétes – Homemade strudel
- Langalló – The Hungarian pizza
- Hungarian cottage cheese bundles
- Mézes krémes
- How to make Hungarian sausage
- Stuffed cabbage from Szabolcs
- Coconut cookie roll – Kókuszos keksztekercs
- Hungarian goulash soup
- Rongyos kifli – Hungarian croissant
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.