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...
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Zsemle
Beside bakery crescent zsemle or Hungarian bun is the other fundamental bakery product in Hungary. However, finding good zsemle in the...
Plum coffeecake with cinnamon sour cream
In Hungary the most common fruit tree is plum tree. Two plum trees fall to every Hungarian citizens, their number mounts up to 25% of the country's...
Kohlrabi soup
Kohlrabi is a cultivar of cabbage, grown throughout the whole year. It can be eaten raw as well as cooked. It contains vitamin C, vitamin B1, B2 and...
Salty crescents – Sós kifli
In Hungary most people choose some kind of bakery product for breakfast, salty crescents or sós kifli are among the most popular ones. Salty...
Homemade vegetable seasoning blend
I only know a few things that divide people more than food seasonings and bouillon cubes. They are said to add flavour to dishes by enriching the...
Körözött – Hungarian cheese spread
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...
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...
Chicken csorba soup
Csorba soup is an emblematic meal of the Transylvanian cuisine. There are many different csorba recipes, so you can make experiments to find the...
Dill and cottage cheese squares – Kapros-túrós lepény
This dill and cottage cheese pie was my grandma's favorite dessert. It's a real peacetime recipe from her hand-written cookbook. In fact, it can be...
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...
Cottage cheese dumplings – Túrógombóc
Although it's an easy-to-make dessert, it took years before I found the perfect recipe of these cottage cheese dumplings (túrógombóc). It was shared...
Homemade tomato sauce alias ketchup
To tell you the truth, I steer clear of store-bought ketchup because I haven't managed to make me familiar with its artificial taste. Sure, making...
Variations on cucumber salad
Cucumber salad is the most popular salad in Hungary. Half of the Hungarians prefer the cucumber salad with sour cream, the other half swear by the...
Lecsó
Lecsó looks faintly like the French ratatouille, however, the main ingredients of this typical Hungarian summer one-course meal are pepper, tomato...
Hungarian apple pie
Hungarian apple pie is my favorite dessert. Its grandeur lies in the recipe's simplicity. Apple and cinnamon wrapped in short pastry - the world's...
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....
Leavened cucumbers – Kovászos uborka
Leavened cucumbers - the eternal summer favourite, obligatory attendant of stews and roasted meats; sunshine and warm are necessary to prepare these...
Ajvár
Ajvár is a Serbian sauce, but it becomes more and more popular in Hungary. It's made from red pepper, aubergine and garlic, served with roasted...
Heavenly apricot pie
Sweet. Fragrant. Beautiful. These three words come to my mind when we are talking about apricot. It's one of the most valueable and healthy fruits....
Palots soup – Palócleves
Palots soup was invented by Johann Gundel, the founder of the Gundel dynasty. Johann arrived to Hungary in 1857 to try his luck. He made an...
Indiáner
The story of Indiáner relates closely to the Theater an der Wien whose intendant was Count Ferdinánd Pálffy in the first half of the 19th century....
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
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...
Hen soup in Újházy style
Pursuant to an online survey this hen soup is our country's favorite soup, obligatory part of the menu of weddings and special events. It's named...
Oven baked chimney cake
Chimney cake (or kürtőskalács in Hungarian) is a popular pastry specific to the Hungarian-speaking regions, mainly to Szekler Land (East...
Jókai bean soup – The great tale-teller’s favorite soup
Jókai bean soup is named after Mór Jókai (1825-1904), one of the greatest Hungarian writers. He was the greatest figure of Hungarian romantic prose....
Pork stew with sauerkraut – Toros káposzta
Pork stew with sauerkraut (toros káposzta) is an obligatory dish of pig-killing day in several regions of Hungary. Traditionally it's served for...
Paprika, a world famous Hungarian spice
There is a common trait of many Hungarian dishes, namely they are inconceivable without paprika. If you browse in the old cook books of the 17th and...
Pig Slaughter
Pig slaughter is a very important event in the villages, a part of the Hungarian culture for centuries. Pig is killed to provide the family with...
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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.