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...
Made in Hungary
Lebbencs soup with ground pork
Lebbencs is one of the simplest noodles that are used in the Hungarian cuisine. It's the main ingredient of slambuc and túrós csusza, and it's also...
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...
Ludaskása
In autumn and winter we often eat goose, which is an excellent source of protein, iron, vitamin B2 and B6. Ludaskása is one of the most popular...
Creamy cauliflower soup with tarragon
This creamy cauliflower soup is a pure comfort food; it calls for basic ingredients but yields amazing flavor. If you have a head of cauliflower in...
Papsapka
Papsapka looks like cottage cheese bundles, but it still differs. This oddly named pastry, which means priest's cap in English, refers to the form...
Buckwheat cake
More and more people are paying attention to healthy eating. However, we tend to spend a fortune on expensive superfoods instead of discovering...
Ring doughnuts
Sometimes even the tiniest thing is enough to make us feel all right for a moment. To me, biting into a doughnut is one of those things. While not a...
Cottage cheese pancakes
This recipe is a piece of cake - you just mix all the ingredients together and fry the batter in batches until both sides are golden brown. I...
Fruitcake
Fruitcake shows up every year at Christmas, though it isn’t everyone’s favourite holiday treat. Mass-produced fruitcakes created the classic image...
Two-tone bundt cake
Bundt cake - especially with yeast dough - summons the spirit of good old times and it is one of those old fashioned recipes that will always have...
Pork rib roast with paprika-onion dumplings
This pork rib roast recipe comes from Galgahévíz, a small village in Pest county. It's a heavy meal, so in order to enjoy it, you need to have an...
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...
Walnut-honey coffee cake
This walnut-honey coffee cake is light and fluffy and when it’s baking, it will make your house smell like fall. It has a rich taste due to the...
Honey-butter sweet bread
I learned the recipe of this honey-butter sweet bread a few months ago. What raised my interest was an unusual ingredient, namely corn flour, which...
Apricot jam filled buns
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may know that I have already shared the recipe of lekváros bukta (a special one with plum butter and...
Walnut cake
This walnut cake was my grandmother's favourite dessert. She learned the recipe from a friend of hers in 1959 and she always made it at Christmas...
Mini salty crescent rolls
While salty crescents are eaten for breakfast, these mini salty crescent rolls are a popular homemade snack, which is usually made when you have...
Potato soup with summer savory
Summer savory (Satureja hortensis - csombor or borsikafű in Hungarian), which has been growing in our garden for seven years, can be described as a...
Potato strudel
We can call these rolls the poor men's strudel because in lean years when poppy seeds and walnuts were not avaible or people couldn't afford them,...
Salty pretzels
Pretzels have been with us for centuries. Opinions differ about the pretzel's origin, as well as the origin of the name. Some assume that the...
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...
Pork roast with lecsó
Lecsó is basically a meatless summer dish usually combined with beaten eggs, rarely with rice. But if you find it too light, you can serve lecsó...
Rongyos lapótya
Rongyos lapótya is a pan-fried flatbread that can be considered as the little brother of lángos. It's made from a yeasted dough spread with lard....
White summer squash soup with dill
Most summer squash today are varieties of Cucurbita pepo. Summer squash plants differ from winter squash because most summer squash varieties bear...
Női szeszély – Women’s whim cake
Női szeszély is an old Hungarian recipe, which was very popular decades ago. The origin of its name isn't known, but the different versions that...
Wax bean soup with ham and shredded noodles
If you have already checked the Hungarian wax bean soup off your to-do list and you seek for new impressions wax beans can provide, this hearty dish...
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...
Reszelt tészta – Shredded noodles
We Hungarians can't imagine lunch without soup. Soups are an integral part of our culture, even our conquering ancestors often cooked soups in...
Sterc
Sterc is a simple and cheap dish, it can also be called the poor man's Kaiserschmarrn. Nowadays sterc is rarely on the menu, it's cooked mainly in...
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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.