Recipe Index
Breads, buns & biscuits
- Apple turnovers
- Apricot jam filled buns
- Apricot-vanilla pudding filled bundt cake
- Banana leaves from Orosháza
- Beigli
- Beigli with chestnut filling
- Borsos kalács – Pepper buns
- Búrkifli – Walnut and poppy seed crescents
- Butter scones – Vajas pogácsa
- Cabbage scones – Káposztás pogácsa
- Cheese crescent rolls
- Cheese scones
- Chimney Cake
- Chocolate-bilberry crescents
- Chocolate covered pretzels
- Chocolate-hazelnut sweet braided bread
- Hungarian vintage cookies: Chocolate-vanilla rings
- Classic salty tea biscuits
- Cocoa snails – Kakaós csiga
- Cottage cheese bundt cake
- Cottage cheese scones – Túrópogácsa
- Crackling scones – Tepertős pogácsa
- Crispy cottage cheese bites
- Csacsifül
- Csotros kalács
- Darálós keksz – Spritz cookies, meat grinder cookies
- Deák Bundt Cake / Deák-kuglóf
- Diós kosárka – Walnut filled shortcrust pastry cupcakes
- Easter ham-horseradish puff pastry wreath
- Easy-to-make crackling scones
- Egérke – Spoon doughnuts
- Frankfurter rolls
- Hajtovány – Cheese buns
- Ham scones
- Házi rétes – Homemade strudel
- Honey-butter sweet bread
- Hungarian braided sweet bread
- Hungarian bundt cake with raisins
- Hungarian cottage cheese bundles
- Hungarian gingerbread biscuits – Mézes puszedli
- Hungarian leaf fat pastry – Hájas tészta
- Hungarian plum jam biscuits – Lekváros papucs
- Hungarian poppy seed roll – Mákos kalács
- Hungarian vintage cookies part 2: Pilot biscuits
- Hungarian white bread
- Ischler cookies
- Kaiser rolls – Császárzsemle
- Kakastaréj – Walnut crescent rolls
- Kapros dübbencs – Dill buns
- Karcagi Ferdinánd – sweet vanilla-butter snails from Eastern Hungary
- Kokosh cake – Kakaós kalács
- Kossuth-kifli – Walnut half moon cookies
- Krumplis pogácsa – Potato scones
- Langalló – The Hungarian pizza
- Lángos, the Hungarian street food
- Lard scones – Zsíros pogácsa
- Libaláb
- Lightning fast cocoa snails
- Linzer cookies
- Mandulás kifli – Almond crescents
- Mini salty crescent rolls
- Molnárka
- Moscauer
- Nero tea biscuits
- Non plus ultra
- Ostoros kalács
- Őznyelv – Deer’s tongue
- Paprika crescents
- Papsapka
- Peach biscuits
- Pepita scones – Tökmagos pogácsa
- Plum jam bundt cake
- Plum jam dumplings
- Plum jam filled buns with vanilla custard / Lekváros bukta
- Poppy seed bundles
- Potato doughnuts
- Potato strudel
- Pozsony crescents – Pozsonyi kifli
- Raised crullers – Kelt csöröge
- Ribboned carnival doughnuts
- Ring doughnuts
- Rongyos kifli – Hungarian croissant
- Rongyos lapótya
- Rose doughnuts – Rózsafánk
- Round challah – Kerek barhesz
- Rugelach
- Sajtos stangli – Cheesy sticks
- Cheese straws
- Salty crescents – Sós kifli
- Salty pretzels
- Sausage scones
- Scones with cottage cheese spread – Körözöttes pogácsa
- Snow crescents – Hókifli
- Sour cream crescents
- Striped butter cookies
- Sunflower shaped sweet bread
- Swabian onion pie
- Tarkedli, the Czech donut
- Transylvanian cottage cheese doughnuts
- Túrós ökörszem
- Twisted plum jam doughnuts
- Two-tone bundt cake
- Vízen kullogó
- Wasp nest – Darázsfészek
- Zsemle
Desserts
- 5 layer cocoa slices
- Apple pancake rings
- Apple yeast pancakes
- Apricot slices
- Bonfire stack – Máglyarakás
- Breaded semolina porridge squares
- Buckwheat cake
- Búvártúrós
- Cat’s eye – Macskaszem
- Chestnut biscuit salami
- Chocolate coconut balls – Kókuszgolyó
- Chocolate-raspberry-poppy seed squares
- Chocolate-sour cherry mousse cake
- Chocolate-walnut slices
- Coconut cookie roll – Kókuszos keksztekercs
- Cottage cheese crêpes
- Cottage cheese dumplings
- Cottage cheese pancakes
- Darafelfújt – Semolina pudding souffle
- Dill and cottage cheese squares
- Dobos torte
- Esterházy torta
- Fedák Cake – In memory of a great actress
- Floating islands
- Flódni
- Fruitcake
- Golden walnut dumplings – Aranygaluska
- Goosefoot cake – Lúdláb torta
- Gundel crepes
- Hazelnut slab pie – Mogyorós béles
- Heavenly apricot pie
- Home-made Sweet Chestnut Puree
- Hungarian apple pie
- Hungarian coconut cubes
- Hungarian cornmeal squares with plum jam – Kukoricaprósza
- Hungarian cream puffs – Képviselőfánk
- Hungarian curd cheese squares in Rákóczi style
- Hungarian krémes
- Hungarian punch cake – Puncstorta
- Indiáner
- Kaiserschmarrn – Császármorzsa
- Kedves szelet
- Kugler Cake
- Lakatosinas
- Lattice-top sour cherry pie
- Layered strudel cake – Százrétű rétes
- Lazy woman’s strudel / Lusta asszony rétese
- Leipzig slices – Lipcsei szelet
- Lemon bars
- Let’s make szaloncukor
- Log cake – Fatörzs
- Magnate’s walnut pie
- Mákos guba – Poppy seed bread pudding
- Meggyes pite – Sour cherry squares
- Meringue cookies – Habcsók
- Mézes krémes
- Honey-vanilla squares / Mézes tészta
- Mézes zserbó – Honey Gerbeaud slices
- Mignon
- Női szeszély – Women’s whim cake
- Old school cocoa stir cake
- Ördögpirula – Hungarian beignets coated in cocoa
- Plum coffeecake with cinnamon sour cream
- Poor man’s cake
- Poppy seed pie – Mákos béles
- Poppy seed potato dumplings – Mákos nudli
- Quince Paste
- Raspberry foam cake
- Redcurrant-semolina cream cake
- Rezi szelet
- Rice pudding with fruits
- Rigó Jancsi
- Rizskoch – Hungarian rice pudding souffle
- Rum-walnut-cocoa slices
- Russian cream torte – Oroszkrém torta
- Sárgatúró – Hungarian Easter egg cheese
- Shredded cottage cheese squares – Reszelt túrós
- Somlo Trifle
- Sour cherry – chestnut cake
- Strawberry cottage cheese cake
- Strawberry millet squares/ Epres kölesmálé
- Sweet millet dumplings – Kölesgombóc
- Szaloncukor
- The Hungarian royal icing filled isler – Habos isler
- Törökméz – Honeycomb toffee
- Túró Rudi torta
- Túrós pite – Cottage cheese pie
- Vanilla-coconut cake
- Vargabéles
- Wafers with walnut brittle cream
- Walnut cake
- Walnut-honey coffee cake
- Walnut sour cherry bread pudding
- Walnut-vanilla cake
- Zserbó / Gerbeaud Slice
Meat dishes
- Beef shank stew
- Beer roasted chicken thighs
- Borsos tokány / Pepper pork ragout
- Braised and roasted pork shank / Csülök pékné módra
- Brassói aprópecsenye
- Bugaci borsós betyár
- Chicken ragout with kohlrabi
- Csikós tokány – Wrangler’s pork stew
- Dried bean ragout with smoked pork and sausage
- Dubarry pork cutlets
- Esterházy chicken ragout
- Fasírt – Pork patties
- Fried liver with onions
- Garlic pork rib roast with parsley potatoes
- Gyuvecs
- Hortobágy meat crêpes
- Hortobágy pork stew with sausage
- How to cook a Hungarian Easter ham
- How to make Hungarian sausage
- Hungarian Chicken Paprikash
- Hungarian gizzard stew
- Hungarian layered millet mush
- Hungarian pork jelly – Kocsonya
- Hungarian venison stew
- Hunter style beef with bread roll dumplings
- Kolozsvári layered sauerkraut – Kolozsvári rakott káposzta
- Lacikrumpli
- Lacipecsenye
- Layered potatoes (Rakott krumpli)
- Lemon roast pheasant with onion-apple sauté
- Lucskos káposzta – Pork stew with cabbage
- Ludaskása
- Májas hurka
- Mátrai borzaska – Pork chops coated in grated potatoes
- Meatballs with tomato sauce
- Pan-fried pork blade steaks in Gypsy style
- Pork feet stew – Körömpörkölt
- Pig Slaughter
- Pork ragout with mushrooms
- Pork rib roast with paprika-onion dumplings
- Pork roast with lecsó
- Pork stew in Bakony style
- Pork stew with rice / Bácskai rizseshús
- Rác oldalas – Serbian pork ribs
- Rácbab – Serbian bean stew
- Rakott csülök – Layered pork shank
- Roasted chicken legs with sausage
- Pork stew with sauerkraut – Toros káposzta
- Sólet, the slow cooked Jewish-Hungarian stew
- Stefánia meatloaf
- Stuffed Cabbage
- Stuffed cabbage from Szabolcs
- Stuffed chicken legs
- Stuffed peppers in tomato juice
- Stuffed pork flank
- Stuffed pork flank with ham and hard boiled eggs
- Swabian pork chops
- Temesvári pork loin
- Tokány with pickled cucumber
- Tordai pecsenye – Roast of Torda
- Transylvanian beef stew with polenta
- Transylvanian sour cabbage rolls
- Vasi pecsenye – Garlic pork butt from the Őrség
Noodles
- Eggy dumplings
- Gulka
- Húsos galuska – Meaty dumplings
- Layered egg barley
- Lekváros derelye
- Mocskos tészta – Dirty noodles
- Noodles with cabbage – made in a somewhat different way
- Noodles with semolina – Grízes tészta
- Onion-cottage cheese dumplings from Neszmély
- Poppy seed noodles – Mákos tészta
- Sztrapacska – Potato dumplings with bryndza
- Potato pasta – Krumplis tészta
- Reszelt tészta – Shredded noodles
- Savoury crepes with mushrooms and ham
- Semolina dumplings – Grízgaluska
- Sheperd’s noodles / Pásztortarhonya
- Slambuc
- Somogyi galuska
- Sonkás kocka – Ham square pasta
- Sterc
- Túrós csusza
Soups
- Apple soup
- Bakonyi betyárleves – Bakony outlaw’s soup
- Bean goulash – Babgulyás
- Cabbage soup
- Caraway seed soup – Köménymagos leves
- Cauliflower soup
- Cauliflower soup with green peas and nokedli
- Chicken csorba soup
- Chicken (or Duck) Soup with Quince
- Classic tomato soup with alphabet pasta
- Cream of broccoli soup
- Cream of yellow split pea soup
- Creamy cauliflower soup with tarragon
- Creamy garlic soup
- Cserta menti kanászleves
- Csorba soup with meatballs
- Dried bean soup with quince
- Fruit soup
- Fülesleves from Hódmezővásárhely
- Garlic chicken soup
- Gölödinleves – Potato dumpling soup
- Green pea soup
- Hen soup in Újházy style
- Hungarian egg barley soup – Tarhonyaleves
- Hungarian egg drop soup – Savanyú tojásleves
- Hungarian fisherman’s soup
- Hungarian goulash soup
- Hungarian pork bone stock – Orjaleves
- Hungarian potato soup
- Hungarian yellow bean soup
- Kohlrabi soup
- Kötöttgaluska-leves – Knot noodle soup
- Lebbencs soup with ground pork
- Leek soup
- Lentil goulash
- Lentil soup with tarragon
- Lettuce soup
- Likócsi pork goulash
- Mushroom soup
- Palots soup
- Pandúrleves – Pandour’s soup
- Pinto bean soup
- Pork ragout soup with tarragon
- Potato soup with summer savory
- Reaper’s soup – Kaszás leves
- Red lentil soup with sausage chips
- Hungarian sauerkraut soup – Korhelyleves
- Savoy cabbage and frankfurter soup
- Swabian onion soup
- Jókai bean soup – The great tale-teller’s favorite soup
- Tomato soup with wide strip noodles
- Veal ragout soup with potato dumplings from the Nyírség
- Vegetable soup with liver dumplings – Májgombóc leves
- Vegetable soup with zucchini and butter dumplings
- Wax bean soup with ham and shredded noodles
- White summer squash soup with dill
Vegetable dishes
- A world famous Hungarian spice
- Ajvár
- Bálmos
- Braised red cabbage
- Breaded cauliflower – Rántott karfiol
- Cabbage casserole
- Cabbage in tomato sauce
- Celeriac salad
- Creamed zucchini
- Csalamádé – Mixed vegetable pickle
- Dill sauce
- Dödölle
- Elderflower soft drink
- Gooseberry sauce
- Green pea stew with bay leaf and vinegar
- Green pea stew with milk and parsley
- Házi paprikakrém – Homemade Hungarian red pepper paste
- Homemade fermented cucumbers
- Homemade tomato sauce alias ketchup
- Homemade vegetable seasoning blend
- Hungarian layered green bean casserole – Rakott zöldbab
- Kohlrabi stew – Karalábéfőzelék
- Körözött – Hungarian cheese spread
- Krumpli móring
- Krumplifőzelék – Sour cream potato stew
- Lapcsánka alias potato pancakes
- Layered cauliflower
- Layered Swiss chard
- Lecsó
- Lecsó with courgettes
- Lentil salad
- Lentil stew
- Mushroom stew
- Paprikás krumpli – Potato stew
- Prepared horseradish
- Répafőzelék – Carrot stew
- Sauerkraut – The real multivitamin
- Savoy cabbage stew
- Creamed spinach
- Tejes kása – Polenta dumplings in milk
- Variations on cucumber salad
- Vegetable marrow stew with pork ragout
- Verzár – Cabbage filled pancakes
- Wax bean stew
- White kidney bean stew
- Yellow split pea stew – Sárgaborsó főzelék
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.