These poppy seed bundles are made from a light and soft dough containing a considerable amount of cottage cheese and lard. The filling is a special...
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Libaláb
Libaláb (do not confuse it with lúdláb) implies jam filled, folded cookies, which are rolled in granulated sugar before baking. The cookies are...
Cottage cheese bundt cake
This soft and delicious homemade cottage cheese bundt cake is like the little black dress of dessert: it's elegant in its simplicity and it’s...
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...
Shredded cottage cheese squares – Reszelt túrós
Here is one more Hungarian recipe for túró. Reszelt túrós is highly recommended for those who aren't on friendly terms with a rolling pin. The dough...
Túrós pite – Cottage cheese pie
If you want to eat a tasteful, soft and mellow cottage cheese pie, you have to make your own cake. Store-bought pie usually fall short of...
Vargabéles
Vargabéles is a Transylvanian dessert, its hometown is Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). It was first made in the restaurant of the Darvas family in the...
Onion-cottage cheese dumplings from Neszmély
This pasta recipe comes from Neszmély, a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, which is the centre of the Neszmély wine region and can be found 70...
Layered strudel cake – Százrétű rétes
Hundred layer strudel or prekmurska gibanica - even though it's a traditional Slovenian dessert, transborder Hungarians living in Slovenia...
Crispy cottage cheese bites
If you feel like having some snacks, but you are bored with scones, cottage cheese bites are an ideal choice. The list of ingredients is curt,...
Túrós ökörszem
Even though there would be a demand for it since many people remember this pastry with certain nostalgia, you can find ökörszem in Hungarian...
Túró Rudi torta
Túró Rudi is one those things that makes the Hungarian heart beat faster. It's the sweets Hungarians living abroad miss the most. This popular...
Lightning fast cocoa snails
The dough of these rolls is yeast free, requiring neither folding nor proofing. Cottage cheese is the key element, it makes the snails butter-soft....
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...
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....
Búvártúrós
The name of this dessert is another proof of the uniqueness of our language: Hungarian language is cut out for playing with the words and creating...
Cottage cheese crêpes
It's not a big deal to make crêpes (palacsinta), but there are a few tricks that can make your job easier. Crêpes will be lighter, if you sift the...
Cottage cheese scones – Túrópogácsa
Last weekend we killed a pig, and on that occasion I baked cottage cheese scones. Scones are inevitable element of the pig killing day in Hungary;...
Transylvanian cottage cheese doughnuts
I'm a doughnut enthusiast, they are definitely on my Top 10 list, but I'm only interested in homemade ones. I was so excited when I first met those...
Hungarian cottage cheese bundles
I was seeking for a dessert recipe in my cookbooks when the description of these lovely cottage cheese bundles got into my hands. I last baked them...
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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.