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 expectations, in order to avoid disappointment you’d better...
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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 km far from Budapest. These noodles are a kind...
Layered strudel cake – Százrétű rétes
Hundred layer strudel or prekmurska gibanica – even though it’s a traditional Slovenian dessert, transborder Hungarians living in Slovenia often bake this cake, so it has place in my recipe collection. If you see...
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, consisting of butter, flour, cottage cheese and salt....
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 bakeries very rarely. Ökörszem, which literally means ox’s eye in...
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 cottage cheese filled chocolate bar has been produced since 1968....
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. Hungarian cottage cheese is quite dry and crumbly, if you...
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 ideal for novice housewives and for those who...
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. Strawberries belong to the family of roses, and they...
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 witty expressions. The literal translation of búvártúrós could...
Cottage cheese crépes
It’s not a big deal to make crépes (palacsinta), but there are a few tricks that can make your job easier. Crépes will be lighter, if you sift the flour before adding to 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; if pálinka is the welcome drink, pogácsa can...
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 lovely cottage cheese donuts, and I felt...
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 years ago, so it was time to...
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 WWI. Liptó got disannexed from Hungary in 1919, and...
Dill and cottage cheese squares
This dill and cottage cheese pie was my grandma’s favorite dessert. It’s a real peacetime recipe from her hand-written cook book. In fact, it can be regarded as a distant relative of the English...
