Nyárlőrinci tutajos, named after Nyárlőrinc, a village near Kecskemét in Bács-Kiskun county, is an old, forgotten shepherd's dish from the Great...
Nyárlőrinci tutajos, named after Nyárlőrinc, a village near Kecskemét in Bács-Kiskun county, is an old, forgotten shepherd's dish from the Great...
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...
Lecsó is a simple stew of glorious vegetables, the perfect example of a dish that is truly way grander than the sum of its ingredients. The...
Similar to layered potatoes this egg barley dish is made up with sliced sausages and hard boiled eggs, it's, however, also turbocharged with an...
Tarhonya, this traditional Hungarian egg-based pasta can be considered the heritage of the nomadic lifestyle of past Hungarian sheperds: wandering...
Pásztortarhonya is a typical Hungarian one-pot meal, a great and filling legacy of old times. Hungarians' ancestors were stock-breeder and they...
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.
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.