Csorba soup is a traditional dish with deep roots in Transylvania, a region known for its rich mix of cultures - Romanian, Hungarian and Saxon. The...
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Kókonya
Kókonya is a traditional sweet bread that’s especially tied to Easter in the Székely region of Transylvania. The word kókonya still lives on in folk...
Herány tokány
Herány tokány is a rich and flavorful Transylvanian dish made with both beef and pork. For the best results, it's recommended to use pork and beef...
Cornmeal cream cake
Cornmeal has a deep-rooted significance in Transylvanian cuisine, where it is revered for its versatility and cultural heritage. The most popular...
Transylvanian cottage cheese pie
There's something comforting about homemade desserts, especially ones that carry a sense of tradition. This Transylvanian cottage cheese pie is a...
Poékaleves
Poékaleves, a traditional soup from Transylvania, particularly popular in the Gyergyó region, is a delicious variation of "becsinált" soup. Each...
Savanyú vetrece
Savanyú vetrece is an old-school Transylvanian beef stew, however, some recipes refer to it as a soup. So, you can choose whether you cook a ragout...
Verzár – Cabbage filled pancakes
I stumbled upon verzár in Transylvanian Feast, a cookbook written by Pál Kövi, while I was searching for savory pancake recipes. Verzár is thin...
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...
Bálmos
Bálmos is an old Transylvanian dish, a kind of polenta made from coarsly ground cornmeal, bacon and sheep milk cheese. It was originally prepared...
Tordai pecsenye – Roast of Torda
The homeland of this simple, but divine pork roast is Torda, a town near Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in Transylvania. Roast of Torda is usually served...
Transylvanian sour cabbage rolls
Stuffed cabbage can be called as one of the basic foods of the Hungarian cuisine, it has a big cult in the Hungarian inhabited regions, only stews...
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...
Transylvanian beef stew with polenta
Transylvanian beef stew belongs to the large family of tokány, which is a kind of stew that doesn't contain paprika, seasoned with black pepper and...
Tokány with pickled cucumbers
The easiest and at the same time the most difficult thing in making tokány is that you can cook it as you like it. There are so many variants known...
Chicken csorba soup
Csorba soup is an emblematic meal of the Transylvanian cuisine. There are many different csorba recipes, so you can make experiments to find the...
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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.