Cuisine of Hungary
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The Hungarian or Magyar cuisine is the cuisine characteristic to Hungary and the Magyars.
Common misconception is that Hungarian cuisine received many influences from the nomadic ancestors of the Magyars. However, keep in mind that potatoes or paprika, which are very characteristic of Hungarian cuisine, are plants from the Americas and were not present in Europe before 1492. It indeed is influenced by the Transylvanian Vlachs, and neighboring Slavic peoples however, as well as Austrian tastes. Like its music, Hungary has won much acclaim for its unique culinary culture.
Hungarian food is often spicy, using paprika, black pepper, and onions. Some of the "hot" paprika or red peppers are only for the bravest. Main dishes often contain potatoes. However, Hungarians are passionate about their soups, desserts, stuffed pancakes and cakes, with fierce rivalries between regional variations of the same dish, e.g. the fish soups cooked differently on the banks of Hungary's two main rivers.
Typical Hungarian dishes
- Gulyás (goulash) and gulyásleves (goulash soup)
- Halászlé (Hungarian fish soup)
- Töltött káposzta (stuffed cabbage)
- Húsleves (meat soup)
- Dobos torta (sponge cake layered with chocolate paste and glazed with caramel and nuts)
- Palacsinta (stuffed pancake)
- Vaníliás kifli
- Cigánypecsenye
- Pörkölt (meat stew)
- Túrórudi (sweet cottage cheese stick covered whith darkchocolate)
Some of Hungary's finest cuisine can be enjoyed in famous Budapest restaurant Gundel (which is possibly the most expensive place in the whole country to do that).
External links
- Hungarian cuisine - Gundel recipes
- From the Mozilla Open Directory
- http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/cuisine/cuisine.html
- http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/hungary/konyha.htm
- Hungary.ORG: Cuisinebe:Венгерская кухня
de:Ungarische Küche fr:Cuisine hongroise pl:Kuchnia węgierska