Hungary recipes
Recipes from Hungary: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Csirke Paprikás: Hungarian Paprika Chicken with Sour Cream
A recipe for Hungarian csirke paprikás (paprikás csirke) made with bone-in chicken, onions, sweet paprika, and sour cream. It covers keeping the paprika from scorching, finishing the cream without splitting it, making the nokedli dumplings, and checking that the chicken is cooked through.
Rakott Krumpli: Hungarian Layered Potato Bake
Rakott krumpli is a Hungarian home dish of potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, smoked sausage, and sour cream layered and baked. Covers substitutes for kolbász, the moisture in sour cream, the depth of the baking dish, how to avoid a watery result, serving with pickles, and making ahead and rewarming.
Goulash (Gulyás): Hungary's Paprika and Beef Soup
A complete recipe for gulyás, Hungary's national dish. How to use paprika, the heat trick that keeps it from scorching, how to cook the onions down, and how to make csipetke dumplings, all with ingredients you can find in an ordinary grocery store.