Slovakia recipes
Recipes from Slovakia: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Bryndzové Halušky: Slovak Potato Dumplings with Sheep's Milk Cheese
Bryndzové halušky, Slovakia's national dish of tiny grated-potato dumplings tossed with sheep's milk cheese. Covers substitutes when you can't find bryndza, dough moisture, doneness, crisp bacon, how it is eaten locally, storage and reheating, written for the home kitchen.
Kapustnica: Slovakia's Christmas Sauerkraut Soup
A recipe for kapustnica, the sauerkraut soup that is essential to Christmas and New Year in Slovakia, made with pork spare ribs, smoked sausage, dried porcini, prunes and paprika. Covers layering sourness, smoke and a faint sweetness, checking that the pork is cooked through, and regional differences.
Lokša Recipe: Slovak Thin Potato Flatbread, Dry-Cooked in a Skillet
Lokša is a Slovak thin flatbread made from boiled potatoes, flour, and salt. How to roll it to 2 mm and dry-cook it without oil, regional differences from the goose-feast lokše to the eastern thick lokša, sweet versions with plum jam and poppy seeds, fixes for common failures, and storage.