The 10 authentic & traditional Hungarian desserts and sweets you must try when traveling to Hungary. The best pastries, cookies, cakes, tortes, and more!
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Try something new for your next dessert with this apricot- and raspberry-infused Hungarian fruit square recipe.
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Lángos - also known as Hungarian Fried Bread - is a tasty way to enjoy European street food. Made from deep-fried dough, this fried bread delight can be smothered in a creamy garlic sauce and coated with shredded cheese!
Lángos is one of those foods every Hungarian loves. Actually, there can't be summer without lángos. Or street market or fairs. Some people also call it as the Hungarian pizza but it's nothing like that except for the shape or size, because pizza is baked in a stove while lángos is fried in a pan. I hope you enjoy this traditional Hungarian staple!
Hungarian Apple Pie - or almás pite in Hungarian - is a delicious apple dessert. The simple apple filling that oozes cinnamon and sugar is baked between two layers of flakey, doughy crust. Popular in Hungary, it's a dessert recipe often passed down and across continents!
Traditional Hungarian food forms the basis of what is known as modern-day Hungarian Cuisine. From Goulash to Hungarian Desserts, veggies, meats, bread, cheeses,
These doughnuts might be called dough-knots as you literally making a kind of knot on the pastry ribbons before frying. They are tasty and indulgent without being too heavy. February is the time of…
This is an old-fashioned cookie, but it's more like a mini-pie in cookie form. The dough's slightly sweet but the sweetness mostly comes from the jam and powdered sugar. The jam's a little surprise inside the soft and chewy cookie. They're a little time-consuming to make, but are very tasty and would be a welcome addition to any cookie exchange.
Gerbeaud Cake (Zserbó) is a delicious layered yeast cake with an apricot walnut filling, covered in thin chocolate glaze. Traditionally it is a holiday dessert, made at Christmas or Easter time. Gerbeaud cake is probably the best known Hungarian dessert, I grew up eating it all the time.
Serve for a sweet breakfast treat, or as a dessert, served with good vanilla or rum raisin ice cream.
Hungarian Kifli Cookies - Rich and flaky traditional Hungarian cookies filled with a light walnut filling. Perfect Christmas cookies!
Welcome to the December 2020 edition of Eat the World recipe challenge!! This month we are going to the country of Hungary! I have to ...
Lángos - also known as Hungarian Fried Bread - is a tasty way to enjoy European street food. Made from deep-fried dough, this fried bread delight can be smothered in a creamy garlic sauce and coated with shredded cheese!
Learn how to make langos, a tasty fried Hungarian bread that is best enjoyed warm. To simplify the recipe, instant yeast and a stand mixer is used to make the dough.
Citizens, Beigli (sometimes spelled Bejgli) is a delicious Hungarian Christmas treat. This pastry is ubiquitous around Christmastime, you can buy it in practically any shop or bakery. Both walnut (diós) and poppy seed (mákos) bejgli are
I found this old-fashioned Zserbo Szelet Recipe in one of the vintage recipe binders I own. This traditional Hungarian holiday dessert recipe is also known as Gerbeaud cake.
Traditional fried dough meal from Hungary. Also vegan!
These potato dumplings come from Hungary and they are really awesome. Made with mashed potatoes and rolled in buttered breadcrumbs, these little guys are guaranteed to become your favorites!
Hungarian Gerbeaud (Zserbó) Cake. A layered cake with an apricot walnut filling, covered in thin chocolate glaze. Traditionally made at Christmas time, it is one of the most famous Hungarian desserts.
I found this old-fashioned Zserbo Szelet Recipe in one of the vintage recipe binders I own. This traditional Hungarian holiday dessert recipe is also known as Gerbeaud cake.
Hungarian Beigli is a traditional walnut and poppy seed roll which is served in many Hungarian families at Christmas as a special treat. The Christmas meal table would be incomplete without these rolls.
18 of the most delicious traditional Hungarian desserts you must try in Budapest, With recipes & the best confectionery & dessert shops in Budapest.
If you like your potatoes sliced thin and baked until they're creamy and cheesy, you will love Hungarian style potatoes. I've based this recipe on the Hungarian version of scalloped potatoes, a casserole called rakott krumpli. It shouldn't be difficult to make potatoes, Hungarian or otherwise I really, really wanted to make this with kielbasa (I know it's not Hungarian), but was unable to find any with walking distance in Valladolid. I tried to substitute fresh chorizo even though the local stuff tends to turn into hard lumps if cooked too long. In addition, I cut the recipe in half
With the perfect balance of creamy and bite, this Hungarian cucumber salad recipe is absolutely delicious. Made with fresh cucumbers, garlic, sour cream, and spices - of course, paprika - this salad is so easy to make and best served chilled!
Here are sixteen traditional Hungarian foods (as recommended by a local) that are not to be missed when visiting Hungary.
Gerbeaud Cake (Zserbó) is a delicious layered yeast cake with an apricot walnut filling, covered in thin chocolate glaze. Traditionally it is a holiday dessert, made at Christmas or Easter time. Gerbeaud cake is probably the best known Hungarian dessert, I grew up eating it all the time.
Apricot Kolacky Cookies (kiffles) have flakey cream cheese pastry dough wrapped around an easy apricot filling! These two-bite cookies are buttery, crisp and addicting.
This Szegedin Goulash features slow-simmered, succulent meat, onions and sauerkraut in a wonderfully rich paprika-infused broth. It's incredibly delicious!
Pork goulash is a rich Hungarian meat stew that is characterised by tasty meats, vegetables and plenty of paprika. We've used smoked paprika to add a bigger flavour hit but you could use the un-smoked variety if you preferred. You could also add in more vegetables if you like too. In some varieties of the dish, root vegetables and potatoes are popular editions. This pork goulash is very easy to prepare and could easily be scaled to make more portions to save time with meal prep. It could also be done as a slow cooker recipe but you would want to use much much less liquid and ditch the peppers as they just vanish when done in the slow cooker.
