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Hungarian Christmas Dishes

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Bejgli
As we are getting close to the holiday season you might think of trying myriad foods from different countries, rather than your own traditional dishes. If you feel like challenging yourself with traditional Hungarian cooking, I would like to share  three recipes with you, that will definitely make the holiday season memorable. Fish soup, stuffed cabbage and bejgli, these di...
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Hungarian cooking: Pumpkin Pottage

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Pumpkin pottage
Among traditional Hungarian dishes there is one vegetable dish,- that we consider to be typical Hungarian: it is pottage (főzelék). Pottage is a thick soup made of vegetables. While in many countries pottage is made of different kinds of vegetables mixed together in a pot, in Hungary only one kind of vegetable is used for one dish (except "finomfőzelék", -where you mix peas...
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Hungarian cheeses

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cheese platter
According to the etymology, the words "fejni" (milked) and "vaj" (butter) already existed in the 11-13th century in Hungary. The pastoral Hungarians mainly used sheep milk to make cheese. The use of cow milk to make cheese was first started by Germans in the highlands in the 13th century. They also traded cow milk cheeses, proved by the existence of the Késmárk settleme...
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Healthy Hungarian

Posted on by Nori
halászlé, fish soup, fish festival, healthy fish food
Starting your day with sweet white flour bakery products, having heavy soups with meat, (and meat again as main dish), and of course a delicious cake as dessert, the everyday Hungarian cuisine is considered very tasty, albeit is not considered healthy. The main ingredients of our typical dishes are: onion, lard and paprika. They are not unhealthy in little amounts, but cook...
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Original Souvenirs

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Visiting another country or city always makes us wonder, almost right away, what can we take with us back home? What little piece of this exotic world can we retain? Escaping from our everyday life, gives us the extra energy when getting back to our daily routine. We like to think back on our nice memories, just by looking at the smaller or bigger souvenirs we purchased for our...
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Gastro Dictionary vol. 1

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While the neighboring countries around Hungary show some sort of similarities in their cuisine - especially the ones from the Slavic language families-, Hungarian kitchen does have some kind of originality, or we can say: an extra ingenuity. We do have many very difficult dishes, whilst surprisingly easy and tasty ones can also be found. This is true for soups, just like for ca...
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