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Danube Bend – Exploring the River’s Left Bank

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  The Danube Bend on the left side of the river is one of Hungary’s most enchanting regions, offering a delightful mix of natural beauty, history, and small-town charm. Just a short drive from Budapest, this area is perfect for tourists seeking a peaceful retreat into the Hungarian countryside. Here the Danube River weaves through rolling hills and picture...
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Lecsó recipe

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Lecsó
Lecsó Recipe While each country has their own version of "ratatouille" from the summer vegetables, the ultimate Hungarian "lecsó" includes strictly three ingredients: tomatoes, onion and the yellow paprika (pepper). Thanks to the local lightly sweet onion that is well balanced with the tomatoes, this vegetable stew is extremely popular in the country. You can combine it wi...
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Vegetarian eating places in Budapest

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Nemsüti
Hungarians are definitely meat lovers, and while the traditional Hungarian restaurants offer few options for vegetarians, the number of great vegetarian eating places are increasing. Surprisingly, Lonely Planet mentioned Budapest among the few superfood cities around the world. For those, who strictly follow the vegan diet, most of the vegetarian restaurants offer several ve...
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Easter Food Traditions

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Easter eggs
As Hungary is a catholic country, Easter plays an important role in the line of national holidays of the country. The religious customs are still part of many people's life, but the old traditions like splashing, egg painting, decorating the catkins branch are celebrated by even more Hungarians. The fast starts 40 days before Easter, and ends on Holy Saturday. By this da...
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Mineral Waters of Hungary

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mineral water
Hungary is one of the richest water site countries within Europe. 12 000 m³ water per person is available for our needs. The stones and water inside the Carpathian Mountains are heated, this is the special nature of the mountains, and this results in actually more mineral water sites and thermal springs. There are more than 500 wells in Hungary that provides mineral water. ...
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Hungarian cooking: Goulash soup

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Goulash soup (or in Hungarian: Gulyásleves) is one of the national dishes of Hungary, and also the symbol of the country. This rich, warming comfort food gives you energy for the cold winter days. Although, it is commonly cooked in summertime as well, especially in a cauldron, over the fire in the gardens. The name "Gulyás" originates from the word "gulya", meaning a...
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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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Paprika Harvest

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paprika at the mills, to be grinded
  The main characteristic of the traditional Hungarian kitchen is paprika, without any doubt. Harvest time of this red "gold" plant (as called in Hungary) starts after September 8 (day of the misses). In October, farmers harvest for the second or even the third time from the same plants. The first ripe paprika fruits are at the bottom of the plant, and the upper o...
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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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Healthy Hungarian

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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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