Questions with this tag should be about traditional ingredients, preparations or dishes from Hungary - such as gulyás (goulash), palacsinta, or tarhonya.
Questions tagged [hungarian-cuisine]
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What kind of flour is needed for strudel/fillo dough?
In Hungary, they sell "rétesliszt", strudel-flour. What makes it better for strudel? Is it higher gluten? Lower? Softer? Harder? Which flour in a typical (USA) supermarket comes closest to rétesliszt?
I know from experience that all-purpose flour…
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What is Spaetzle? How is it cooked?
We had Spaetzle for lunch today. I've never had Spaetzle and couldn't figure out the ingredients or cooking method.
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How to make a Hungarian Túró Rudi at home?
I want to make some Túró Rudi for a Hungarian friend. Túró Rudi is a chocolate sweet available to buy in Hungary, and vast numbers are sold every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BAr%C3%B3_Rudi
The outside is easy, it's just chocolate. The…
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Is Spaetzle a pasta or a dumpling?
Is it a pasta or a dumpling and what is the difference?
To me, a pasta is smooth and shaped and doesn't have any "filling" (but can have ingredients added to color or flavor it before it is shaped) and a dumpling is either a dough of some sort…
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Hungarian name for jam-walnut filling
I used to know someone who was born in the 1910s and raised in Budapest, who made a filling for blintzes out of jam and ground walnuts.
I now know someone (unrelated to the first person) who was born in the 1920s and raised in Arad speaking…
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Doing túró at home
Is there a way to do túró (a Hungarian quark cheese/curd with a very specific taste) at home? I miss that specific taste and I've not found a cheese in Italy that approximate it (not even local quark cheese that is very different).
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How to cook tarhonya in a pressure cooker or rice cooker
Is it possible to cook tarhonya (Hungarian egg barley) in a pressure cooker, such as an Instant Pot, to cut down on cooking time? The only pressure cooker recipe I've found neglects to mention the cooking time, and also doesn't mention sautéeing it…
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What's the difference between stroganoff and goulash?
I know there are variants of stroganoff and goulash that are quite similar - to a point I could not tell one apart from the other. What are the defining properties of each that set them apart as different dishes?
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