A hearty winter lentil stew for New Year’s Day which brings wealth and fortune for the year ahead.
Thick slices of carp are generously coated in breadcrumbs and fried, before being pickled gently in a vinegar-salt-sugar pickinsolution. After four or five days, the sweet and sour juice has not only imparted its sweet and sour flavour into the fish, but it has also dissolved away the smaller fibrous bones of the fish.
Everyone should know how to make Lecsó. It is a true Hungarian comfort food and one of the few classic Hungarian dishes that is vegetarian. Tomatoes and paprika thrive in the warm Hungarian climate and Lecsó is the perfect solution for using up the inevitable surpluses of both.…
Ask anyone which dish stands out as a quintessential Hungarian comfort food. They will immediately tell you about Hungarian goulash. But as many visitors to Budapest will learn to their surprise, goulash is not the thick stew they were expecting. It is a watery beef soup. In fact…
Goulash alla Triestina is a classic Trieste dish which marries the bold flavours of Hungary with the aromatic essence of Italy. Trieste is a prosperous Italian port city nestled on Italy’s north eastern Adriatic coast. It’s a melting pot of cultures which has influenced the city’s culinary heritage…
Jókai bableves is an iconic Hungarian bean soup, named after one of Hungary’s national treasures, the novelist Mór Jókai (1825-1904). I first tasted it in a restaurant in Budapest in 2019 when we were expecting our first child. It was a chilly but sunny day, and we needed…
Chicken livers are extremely cheap and very nutritious. They taste great and are easy to cook but this Hungarian style chicken livers recipe is next level. A few generations ago chicken livers were a common part of the diet. But some people find eating offal a bit off-putting…