Hungary

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Hungary

5 recipes

Photograph of Zacusca.
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Zacusca

Zacusca is a Romanian and Moldovan spread of roasted eggplant and sweet peppers cooked down with onion, tomato and oil, made in quantity in autumn and kept in jars for winter.

Romania
· Condiments
A bowl of pale wheat-flour-and-water poolish with a bubbly surface after fermentation.

Poolish

Poolish is a loose, unsalted bread preferment of roughly equal weights of wheat flour and water with a pinch of baker's yeast, left to ripen before it goes into the final dough.

Vienna · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Golden Hungarian lángos topped with garlic water, sour cream and grated cheese.
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Lángos

Soft yeast dough is shaped into rounds and fried at 180 °C, then brushed with garlic water and topped with sour cream and grated cheese.

Hungary
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Tartare sauce.
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Tartare sauce

A mayonnaise sauce with chopped gherkins or capers, herbs and lemon, served with fried and grilled fish. It was named in nineteenth-century France alongside steak tartare.

France
Condiments
A small glass cruet and tasting bowl of pale-yellow birch sap vinegar on a wooden table with birch bark nearby.

Birch sap vinegar

Vinegar from spring birch sap fermented to alcohol and then acetic acid, usually with added sugar or honey because the sap is so dilute; made in Sweden and described in older eastern European accounts.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Condiments