Recipes from Hungary
Hungarian cooking centers on paprika — sweet, smoked, hot — bloomed in lard before anything else. Goulash runs deep and dark, paprikash mellows with sour cream, lángos comes crackling out of the fryer.
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Goulash
Gulyás — the word means 'herdsman' in Hungarian — started as a cattle drover's stew on the Great Plain.
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Chicken Paprikash
Csirkepaprikás — chicken paprikash — is the emblem of Hungarian cuisine: chicken pieces braised slowly in a sauce of onion and sweet Hungarian paprika,…
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Lángos
Lángos is Hungary's national street snack — a deep-fried leavened flatbread, puffy and golden, smeared with sour cream and sprinkled with shredded cheese.