Hungary is a country in Central Europe. It borders many countries such as Croatia, Austria Ukraine and Romania.
One of the foods very popular in Hungary is goulash. Another popular dish is hot river fish soup called fisherman's soup or halaslei.
Food is often flavored with paprika (ground red peppers), which is a Hungarian innovation, and then a thick, heavy Hungarian sour cream called tejföl is often used to soften the dishes' flavor.
Other dishes are chicken paprikash, foie gras made of goose liver, pörkölt stew, vadas, (game stew with vegetable gravy and dumplings), trout with almonds and salty and sweet dumplings, like túrós csusza, (dumplings with quark cheese and thick sour cream).
Popular desserts include plum dumplings (szilvás gombóc), somlói dumplings, Dobos Cake, strudels (rétes), filled with apple, cherry, poppy seed or cheese, Gundel pancake, dessert soups like chilled sour cherry soup and sweet chestnut puree, gesztenyepüré (cooked chestnuts mashed with sugar and rum and split into crumbs, topped with whipped cream). Popular pastries include Perec and kifli.
This recipe book contains many of the best loved recipes from Hungary.
