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'Lángos'
Of course, we need some ingredients for cooking, so let’s go to a local grocery store, or market, or to a supermarket. If you go to a market, you should try ‘lángos’ (fried dough), which is usually sold in markets, or beaches during the summer. It is a great food and it is enough to spread a little garlic and salt on the top. You can also try the sour cream-cheese variant, which is a nice combination as well. We must mention that there are particularly well and badly prepared dishes and there is no guarantee for getting a deliciously made food on a good place. It is worth trying in different locations, you should not give up searching for the perfect ones after having some bad experiences.
3/8
'Körözött'
From the market, you will get back to your kitchen after long hours and less money. Some friends or some strangers might help you packing out the loads of pre- or ready-made stuff from the van. Since ‘lángos’ is now the past and your hunger is getting back again, let’s put a ‘körözött’ (spicy cottage cheese) together, which is one of the favorite spreads in Hungary. Now, what is it like? You need some cottage-cheese or ewe’s cheese or both of them as the basic ingredient. Put sour cream, onion, Hungarian red-paprika, cumin, salt and pepper in, and some real gourmets can add a little mustard as well. Spread the whole mixture over bread. It is fantastic.
4/8
Gooseliver
If you are still hungry, or wish for some more elegant dish, then roast some goose liver, and put slices over some sweet bread until it is still hot. In case you run out of bread but have some apples, you can roast apples with the liver. You still get a perfect meal. Fat goose liver is not a typically Hungarian food, but the country is the main producer and exporter in Europe. The most livers are delivered to France. They produce more liver than Hungary, but duck liver is more common there, since it has a more characteristic taste.
5/8
'Katona'
Let’s start cooking. Put away the ready-made food to find the necessary ingredients of soups. While packing out of the basket, put some red onions and green-peppers over small cubes of bread and top them with pieces of smoked ox-tongue, chunks of goose rind and head cheese. After tasting all of them, we all agree that these are prime foods.
6/8
Soups
Cook goulash soup, fish soup or palóc soup. Goulash is easy to make, and palóc soup is so tasty that it will disappear before we could notice how good it was. We only remember the sour taste in our mouth. Because we are so good at cooking, we put lamb in the soup, although we know that the original recipe requires mutton. There are green beans and potatoes in the soup, but in some regions, they put mushroom as well. Palóc people of Northern Hungary only heard about palóc soup from the news, since it is an original dish of Budapest. It was first cooked a few corners away from Roosvelt Square. Fish soup can be made in thousands of different ways, but it is important to have more types of fish in it. In the spicy liquid, we can have milt and fish roe as well; our soup gets its excellent taste from these ingredients. Hungarians usually use carp and catfish pieces.
7/8
'Lecsó'
What if we do not have a kitchen available for our cooking experience in Budapest. Well, in this case, do not hesitate to hit the road and look for a restaurant or ask a private flat owner to let you in. Maybe they enjoy having a stranger round their kitchen table. You have only a little chance for the latter one, but do not get despaired, there are plenty more dishes to discover. Now, there is ‘lecsó’, which is a kind of Hungarian type ratatouille. However, both of them are cooked vegetable mix, the story is different. Hungarian ‘lecsó’ is where the basic mixture of the ratatouille becomes a single dish. In ‘lecsó’, the main ingredient is green-pepper, while it is only the first step in ratatouille making. The French version includes eggplant or zucchini, or both of them over the green-pepper base. Seasoning is very different as well. In Hungary, we use red paprika, while in the French dish, there are thyme, basil and parsley leaves. It is quite hard to choose which one is better.
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