Hungarian Learning Community and Resources

In every country, the best way to discover the culture is through the gastronomy! Hungarian cuisine improved a lot in the last 10 years, so now you can choose from a wide range of food if you are here, but the good old classics are always the same! Hungarian cuisine is mostly a meat based cuisine, but if you are a vegetarian or vegan, you will also find your favourites here. 

In Hungary this boasts a great variety of delicious dishes. Hungarians like their food. It is spicy and there is plenty of it. Reggeli (breakfast) is mostly bread and butter with cheese, ham or salami. Sweet breakfast is not so common in Hungary. Ebéd (lunch) is the main meal of the day. Hungary is a land of soups. Most lunches, sometimes even dinners start with it. (The famous gulyás, though substantial, is more often a soup than a stew in Hungary.) A soup can be a meat soup made of hen and veggies ( tyúkhúsleves ), that is a classic one from Hungary. It can be a fish soup made of river fish ( halászlé folyami halakból ) or it can also be a veggie soup or fruit soup. Green pea soup, beans soup, tomato soup, or sour cherry soup, apple soup are all very delicious options. Pork dishes are very popular. If you are a vegetarian, you can try layered potato ( rakott krumpli ) in a vegetarian version, without meat. If there is a third course, it is usually some heavy cake!

Pirospaprika (ground red pepper) gives Hungarian dishes a special colour and flavour. Vacsora (evening meal) for some people is just as substantial as lunch, but others prefer to have something cold and light. Sunday lunch is the main meal of the week when most families are together. On the weekends, Wiener schnitzel  (rántott hús) will be on the plate for sure, with some mashed potato, (krumplipüré) or rice (rizs), and we also love pickles (uborka). You also need to try stuffed cabbage (töltött káposzta) and lángos, the most typical Hungarian street food. This one we mostly eat on the street, we never make it at home. On the top we use sour cream as a dressing (tejföl) with garlic (fokhagyma) and cheese!

Jó étvágyat! Enjoy your meal!