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Paprika peppers are a culinary
staple and many types are
grown. They are either cooked
as part of a dish – töltött paprika
(peppers stuffed with meat and
rice) are served up everywhere
– or dried and ground up to
be used as a spice. There are
hundreds of different types of
ground paprika, which vary in
flavour and strength. Although
paprika is the emblematic spice
of Hungary, it was not always
so. During the 19th century
Market stall laden with root vegetables and strings of dried peppers national resistance movements,
Hungarian cooks started the
Vegetables
served with purple onion or excessive use of paprika powder
pickles. Duck is another regular Potatoes, tomatoes and to differentiate Hungarian and
on Hungarian menus, frequently cabbage are usually the main Austrian gastronomy.
roasted with chestnuts or berries vegetables. But from May
and served with red cabbage. to July, fine white asparagus BEST LOCAL SNACKS
Pheasant may also be on offer, appears on market stalls, with
normally in a rich soup. Venison many restaurants serving Sausages Most buffets and
is common, and usually served spárgaleves, a rich creamy butcher’s shops offer the lightly
as a spicy pörkölt (goulash) or in soup made from asparagus smoked Debreceni sausage,
a vegetable sauce with bread. and veal stock. made from beef, pork, paprika
and garlic. It is generally eaten
with bread and mustard.
Fish Chestnuts In winter, Budapest
Traditional Hungarian dishes is crammed with stalls selling
are made from freshwater freshly roasted chestnuts.
fish, with carp the most widely Pancakes, fritters and
eaten, although catfish, zander doughnuts Snack bars all
bream and trout can also be over the country serve tasty
found on most menus. A fried doughy snacks all day
popular soup is halászlé, made long. Try alma pongyolában
with carp or catfish and (apple fritters).
seasoned with a generous Gingerbread Shops devoted
dash of paprika. Another to selling gingerbread are
favourite is harcsapaprikás, a everywhere. At Christmas it is
goulash-style fish stew with often highly decorated and
sour cream and served with Roasting chestnuts, a common sight on given as a present.
galuska, a type of noodle. Budapest’s winter streets

Csirkepaprikás Chicken ragout Gulyásleves A type of goulash, Dobos Torta Fine slices of
in a creamy sauce made from this soup made of pork or beef sponge cake are layered with
paprika and sour cream. Usually with vegetables is flavoured with chocolate cream and topped
served with Hungarian noodles. onion, caraway and paprika. with glossy caramel.

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