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Food

Hungarian Fried Bread (Lángos)

Lángos is a very popular Lángos can be cooked at home Traditionally, lángos was baked
Hungarian street food or bought at markets and street in the front of a brick oven,
speciality. It's a deep fried flat vendors around the country. close to the flames. It was made
bread made of a dough with The name comes from 'láng', from bread dough and was
flour, yeast, salt and water (a the Hungarian word for flame. served as breakfast on days
kind of bread dough). Lángos when new bread was baked.
can be made with yoghurt, sour Nowadays, lángos is deep fried
cream or milk instead of water, in oil. Lángos is also very
a dash of sugar along with salt popular and known as a fast
and sometimes with flour and food at fairs and in amusement
boiled mashed potatoes, which parks in Austria, the Czech
is called potato lángos. It is Republic, Slovakia, Croatia,
eaten fresh and warm, topped Serbia and Romania.
with sour cream and grated
cheese, garlic or garlic butter.

The ingredients (makes about 10 lángos,
depending on the size):
 300 g all-purpose flour
 7 g dried (instant) yeast
 250 ml water
 1/2 teaspoon salt
 sunflower oil (for frying)
 toppings: sour cream, grated cheese, garlic

The how-to (3,93 inch) round shapes and
In a mug, dissolve the salt in leave it rest a bit.
the water. In a bowl, combine
the sifted flour with the yeast.
Add the salty water to it and stir
thoroughly (if it's very sticky,
add a little bit more flour).
Work the dough with a wooden
spoon or with your hands until
the dough is smooth and no Serve while it's hot. You can eat
longer sticks to the bowl. Leave it simple or sprinkled with
the dough in the bowl, cover chopped garlic or doused with
with a clean cloth and let it rise garlic water and topped with
for 30-40 minutes or until it has grated cheese and sour cream.
Stretch out each piece with
your fingers into a round shape
with the centre being thinner
than the edges. Let the pieces
rest for another 30 minutes on
the floured surface.
In a saucepan, heat sunflower
oil. Place the lángos into the
doubled in size. hot oil, fry it on one side until
golden brown then turn. Repeat
Once it is rested, carefully tip with the remaining lángos
out the dough onto a floured dough. Jó étvágyat! (Enjoy your meal!)
surface, stretch it out into a
square and cut out about 10 cm

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