Characteristic dishes in Hungarian cuisine often feature generous amounts of ground paprika, onions, tomatoes, and green bell peppers. Pork is the most popular meat, while cabbage is a common vegetable. Notable delicacies include goose liver pate and chicken paprikash.
Hungary's culinary scene is incomplete without the following traditional dishes:
1. Traditional goulash is a beef soup that is stewed with onions, cabbage, potatoes and tomatoes.
2. Chicken paprikash is prepared from finely chopped chicken meat, which is fried with onions, sweet peppers, paprika, garlic and broth. Sour cream is added to the finished dish.
3. Equally popular is Turosh chusa - boiled noodles to which sour cream, cottage cheese and chives are added.
4. Hungarian soup made from lake or river fish is called Fazelek.
5. Devil's Roast is made from a suckling pig that's stuffed with minced pork ham.
Hungarian traditional cuisine has a lot of interesting dishes to offer for dessert. Strudel has become almost traditional here. In Hungary they use nuts, poppy seeds, cherries, pears or apples as a filling. The most popular local cakes are Szomlói galuszka and dobos. If you see such a Hungarian dish as kürteskalacz on the menu of a restaurant, you should not be surprised, as it is just a traditional cylindrical dessert.
Hungary's traditional and most popular drinks include Tokaj wine. Hungarians are proud of its amber-golden color and unique spicy taste. Among the stronger spirits, apricot vodka, Unicum herbal balsam and Kecskemét white wines are popular.
