New Year’s Eve in Budapest, Hungary
In Hungary, New Year’s Eve is called Szilveszter, named for the Eve of Saint Szilveszter. There are numerous traditions and superstitions connected to rounding out one year and welcoming the next, including straw doll burials, loud street parties and big bowls of lentil soup. Let’ see, how Hungarian celebrate the New Year.
Christmas in Hungary
In Hungary Christmas Eve is a very important Holiday, and called ‘Holy Evening’. People spend the evening with their family and decorate the Christmas Tree. Sometimes only the adults decorate the tree (without the children there), so when children come in and see the tree, it’s a great surprise, and they are told, that angels brought the […]
Easter in Hungary – Easter shoed eggs, writed eggs and painted eggs
Easter is a religious Christian feast celebrated across the world. The holy occasion commemorates Jesus Christ’s resurrection and the commencement of the spring season. The small country of Hungary marks Easter as one of the most important holidays. A number of interesting folk customs are still alive in the country, which make the festivities more […]
Great Market Hall Budapest
The Great Market Hall in Budapest is something you cannot miss, it is the center of local life in a city, the markets. Hungarian Cuisine is full of ingredients and spices that you cannot leave the country without seeing them. The Great Market Hall or Central Market Hall is the largest and oldest indoor market […]
What people make from minced meat in Hungary? Stuffed cabbage and stuffed paprika
When it comes on minced meat in the kitchen people usually think about spaghetti bolognese. But minced meat used in other ways in Hungary. One of them is the famous stuffed cabbage. To tell the truth, though it is an iconic Hungarian dish, the origin of the delicacy is not Hungarian. Ask some people in […]
Hungarian fishermen’s soup
Fisherman’s soup holds a similarly prominent place among the national dishes and, like goulash,usually it is cooked in a kettle over an open fire. The soup is prepared from mixed river fish – carp, catfish, perch or pike – and with a great amount of hot paprika, giving it the characteristic bright red color. It […]
The Hungarian goulash
„Goulash” or „gulyás” is a real Hungaricum, handled as the national meal of Hungary, and one of the symbols of the country, which has got its name after the shepherdmen of the puszta, who made it in open fire in a cauldron. Goulash eventually a kind of stew, enriched sometimes with some vegatable, like carrot, […]
The most Hungarian spice: Paprika
Hungarian Paprika is a spice made from the finely ground fruit of what we know as the pepper plant (Capsicum annuum L.). Though it is considered as base of the Hungarian cuisine, do not you think, it originates from Hungary and not known in other lands of the world! Just think of “Peperoncino”, “Peperoni”, „Jalepenos” […]
