How to cook Hungarian Style

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By carolzn
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Hungarian main meals are well seasoned with ingredients like paprika, dill, and/or caraway seeds, and often topped off with a dollop of sour cream. The origins of cooking Hungarian style are not clear, but historians do know that the introduction of paprika into their diets was influenced by the Turks almost two hundred years ago. The Hungarian daily meal pattern is also different.

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Things You'll Need:

Tokay
An appetite to learn cook Hungarian Style
Time to eat

Step 1

Hungarians begin their day with a light breakfast. A few hours later they eat a larger breakfast at about ten o'clock.
Step 2

The Hungarian main meal of the day is served at noon. This is a hearty and more elaborate meal that may include appetizers. In the middle of the afternoon coffee is served, usually with a rich sweet pastry or coffee cake.
Step 3

The Hungarian evening meal is lighter than at noon. This meal is more similar to an American lunch. To accompany the meal, Hungarians most likely will drink beer that they call Tokay, which is usually considered to be the wine of Hungary. The evening meal usually concludes with coffee, which on special occasions is topped off with a mound of whip cream.
Step 4

Eat and enjoy while you think about Hungarian eating customs.

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magyarlany said

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on 11/14/2009 All right, here is the end of my comment:
TOKAJI IS WINE, not a beer. It is one of the most famous wines of Hungary. We don't drink beer with dinner and only drink wine and coffee in the evening meal if we are in a restaurant. At home people usually have a sandwich or leftovers from lunch.

magyarlany said

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on 11/14/2009 Well, I am Hungarian and in general I agree with the article. However, here are my comments: The origins of cooking in Hungarian style is more than a millenium old. We brought the technique of cooking porkolt (loosely translated as stew) and gulyas (NOT the gulyas we know in the US) from the steppe of todays Russia. We picked up the habit of cooking with paprika more than 200 years ago. The Turks occupied part of Hungary in the 16th and 17th century. We do have a light breakfast, usually what is considered continental breakfast in the US. We do have a ten o'clock light meal, perhaps a slice of bread with butter, but it is usually served in schools only. Yes, the lunch is the main meal, soup and meat with potato or something similar. We can have a coffee break with coffee cake in the afternoon but working people don't really have it. (They are busy working.) It is correct that the eve...