List of Hungarian dishes

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This is a list of dishes found in Hungarian cuisine.

Soups and stews

Name	Image	Region	Description
Borleves			wine soup
Goulash	120px
Gulyásleves			Goulash soup
Főzelék			thick vegetable stew
Halászlé Fisherman's Soup	120px		traditional red fish soup spiced with hot paprika
meggyleves Sour cherry soup			sour-cherry soup
Húsleves Chicken soup			clear chicken or veal meat soup with soup vegetables and thin soup pasta called csipetke
Jókai bableves			a bean soup named after the author Mór Jókai
Lecsó			mixed vegetable stew, the Hungarian 'Ratatouille', it is similar to the Romanian ghiveci or the Bulgarian gjuvec
Palócleves	120px	Northeastern Hungary	A soup similar to gulyásleves, but containing green beans and sour cream, and frequently flavoured with dill. Invented by János Gundel (father of famed chef Károly Gundel) and named for Kálmán Mikszáth and his writings about the Palóc people of Northern Hungary / Southern Slovakia.
Pörkölt			meat stew in a thick paprika-spiced sauce, similar to ragout; generally translated into English as goulash (not to be confused with goulash soup)
Köménymagleves			caraway seed soup
Székelygulyás		Transylvania	Goulash stew, made with sauerkraut and several kinds of meat
Chicken Paprikash			called Csirkepaprikás, a stew with a lot of sweet paprika, cream or sour cream called tejföl
Paprikás krumpli			paprika-based stew with spicy sausage and potatoes
Vadgombaleves			wild mushroom soup
Gombapaprikás			Called "Mushroom Paprikash" in English, this is an easy to fix, traditional vegetarian dish of the Hungarians.

Meat dishes

Name Other names	Image	Region	Description
Töltött káposzta Cabbage roll	120px		stuffed cabbage. Romanian sarma, of Turkish origin.
Töltött paprika Punjena paprika			Stuffed peppers - ground meat, rice and spices are used for the filling
Töltött tojás Deviled egg			Deviled eggs, cold in mayonnaise or warm, baked in the oven with sour cream
Szűztekercsek Roulade	120px		Pork tenderloin filled with spicy tomato puree, spinach etc.
Pecsenye Fatanyéros, Hungarian Mixed Grill	120px		thin pork steak served with cabbage or the dish fatányéros, a Hungarian mixed grill on wooden platter
Bécsi szelet Wiener schnitzel, but made of pork, Borjú bécsi (using veal), rántotthús		Austria	Bécsi szelet is literally "Viennese slice" in English
Stefánia szelet Meatloaf	120px		or Stefania slices (Hungarian meatloaf with hard boiled eggs in the middle. Makes decorative white and yellow rings in the middle otf the slices
Túrós csusza	120px		small dumplings called galuska baked with quark cheese called túró - served savoury with bacon or sweet
Rakott krumpli	120px		layered potato casserole with sausage, eggs and bacon, see recipe on Wikibooks Cookbook
Rakott káposzta			layered cabbage
Rántott sajt			flat cheese croquette, cheese rolled in breadcrumbs and, deep fried
Pacalpörkölt	120px		pörkölt made of tripe

Dumplings and others

Name	Image	Region	Description
Túrógombóc	120px		Hungarian sweet quark cheese dumpling
Májgaluska			small liver dumplings used in different soups, for example liverball soup
Galuska or Nokedli Spätzle			Hungarian boiled dumplings used in soups and stews
Szilvásgombóc Plum Dumplings	120px		Gombotzen or Szilvásgombóc and nudli (sweet plum dumplings and small noodles, rolled in sweet fried brescrums or streusel
Tarhonya Egg barley			a kind of large Hungarian "couscous", big pasta grain, served as a side dish
Rizi-bizi Risotto	120px		Hungarian risotto, white rice mixed with green peas, served as a side dish
Padlizsánkrém Vinetta			Transylvanian mashed eggplant salad made of grilled, peeled and finely chopped eggplants
Körözött Liptai túró			Liptauer, a spicy spread made from fresh white cheese mixed with sweet paprika and onions
Libamájpástétom			Goose liver pâté

Breads and pancakes

Name	Image	Region	Description
Lángos	120px		fried bread dough, often served with sour cream, garlic and cheese
Pogácsa			a type of bun, round puffed pastry, available with bacon or cheese, traditionally cooked on the fire
Zsemle Bread rolls			round small breads, eaten cut in half, with butter, cold cuts or jam, often for breakfast
Kifli			crescent-shaped pastry
Perec Pretzel	120px		Pretzel, salty crispy pasty
Bundás kenyér			literally, "coated bread" or "bread with a fur", a savoury version of French toast
Kenyér			Hungarian bread -kenyér- tends to be big, round and with a hard thick crust
Vekni Baguette			The other freshly baked bread type. Long loaves with crispy crust, thicker or thiner, like the baguette
Rakott palacsinta or Csúsztatott palacsinta			layered crepes with sweet cottage cheese, raisins, jam and walnuts, similar to Mille crêpe
Palacsinta	120px		stuffed crepe, usually filled with jam. Other fillings are sweet quark cheese with raisins or meat
Gundel palacsinta		Budapest	Gundel crepes, stuffed with walnuts and served in chocolate sauce, often flambéed
Császármorzsa Kaiserschmarrn			sweet crepe crumbs
Hortobágyi palacsinta			crepes filled with veal stew

Sweets and cakes

Name	Image	Region	Description
Arany galuska			baked dough balls with butter, raisins an nuts, often served with vanilla custard
Babapiskóta Lady Fingers			thin, light, sweet delicate, crispy lady fingers
Bejgli			(cake roll eaten at Christmas and Easter.
Birsalma sajt Quince cheese	120px		(Quince cheese, or quince jelly made of quince fruits
Csöröge			crispy, light Hungarian Angel Wing fry cookies a twisted thin fried cookie made of yeast dough, dusted with powdered sugar
Dobos torta Dobosh torte Dobos cake			sponge cake layered with chocolate paste and glazed with caramel and nuts
Eszterházy torta	120px		layered almond and cream cake
Fánk Berliner, Bismarck Doughnuts	120px		round, sweet, fired taste, topped with lekvár
Flódni	120px	Jewish-Hungarian	cake with 4 different fillings, poppyseed, walnut, apple and plum jam
Gesztenyepüré			cooked and mashed sweet chestnuts with sugar and rum, topped with whipped cream.
Halva, Transsylvanian sweet	120px		sweet confection, made with sunflower seeds, of Turkish origin
Krémes	120px		A puff pastry top, custard cream and whipped cream filling, and is finished with powdered sugar
Kuglóf Kugelhupf			Kuglóf cake, a traditional Austro-Hungarian coffee party cake
Kürtőskalács	120px		Stove cake or Chimney cake, cooked over an open fire—a Transylvanian specialty, famous as Hungary's oldest pastry
Lekvár	120px		Thick Hungarian jam
Lekváros Bukta or Bukta			a baked dessert filled with jam, túró or ground walnuts
Lekváros tekercs Swiss roll			Rolled up soft sponge cake filled with jam
Linzer torta			a tart with criscross design of pastry strips on top
Madártej			Floating island, a dessert made of milk custard with eggwhite dumplings floating on top
Mákos Guba			Kifli and finely ground poppy seeds boiled in milk and sugar.
Mézes krémes	120px		Hungarian Honey Cake
Rétes Strudel			strudel
Rigó Jancsi	120px		Cube-shaped sponge cake with dark chocolate glaze
Somlói Galuska	120px	Budapest/Fót	sponge cake with raisins, walnuts, served with rum, chocolate sauce and whipped cream
Szaloncukor	120px		flavoured candies which hang on the Christmas tree, eaten at Christmas
Törökméz Nougat	120px		a sweet sticky white nougat paste cooked with sugar, eggwhites, honey, bits of walnuts, spread between two wafer sheets.
Túró Rudi	120px		sweet quark cheese - called túró - filled chocolate bar
Vaníliás kifli			vanilla croissant, small, crescent shaped biscuits

See also

• List of restaurants in Hungary
• Hungarian cuisine