Hungary
Pork Feast
Disznótoros
Disznótor is a Hungarian winter pork feast featuring pork cuts, sausages, and other slaughter-day preparations.
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Pork Knuckle
Csülök
Pork Knuckle is a roasted pork leg joint with crisp skin, often served with potatoes and sauerkraut.
Hungary
Pálinka
Pálinka is Hungary’s fruit spirit, distilled from ripe apricots, plums, pears, cherries, or grape marc. Apricot pálinka, plum pálinka, and törkölypálinka are recognized Hungarian subtypes rather than separate catalog foods.
Hungary
Pálpusztai Cheese
Pálpusztai sajt
Pálpusztai Cheese is a soft cow's milk cheese with pungent odor, smear-ripened.
Hungary
Pörkölt
Pörkölt is a thick meat stew with boneless meat, paprika, onion, and minimal liquid, made with beef, pork, or game.
Hungary
Rigó Jancsi
Rigó Jancsi is a chocolate sponge cake with chocolate mousse and apricot jam, named after a Roma violinist.
Russia
Salo
Сало
Salo is cured pork fatback, salted and sometimes smoked, and eaten with bread, garlic, and black pepper.
Hungary
Scalded Bacon
Abált szalonna
Scalded bacon is poached or scalded pork bacon, less smoky than traditional szalonna and tender in texture.
Czech Republic
Smažený sýr
Rántott sajt
A Czech fried cheese (Edam or Hermelín) in breadcrumbs, served with tartar sauce and potatoes, a street and pub classic
Transdanubia, Hungary
Somlói Galuska
Somlói Galuska is a trifle with three sponge layers (plain, chocolate, walnut), vanilla cream, raisins, and chocolate sauce.
Sopron, Hungary
Soproni Bor
Red wines from Sopron, Kékfrankos country.
Hungary
Soskaleves
Sóskaleves
Sorrel soup, similar to green borscht.
Hungary
Stefania Szelet
Stefánia szelet
Meatloaf with hard-boiled eggs.
Hungary
Strudel
Rétes
Strudel is a paper-thin stretched pastry filled with apple, cherry, poppy seed, or cottage cheese.
Hungary
Stuffed Cabbage
Töltött káposzta
Stuffed cabbage consists of cabbage leaves filled with ground pork, rice, and spices, simmered in tomato sauce with sour cream.
Hungary
Stuffed Peppers
Töltött paprika
Stuffed peppers are bell peppers filled with ground meat, rice, and paprika, baked in tomato sauce.
Hungary
Sweet Bread
Kalács
Kalács is a Hungarian braided sweet bread, often made with milk, with a soft crumb and lightly sweet flavour.
Szeged, Hungary
Szeged Fish Soup
Szegedi halászlé
Szeged fish soup is a thick paprika-red Tisza fish soup made with river fish.
Szeged, Hungary
Szeged Paprika
Szegedi paprika
Szeged paprika is a protected Hungarian spice from the Szeged region, valued for vivid colour and sweet pepper flavour.
Hungary
Szegedi Teliszalami
Szegedi téliszalámi
PGI winter salami.
Hungary
Székely Goulash
Székelygulyás
Székely goulash is a thick stew of pork, sauerkraut, sour cream, paprika, and potatoes.
Hungary
Tarhonya
Egg barley grain, a foundational side.
Hungary
Tojasleves
Tojásleves
Caraway and egg-drop soup.
Tokaj, Hungary
Tokaji Aszú
Tokaji Aszú is a Hungarian sweet wine made from botrytized grapes, with golden colour and balanced acidity.
Hungary
Tokaji Furmint
Dry Furmint from Tokaj.
Hungary
Tokány
Tokány is a transylvanian-style stew with strips of meat, peppers, mushrooms, smoked bacon, and sour cream, meat cut into strips not cubes, rich and smoky.
Hungary
Tripe Soup
Pacalleves
Tripe Soup is a hearty soup with beef tripe, vegetables, paprika, and vinegar.
Hungary
Tripe Stew
Pacalpörkölt
Tripe Stew is a beef tripe slowly cooked with onions, garlic, paprika, and spices until tender.
Hungary
Turo Rudi
Túró Rudi
Curd-filled chocolate bar, iconic snack.
Hungary
Turogomboc
Túrógombóc
Curd cheese dumplings.
Hungary
Turos Lepeny
Túrós lepény
Sweet curd cheese pastry bars.
Hungary
Unicum
Unicum is a herbal liqueur made from 40+ herbs, secret recipe since 1790, bitter-sweet digestif.
Hungary
Vadgombaleves
Southern Hungarian wild mushroom soup.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Sausage
Frankfurter Würstel
Parboiled pork sausage, lightly smoked, traditionally served in pairs, a staple at Austrian Würstelstands, good snap with mild flavor, iconic.
Villány, Hungary
Villanyi Bor
Villányi bor
Red wines from Villány.
Vienna, Austria
Wiener Schnitzel
Veal Schnitzel
Austria's national dish: thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet with golden crispy crust, served with lemon, lingonberry jam, and potato salad.