Slovakia

🇦🇹Austria

Apple Strudel

Apfelstrudel

Thin pastry rolled with spiced apple filling, raisins, and breadcrumbs, traditionally stretched by hand until paper-thin, a legendary Austrian icon.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Bean Soup

Fazuľová polievka

Beans cooked with smoked meat, root vegetables and often sauerkraut, finished with a roux and a spoon of sour cream.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Beetroot Salad

Cviklový šalát

Cooked beetroot grated with horseradish, vinegar and caraway, jarred in autumn and eaten with cold meat all winter.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Borovička

Juniper spirit, dry and gin-like but drunk neat and cold as a shot rather than mixed.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Bramboráky

Zemiakové Placky

A Czech fried potato pancake with garlic, marjoram, and caraway, a street and side classic

🇸🇰Bratislava, Slovakia

Bratislava Rolls

Bratislavské rožky

Crescent or horseshoe pastries of thin dough packed with a poppy seed or walnut filling, marbled on the surface from a double egg wash.

🇸🇰Central Slovakia, Slovakia

Bryndzové Halušky

Small potato-dough dumplings pushed through a board into boiling water, folded through bryndza until it melts into a sauce, and topped with fried bacon and its fat.

🇸🇰Central Slovakia, Slovakia

Bryndzové Pirohy

Half-moon dumplings of potato dough filled with bryndza and mint or dill, boiled and finished with butter, bacon and sour cream.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Buchty

Parené buchty

A Czech sweet yeast bun stuffed with jam, poppy seed, or tvaroh, a daily and home classic

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Burčák

Burčiak

A Czech young partly fermented wine, cloudy and sweet, a harvest and autumn classic. A national and seasonal iconrink, a traditional and natural beverage, a sweet and unique wine, a cold drink, a beverage, a drink, a tradition, a delicacy.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Cucumber Salad

Uhorkový šalát

Thinly sliced cucumber salted, drained and dressed with vinegar, sugar, garlic and black pepper, served swimming in its liquid.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Czech Goulash

Hovězí guláš

A Czech beef goulash with onions, caraway, marjoram, and paprika, served with dumplings or bread, a pub and daily classic

🇸🇰Slovakia

Demikát

Shepherds' soup of bryndza whisked into water or potato broth with caraway and fried onion, poured over stale bread.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Demänovka

Herbal liqueur from the Demänová valley made with fourteen herbs and honey, drunk as a digestif or long with tonic.

🇸🇰Eastern Slovakia, Slovakia

Dzatky

Džatky

Small Spiš potato dumplings, often served with bacon.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Frankovka Modrá

Slovakia's main red grape, grown in the Small Carpathians, making a peppery, high-acid wine drunk young.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Garlic Soup

Cesnaková polievka

Broth heavy with crushed garlic and marjoram, served with croutons and often grated cheese, sometimes poured into a hollowed bread loaf.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Goulash Soup

Gulyásleves

Goulash soup is a Hungarian beef soup with paprika, potatoes, caraway, and csipetke noodles traditionally cooked in a bogrács.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Granadír

Boiled potato and pasta fried together with onion and paprika — a barracks dish that stayed on canteen and pub menus.

🇭🇺Great Hungarian Plain, Hungary

Great Plain Goulash

Alföldi gulyás

Great Plain goulash is a Hungarian beef-and-potato soup seasoned with paprika and cooked in the plains tradition.

🇭🇷Croatia

Gulaš

Beef stew with paprika, onions, potatoes, a Hungarian-influenced dish common in continental Croatia, served with fresh bread.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Haruľa

Grated raw potato bound with flour, egg, garlic and marjoram, fried flat in fat until crisp at the edges.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Holubky

Holúbky

Cabbage leaves rolled around minced pork and rice and braised in a tomato or kraut sauce, served with a spoon of sour cream.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Hriato

Hot spirit — usually borovička or slivovica — burned off with honey, lard and sometimes bacon, drunk on ski slopes and at winter markets.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Hruškovica

Pear brandy distilled from Williams pears, clear and intensely aromatic, made at the same village stills as slivovica.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Huspenina

Pork trotters and hock boiled down and set into a clear savoury jelly with garlic, bay and a slice of egg, served cold in slabs.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Jaternica

Pork offal and rice or barley packed into a casing with marjoram and garlic, made at the winter slaughter and fried or baked until the skin splits.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Kapustnica

Sauerkraut soup with smoked pork, dried mushrooms, sausage and plum, thick and sour, cooked in quantity for Christmas Eve and eaten for days after.

🇸🇰Klenovec, Slovakia

Klenovecký Syrec

Protected smoked cheese from Klenovec in Gemer, moulded into a decorated block and matured until firm and deeply smoky.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Knedlíky (Dumplings)

Knedlíky

A Czech boiled bread or potato dumpling, sliced and served with sauces, goulash, and roasts, a national and essential staple.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Kofola

A Czech cola-like soft drink made from herbs and spices

🇸🇰Slovakia

Koláče

Round yeast pastries with a well of curd, plum jam, poppy seed or apple in the middle, baked in trays for weddings and holidays.

🇸🇰Central Slovakia, Slovakia

Korbáčik

Zázrivský korbáčik

Thin threads of steamed sheep's cheese plaited by hand into a small whip, sold plain or smoked, and made around Zázrivá in the Orava region.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Krvavnicka

Krvavnička

Blood sausage made at winter slaughter, often with buckwheat.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Laskonky

Two flat, chewy hazelnut or coconut meringues sandwiched with buttercream — the standard box-of-cakes item in a Slovak cukráreň.

🇭🇺Hungary

Lecsó

Lečo

Lecsó is a vegetable ragout of peppers, tomatoes, onions, and paprika, often with sausage or eggs.