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Hungarian Cuisine Print E-mail

Hungary is known for its exotic, tasty and spicy food and delicious wine.

The traditional Hungarian dishes abound in piquant flavors and aromas. Dishes are flavourful, spicy and often rather heavy. People with a sensitive stomach, should be careful.

Flavours of Hungarian dishes are based on centuries old traditions in spicing and preparation methods. The exquisite ingredients are produced by local agriculture and husbandry.

Paprika and garlic is to be found everywhere, and sour cream is often used to soften flavour.

The first thing that people recall about Hungarian cuisine is goulash, which is, contrary to popular belief , not a stew but an artistically prepared thick soup.

You must try fish soup, chicken paprika, good home-made pörkölt (stew) and the excellent fresh-water fishes: grilled pike-perch, trout with almond. Also compulsory is goose liver. Whether fried or grilled, cold or hot, it is simply unforgettable.

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Drinks Print E-mail

Pálinka 

Hungary produces excellent, powerfull fruit brandies (pálinka): barack from appricots, cseresznye from cherries, körte from pears, alma from apples and szilva from plums. And there is Unicum, a bitter panacea made from a secret herbal recipe.

 

Wine

The choice of good wine is available in Hungary has increased dramarically over the past few years. 

Louis XIV, the Sun King, was such an admirer of world famous Tokaj wine that he termed it the "Wine of kings, the King of Wines". Wine of the Balaton region, the full-bodied Villány-Siklós, the famous wines of Eger and the Egri Bikavér (Bull's Blood) in particular also enjoy a wide international reputation. 

Recomended: 

House of Hungarian Wines is located in the Castle District on the Buda side of Budapest. It is located across from the historic Hilton Hotel in the old town at Szentháromság ter 6. The House of Hungarian Wines sells wines made from 22 different wine regions in Hungary, and includes information about each of the different wine regions. For about $20 USD individuals can tour the wine cellar and sample 50 different Hungarian wines.