Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes

Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes
Chef Ilona Szabo Reveals The Secrets of Hungarian Cooking

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Classic Hungarian Meals - by the Hot Hungarian Chef

The instructions on making strudel and dumplings alone are worth the price of admission!

Have you ever picked up a colourful cookbook in a foody store and just bought it thinking that you would be able to recreate those lovely meals? And then - you try to make one of them - and they don't tell you that the rest of the side dishes that compliment that meal - are throughout the book.

Helen’s Hungarian Heritage Recipes is one of those heart-warming, soul-touching kinds of cookbooks that takes you back to your childhood memories of all those amazingly delicous meals your grandmother and mother made. You are grown now - relying on your memory and you can't just get it right.

In Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes, you will be introduced to the most extensive collection of over 200 authentic and treasured Hungarian family recipes ever published.

Finally, Chef Helen Czegeny shares with you the secrets of Hungarian cooking like a true Hungarian Chef. Let the Czegeny's take you on a culinary journey and learn about the culture and the flavours of Hungary.You will fall in love with Hungarian food one dish at a time.

The instructions on making strudel and dumplings alone are worth the price of admission!

Not to fear, we are responding to your requests.

Those of you who are veterans on the Hungarian Meal Scene might find this interesting. Others, will welcome the combos as there are soooo many to chose from - it's hard to know what side dish or dessert goes with what.

Here's just a few celebration type menus and then the great stand-by peasant type everyday meals.

We hope you find this helpful to bring back that full warm comforting feeling from making a complete classic Hungarian meal.

(Oh yes - by the way - the numbered reference pages are from our cookbook)
Elegant/Elaborate Celebration Meals
(Weddings, Anniversaries, Birthday, Christmas)

Meal # 1

Course # 1 Hen Soup with Cork Screw Noodles (Tjuk Leves Csiga Tésztaval) Page 39 & 63
Course # 2 Cabbage Rolls (Toltött Káposzta) Page 110
Course # 3 Breaded Chicken (Kirantott Csirke) Page 149 with Parsley Potatoes (Petrezseljmes Krumpli)- Page 92 and Cucumber Salad (Uborka Salata) Page 72
Course # 4 Dobos Torte (Dobos Torta) Page 195

Meal # 2

Course # 1 Mixed Potato Vegetable Soup (Zoldseges Krumpli Leves) Page 47
Or Kolrabbi Cream Soup (Karalabe Kremleves) Page 56
Course # 2 Chicken Paprika (Paprikás Csirke) Page 127 with Dumplings (Nokedli) Page 95
and Cucumber Salad (Uborka Salata) Page 72 (Additional side dish can include Buttered Peas, and/or Carrots) (Parolt Sárga Repa) Page 81
Course # 3 Apple Filled Pastry Squares (Almas Pite/Lepeny) Page 223


Simple Peasant Type (Everyday) Meals

Meal # 1

Course # 1 Dry Bean Soup with Pork Hocks (Saraz Bab Leves) Page 52
Course # 2 Hungarian Palacsinta filled with Cottage Cheese – (Magyar Palacsinta, Túrós Totelek) Page 229, 230

Meal # 2

Course # 1 Dry Bean Soup with Pork Hocks (Saraz Bab Leves) - Page 52
Course # 2 Layered Potato Sausage Casserole (Rakott Krumpli Kolbászal) Page 89
Course # 3 Sponge Cake (Jelly Roll with Apricot Jam) (Piskóta Terecs) Page 200

Meal # 3

Course # 1 Savoy Cabbage & Potato Stew - (Kelkaposzta Fôzelék) Page 112
Course # 2 Golden Walnut Sweet Bread (Arany Galuska) Page 168

Meal # 4

Course # 1 Goulash Soup (Gulyás Leves) Page 40 & Hungarian Crusty Bread (FehérKenyer)
Course # 2 Cottage Cheese Noodles (Túrós Csusza) Page 108
Course # 3 Fruit Compote (Apple or Pear) (Zumolcs Compote) Page 246

Meal # 5

Course # 1 Mixed Potato Vegetable Soup (Zoldseges Krumpli Leves) Page 47
Course # 2 Pork & Sauerkraut Rice Casserole (Kolozsvari Rakott Káposzta) Page 116
Course # 3 Cottage Cheese Strudel or Apple Strudel (Túrós, Almas Retes) Page 183 & 185

For all of these classic Hungarian recipes, please visit

http://www.helenshungarianrecipes.com/

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The HotHungarianChef

Clara and her mother Helen, co-authored these amazing treasured Hungarian family recipes.

So, whether you crave Chicken Paprikas or Almas Retes, this authentic, beloved, cherished and Hungarian Heritage Recipe collection includes a vast array of national favourites, from appetizers through desserts. Learn about, create, and taste the flavours and culinary traditions of Hungary - from Cabbage Rolls to Poppy seed and Walnut Rolls and the famous regal Dobos Torte. It must have been an amazing task - God bless you both! Great Job!

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