Hungarian Goulash - Info and Goulash Recipes

Ah, goulash - Hungarian goulash! Do you remember having stew as a child? I hope you liked it! Think of this goulash as a stew, a stew Hungarian style. That is Hungarian Goulash! It sure seems like I ate lots of delicious stew when I was a youngster growing up in Cleveland in Northeastern, Ohio. And, lots of Hungarian foods like goulash too!

I am eternally grateful to the fond food memories, instilled in me, thanks to my wonderful grandma, Julia Nagy.

Goulash is known as Gulyás in Hungarian. That name originates from the word gulya meaning herd of cattle or cowherd.Where's the beef?

Where is the beef? It is probably in the goulash. Hungarian Goulash and Stuffed Cabbage are two Hungarian foods which are top of my list of favorite comfort foods. The third Hungarian food that is my favorite comfort food would be Hungarian Chicken Paprikas or Veal Paprikas.

I took this picture of Hungarian Goulash during our vacation to Hungary and Romania. It was actually Made in Hungary, shot in Hungary, and finally eaten in Hungary!

Photo Credit: Hungarian Goulash photographed in Hungary by JaguarJulie and then eaten!

How do you feel about Hungarian Goulash?
Have you tried it yet? A call to action! Do you dig Hungarian Goulash?

• Yes I love this ethnic comfort food : that's hot!
• No : that's not!

In a nutshell, what is Hungarian Goulash?

Think of American Stew! Goulash is similar to American Stew, but I think, much better! It is a hot dish, originally from Hungary, made of beef, onions, red peppers and paprika powder.

In some regions of the United States, the term goulash can be used interchangeably with hot dish and casserole.

It is most often prepared as a stew and served with boiled or mashed potatoes, polenta or dumplings. ~ Goulash Defined - Free information from Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

Thanks to my grandma Julia Nagy for her traditional Hungarian recipes!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it. Hungarian Goulash was one of the first Eastern European comfort foods I got to love ... thanks to that grandma of mine!

JaguarJulie and Grandma Julia Nagy in her Cleveland, Ohio Kitchen
Grandma's Cooking was the Best!

Hungarian Goulash Recipe

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 hour 30 min
Ready in: 2 hours
Yields: 6

Ingredients

• 2 lb. beef chuck
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 onions
• 2 Tbsp. lard or shortening
• 2 Tbsp. imported sweet Hungarian paprika
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 qt. water
• 4 peeled and diced potatoes
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper

Instructions

1. Cut beef into 1 inch squares, add 1/2 tsp. salt.
2. Chop onions and brown in shortening, add beef and paprika.
3. Let beef simmer in its own juice along with salt and paprika for 1 hr. on low heat.
4. Add water, diced potatoes and remaining salt.
5. Cover and simmer until potatoes are done and meat is tender.
6. Prepare egg dumpling batter: 1 egg, 6 Tbsp. flour, 1/8 tsp. salt.
7. Add flour to unbeaten egg and salt. Mix well.
8. Let stand for 1/2 hour for flour to mellow.
9. Drop by teaspoonful into goulash.
10. Cover and simmer 5 minutes after dumplings rise to surface.
11. Serve hot with dollops of sour cream.

Other Hungarian Goulash Recipes
I've selected a few for you to try!

• Amanda's Hungarian Goulash
  Hungarian goulash from www.cdkitchen.com.
• Chuck Taggert's Hungarian Goulash
  Chuck's recipe is worth trying.
• Cooks.com List of Recipes
  Cooks.com has a special Hungarian goulash recipe.
• My House and Garden
  Yet another recipe to try!
• Susannah's Hungarian Goulash
  Last, but not least, Susannah's recipe.

Get a Cast Iron Pot!

My grandma had an old, reliable, cast iron pot something like this one that she used all the time for her Hungarian recipes.

I first heard "dutch oven" from my grandma Julia Nagy. You will get a lot of use out of the Lodge L8DOL3 Pre-Seasoned Cast-Iron Dutch Oven with Dual Handles, 5-Quart. The size is perfect for making goulash or stew. It measures 10-1/4 inches in width and is also made in the USA!

What is different about Hungarian cooking?

What makes Hungarian Goulash SO good? Hungary is known for its exotic, tasty and spicy food and delicious wine. In general, the preference is for rich and spicy sauces, stews and sweets over rather "drier" dishes. In particular, the liberal use of a few special ingredients which give it its own inimitable and original flavor.

These are first of all red pepper, fresh green peppers and tomatoes, sour cream and lard. The use of lard or goose-fat instead of other forms of fat for cooking is traditional and certainly typical but nowadays more and more Hungarians are worried about the cholesterol content of lard, so often other fats are substituted. ~ Hungarian Cooking - What is different about Hungarian Cooking?

Hungarian Cuisine Ingredients
It's in the Goulash! The most well-known specialities of the Hungarian cuisine such as goulash soup along with the different varieties of stew or paprikash are red with paprika. It should be noted that dishes flavoured with paprika need not be hot. In fact, some of the finest brands of paprika are not strong at all.

Fresh green peppers and tomatoes are also frequently used to flavour these dishes, the essence of which is the same: braise any kind of meat in lard/oil with onions, and season it richly with red pepper.

Sour Cream is an essential ingredient in many Hungarian dishes too. It is a basic ingredient of "paprikash" (any kind of meat or just plain potatoes prepared in paprika sauce, to which sour cream has been added), as well as in many Hungarian vegetable dishes and casserole stews.

Facts about Hungarian Paprika
The Goulash Spice - Also known as the pepper fruit.

Paprika, Capsicum annuum, is a sweet-to-mildly hot cultivar of the chile pepper of the family Solanaceae. It is cultivated for its fruit, which are dried and used as a spice or seasoning. C.annuum is a native of South America; however it is cultivated most extensively in Hungary.

The English word was borrowed directly from Hungarian, which in turn borrowed the term from the adjacent Slavic peoples.

Paprika is noted for its high vitamin C content; vitamin C was first isolated by Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi from Hungarian paprika. He earned The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937, for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid.

The Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Papers - Read about the discovery of Vitamin C content in Paprika!

• Hungary is famous for this spice.
• Paprikas produced especially in Kalocsa on the Danube and Szeged on the Tisza are the best in the world.
• The rose paprika, made from choice dark red pods that have a sweet flavor and aroma, is generally considered the finest variety.
• A sharper Hungarian variety, Koenigspaprika, or king's paprika, is made from the whole pepper.
• Hungarian paprika is characterized by a hotter taste, achieved in recent times by adding hot, red capsicum pepper to ground paprika.
• Its bright color makes it an excellent garnish for nonsweet, light-colored foods.
• It is especially associated with Hungarian cuisine and is essential for such hot, spicy, Hungarian stew dishes.

Try some Paprika!

I recommend you start with Reese Kalocsa Sweet Hungarian Style Paprika. I'm partial to Hungarian-style paprika, you know? This is Kosher-certified paprika. It has that traditional bold flavor that can add a lot of taste to your favorite chicken, veal, and beef dishes. Give it a try!

Thanks for visiting!

Do you have a great Hungarian goulash recipe? Maybe you know of a great restaurant that serves Hungarian goulash? Or, have you been to Hungary and experienced the cuisine?

I'd love you to take a moment and tell me about it. Thanks!

History: Hungarian Goulash : Ah, Goulash! was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on March 30, 2006. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #214 overall. Lens #2 in the quest for Giant Squid 100 Club Charter Member 2007.

Butter Horns - Traditional Hungarian Pastry

Grandma made the best Hungarian butter nut horns! Ah, Hungarian Butter Horns especially butter nut horns and butter apricot horns! Holidays were always the time of year that my grandmother Julia Nagy baked the most of her famous Hungarian Butter Horns. In fact, my grandma was famous locally for her traditional Hungarian pastry butter horns! She could make hundreds of these at a time, with several different fillings -- usually nuts, apricots, and prune.

Grandma's nut horns, apricot horns, and prune horns were all so delicious. I love to reminisce about sitting in my grandmother's kitchen in Cleveland, Ohio and watching her cook and bake her butter horns. Her dough recipe was always so light and flaky. And, she was generous with her fillings.

It's interesting about nostalgic food memories. You can almost smell and taste these butter horns too. And, I actually can visualize grandma rolling out the dough, filling the butter horns and baking them. Ah, memories! Get the best-ever recipe here for this delicious comfort food. Yes, pastries are sweet comfort foods.!

Grandma, I sure do miss you and your delicious butter nut horns! {{{Hugs}}} My grandmother made the best Hungarian butter horns that I've ever tasted! She was famous for her traditional Hungarian pastry butter horns! I am thankful for the other Eastern European foods that my grandmother shared with us, stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, hungarian spaetzle, polish pierogi, langos, nut roll, poppy seed roll, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, crepes suzette and oh so many other traditional Hungarian goodies!

Thank goodness for our grandmothers who lovingly shared all their recipes to become our family traditions!

Photo Credit: Grandma's traditional Hungarian butter horns by hfb on Flickr.

Quick, all you ethnic pastry lovers : Vote!
We are talking nut + apricot + prune butter horns oh my! Ever tasted a Hungarian Butter Horn?

• Yumm Yumm ... YES
• Not sure
• Nope, not yet had the pleasure

I Absolutely Adore Butter Horns!
"One of my earliest pastry memories was tasting the nut butter horns and apricot butter horns that my Grandma Julia Nagy made in her Cleveland, Ohio home."

Sitting in Grandma's kitchen in that tiny bungalow at 16605 Chatfield Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio ... something was always cooking! It seemed Grandma never sat still. I can see her kneading the dough and rolling it out with that really long wooden rolling pin. She had a side table in the kitchen that was filled with a wooden board. You've seriously got to try some delicious mouth-watering butter horns ... particularly the best-ever, authentic and traditional Hungarian recipes for some of the most tasty comfort foods in the world!

When you are ready to try other delicious Hungarian pastry recipes, check out Kifli : Traditional Hungarian Pastry, Langos - Traditional Hungarian Food, Nut Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry, and Poppy Seed Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry. --The Brand Ambassador for Hungarian Butter Horns, JaguarJulie!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it.

Grandma's Cooking the Best!
My grandmother's butter horns were so good that they melted in your mouth. She didn't need icing, but simply sprinkled confectioner's sugar on the horns after they cooled.

Hungarian Butter Horns Best-Ever Recipe
Grandma's recipe always used sour cream and Crisco!

Ingredients and Instructions
Dough: 4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 packet yeast

Mix and add: 1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup lard
1/2 cup Crisco

Add: 3 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla

Form into 3 balls and chill 5 hours or overnight. Roll out balls with powdered sugar and cut with pizza cutter. Then spread filling on and shape roll into crescent.

Filling: 3 egg whites
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts

Bake at 375 for 15 to 20 minutes until slightly browned. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar when done.

Traditional Hungarian Butter Horns are deliciously filled with nut, apricot, prune and other delicious fruits!

What do you like in your horns? - I particularly loved my grandmother's NUT butter horns! We previously debated Nuts vs Apricots and had a lively debate going with the comments evenly split between the two!

How to Make Butter Horns

Check out Lill's Kitchen, part II and part III on how to make butter horns.

Traditional Hungarian Butter Horns Recipe

Ingredients - Dough
4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1-1/4 cups butter
1 cake yeast
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup sour cream

Instructions: Cut flour, salt and butter with a pastry blender or fork. Crumble yeast in flour mixture. Beat egg yolks and sour cream. Add to first mixture. Divide into 8 Equal parts. Roll each portion as you would for a pie. Cut into 8 wedges.

Ingredients - Filling
4 egg whites, beaten stiff
1 cup sugar, beaten stiff
1 cup finely ground nuts
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Instructions: Spread filling and roll from wide end. Bake on cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 18 minutes. Makes 64. --cooks.com.

Get a Hungarian Cookbook

In the The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast & Pastries: Delicious Hungarian Cakes, Baba Schwartz introduces the principles of yeast baking and gives handy hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection.

Get traditional recipes for cakes, slices, pastries, buns ... and Baba's famous golden dumpling cake.

These recipes, with their distinctive Hungarian flavor, will delight your family and friends.

Be a supporter of traditional Hungarian baking!

Do you love the butter horns?
What is your favorite filling for butter horns? Better yet, let me know when you decide to make some.

History: Butter Horns : Traditional Hungarian Pastry was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on December 21, 2007. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #1,152 overall. Lens #215 in the quest for Giant Squid 300 Club.

Kifli - Traditional Hungarian Pastry

Kifli is a traditional Hungarian crescent-shaped pastry made by cutting sheets of soft flour dough into triangular wedges, and wrapping those wedges to create a crescent-shaped morsel, which is then baked. I think of them as a variation on the Hungarian Butter Horns.

My grandma Julia Nagy made delicious Kifli that rivaled her delicious butter horns recipe!

Yumm Yumm! I sure do love the Hungarian Kifli folks! If you have been reading my other lenses, you willl know that I am of Hungarian and other Eastern European descent.

So, you can well imagine that I am a fan of Hungarian Kifli along with other of my grandmother's Hungarian and Slovak recipes, for these comfort foods: stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, hungarian spaetzle, polish pierogi, langos, nut roll, poppy seed roll, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, crepes suzette and oh so many other traditional Hungarian goodies!

Thank goodness for our grandmothers who shared their comfort food recipes which became a family tradition!

I hope you enjoy this yummy Hungarian pastry lens putting the traditional Hungarian Kifli in the spotlight! and, I hope you get to try some Hungarian Kifli soon. I just love the taste of Kifli! Check out the best-ever recipe for Kifli ... Hungarian Kifli! A variation on the traditional Hungarian Butter Horns, Kifli is a crescent-shaped pastry.

Photo Credit: Traditional Hungarian Kifli with powdered sugar by star5112 on Flickr.

Heard of the Hungarian Kifli ?
Quick, all you ethnic pastry fans. Are you familiar with Hungarian Kifli?

• Yes, absolutely--kiss me, I'm Hungarian
• Yes, though I'm not Hungarian
• Nope--just finding out about it

My Confession : I Love Hungarian Kifli

Thank goodness I had a grandma who could cook! "Preserving the delicious foods of my Hungarian and Eastern European heritage is something that gives me great satisfaction, on a daily basis!"

You know, if I didn't have grandma Julia Nagy, I wouldn't be here today! You would have missed out on all the best-ever, authentic and traditional Hungarian recipes for all kinds of comfort foods that grandma shared. Yes! pastries are some of my favorite comfort foods. May I make a tasty suggestion?

After you finish sampling the Hungarian Kifli, do make it a point to try some other delicious Hungarian pastry recipes like Butter Horns, Hungarian Pastry - 5 Fabulous Recipes, Langos - Traditional Hungarian Food, Nut Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry, and of course the ever popular Poppy Seed Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry. --The Brand Ambassador for Hungarian Kifli, JaguarJulie!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it.

Grandma's Cooking the Best!
My grandmother's butter horns were so good that they melted in your mouth. She didn't need icing, but simply sprinkled confectioner's sugar on the horns after they cooled.

Hungarian Kifli Recipe

Ingredients
6 cups flour
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
3 sticks butter [I prefer Land O'Lakes sweet butter]
2 sticks margarine
5 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
Egg wash
Confectioners' powdered sugar

Fillings
Apricot butter is my fruit preference.

Nuts: 8 ounce finely ground walnuts are mixed with 2/3 cup sugar and 1/3 cup milk.

Instructions

In a mixing bowl you will add the egg yolks first and then stir in vanilla and add the sour cream. Be sure to mix these ingredients well.

Sift the sugar and the flour. You will then cut in the butter and margarine. Make a well in the flour mixture. In the well, add the egg mixture to form a dough. You will then work with the dough mixture to shape it into a log shape.

Divide dough into 6-8 pieces. Cover the dough pieces with saran wrap and refrigerate for about 4 hours.
Work with the refrigerated dough by rolling out the pieces to about 1/8 inch thick. It is recommended that you use a round cookie cutter about 3 inches in diameter.

Place 1 teaspoon of your fruit or nut filling In the center of each round dough piece. Fold the filled dough in half. Use a butter knife to seal the open end of the filled dough.

Place on a non-stick baking pan. Form a crescent with each piece by twisting each end. Use a pastry brush to brush the egg wash across the crescent tops.

Bake for approximately 10 minutes in a 400 degree preheated oven. We always use confectioners' sugar through a sieve to sprinkle on top of the finished kifli.

Get a Hungarian Cookbook

In the The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast & Pastries: Delicious Hungarian Cakes, Baba Schwartz introduces the principles of yeast baking and gives handy hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection.

Get traditional recipes for cakes, slices, pastries, buns ... and Baba's famous golden dumpling cake.

These recipes, with their distinctive Hungarian flavor, will delight your family and friends.

Another recipe for Hungarian Kifli
From Dee Coulter, St. Maries, Idaho

Dough
4 cups flour
2 cups butter or margarine
4 egg yolks
3/4 cup powered sugar
1 cup sour cream

Filling
1-1/4 pounds almonds, ground fine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon almond extract

Instructions
Make dough, blending with pastry cutter or fork. Mix flour and margarine, then add the egg yolks, mixing well. Add sour cream and powdered sugar; knead dough until smooth, adding more flour if it sticks to surfaces. Refrigerate for 1/2 hour.

Roll out 1/4 of the dough at a time. Keeping the rest of it refrigerated until ready to use. Roll to 16-inches by 12-inches and about 1/8-inch thickness. With pastry wheel, cut in 2-inch squares.

Place a rounded teaspoon of filling in center of each square. Bring opposite corners together to overlap in the center and pinch closed. Brush with beaten egg, after being placed on a cookie sheet.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden brown. Roll in powdered sugar. Let cool and enjoy.

Another recipe for Hungarian Kifli
Ah, Christmas Pastries Hungarian Style

Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup cream style cottage cheese
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 egg whites
2 cups chopped nuts
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Instructions:
In large bowl, beat together butter or margarine and cottage cheese til light and fluffy. Add flour until dough forms a ball. Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and grease cookie sheets.

To Make Filling: Combine egg whites, nuts, water, and ground cinnamon. Mix well and set aside.
On a floured surface roll 1 portion of dough into a 10 inch circle. Spread circle with 1/3 of the filling to within approximately 1/2 inch of the edge. Cut circle into 24 pie shaped wedges. Beginning at outer edge roll up each wedge tightly. Place point side down on cookie sheet 1-1/2 inches apart.

Bake 13-15 minutes or until golden (be sure to watch carefully as these cookies burn easily). Remove to rack to cool. Repeat process with each remaining portion of dough and filling. --christmas-cookies.com

Kifli Legendary Origin 
Legend has it that kifli is the progenitor of the croissant. "Kifli is a traditional Hungarian yeast bread or pastry rolled into a crescent shape." You know? Just like a croissant!

Are you familiar with Hungarian Kifli? Love it? Got a favorite recipe for it? What's your favorite pastry?

History: Kifli : Traditional Hungarian Pastry was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on February 2, 2008. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #325 overall. Lens #280 in the quest for Giant Squid 300 Club.

Langos - Traditional Hungarian Food

I sure do love Hungarian Langos folks! Lately, I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Hungarian Langos which is a traditional Hungarian food that is rather like a fried bread. Thinking about langos makes for a nostalgic moment in taking me back to my grade school experiences staying with my grandmother, Julia Nagy, in Cleveland, Ohio.

That one year alone with grandma helped to put on 15 pounds from all of her fantastic Hungarian and Slovak cooking. Of course Hungarian Langos were a big part of the menu along with stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, hungarian spaetzle, nut roll, poppy seed roll, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, crepes suzette and oh so many other traditional Hungarian goodies!

Thank goodness for our grandmothers for their sharing the family recipes and for creating our love for such comfort foods!

Ah, Hungarian Langos -- it is a traditional Hungarian Fried Bread that can have a variety of toppings! I sure do love Langos folks! Check out the best-ever recipes for Hungarian Langos! IMHO, it's a Hungarian take on what we know as a pizza!

Photo Credit: Delicious Hungarian Langos by silangel on Flickr.

Have you ever tried Hungarian Langos?
Rather like a flat bread or tart! Ever eaten a Langos?

• Yes, quite a few in fact
• Oh, maybe once or twice
• No--not yet

My Confession : Grandma Made the Best-Ever Hungarian Langos
My grandma Julia Nagy had the most authentic and traditional old-world Hungarian and Slovak comfort foods! "Come on in and have a virtual taste of the Hungarian Langos! We predict you will love it and want to try more!"

After you have had your fill of Hungarian Langos, may I heartily encourage you to give Hungarian recipes a try? You'll want to start with Butter Horns, Hungarian Pastry - 5 Fabulous Recipes, Kifli : Traditional Hungarian Pastry, Nut Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry, and of course Poppy Seed Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry. These are my favorite, best-ever, authentic and traditional Hungarian recipes for pastries and desserts. Yes, pastries and desserts can be categorized as sweet and delicious comfort foods! --The Brand Ambassador for the Langos, JaguarJulie!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it.

Grandma's Cooking the Best!
My grandmother's butter horns were so good that they melted in your mouth. She didn't need icing, but simply sprinkled confectioner's sugar on the horns after they cooled.

My Grandmother's TIP for Langos!
She usually used just a bread dough and topped the langos with confectioner's sugar! YUMM YUMM!!!

Photo Credit: Hungarian Langos frying by KellyKorv on Flickr
Photo taken on December 22, 2007 using a Nikon D70s

Hungarian Langos Frying in Oil - I believe you can smell the langos! 

Langos Recipe submitted by Elizabeth C.
Part of the best-ever recipes collection! This recipe sounds quite a bit like my grandmother's recipe!

Ingredients
3 c. flour
1 pkg. yeast
1 pinch salt
1 tsp. sugar
1 c. water
1 pat butter

Instructions
Melt butter in saucepan, add water and heat through until warm (105-115 degrees). Pour into large bowl. Add yeast and sugar to bowl and let stand for a few minutes for yeast to soften. Add 2 cups flour to bowl and beat with electric mixer until well blended. Add the rest of flour to bowl.

Knead on a lightly floured surface until dough is smooth and elastic. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with damp paper towel and let rise for 1 hour.

Punch dough down and roll dough on floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness.

Cut as desired pieces and fry in hot oil until slightly brown. Remove from oil and place on several thicknesses of paper towels to cool. Rub with fresh garlic before serving.

Hungarian Langos with Delicious Toppings
Doesn't this Langos look yummy?

Photo Credit: Langos by Jon Aslund on Flickr
Photo taken on December 1, 2007 using a Nokia E70.

Hungarian Langos Recipe by Ilona Horvath
Submitted by Carolyn K.

Ingredients
2 medium potatoes
1-1/4 to 1-2/3 cups of milk
1 oz yeast
Pinch of sugar
14 oz flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 liter ( 1 quart) of oil

Instructions
Cook the well washed potatoes. In a mug, prepare the leavening agent: crumble the yeast into 1/2 cup lukewarm milk, add the sugar and mix with a little flour.

Sprinkle the top with 1/2 tspn of flour, cover with a cheesecloth and at a warm room temperature let it raise. Peel and mash the potatoes. Sift rest of the flour into a deep bowl, depress in the middle and pour in the leavening agent.

Add the still warm mashed potatoes, 1 tablespoon oil and lukewarm salted milk to make a medium stiff dough, then beat with a wooden spoon or mixer until bubbly.

Sprinkle the top with 1/2 tspn flour cover with a cheesecloth and put in a similary dry warm place for about an hour to raise to twice its size. Tear pieces of the dough and pull them thin, palm size.

Put them in plenty of very hot oil and fry one side under cover, remove the cover and fry the other side until crispy. You can sprinkle with salt or rub with garlic.

Carolyn K.: The langos in Budapest is to die for, I was addicted. The recipe above comes from a recipe by Ilona Horvath.

Hungarian Langos with Delicious Toppings
Oh my! Another delicious langos!

Photo Credit: Hungarian Langos at a festival by ilja kuklic on Flickr
Photo taken on July 5, 2008 using a Canon PowerShot A530.

Langos Recipe from Cooks.com

Ingredients
1 lb. flour
3/4 lb. mashed potatoes
1 tsp. sugar
1 pkg. dry yeast
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. milk
Oil to deep fry

Instructions
Put yeast in lukewarm milk with sugar and let rest 15 minutes.

In another bowl mix the flour and mashed potatoes and make a well and add the yeast mixture and begin to blend. When well mixed immediately knead until smooth and satiny.

Let rise in warm place covered with a clean cloth until dough has doubled its size. Punch down then take a piece about the size of a large hand and pat until it is about 2 inches thick. Then drop into the hot oil and cook on both sides until golden brown.

NOTE: May be eaten with garlic butter or sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar on just plain sugar. --www.cooks.com.

Get a Hungarian Cookbook

In the The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast & Pastries: Delicious Hungarian Cakes, Baba Schwartz introduces the principles of yeast baking and gives handy hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection.

Get traditional recipes for cakes, slices, pastries, buns ... and Baba's famous golden dumpling cake.

These recipes, with their distinctive Hungarian flavor, will delight your family and friends.

Be a supporter of traditional Hungarian baking!

P.S. Langos is pronounced LAHN-gosh!

Oh, I so would love to hear if you have had a Langos recently! How did you like it? Where did you have it? In Hungary maybe? Or, maybe at a Hungarian restaurant in the US? OR, did YOU make it?

History: Langos : Traditional Hungarian Food was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on June 7, 2008. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #839 overall. Lens #367 in the quest for Giant Squid 400 Club.

Nut Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry

Grandma made the most nutty pastry rolls! The Nut Roll is a traditional Hungarian pastry that is a sweet bread known as Beigli. Grandma Julia Nagy made her Beigli or Hungarian Nut Roll usually during the holidays of Christmas and Thanksgiving. Beigli [pronounced BAY-glee] is really a Hungarian sweet bread with special fillings. It is the filling that makes this nut roll pastry so tasty and nutty! My favorite nut roll fillings include chopped walnuts or chopped pecans.

Growing up in Northeastern Ohio, we ate a lot of European recipes thanks to my grandmother who if she were alive today would surely be FAMOUS for her RECIPES! You know those traditional Hungarian recipes for these comfort foods: stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, hungarian spaetzle, langos, nut roll, poppy seed roll, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, crepes suzette and oh so many other traditional Hungarian goodies!

At the top of my traditional Hungarian pastries "favorites" list was grandma's recipes for Hungarian nut rolls along with Hungarian poppy seed rolls! I am so grateful, and proud, to have grown up in the Cleveland, Ohio area. I am so thankful for having a grandma who instilled, in me, a love and passion for Eastern European foods and culture.

My grandmother was an amazing cook who prepared dishes and desserts that I will always treasure. Another one of grandma's favorites to prepare is the Hungarian Nut Roll. I can honestly say that I miss her as I'm sitting here writing this lens to commemorate another of her favorite recipes. I love nut rolls! Be sure to drop me a note in my guestbook and tell me about your experience with nut rolls. Yumm Yumm!

Delicious Photo Credit: Nut Rolls by Buttonwood Bakery.

Cast Your Vote For the Hungarian Nut Roll
Get on the roll you all -- ah, nuts! Have you ever had a bite of a nut roll?

• Yes, many many times
• Yes, perhaps once or twice
• No, never have

My Confession : I Truly Love Hungarian Nut Rolls
After all, I am authentically Hungarian, you know? "Ah, Nut Rolls! If you are crazy about nuts, like I am, you are surely going to dig the nutty nut roll. Make mine warm with a dollop of butter."

My special friends at Bubba's HomeBaked make their nut rolls from their grandmother's old-country, heirloom type recipe. May I make a suggestion to you. If you have never tried Hungarian Nut Rolls, please take a moment to try some from Bubba's HomeBaked.

I have sampled their recipe for both Hungarian Poppy Seed Rolls and Hungarian Nut Rolls and rate them right up there with the authentic and best-ever Hungarian recipes of my grandma. Even my mom tried them and raved about the great taste and texture! They are delicious; just like my grandma used to bake.

P.S. Yumm, yumm, see that delicious picture of yummy nut roll in my introduction? Ah, you will want to try Buttonwood Bakery where you can actually buy some yummy Hungarian Nut Rolls. --The Brand Ambassador for Traditional Hungarian Nut Rolls, JaguarJulie!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it. Yes! Nut rolls are some of my favorite comfort foods.

Grandma's Cooking the Best!
My grandmother's nut rolls were so good that they melted in your mouth. She also made the best ever poppy seed rolls. I simply can't pick which traditional Hungarian rolls I liked the best. BOTH!

Wrapped Package of Bubba's HomeBaked Poppy Seed and Nut Roll
Don't these look delicious even in the package?

Beigli :: Hungarian Sweet Bread - Pastry Roll
Beigli is an authentic Hungarian pastry roll that is often served for Christmas. It is sweet and has many varieties of fillings, the most common of which are poppy seeds and walnuts.

Yummy Nut Roll from Bubba's HomeBaked
The most Traditional and Authentic Hungarian Nut Roll Recipes!

The very first time that we ordered a nut roll from Bubba's HomeBaked, we got one of each and it didn't last long. Here is a picture of the actual nut roll AND poppy seed roll that we had. After sampling these rolls a number of times, we came up with our favorite manner of preparation. We cut almost a one inch slice of the nut roll and placed it in a small corning ware dish. On top, we spread a bit of butter, covered, and then microwaved until the butter melted and the nut roll was warm. This was incredibly delicious to eat the roll with the warm walnut filling!

#1 Hungarian Nut Roll Recipe
For nut rolls, butter and sweet cream are important elements!

Ingredients
1 square of yeast or 1 envelope
1/4 cup warm milk
1/2 pound butter
4 egg yolks
1/2 pint sweet cream (half and half)
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions
Let yeast dissolve in milk for a few minutes. Melt butter. Mix butter with beaten yolks in big bowl. In a separate bowl, sift flour, sugar and salt together. Mix yeast mixture with butter and egg yolks, sweet cream, and then flour mixture. Beat with wooden spoon or spatula until smooth or use hands to mix. The mixture will absorb the flour, cleaning the sides of the bowl. Shape into 3 balls and refrigerate overnight.

Roll out each ball into rectangle 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Sides will be about 12 by 16 inches. With paring knife, even off sides slightly. Spread with nut filling to within 1/2 inch of sides. Roll from short side up long side. Place the three rolls side-by-side on a 10 by 14 inch baking pan or cookie sheet and let rise in a warm area for 3 hours. Brush top with beaten egg. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.

Nut Filling
1 pound nut meats, finely chopped
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 egg whites beaten to stiff stage

Instructions
Mix together nuts and sugar and then add vanilla. Fold in beaten egg whites. Use 1 to 1-1/4 cups filling per roll. Yields 3 rolls. --www.johnekolbasz.com.

Another Order of Nut Roll from Bubba's HomeBaked!
Wish we had scratch and sniff and TASTE!!

#2 Hungarian Nut Roll Recipe - Like Grandma's!
My grandmother gravitated to sour cream in her recipe!

Ingredients
6 to 6-1/2 cups sifted flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoon sugar
2 yeast cakes or 2 packages dry yeast
1/2 cup warm milk
1 cup sour cream
2 sticks butter or margarine, melted or very soft
3 eggs, beaten

Instructions
Dissolve yeast in milk. Combine the rest of the ingredients; add yeast and milk mixture, blending very well. Divide dough into four or six parts depending on length of nut roll wanted. Roll about 1/4 inch thick, spread with nut filling and roll up jelly roll fashion. Let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size. Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes.

Nut Filling
1 to 2 pounds ground walnuts
2-1/2 cups sugar
2 sticks butter or margarine melted
2 eggs
1 large apple grated
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions
Combine all ingredients except the butter. Add the melted butter and mix well. Heat in large saucepan until the ingredients blend well and thicken slightly. Spread on rolled dough after the mixture has cooled. You can freeze any extra and use as a topping for an apple pie or top baked sweet potatoes or use in a coffee cake recipe. --www.johnekolbasz.com.

Nut Roll from Buttonwood Bakery

I am thrilled to find another bakery online from which you can order the Nut Roll. They don't pay me anything to promote them either. For all these years that I have been telling you about this bakery, I haven't earned a penny!!

What Buttonwood Bakery says about their Nut Roll: Bite into our amazing Nut Roll and savor the taste of freshly chopped California walnuts overflowing in every mouthful. Wrapped in our tender, sweet dough and baked to golden perfection. A holiday favorite that's great anytime! -- Buttonwood Bakery

Beigli = Hungarian
Potica = Slovenian
Gubana, Guban'ca = Slovenian
Orechovnik = Slovak
Makowiec = Polish
Povitica = Croatian

More Yummy Hungarian Nut Roll Recipes - aka Beigli

• Hungarian Nut Roll :: Skinny Chef
  Hungarian nut roll is one of my family's most treasured recipes - but this version has less fat since it's made with skim milk and low-fat margarine.
• Hungarian Nut Roll :: Cajun Recipes
  Pretty interesting to find a great recipe for nut rolls from cajun-recipes.com!
• Hungarian Kolache :: Nut Roll
  Chef Joanne says: I have always made my mother's kolache until I tried my sisters recipe. It is so much easier and the filling is not as dry.
• Walnut and Poppy Seed Rolls
  An authentic nut roll recipe by Auntie Andrea.
• Lucy's Sweet Surrender
  OMG! Order nut rolls and other authentic items from Lucy's!

Making Nuts Rolls? Don't Forget the Walnuts!

Ah, delicious walnuts shelled and ready to chop! Diamond Shelled Walnuts - 16-Ounce Bags (Pack of 6)

* Perfect for making Hungarian Nut Rolls *
* Contains walnuts in 16 ounce bags *
* Packets of 6 = 96 ounces total *
* Healthy protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals *
* Healthy anti-oxidants and omega-3 fatty acids *
* Originated in California *

Be sure to get Diamond Shelled Walnuts, 16-Ounce Bags (Pack of 6)!

Read All About IT!!!!
Feast your eyes on the product label and salivate.

Love Hungarian Nut Rolls?

Have you had the pleasure to taste a Hungarian nut roll? Where may I ask? Do you make nut rolls? Have any tips or serving suggestions you'd like to contribute?

Love that nut roll ??? Sometimes YOU feel like a nut; sometimes YOU don't!!! - Maybe you prefer poppy seed rolls? Drop me a line!

History: Nut Roll : Traditional Hungarian Pastry was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on June 8, 2008. On November 19, 2010 this lens earned the Squidoo Purple Star Award for quality content. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #33 overall. This was a top lens with 24 days on the Top 100 list. Lens #369 in the quest for Giant Squid 400 Club.

Poppy Seed Roll - Traditional Hungarian Pastry

Grandma made the most delicious pastry rolls! The Poppy Seed Roll is a traditional Hungarian pastry that is a sweet bread known as Beigli. Poppy Seed Roll is often prepared for the holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Beigli [pronounced BAY-glee] is literally a Hungarian sweet bread with special delicious and tasty fillings. The poppy seed filling is one of the richest and most delicious tasting fillings.

Growing up in Northeastern Ohio, we ate a lot of European recipes thanks to my grandmother who if she were alive today would surely be FAMOUS for her RECIPES! You know those traditional Hungarian recipes for these comfort foods: stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, hungarian spaetzle, langos, nut roll, poppy seed roll, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, crepes suzette and oh so many other traditional Hungarian goodies!

My grandmother was an amazing cook who prepared dishes and desserts that I will always treasure. This was one of grandma's most favorites to prepare because of its rich and dark, tasty filling. I can honestly say that I miss her as I am sitting here writing this page to commemorate another of her favorite recipes. I absolutely love these! Oh, just as must as I love Hungarian nut rolls, you know?

Delicious Photo Credit: Poppy Seed Rolls by Buttonwood Bakery.

A Tasty Poll
Cast your vote please. I love them! Yumm!
Have you ever had a bite of poppy seed roll?

• Yes, many many times
• Yes, perhaps once or twice
• No, never have

My Confession : I Love Traditional Hungarian Pastry!
And, my grandma Julia Nagy made the best ever pastry rolls!

"Poppy Seed Rolls are quite addictive! By that I mean, once you've tried the delicious pastry roll, you're hooked on them. Exercise caution."

Yumm, yumm, take a look at that picture of yummy Hungarian poppy seed rolls in my introduction. My special friends at Bubba's HomeBaked make their poppy seed rolls from their Hungarian grandmother's old-country, heirloom type recipe. I have sampled their recipe for both Hungarian Poppy Seed and Nut Rolls and rate them right up there with the authentic and best-ever Hungarian recipes of my grandma. Even my mom tried them and raved about the great taste and texture!

May I make a suggestion to you. If you have never tried these Hungarian pastry rolls, please take a moment to try some from Bubba's HomeBaked. They are delicious; just like my grandma used to bake.

P.S. I have another delicious source for these tasty pastry rolls just like grandma used to make! You'll want to try Buttonwood Bakery where you can actually buy some yummy poppy seed rolls. These delicious pastry rolls make great anytime gifts! Be sure to tell them JaguarJulie sent you! Be sure to drop me a note in my guestbook and tell me about your experience with these pastry rolls. Yumm Yumm! --The Brand Ambassador JaguarJulie!

P.S. I was the Official Squidoo Comfort Foods Contributor! Did you know that? Well, you probably guessed it. Yes, poppy seed rolls are some of my favorite comfort foods.

Grandma's Cooking the Best!
My grandmother's poppy seed rolls were so good that they melted in your mouth. She also made the best ever nut rolls. I simply can't pick which traditional Hungarian rolls I liked the best. BOTH!

Make Your Own Pastry Rolls!

Start With Poppy Seed Filling! - Grandma Julia Nagy always started with poppy seeds from the West Side Market in Cleveland, Ohio.

May I recommend a handy can of Solo Cake & Pastry Filling Poppy Seed 12.5 oz. Once you become an expert chef, you can prepare your own poppy seed filling from scratch!


Wrapped Package of Bubba's HomeBaked Nut and Poppy Seed Roll 

Don't these look delicious even in the package?

Beigli is an authentic Hungarian pastry roll that is often served for Christmas.
It is sweet and has many varieties of fillings, the most common of which
are poppy seeds and walnuts.

Hungarian Poppy Seed Roll Recipe
Beigli Hungarian pastry rolls on a pretty plate by JaguarJulie

Ingredients
2-1/4 tsp of traditional active dry yeast
1/4-1/2 cup milk
1 tsp granulated sugar
1/4 cup lukewarm milk
4 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup + 1 tbsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1-1/2 sticks of unsalted butter
3 egg yolks
 
Poppy Seeds filling: 1-1/3 cups poppy seeds, grind well; 5 tbsp sugar; 1 tbsp honey; 1 tsp grated lemon rind; 1 tbsp apricot jam

Instructions
Dissolve the yeast and granulated sugar in 1/4 cup of lukewarm milk. Set aside for 10 minutes until the liquid forms a foamy mixture.

Combine the flour, icing sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Cut in the butter. Mix well. Make a well in the center and add the yeast mixture and egg yolks. Mix gently, gradually adding 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk until the dough can be formed into a ball. Cover with a cloth and let rise until doubled in size (2 hours).

Mix the ingredients for the poppy seed filling in a medium saucepan and simmer over a low heat for 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from the stove and allow to cool.

Divide the dough into two halves and roll each half on a floured surface into 12 x 18 inch rectangles. Spread the poppy seed filling on the dough, leaving a margin of at least an inch on all edges.

Turn up the sides to prevent leaking and roll the beigli lengthwise to form a 12-inch roll. Brush the tops of the rolls with egg whites, poke a few holes in them with a fork. Bake at 350 deg. F for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown.

Poppy Seeds in European Food
Poppy is widely consumed in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The sugared, milled mature seeds are eaten with pasta, or they are boiled with milk and used as filling or topping on various kinds of sweet pastry.

Poppy Seed Cakes Book

Here is a delightful read, The Poppy Seed Cakes (Everyman's Library Children's Classics).

This is a beloved children's classic first published in 1924.

You get eight charming and humorous linked stories about little Andrewshek and his Auntie Katushka, with colorful woodcuts by Caldecott Award-winning illustrators Maud and Miska Petersham.

Auntie Katushka has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischief-prone four-year-old boy named Andrewshek.

There is art on every page, featuring mischievous animals and gooseberry tarts, colorful shawls and Russian dolls, and cheerful Auntie Katushka in her apron and handkerchief.

Yummy Poppy Seed Roll from Bubba's HomeBaked

The very first time that we ordered a poppy seed roll from Bubba’s HomeBaked, was quite a while ago! Here is a picture of the actual poppy seed roll AND nut roll that we had.

After sampling these rolls a number of times, we came up with our favorite manner of preparation. We cut almost a one inch slice of the poppy seed roll and placed it in a small corning ware dish. On top, we spread a bit of butter, covered, and then microwaved until the butter melted and the poppy seed roll was warm. This was incredibly delicious to eat the roll with the warm poppy seeds!

Hungarian Poppy Seed Roll Recipe

Ingredients
5 or 6 cups flour
1 lg. fresh yeast or 3 dry yeast
1 can milk
6 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
3 tsp. sugar
1 lb. butter
1/2 tsp. salt
1 or 2 cans poppy seed filling

Instructions
Scald milk; add butter, sugar, salt, and dissolve. Let cool. Mix yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Let rise or soften.

Beat eggs until light. Mix yeast mixture, milk, and eggs together. Put flour in large mixing bowl. Mix flour and mixture together and knead as for bread until satiny.

Place dough in a greased bowl and cover. It can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours. Divide the dough into 4 balls of dough. Roll out on sugar instead of flour, using one ball at a time.

Spread poppy filling onto the dough. Cut the dough as for pie wedges. Roll up and shape into crescents. Place on greased cookie sheet and let rise 15 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. --www.cooks.com.

Another Order of Poppy Seed Roll from Bubba's HomeBaked!
Wish we had scratch and sniff and TASTE!!

More Yummy Hungarian Poppy Seed Roll Recipes
Ah, it's Poppy Seed Rolls aka Beigli

• Authentic Hungarian Christmas Recipes
  OMG! This has got to be one of my favorite places to find some excellent Hungarian Recipes especially Beigli Pastry Rolls with Walnut or Poppy Seed Stuffing.
• RecipeZaar
  Recipe by Zsuzsa: This is a Christmas and Easter tradition in most Hungarian households. Make the dough the night before and leave in the fridge, this makes it easier to handle before baking.
• Poppy Seed and Walnut Rolls
  An authentic recipe by Auntie Andrea.
• Lucy's Sweet Surrender
  OMG! I'm in sweet heaven -- you can order poppy seed rolls online!

Poppy Seed Roll from Buttonwood Bakery

I am thrilled to find another bakery online from which you can order the Poppy Seed Roll.

You know, I have been promoting Buttonwood Bakery for several years and not made one cent on all the referrals I have sent their way! Nothing; nada.

What Buttonwood Bakery says about their Poppy Seed Roll: Taste the difference in our Poppy Seed rolls, filled to the brim with our delectable mixture of blue poppy seed, ground fresh right in our bakery. Perfect as a breakfast treat, for dessert or a late night snack! ~ Buttonwood Bakery

Poppy Seeds Are Addictive!
Honestly! Once you acquire an appreciation for the taste of poppy seeds, you'll want MORE! ** Hey! we're on a roll !! **

Read All About IT!!!!

Feast your eyes on the product label from my last Bubba's HomeBaked poppy seed roll. Are you salivating yet? Better get your own.

Have you had the pleasure to taste a poppy seed roll?

Where may I ask? Do you make these pastry rolls? Have any tips or serving suggestions you'd like to contribute?

The Pastry Fan Club. Drop me a line poppy-please! Are you convinced to try them yet? Please take a moment to let me know you dropped by today. Yumm ... poppy seed rolls!!

History: Poppy Seed Roll : Traditional Hungarian Pastry was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on June 8, 2008. On February 23, 2012 this lens earned the Purple Star Award for quality content. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #223 overall. Lens #368 in the quest for Giant Squid 400 Club.