Lángos
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Lángos (pronounced LAHN-gosh) is a Hungarian food speciality, a deep fried flat bread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salt[1] and water.
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[edit] Variations
Langos can be made with yoghurt, sour cream or milk instead of water, a dash of sugar along with salt and sometimes with flour and boiled mashed potatoes, which is called Potato Lángos (in Hungarian Krumplis lángos or Krumplislángos)[2]. It is eaten fresh and warm, topped with sour cream and grated cheese, or körözött, ham, or sausages, rubbed with garlic or garlic butter, or doused with garlic water. Other ingredients and accompaniments can be mushroom, quark cheese, eggplant, cabbage, kefir, omelet, a confectioners' sugar, or jam.
Lángos may be cooked at home or bought from street vendors.
Traditionally lángos was baked in the front of the brick oven, close to the flames. It was made from bread dough and was served as breakfast on the days when new bread was baked. Now that people no longer have brick ovens and do not bake bread at home, lángos is usually fried in oil.
Lángos is sold at many fast-food restaurants not only in Hungary but also in Austria[3]. In Austria, especially in Vienna, lángos is very popular as a fast food at fairs and in amusement parks like the Prater. Langos is known in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as langoš, in Serbia as languš, in Romania and Vojvodina.
[edit] Etymology
The name comes from láng, the Hungarian word for flame.
The Glossary of Beszterce[4], the most ancient currently known Hungarian “dictionary”, dating back to the first quarter of the 15th century reveals that the ultimate ancestor of flat breads was the panis focacius attributed to the Romans (of which derives also the Italian flat bread called focaccia). In ancient Rome, panis focacius[5] was a flat bread baked in the ashes of the fireplace from the Latin focus meaning “centre”, ”flame” and also “fireplace”.
[edit] Recipe
See recipe at Wikibooks Cookbook.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Hungarian lángos
- ^ June Meyers Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes Cookbook
- ^ German Langoschrezepte
- ^ Glossary
- ^ Panis focacius
