List of Hungarian dishes

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This is a list of dishes found in Hungarian cuisine.

Soups and stews

Name	Image	Region	Description
Borleves			wine soup
Goulash
Gulyásleves			Goulash soup
Főzelék			thick vegetable stew
Halászlé Fisherman's Soup			traditional red fish soup spiced with hot paprika
Hideg meggyleves Sour cherry soup			chilled sour-cherry soup
Húsleves Chicken soup			clear chicken or veal meat soup with soup vegetables and thin soup pasta called csipetke
Jókai bableves			a bean soup named after the author Mór Jókai
Lecsó			mixed vegetable stew, the Hungarian 'Ratatouille', it is similar to the Romanian ghiveci or the Bulgarian gjuvec
Palócleves			named after the Palóc, an ethnic group of Northeastern Hungary
Pörkölt			meat stew in a thick paprika-spiced sauce, similar to ragout; generally translated into English as goulash (not to be confused with goulash soup)
Köménymagleves			caraway seed soup
Székelygulyás			Goulash stew, made with sauerkraut and several kinds of meat
Chicken Paprikash			called Csirkepaprikás (a stew with a lot of sweet paprika, cream or sour cream called tejföl
Paprikás krumpli			paprika-based stew with spicy sausage and potatoes
Vadgombaleves			wild mushroom soup

Meat dishes

Name Other names	Image	Region	Description
Töltött káposzta Cabbage roll			stuffed cabbage
Töltött paprika Punjena paprika			Stuffed peppers - ground meat, rice and spices are used for the filling
Töltött tojás Deviled egg			Deviled eggs, cold in mayonnaise or warm, baked in the oven with sour cream
Szüz tekercsek Rouladen			literally "Virgin roulade" filled with minced meat
Pecsenye Fatanyéros, Hungarian Mixed Grill			thin pork steak served with cabbage or the dish fatányéros, a Hungarian mixed grill on wooden platter
Bécsi szelet Wiener schnitzel, but made of pork, Borju bécsi (using veal), rántotthús			Bécsi szelet is literally "Viennese slice" in English
Stefánia szelet Meatloaf			or Stefania slices (Hungarian meatloaf with hard boiled eggs in the middle. Makes decorative white and yellow rings in the middle otf the slices
Túrós csusza			small dumplings called galuska baked with quark cheese called túró - served savoury with bacon or sweet
Rakott Krumpli			potato casserole, se recipe on Wikibooks Cookbook
Rakott káposzta			layered cabbage
Rántott sajt			flat cheese croquette, cheese rolled in breadcrumbs and, deep fried
Pacalpörkölt			pörkölt made of tripe

Dumplings and others

Name	Image	Region	Description
Turósgombóc Klöße			Hungarian sweet quark cheese dumpling
Májgaluska Spätzle			small liver dumplings used in different soups, for example liverball soup
Grizgaluska Klöße			Hungarian boiled semolina dumplings used in soup.
Szilvásgombóc Klöße			Gombotzen or Szilvásgombóc and nudli (sweet plum dumplings and small noodles, rolled in sweet fried brescrums or streusel
Tarhonya Egg barley			a kind of large Hungarian "couscous", big pasta grain, served as a side dish
Rizi-bizi Risotto			Hungarian risotto, white rice mixed with green peas, served as a side dish
Vinetta padlizsán krém			Transylvanian mashed eggplant salad made of grilled, peeled and finely chopped eggplants
Körözött Liptai túró			Liptauer, a spicy spread made from fresh white cheese mixed with sweet paprika and onions
Libamájpástétom			Hungarian delicacie: foie gras - goose liver pâté

Breads and pancakes

Name	Image	Region	Description
Lángos			fried bread dough
Pogácsa			a type of bun, round puffed pastry with bacon, traditionally cooked on the fire
Zsemle Bread rolls			round small breads, eaten cut in half, with butter, cold cuts or jam, often for breakfast
Kifli			crescent-shaped pastry, see picture
Perec Pretzel			Pretzel, salty crispy pasty
Bundás kenyér			literally, "coated bread" or "bread with a fur", French toast or Gypsy toast, a breakfast food or eaten with spinach
Kenyér			Hungarian bread -kenyér- is baked fresh every morning in the bakeries. The bread is big, round and with a hard thick crust
Vekni Baguette			The other freshly baked bread type. Long loaves with crispy crust, thicker or thiner, like the baguette
Rakott palacsinta			layered pancakes with sweet cottage cheese, raisins, jam and walnuts
Palacsinta			stuffed pancake, usually filled with jam. Other fillings are sweet quark cheese with raisins or meat
Császármorzsa Kaiserschmarrn			sweet pancake crums
Gundel palacsinta 'Palacsinta			Gundel pancake, stuffed with walnuts and served in chocolate sauce, often flambéed
Hortobágyi palacsinta			pancake filled with veal stew

Sweets and cakes

Name	Image	Region	Description
Dobos torta Dobosh torte Dobos cake			sponge cake layered with chocolate paste and glazed with caramel and nuts
Fánk Berliner, Bismarck Doughnuts
Linzer torta			a tart with criscross design of pastry strips on top
Rigó Jancsi			Cube-shaped sponge cake with dark chocolate glaze
Gesztenyepüré			cooked and mashed sweet chestnuts with sugar and rum, topped with whipped cream.
Bejgli			(cake roll eaten at Christmas and Easter.
Kürtőskalács			Stove cake or Chimney cake, cooked over an open fire—a Transylvanian specialty, famous as Hungary's oldest pastry
Csöröge			crispy, light Hungarian Angel Wing fry cookies a twisted thin fried cookie made of yeast doug, dusted with powdered sugar
Vaníliás kifli			vanilla croissant, small, crescent shaped biscuits
Piskóta Lady Finger			thin, light, sweet delicate, crispy lady fingers
Rétes Strudel			strudel
Kuglóf Kugelhupf			Kuglóf cake, a traditional Austro-Hungarian coffee party cake
Lekváros Bukta or Bukta			a baked dessert filled with jam, túró or ground walnuts
Lekváros tekercs Swiss roll			Rolled up soft sponge cake filled with jam
Lekvár			Thick Hungarian jam
Mézes krémes			Hungarian Honey Cake
Birsalma sajt Quince cheese			(Quince cheese, or quince jelly made of quince fruits
Törökméz Nougat			a sweet sticky white nougat paste cooked with sugar, eggwhites, honey, bits of walnuts, spread between two wafer sheets.
Halva, Transsylvanian sweet			sweet confection, made with sunflower seeds, of Turkish origin
Madártej			Floating island, a dessert made of milk custard with eggwhite dumplings floating on top
Túró Rudi			sweet quark cheese - called túró - filled chocolate bar
Somlói Galuska		Somló	sponge cake with raisins, walnuts, served with rum, chocolate sauce and whipped cream
Szaloncukor			flavoured candies which hang on the Christmas tree, eaten at Christmas