Csirke Pörkölt (original recipe) 600-800 g boneless, skinless chicken, cut into bite sized pieces 2 Tbsp pork fat 1 onion, cut into thin circles 1 tsp hot paprika 1 red bell pepper 1 big and juicy tomato, skin and seeds removed salt Heat pork fat in a deep pan. Add onion and saute until it softens. Remove from heat, stir…
It’s this blog’s second birthday today! I made this cake two months ago, but decided not to post about it until today. Wanted to share something really exceptional with you today, and this cake is exactly that. It was made somewhere in 19th century to honor Pál Antal Esterházy, minister in Austro-Hungarian Empire. And although it became one of the…
The most famous Hungarian cake in the world, Doboš Torte, was first made for the Hungarian state exhibition in 1885. It was made out of 8 separately baked layers of biscuit spread over with a cooked buttercream. The torte’s author was a cook and a pastry chef, owner of a delicacy store and a pastry shop, author of fifteen cookbooks,…
