Homemade Czech recipes

Many nationalities live in the world. Moreover, they differ from each other not only in appearance, mentality, religion, but also in cuisine. For example, Mexican cuisine is famous for its pungency and bitterness, from Italian we mainly know such dishes as pasta, pizza and tiramisu dessert, and from German - Bavarian sausages and beer.

However, each kitchen is extremely individual and diverse. This is very easy to verify. You just need to go to her homeland, go to a specialized restaurant or to perform one or another national dish on your own at home. The first two options are quite tempting, but also too expensive and not accessible to everyone. But the third is quite acceptable. Therefore, in this article we explore recipes of Czech cuisine. We will find out which dishes are considered national and how to execute them.

The famous Czech soup

Each kitchen offers a range of dishes. Moreover, there are among them options for soups, second courses, desserts, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, as well as many other tasty and very original ones. For example, those who have visited the Czech Republic at least once know that the inhabitants of a large country and its guests - tourists - adore the breathtaking soup in bread. No wonder it is considered a national dish of Czech cuisine! You can taste such a dish almost everywhere. After all, they serve it both in elite restaurants and in cheap eateries.

For those who still can not afford to go on a grand trip, we recommend that you follow the recipe below. To prepare one serving, you will need products such as:

• one round loaf;
• one hundred grams of fresh champignons;
• two medium-sized potatoes;
• one large onion;
• a small bunch of fresh herbs;
• half a glass of cream;
• one glass of water;
• 50 grams of butter;
• a pinch of ground black pepper and salt.

To please loved ones with a crown dish of Czech cuisine, you must perform the following manipulations:

1. First, peel the potatoes and rinse under running water.
2. Then chop it into cubes, pour into a saucepan of a suitable size, pour water and put on fire. Cook until completely boiled.
3. Meanwhile, peel the onion and chop finely.
4. Rinse the mushrooms thoroughly and cut into small cubes.
5. Put a piece of butter on a well-heated pan.
6. Melt it completely, add onions and mushrooms, fry until light blush.
7. Then, as indicated in the original Czech cuisine recipe, add salt and cream.
8. Simmer for five to seven minutes.
9. During this time, the potatoes should have been cooked. Therefore, our next step is to add mushroom mass and ground pepper to it.
10. After ten minutes of simmering over low heat, the soup should be removed and beat into a homogeneous mass using a blender. If there is not enough liquid and the dish is too thick, it can be diluted with boiled water or cream. The main thing is not to overdo it!
11. When the soup is ready, leave it to insist and proceed to the preparation of the "dishes". That is bread.
12. To do this, cut off the top of the loaf and carefully scrape the crumb with a spoon, leaving only thick walls.
13. Then send the bread into the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about twenty minutes.
14. After the specified time, you need to get it and fill it with soup.
15. Finished national dish of Czech cuisine should be decorated with finely chopped greens and served.

Simple garlic soup

This dish is also a hallmark of the beautiful Czech Republic. Cooking it at home is very simple. And further we will tell in detail how.

But first, we will examine what ingredients are required:

• one and a half liters of chicken stock;
• five medium-sized potatoes;
• one head of garlic;
• one slice of white bread;
• 50 grams of butter and grated cheese;
• four bay leaves;
• a pinch of ground black pepper, marjoram and salt.

Czech cuisine offers a great variety of potato dishes. To cook one of the most delicious and fairly simple to perform, you must:

1. Peel the potatoes, rinse thoroughly under running water and chop into small cubes. Approximately 1x1 centimeter.
2. Then cut off half a piece of butter and melt in a pan.
3. Add potatoes.
4. Fry over high heat until blush.
5. Then add bay leaves and finely chopped garlic.
6. Fry until a slight smell of garlic spreads through the kitchen.
7. Then we spread the fragrant potatoes into the broth, add salt, pepper, add marjoram, mix everything and start cooking to make the vegetable soft and crumbly.
8. Without wasting time, we prepare crackers. To do this, cut a slice of bread into small cubes, put in a pan greased with the remaining piece of butter. Fry until golden brown on all sides.
9. Pour the finished soup into plates, add crackers and sprinkle with grated cheese.

It will take only a few minutes to complete this Czech cuisine recipe, but the finished dish will surely please all household members and, quite possibly, will fall into the family recipe book. After all, his taste is truly divine, and even after tasting a specific garlic smell will not remain. Although this ingredient in the soup is very much. That is why the food is national and served in every cafe in a large country.

Original goulash

A huge number of delicious dishes are offered by Czech cuisine. Photo and cooking technology of the most original and simple we will explore in the article. The following recipe, which we would also like to share with the reader, is remarkable not only because of the taste, but also because of the unusual way of presentation. Cooking it is quite simple, but first you need to purchase the following ingredients:

• one round loaf of white bread;
• a pound of pork tenderloin;
• two large heads of onions;
• one juicy bell pepper;
• one liter of broth;
• one and a half tablespoons of flour and one olive oil;
• a pinch of spices: ground black pepper, marjoram, Provence herbs, ground paprika.

National Czech cuisine is simply impossible to imagine without this dish. Therefore, if our reader manages to go to this beautiful country, it is certainly worth a try. In the meantime, you can confine yourself to home-made food, which is quite simple to do. It is only necessary to carry out the following actions:

1. First, pour olive oil into the pan and warm it well.
2. Then add peeled, washed and chopped onion in half rings. Fry until soft and practically transparent.
3. Cut the meat into small pieces (about 3 x 3 cm), wash thoroughly under running water, dry with a towel and put in a pan.
4. Salt, pepper, add spices, stir and simmer over medium heat until the juice is highlighted.
5. Then pour the bell pepper chopped into strips or half rings, pour in the broth, mix and cover the pan with a lid. To languish for about an hour.
6. While there is free time, you can prepare the bread. To do this, just as described in the first recipe, cut off the top of the loaf and remove the crumb. And then dry in the oven.
7. When the goulash is almost ready, add the flour diluted with the broth, stirring quickly so that no lumps form. Continue to simmer for about ten minutes.
8. After the necessary time has passed, put the goulash in the bread and take the sample. If desired, it can be decorated with greens or served with Czech beer, as suggested by traditional Czech cuisine.
9. The recipe for the second meat dish with the photo below is suitable for everyday lunch. However, it best decorates the festive table.

Baked shank

Liver boar knee - one of the most delicious dishes of the Czech Republic. Therefore, we could not leave him without due attention. So, for its preparation you will need the following ingredients:

• one and a half liters of dark beer;
• one onion head;
• one juicy carrot;
• half the head of garlic;
• a large bunch of favorite greens;
• one tablespoon of mustard sauce and honey;
• half a teaspoon of caraway seeds, ground black pepper, cloves and salt;
• ten peas of black allspice;
• three bay leaves.

To execute a recipe for Czech cuisine at home, the following manipulations should be made:

1. To start, prepare the shank. To do this is quite simple - you just need to grind it over the fire, then carefully wash it under running water and put it in a saucepan that is suitable in size.
2. Then peel the onions, carrots and garlic. Cut the first component into four parts, the second into the middle cubes, and leave the third whole.
3. Add vegetables, bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, salt and beer to the shank.
4. Bring the liquid to a boil and simmer under the lid over minimal heat for one hour.
5. Then the knuckle should be turned over, add the remaining spices and cook for another hour.
6. Meanwhile, mix the mustard and honey in a small bowl.
7. When the shank is ready, it must be shifted into a baking dish, pouring about a quarter of the broth.
8. Then generously coat with mustard-honey mixture and send to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about an hour.
9. However, it is important to note that every fifteen minutes, the knuckle should be removed in order to pour the broth and grease the sauce.
10. When the breathtaking dish of Czech cuisine is ready, it should be served on the table with a special cabbage side dish, which is very simple to make. And then we will tell you how.

Braised White Cabbage

Czechs are very respected cabbage. And they serve it as a side dish to many meat and fish dishes. Moreover, they use both white and red headed vegetables. Both options of delicious and easy-to-eat foods will be discussed in this article. Let's start with a more affordable one that can be prepared for every day.

For its execution, the following ingredients will be required:

• one fork of white cabbage;
• two large onions;
• one big and juicy red apple;
• half a glass of white wine;
• four tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• three tablespoons of flour, two - granulated sugar, and one - freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• a pinch of salt and ground black pepper.

How to cook:

1. So, in order to try this recipe of Czech cuisine, cabbage must be peeled off the upper leaves, rinsed under running water and chopped with straws.
2. Pour oil into a pan and warm thoroughly.
3. Add finely chopped onions and fry until juice begins to stand out.
4. Then add sugar and mix thoroughly.
5. Then put the cabbage.
6. Reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the white vegetable for twenty minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. When the necessary time has passed, add salt, pepper and wine.
8. Mix everything again and, closing the lid, continue to quench for about five to seven minutes.
9. In the meantime, you need to prepare an apple. To do this, wash it well and rub on a coarse grater. Depending on your own preferences, with or without peel.
10. After the specified time, we send the apple to the pan.
11. Sprinkle with flour and mix everything again.
12. Stew for a few more minutes and pour lemon juice over the dish.
13. Turn off the heat and insist the finished meal for about a quarter of an hour.

Braised cabbage is a national dish of Czech cuisine. We presented a recipe with a photo of the finished result. We hope that now this dish will have even more admirers!

Braised Red Cabbage

If the reader does not like the previous version, we suggest another. It is notable for the fact that it uses red cabbage.

Essential Ingredients:

• half a kilogram of red cabbage;
• two green apples;
• two onions;
• one juicy lemon;
• prunes in the amount of five pieces;
• one tablespoon of honey and two - sunflower oil;
• one glass of pure water;
• half a teaspoon of caraway seeds;
• a pinch of salt.

To please loved ones with a bright and tasty dish, you should follow this recipe of Czech cuisine (see the photo below). To do this, you need to perform fairly simple steps.

How to cook:

1. Peel the onion, rinse and chop in half rings.
2. Spread in a pan and fry in oil until golden brown.
3. We wash the cabbage and cut into strips.
4. Then we send to the bow.
5. I also wash the apples, rub on a coarse grater, and after ten minutes of frying the cabbage, add to the pan.
6. Sprinkle them with lemon juice so as not to blacken.
7. Add salt, honey, caraway seeds and finely chopped prunes.
8. Mix everything and simmer until cooked, periodically adding water so that the cabbage does not burn.

A ready-made side dish can be served, for example, with fried chicken, as shown in the photo. The recipe for Czech cuisine at home is very simple to execute. But the finished dish will be accepted with great joy by the household. Well, the guests will even begin to beg the hostess to tell how to cook such a culinary masterpiece.

Czech drowned

Another unique and incredibly tasty dish to many may seem strange, because we would never have thought of cooking it. But if you still dare to do so, then a simple recipe for Czech cuisine will certainly be included in the family cookbook. So, for the original dish you will need a liter jar with a screw cap, as well as the following products:

• half a kilogram of pork sausages;
• three medium-sized pickled cucumbers;
• one pod of hot red pepper;
• three onions and one garlic;
• half a glass of wine vinegar;
• half a liter of clean water;
• two tablespoons of sunflower oil and salt;
• one tablespoon of sugar;
• three bay leaves;
• 10 peas of allspice;
• two cloves.

Surely it has already become obvious to the reader: the drowned men are nothing but pickled pork sausages. This Czech cuisine dish goes well with cabbage, the recipe of which we examined in the previous section. Or with ordinary boiled potatoes. And by the way, and as an appetizer for beer, it fits perfectly!

How to cook:

1. The first step is to peel the garlic from the husk, and the hot pepper - from the stalk.
2. Then cut the first component into slices, the second into rings, and the cucumbers into slices.
3. After that, we proceed to the preparation of the piquants. They should be cleaned from the shell and neatly incised on one side.
4. Put a slice of cucumber, garlic and pepper in each sausage.
5. In the meantime, it is necessary to peel the onion and chop it with rings.
6. Put half in the bottom of the can.
7. Place pork sausages on top.
8. Again the onion, the remaining cucumbers, garlic, pepper and another layer of sausages, thus fill the jar to the very top.
9. When the process is over, you can proceed to the preparation of the marinade. To do this, put laurel leaves, cloves, peppercorns, granulated sugar and salt in a saucepan. Bring the liquid to a boil and add wine vinegar. After the marinade starts to boil again, pour in the oil. Stir so that the salt and sugar are completely dissolved.
10. Finally, remove the saucepan from the stove and cool the liquid for a couple of minutes.
11. Then pour it into the can with the pork sausages and close the lid.
12. After complete cooling, we send the jar to the refrigerator for a week.
13. After the specified time, you can take a sample!

Thus, the original recipe of Czech cuisine at home is easy to execute. It would be a desire!

Mysterious Svichkova

The next dish, the name of which is interesting, but little understood by anyone, is the second dish. In the Czech Republic, every housewife knows and knows how to cook him. Therefore, we would like to tell the reader what Svichkova is and how to make it right. Let's start, as usual, with a list of the necessary ingredients:

• one kilogram of beef tenderloin;
• half a glass of sunflower oil;
• three glasses of pure water and one - cream;
• large onion;
• a small juicy lemon;
• two hundred grams of celery root;
• two tablespoons of flour;
• two teaspoons of thyme and granulated sugar;
• 10 peas of allspice;
• four bay leaves;
• a pinch of salt and ground black pepper.

So, according to the traditional recipe for Czech cuisine “Svichkova” (see the photo above), for its preparation, the following manipulations should be performed:

1. Wash the meat thoroughly, rub it with salt and leave it to marinate for a few minutes.
2. At this time, pour half a portion of the oil into the pan (it is better to use a deep one), heat well and add finely chopped vegetables: carrots, onions, celery root. Of course, each component must first be cleaned and washed.
3. Fry until a light blush, then lay out the tenderloin, pour water, put the bay leaf, pepper and thyme.
4. Reduce the heat to medium, close the pan with a lid and simmer the meat until cooked.
5. Meanwhile, on the remaining part of the oil, fry the flour until golden brown.
6. When the meat is well stewed, carefully pull it out and set it aside.
7. Add the flour to the sauce and continue to simmer for five minutes.
8. Peel the lemon, cut into circles and send to the pan.
9. After three to four minutes, pour in the cream, salt, pepper and cook for another seven minutes.
10. Finally, the sauce must be mashed with a blender.
11. And then serve Svichkov on the table.
12. You need to make this dish as follows: put the tenderloin on a beautiful plate, pour the sauce on top, scatter the lingonberry berries next to it.

It is also important to note that Svichkova is a dish of Czech cuisine, to which red wine fits perfectly. Therefore, if the hostess wants to prepare food for the holiday, where beer is not quite appropriate, we recommend that you follow this recipe.

Karlovy Vary roll

Another very remarkable dish will also decorate any celebration. And although the ingredients are expensive, it's worth it. After all, this roll will certainly make a splash!

So, for the execution of the recipe the following components are needed:

• half a kilogram of beef tenderloin;
• eight slices of bacon;
• 60 grams of ham;
• two chicken eggs and pickled cucumbers;
• half a glass of clean water;
• one teaspoon of olive oil;
• a pinch of ground black pepper.

If the reader was looking for an original recipe for a second dish with a photo, Czech cuisine has many excellent options in its arsenal. For example, to surprise guests with a delicious meatloaf, you should:

1. Break the eggs into a deep bowl, beat them intensively and pour into a greased pan.
2. Fry the resulting pancake on both sides until cooked and leave to cool completely.
3. Without wasting time, prepare the meat: cut the tenderloin along the fibers, rinse thoroughly, beat well and pepper to taste.
4. Lay on it bacon, ham, egg pancake and cucumbers sliced ​​into thin strips.
5. When these manipulations are completed, you need to roll the meat into a roll and dress it with a special thread.
6. Pour the remaining oil into the pan and put the roll out.
7. Fry, periodically turning over until a golden crust is formed on all sides.
8. Then put in a baking dish, pour water and send to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about an hour. However, you can’t forget about the roll, because every fifteen minutes it must be watered with sauce.

The traditional recipe for Czech cuisine at home (it will be easier to figure out the cooking process with a photo) is quite simple to execute. But the result will not leave indifferent households!

Czech Chicken

Perhaps it might seem to our reader that the Czechs, unlike us, do not favor dishes from the most affordable meat. To correct this impression, we described a delicious traditional Czech dish of chicken. It will require the following ingredients:

• three slices of ham;
• two large tomatoes;
• one hundred grams of mozzarella cheese;
• three cloves of garlic;
• can of olives;
• a pound of chicken;
• four tablespoons of olive oil;
• a pinch of provence herbs, salt and ground black pepper.

How to cook:

1. Remove chicken veins, wash and cut into cubes.
2. Season with salt, pepper and spices.
3. Pour oil into a pan and warm it well.
4. Then put the meat and fry until golden brown.
5. Then cut the ham into strips and add to the meat.
6. Close the pan with a lid and put out its contents for seven minutes.
7. Peel the tomatoes, chop the pulp finely, pass the garlic through a press, cut the olives into rings and send them after the ham.
8. Five minutes later, the original dish of Czech national cuisine must be removed from the stove. Put it on a plate and decorate with chopped mozzarella.

Thus, every housewife can indulge loved ones with original Czech dishes. After all, doing this is quite simple.