In the life of every person, great importance is attached to food. Everyone knows that it is a source of vitality and necessary energy. Many people like to get acquainted with the national cuisines of the world. Thus, they try to diversify their nutrition and bring something special to it. Today, the subject of our conversation will be - national dishes of the Czech Republic. And itβs not necessary to go there to try them. We invite our readers to get acquainted with the top 10 main national dishes of the Czech Republic. You can also find recipes for some dishes in the article. Let's start the acquaintance.
Czech national dishes: features
Each country has its own attitude to cooking. Czech cuisine has evolved over a huge number of years. Not without the influence of other countries. Czech cuisine can be compared with Russian. They cook soups, meat dishes, side dishes. But there are still differences. Let's move on to their description:
- The food is very high in calories, as a lot of fat is used in cooking.
- In the Czech Republic, it is not customary to serve small portions, so if you arrive there, do not forget about this fact.
- A special attitude to meat. Not a single feast is complete without it. A huge number of dishes are prepared from meat.
- Sauces and dressings for main courses have a sweetish taste, as Czechs are very fond of sweets.
- Many dishes are pickled.
- Almost all Czech national dishes are served with sauces.
- What seasonings and spices are most common in the Czech Republic? The cuisine of national dishes is famous for its wide use of caraway seeds, ginger, marjoram, dill, red pepper, sweet ketchup.
- Soups are very thick. Surprisingly, one of the most commonly used ingredients is semolina.
- Goulash is cooked with various types of meat.
- Among the drinks, beer is most popular. On its basis even soups are cooked here.
- A special attitude to desserts. They can make a sweet dish out of any product here. For example, pasta with sugar.
- Many sauces are prepared by mixing juice of fried meat, vegetables and onions.
Food in the Czech Republic: national dishes
We suggest you try to cook them at home. Do not forget to stock up with the necessary seasonings and spices. You will need them in the cooking process. Why are so many sauces loved in the Czech Republic? They help the body absorb large portions. We will introduce you to the best national dishes of the Czech Republic. What to try to cook from the proposed recipes, decide for yourself. Remember that the presented dishes are not only tasty, but also very high-calorie.
Top 10 most popular dishes
It is time to get to know the Czech national cuisine. Having studied a large amount of necessary information and analyzed it, we decided to compile for you the top 10 popular dishes. Let's start our list from the very end. So, we proceed:
- In tenth place - bullshit.
- Ninth - Svichkova on sour cream.
- Eighth is fried cheese.
- Seventh is a drowned man.
- Sixth - goulash.
- Fifth - pork ribs.
- The fourth is garlic.
- The third is the pork knee.
- The second is bramboraki.
- In the first place are dumplings.
Next, we will describe in detail how to cook some of the popular Czech national dishes (photos will also be provided in the article). Perhaps some of you will have a desire to try them, and the piggy bank of home recipes will replenish.
Trdlo
Many names of Czech national dishes do not at all give an idea to the Russian tourist what kind of dish it is. Take the liberty of fixing it. After reading the article to the end, you will have an idea of ββwhat is hidden behind mysterious and incomprehensible names, and also learn how to cook them. Trdlo. I wonder what kind of dish it is? Those who have visited the Czech Republic know that this is a very delicious dessert. It is also called triangles or Czech buns trdlo. They sell directly on the street, in small kiosks. It is cooked on charcoal and using special devices on which the dough is wound. This unusually delicious dessert must be eaten hot. It can be with the addition of chocolate, nuts, sugar. Now we will teach you how to cook it at home.
We will need:
- yeast;
- flour - 2, 5 cups;
- butter - 100 g;
- cinnamon - st. l .;
- egg - 2-3 pcs.;
- water - half a st .;
- milk - 1 cup;
- nuts - 0.5 tbsp .;
- salt;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.
Recipe
- First of all, you need to find a device on which we will wind up strips of dough. It can be a rolling pin or other item that you find in your kitchen. The main thing is that you can wind the dough on it.
- Prepare a dough of yeast, sugar, water, flour. Put it in a warm place.
- After a while, when the dough rises, we proceed to prepare the dough.
- We need to separate the squirrels from the yolks. Squirrels until we put aside, and pour the yolks into the pan. We add here: melted butter and milk, stir. Next, add the dough, salt, sugar, flour. Knead everything thoroughly and make an elastic dough. Now you need to give time to rise.
- Separate small pieces from the dough and roll them out.
- Cut into long strips, which we will wrap around the base. Next, grease them with protein.
- In a plate, mix any ground nuts, a small amount of sugar, cinnamon. Sprinkle the resulting mixture on all sides of the strip. Set the basics with the dough over a baking sheet and put in a heated oven.
- We take it out after 20-25 minutes. Carefully remove the buns.
Svichkova on sour cream
One of the most popular and favorite dishes in the Czech Republic. This is the name of tender tenderloin served with special sauce and dumplings. For cooking, we need:
- meat, preferably beef - 500 g;
- carrots - 1-2 pcs.;
- onions - 2-3 pcs.;
- ham or bacon - 300 g;
- salt;
- water;
- milk or cream;
- spices, herbs.
Cooking Technology:
- Prepare and beat the meat.
- Cut the ham, wrap it in beef in the form of a roll.
- Grate it with salt and spices (black and red pepper, cinnamon).
- Fry the roll in a pan on both sides. Then bake in the oven until cooked.
- Peel carrots, onions. Cut into small pieces, you can add celery. Fry in a saucepan until soft.
- Then add one glass of water there and simmer. When the vegetables begin to turn into a homogeneous mass, remove the pan from the stove.
- Add cream, mix well. Try the resulting mass. If desired, you can salt, pepper, add lemon juice or mustard.
- How to serve a switch on sour cream? Put the sauce on a large plate. Then cut the beef roll into pieces. They put meat on one half of the plate, and dumplings on the other. The recipe for their preparation, we will consider further.
Dumplings
Without this dish, it is very difficult to imagine the Czech national cuisine. For cooking, we need:
- milk;
- eggs
- salt;
- Wheat flour.
The recipe is very simple. Knead the usual dough. Then cut off small pieces from it and roll them into a sausage. Cut off small pieces from it and boil in salted, boiling water for several minutes. It can be served with sour cream, any jam, lemon, condensed milk. Dumplings can be made both salty and sweet. We think that this unusually simple dish will certainly appeal not only to adults, but also to children.
Fried cheese
This dish can be a great breakfast option. Take any hard cheese and cut it into rectangles. Next, prepare three plates. In one mix a small amount of flour and salt, in the second beat several eggs, in the third there will be breadcrumbs. Then roll the cheese in turn in each of the plates. Repeat the procedure two times. Remove the cheese for 15-20 minutes in the refrigerator. In a well-heated pan with sunflower oil, fry the cheese slices until golden brown. The dish is only served hot!
Goulash
Many tourists who come to the Czech Republic with pleasure recall the fragrant and tender stew in spicy tomato sauce. We suggest you learn how to cook this amazingly delicious dish.
We will need:
- meat - 500 g;
- Bell pepper;
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- onions - 2-3 pcs.;
- tomato paste - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
- sour cream - 2 tbsp. l .;
- sunflower oil - for frying;
- beef broth ;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- beer - 500 ml;
- seasonings - pepper, caraway seeds, paprika.
Cooking:
- Cut the meat into small pieces.
- Fry meat in a special pan. It should acquire a slightly golden color. Chop onion, garlic, pepper.
- We put garlic, onion, pepper for meat. Add salt, cumin, paprika.
- Mix well and fry over medium heat.
- Add tomato paste and beer.
- Now you need to reduce the fire, close the lid and leave to stew.
- Stir occasionally. Add broth if necessary.
- When the meat is almost ready, add sour cream and flour.
- Leave on the stove for 5-7 minutes, do not close the lid anymore. The dish is ready.
Garlic
We suggest you learn how to cook a very light and delicious garlic soup. Its highlight is that it is served not on a plate, but on ... bread. Let's learn how to cook this delicious dish.
Ingredients:
- smoked meats (bacon, ham, pork ribs);
- potatoes;
- butter;
- egg;
- garlic - a whole head;
- salt and spices to taste.
Recipe:
- Cut into small pieces of smoked meat and potatoes. Take a pan, pour water into it. When it warms up, add the butter.
- Put the potatoes, and after five minutes - smoked meats. When the soup boils, chop the garlic and add it in several portions. Salt the soup and add the spices.
- For classic garlic you will need: marjoram, black pepper, caraway seeds. But if you do not have these spices, then it does not matter. You can add only one pepper.
- Gently pour the egg into the soup, stirring it well.
- At the very end of cooking, add more garlic. Close the lid and turn off the stove. In a few minutes, the dish is ready.
If you want to experience the true taste of Czech soup, we recommend that you serve it in bread. To do this, it is better to take a high round roll. Cut off the top and carefully remove the crumb, leaving the bread wall. Now you can pour the soup here.
The most unusual names of dishes
Readers will probably be interested in meeting them. The list of unusual names of Czech national dishes will look as follows:
- Drowned. So the Czechs call ordinary sausages pickled with onions.
- Houska is a sweet bun made on the basis of yeast dough. It can add poppy seeds or raisins.
- Kakhna liver. One of the popular meat dishes. This name is fried duck, which is served with stewed cabbage or potatoes.
- Payments - Czech waffles.
- Bramboraki. The dish tastes like potato pancakes.
Warm Potato Salad
Many housewives will be very interested to know if there are salads among the Czech national dishes. Of course have. We offer you one recipe that you can easily cook. Its feature is that it cooks warm.
Boiled young potatoes in their skins. You donβt need to clean it, as it is usually served in the Czech Republic, but if you do not like it that way, then do as is customary in your house. Cut the potatoes into slices. We season with any greens. Take a small amount of olive oil, a little vinegar, mustard, salt. We mix everything and season the salad. You can add a spoonful of dry white wine.
Reviews
Many tourists from Russia who have visited the Czech Republic say that the usual soup was the most unusual dish for them. Firstly, it is served in bread, from which the middle is removed. But, despite this, it does not soak, because the walls are left thick. Secondly, the taste of the soup is completely unusual, it even looks a bit like semolina porridge. It turns out that semolina is added to its composition. The dish is unusually tasty and satisfying. To cope with one serving is quite difficult.
Also among the dishes that are popular with tourists is the pork knee. They say that if you come to this country, you should definitely try it, as well as taste the famous Czech beer. The meat is very tasty and tender, but the serving can be easily divided into three or even four people.
In the end
Czech national dishes are extremely tasty. But if you are going on vacation to this wonderful country, then do not forget to bring medicines to improve digestion. Indeed, many Czech national dishes (the description we provided in this article) are too high in calories. But if you want to diversify your home diet with tasty and new dishes, then feel free to take them into service. The national dishes of the Czech Republic will certainly please your home, as they are very tasty and hearty.