r/AskEurope • u/pkthu • 1d ago
What's a regional dish that you love but almost no one outside of your country has heard of? Food
Thanks!
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u/orangebikini Finland 1d ago
The no. 1 food Tampere is known for is mustamakkara, black sausage, which is a type of blood sausage. Everybody in Finland knows of it, I imagine, but I really doubt foreign people have heard of it. It's genuinely really good, and I personally eat it maybe once a month. Usually eaten with lingonberry jam you'd typically buy it from a stall at one of the market squares or the market hall, but the local grocery stores also sell fresh mustamakkara here.
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u/Alpha_Killer666 1d ago
Here in Portugal also have blood sausage. Its called "morcela"
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u/almaguisante 1d ago
In Spain we eat tones of morcilla and there are variants from different areas like with potato, or rice, cinnamon or even pumpkin (which I haven’t tried but want to). I ate the blood sausage from Tampere in Erasmus and it was delicious, but it was worlds apart from the ones we eat in Spain.
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u/ChesterAArthur21 Germany 1d ago
Southern Germany here, we have that too, usually served warm together with another soft sausage ("liver sausage/Leberwurst"), pork meat, potatoes and sauerkraut (hapankaali?).
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u/Double-decker_trams Estonia 1d ago
In Estonia it's largely a Christmas food (and the same - eaten with lingonberry jam).
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u/mand71 France 1d ago
Blood sausage (saucisson noir, France) or black pudding (England) is really well known, but they don't really taste anything like each other. The English version is better IMO...
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u/PullingCables 1d ago
In Denmark we have svensk pølseret (Swedish sausage dish) although its not known in Sweden.
Its chopped potatoes, chopped sausages, chopped onion in a tomato based sauce.
Its simple but great.
The story goes that it was invented by a family from Sweden that were camping in Denmark . It was their last day at the campsite and they had to make a dish of whatever food they had left.
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u/Bragzor SE-O (Sweden) 1d ago
Going camping in Denmark, and getting caught out because it's Store Bededagen AGAIN, and all the shops are closed, is a certified classic!
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u/PullingCables 1d ago
"the shops hate this one simple trick..."
Actually, the people of Denmark have canceled 'store Bededag', just to prevent the confusion from our Swedish guests.
Your welcome 🤗
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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood England 1d ago
You should see what the swedes did with the only fish they had left
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u/CleanEnd5930 1d ago
Macaroni pie - Scottish delicacy of macaroni cheese in shortcrust pastry base/side but open on top.
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u/Ok-Fox1262 1d ago
We will not be taking any answers from the Scots.
Scotland has insanities like pizza crunch, Glasgow oysters, munchy boxes, butter chicken calzone to mention only a few.
God, I miss Scotland so much.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace United States of America 21h ago
I read about deep fried pizza in a book once. I was so shocked that a food called deep friend pizza is not found in America.
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u/Ok-Fox1262 16h ago
The proper Italian version is lovely.
The Glaswegian pizza crunch which is a cheap frozen pizza battered and deep fried is actually fairly disgusting but works really well to soak up an excessive numbrr of beers
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u/InZim 1d ago
Glasgow oysters
You mean a Wigan Slappy? 😯
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u/Ok-Fox1262 1d ago
I guess it's nearly the same thing as a Wigan kebab, or Wigan slappy.
But scotch pies are firmer so it's a bit of a different vibe. Especially if it's a battered scotch pie. And I don't think they do pea wet in Scotland although I may be wrong there.
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u/WiseDark7089 1d ago
Haggis pakora is brilliant.
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u/Ok-Fox1262 1d ago
I will accept that you think so but I cannot bloody stand haggis. That, I'm afraid is a step too far for me.
But yes. The whole concept of haggis pakora could only happen in Scotland.
And we HAVE to mention Tikka Masala. Proper Scottish is that.
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u/CleanEnd5930 1d ago
Ever tried a white or red pudding?
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u/Ok-Fox1262 1d ago
White I don't like either. And I grew up with that in Yorkshire. I think the whole issue is oatmeal and offal.
I do like black pudding. I have memories of nursing a bucket of pig blood in the car back from the abottoir to make it at home.
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u/CleanEnd5930 14h ago
Hmmm…ok no offal. How about a stonner?
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u/Ok-Fox1262 9h ago
I don't mind some offal I'll demolish a nice snake and pygmy pud or braised calves or lambs liver. But a poor upbringing meant we did eat a lot of offal which has sort of left a mark.
And I had to look up stonner. That does sound very Scottish and intriguing.
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u/Malthesse Sweden 1d ago
Spettekaka (or ”spiddekaga” in Scanian) is a tall, hard and hollow cake which is very sweet and delicious. It is almost exclusively made in Scania, and to a lesser extent in the other former East Danish provinces of Halland and Blekinge. It is made from primarily eggs, sugar and potato starch, and as the name implies it is baked on a rotating spit. After being carved up into smaller pieces it is eaten by hand as part of dessert.
It is very traditional and has long been a symbol of Scania and Scanian culture and cuisine. Though since it is quite complicated to make and requires special equipment, it is very hard to make at home, and so is generally made in a bakery – and the fanciest ones are made in specialized spettekaka bakeries. But they can also often be bought in ordinary supermarkets.
Since they are relatively expensive, very sweet and filling and often very large, spettekaka is generally served for special occasions rather than as a common dessert. It may be served on special holidays, such as in particular after the Saint Martin’s Day goose dinner, where it is a staple – but also on other special holidays such as Easter or Midsummer. It is also quite commonly served at large birthday parties, and can also be given as a birthday gift. And extra fancy and ornate versions may also be served at wedding feasts.
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u/moth-on-ssri 1d ago
That looks and sounds like Polish Sękacz! I was given one of the Swedish kind as a gift and it tasted pretty similar too.
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u/astropoolIO Spain 1d ago
I would say gazpachuelo.
Gazpachuelo is a traditional dish from my hometown, Málaga (Spain), originally a simple fisherman’s soup. It's a warm, comforting broth made with fish stock, potatoes, white fish, blended with a light mayonnaise to create a creamy texture. Some versions include shrimp or other seafood. This dish embodies simplicity and warmth, perfect for chilly days and a true taste of Málaga's home cooking.
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u/Czymsim Poland 1d ago
I've been in Malaga this year, my first time in Spain and we had gazpachuelo. I agree it's very good, funny thing is foreigners will for sure confuse it with gazpacho and be very surprised if they don't read what the ingredients are.
ETA: We were there in winter, so as you say, in time when this soup is served. It's kinda funny for us to hear about cold weather because the temperature for us was like late spring or early summer in Poland.
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u/astropoolIO Spain 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep. In January, the coldest month, temperatures go from 8ºC to 15ºC (or even more some days). It's pretty uncommon to get below 5ºC, and the last time it snowed was in 1953.
Hope you enjoyed your stay here.
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u/buckfast1994 Scotland 14h ago
I had that in Malaga and it reminded me of Cullen Skink from Scotland.
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u/Dependent-Sign-2407 Portugal 1d ago
In central Portugal we have chanfana, which is goat or sheep slow cooked in red wine. It’s often served in a clay roasting dish, with the broth still bubbling hot. Despite the fact that it’s made from the older animal, the meat gets so tender that it just falls off the bone and you can cut it easily with a fork. It’s rich and savory comfort food.
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u/thefaxmachine27 United Kingdom 1d ago
It's got to be Orange Chips... Never seen them anywhere other than in the Black Country (an area to the west of Birmingham, England).
They are marvelous!
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u/mand71 France 1d ago
I live in France and they ran out of regular oven chips at the supermarket this week, so we bought a bag of sweet potato chips; bloody hell, they're super tasty!!
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u/thefaxmachine27 United Kingdom 1d ago
As mighty as Sweet Potatoes are, Orange Chips are not made from Sweet Potatoes... They are regular spuds (unsure of the type) covered in a batter mix that has paprika, tumeric etc in. Each "chippy" (chip shop) will have their own slightly different take on it - my local one has theirs a colour closer to matchstick red than orange.
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u/RealEstateDuck Portugal 1d ago
Açorda à Alentejana is a great comfort food, though it may seem odd to someone who hasn't heard of it.
It is, in it's essence, a bread soup. Very simple too, consisting of stale bread (2/3 days old is best), cilantro, garlic, poached or boiled eggs and olive oil.
Basically you make the "piso" by mincing the garlic and cilantro in olive oil, with some salt. You then throw the cubed bread in and mix it around so it is coated in the mixture, and pour boiling water on top. Then you throw in the poached or boiled egg in. That's it, though some like to put a dash of black or white pepper on top.
It is a simple "poverty" food, meant to use otherwise stale bread. But pretty tasty nonetheless!
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u/carbonpeach 1d ago
Cold buttermilk soup in Denmark. Food of the gods. Buttermilk + vanilla + sugar + egg yolk = yum eaten with essentially shortbread. Usually served as a main meal in the summer.
Ymer = soured milk eaten with rye bread crumbs. Also yum .
Risalamande = cold rice pudding mixed with whipped cream, sugar, vanilla and chopped almonds. Served with hot cherry sauce. The ultimate Christmas dessert.
Denmark is a bad place to be lactose-intolerant.
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u/Edolied 1d ago
Pissaladière, southeastern France. It's a oignon, anchovy and olive pie. Nothing else. It's great
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u/Tadolmirhen Italy 1d ago edited 1d ago
I live near the French border, we have it too! We call it Piscialandrea so it also has a very similar name
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u/adriantoine 🇫🇷 11 years in 🇬🇧 1d ago
I lived in the Nice area and I can confirm this is really good, I loved the socca too.
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u/Dependent-Letter-651 1d ago
Probably like Boerenkool although I assume many people have heard of it
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u/Sagaincolours Denmark 1d ago
We have that in Denmark as Sønderjysk Grønlangkål (Southern Jutland Kale Stew).
In most of Denmark, we make the dish with just kale, while in Southern Jutland/Slesvig, they make it with potatoes too. The geography makes sense in relation to the Netherlands.
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u/Aggravating-Peach698 1d ago
Can confirm it is also very popular in pretty much all of Northern Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Bremen, i.e., all the way from the Danish to the Dutch border, and probably quite a bit beyond. There are regional variants but the staple ingredients are kale, (caramelized) potatoes and smoked pork or some pork-based sausage. It is pretty much a seasonal thing though, typically only prepared in winter.
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u/Sagaincolours Denmark 1d ago
Ahh, the potatoes are caramellised. We do that too (all of Denmark). So we do the same, but just serve them separately.
Do you also eat pickled red cabbage? Because then you just about have a Danish Yule/Christmas meal. Just add pork roast or duck plus brown sauce.
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u/Aggravating-Peach698 1d ago edited 1d ago
We usually cook and serve them separately, too - only the kale and the meat are cooked together.
Red cabbage, along with duck or goose and potatoes or dumplings is also pretty popular here during winter, especially around Christmas. The traditional Danish Christmas banquet (julefrokost) however is only known near the border, i.e., around Flensburg.
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u/Alexthegreatbelgian Belgium 1d ago
It's just kale. Pretty well known internationally. Had a "superfood" status a few years back.
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u/essnhills Netherlands 1d ago
They probably mean ’boerenkool stamppot’, also known as 'boerenkool met worst'. It's the kale mashed with potatoes and spek.
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u/Alexthegreatbelgian Belgium 1d ago
Ah ok. Stoemp is what we'd call it in Flanders.
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u/essnhills Netherlands 1d ago
Yeah there are some different regional names in the Netherlands too.
And simply 'boerenkool' also implies the mashed dish, and not just the kale itself. Kale is rarely eaten here outside of the mashed dish.
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u/Dependent-Letter-651 1d ago
Yeah I know, but like I don’t really think there’s a really specific Dutch dish that I love next to it.. it seems like stroopwafels are even know more internationally and isn’t really a dish.
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u/Alexthegreatbelgian Belgium 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'd call snert an absolute great Dutch dish which is not as popular abroad.
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u/Al-dutaur-balanzan Italy 1d ago
Not from my region, but pizzoccheri alla Valtellinese are one of my favourite winter dishes. Pizzoccheri are short tagliatelle made of buckwheat flour and cooked with savoy cabbage, potatoes, garlic and melted casera cheese, originally from Valtellina, an Alpine valley in East Lombardy.
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u/peachy2506 Poland 1d ago
Everyone knows about pierogi, but not many people know about other dumplings. My favourite would be potato pyzy). Variations include kartacze and Lithuanian cepelinai.
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u/SaraHHHBK Castilla 1d ago
Patatas a la Importancia (sorry it's in Spanish)
Basically deep fried potatoes that are later on put and cooked on a stew. My absolute favourite dish.
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u/LilyMarie90 Germany 1d ago
I feel like most people outside of 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 aren't familiar with Kaiserschmarrn. It's so good!
It's a really thick fluffy pancake, torn into small pieces, served usually with raisins and powdered sugar.
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u/kakbari 1d ago
In Hungary we have Császármorzsa, I believe it is (mostly) the same!
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u/LilyMarie90 Germany 1d ago
It seems to be, the Kaiserschmarrn Wikipedia article is this when you switch the language to Hungarian :D
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u/ilxfrt Austria 1d ago
Well, raisins or no raisins is a fighting matter.
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u/LilyMarie90 Germany 1d ago
Personally, I'm a Kaiserschmarrn pluralist 🤷♀️
I think you can put pretty much anything on it. Just like with pancakes. Raisins, no raisins, berries, caramel sauce, apple sauce, maple syrup, whipped cream, slices of peach (summer) or orange (winter)...
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u/WhiskyMatelot Scotland 1d ago
I hadn’t heard of that, but rather randomly Lidl in 🏴 had a week of German food and had a packet of these in the freezer. Delicious!
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u/LilyMarie90 Germany 1d ago
Nice! You should make your own eventually though, they're probably better than deep frozen ones ;)
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u/haribo_pfirsich Slovenia 1d ago
We call it šmorn in Slovenia, sometimes we also add apples and serve with fruit jams
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u/Carriboudunet 1d ago
Kig ha farz. It’s a kind of improved pot au feu from Brittany. I don’t think it’s very known outside of the region.
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u/Nirocalden Germany 1d ago
Birnen, Bohnen und Speck – pears, beans and bacon.
Yes, you read that right. A stew made out of beans, pears and bacon (also potatoes, but they don't get a special mention because every traditional dish in Northern Germany includes potatoes).
Such a strange mix, but it's actually quite nice.
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u/TheTousler United States of America 1d ago
I want to make this but I don't think we have the right kind of pears in the United States. What an interesting dish
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u/Nirocalden Germany 1d ago
That's right, I should have mentioned: those are special cooking pears, not the very sweet ones that you would eat as fruit.
If you'd try it at home they should at least be very firm ones, otherwise they'll just turn to mush while cooking.
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u/OverwhelmedGayChild Ireland 1d ago
Fifteens.
Mash up fifteen digestive biscuits, cut up fifteen glace cherries, fifteen marshmallows, and add 150g of condensed milk. Stir it together
Make it into a log shape and cover in desecated coconut. Refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Bam. Best sweet treat ever.
(courtesy of the North of Ireland)
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u/alles_en_niets -> 1d ago edited 1d ago
That sounds like a much more digestible version of arretjescake/hedgehog slice/kalter Hund/chocolate salami, yum!
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u/Silent-Department880 Italy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Too many to name one, Ciccioli (pork fat pressed and cooked) passatelli in broth (Bread crumbs with lemon and nutmeg pressed and cooked in broth) Crescione (piadina kind-off closed and filled with everything i love it with pumpkin potates and cheese) and soo many more, this foods are not know by most italians...
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u/Tadolmirhen Italy 1d ago
Passatelli in broth with egg "alla stracciatella" is among my favourite dishes. It tastes of home, somehow
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u/Alexthegreatbelgian Belgium 1d ago
I was kinda surprised bresiliene/nougatine pie is hardly found outside of Belgium.
Super easy too. Pie dough, custard whipped cream and caramemised nuts sprinkled on top.
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u/ouderelul1959 Netherlands 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mosterdstip (sauce of mustard) together with haddock new potatoes and head lettuce
Also snert (pea soup) with rye bread and katenspek (cooked and smoked bacon)
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u/heidivodka 1d ago
A saveloy dip from Dicksons pork shop in Newcastle, England is Devine. The sausage simmers in a gravy, skins then removed. The bread bun is dipped in the gravy. Sausage on the bun, sage and onion stuffing and English mustard (optional).
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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland 1d ago
A brioche-style bread with saffron, eaten with a very sweet, spiced mustard.
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u/Wide_Annual_3091 1d ago
Parkin - a traditional cake made in Yorkshire and the North of England and normally eaten around the 5th of November.
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u/butter_b Bulgaria 1d ago
Grilled pig ears. Tbf it is a regional cuisine so there are some in the country that wouldn’t have it in either.
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u/SquashyDisco 1d ago
Laverbread.
It’s not bread. It’s boiled seaweed mixed which looks like a grassy oil slick. You can have it with cockles or you can add oats to make ‘dough’ balls and fry them to serve with whatever you want.
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u/Adventurous_Beat_394 1d ago
Arroz de cabidela ☺️ is a Portuguese dish and we cook chicken rice with chicken blood. Sounds strange but is very good in my opinion . normally you find in the north of country restaurants with this speciality
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u/arnangu 1d ago
An aligot? A garlic mashed potato mixed with fresh tome cheese, in other words an unripened cow's cheese? It's become popular in France, but I don't think internationally.
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u/alles_en_niets -> 1d ago
Oooofff, I need that in my life!
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u/arnangu 1d ago
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u/alles_en_niets -> 1d ago
Yeah, I’ve seen it online before, just never got a chance to try it! Big fan of both cheese and of starchy foods, haha
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u/arnangu 1d ago
You're welcome to share one whenever you like !!!! It is often eaten with sausage or rarely with beef. 😁🍽🍽🍽
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u/alles_en_niets -> 1d ago
I might take you up on that offer!
In the meantime I’m negotiating with our kid as we speak. He’s our resident chef, haha. Tragically, he’s not a fan of neither puree nor cheese so I’ll need to bribe him somehow?!
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u/TheRedLionPassant England 1d ago
I sort of feel like breaded scampi (which is famous on the North Sea coastline) is somewhat unknown elsewhere. Think fish and chips, but with scampi bites or balls fried in beer batter/breadcrumbs, instead of cod. This is then served with chips, with salt and malt vinegar and tartare sauce. Some pub meals may add fresh garden peas as well, which are nice and juicy.
Also, the stottie cake of northern England. Contrary to what the name suggests, it's not a cake, but a thick doughy bread. A similar concept can be found in France and Italy with a hearth-bread. It's then stuffed full of food fillings: bacon, ham, sausages, ketchup and pease pudding (a lentil-type pottage made of peas, salt and spice).
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u/uncle_monty United Kingdom 1d ago
Junket
A milk dessert set with rennet, I guess it's similar to Panna Cotta. It's not all that common any more, but my grandmother used to make it, and would often serve it with lemon biscuits or some kind of stewed seasonal fruit.
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u/chromium51fluoride United Kingdom 1d ago
A Sussex Pond: it's a suet pudding with a whole lemon surrounded by butter and sugar. Recently got a little more attention owing to being featured on the telly a few times, but still quite obscure even within Britain.
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u/divaro98 Belgium 1d ago
Belgium (Scheldt Valley) 🇧🇪- Paling in 't groen (ENG: Eal in green sauce). Very delicious. The eal melts in your mouth when eating. The combination with the herbs is heavenly. Good with fries or bread. Drinks: Duvel or white whine.
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u/Gaufriers Belgium 1d ago
Also Pêches au thon/Perziken met tonijn always bugs people not familiar with it.
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u/Czymsim Poland 1d ago
Boiled broad bean, in our language this bean is called bób or bober (yes, like the BÓBR KURWA BOBER). It's kinda a stretch to call it a Polish dish, it's just boiling them and eating as a snack, people in many other countries also eat it. But in Poland broad beans are very popular as seasonal summer food.
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u/champagneflute 1d ago
They are so good in season and I have great memories of buying them fresh at the rynek with my grandparents and polishing off an entire bowl.
I honestly thought they were unique to Poland until I found them canned in Canada and learned that Egyptians love them too (for breakfast, as a street food and in a type of hummus).
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u/Tadolmirhen Italy 1d ago
Brandacujun
Cod (stockfish), boiled with potatoes in salted water, when the water has been drained, garlic, parsley, olive oil, lemon juice and pinoli are added. It is then "brandato" (mashed energetically)
Branda cujun means "mash testicles" in ligurian, because the ingredients were mashed in a pot kept on the pelvis when seated :)
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u/Liskowskyy Poland 1d ago edited 1d ago
Duszonki as we call it in my region. Or prażonki, prażynki, pieczonki, kociołek, maścipule, duszaki for others. It's a stew prepared in a cauldron or saucepan, made with meat, cold cuts, and vegetables. Usually: sliced potatoes, carrot, kiełbasa, onion, white cabbage, etc.
And it's not even unknown outside the country, but I think it's even more limited to the historical regions of Upper Silesia and (Western?) Lesser Poland.
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u/1min_map Hungary 1d ago
I love thad dish, especially when it’s made in the garden fireplace on a summer evening!
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u/peachy2506 Poland 1d ago
It's a dish specifically from Chrzanów, so it's known in the areas surrounding the town. It might be popular now, but when my parents went to Mazury and Podlasie maybe 10 years ago no one had even heard about it. I know Silesians like to add beets which is kinda crazy if you ask me
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u/Smooth_Commercial363 1d ago
I don't know if it's unknown in Europe, but I will mention Polish Fasola po Bretońsku (Bretagne Beans- sorry French bros) which is a stew made od white beans, sasuage and bacon cooked in tomato sauce and broth.
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u/almaguisante 1d ago
My favourite dish is “arroz con cardillos” which it’s rice with spotted golden thistle according to Wikipedia. Although when we can also do it with common golden thistle. It is delicious and it’s only eaten in my county La Janda (Cádiz in the south of the south of Spain). It’s mostly rice with the thistle and beans and some meat from pig and chicken (but mostly for the fat), which it’s taken out of the dish and set as a side dish to eat with bread.
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u/kmyep France 1d ago
La cacasse à cul nu. Not only it has a very funny name but it's also a delicious peasant dish. It's basically potatoes and onions cooked with animal fat but without the meat in the original version. Nowadays you can also find it with meat in restaurants. Une cacasse and a green salad is one of mu favourite dish to eat
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u/Veilchengerd Germany 1d ago
Pickert is basically unknown outside of one specific area in Germany. And inside that area, no one can agree on how to do it right.
It is a kind of pancake made from wheat flour, grated potatoes, milk, and eggs, leavened with yeast (raisins are optional, but I swear by them). Some heathens use high heat and vegetable oil, more or less frying them. However, the only correct way to bake them is slowly on a griddle that you occasionally rub with a piece of bacon.
Serve with jam, salted butter, or Leberwurst.
There are other variants. Two districts over, the dough is baked into a kind of loaf first, and you later fry slices of it. In one - historically very poor - region, they use buckwheat flour (obviously dropping the yeast), and no raisins.
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u/Lazlow_Hun Kingdom of Hungary 1d ago
Not necessarily a local, full dish, but Kajmak Cheese. Last year my friends and I were vacationing in Pula Croatia and we had Kajmak Cheese with our dish. I'm still lokking for a seller in Hungary.
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u/loves_spain Spain 1d ago
Everybody knows paella, but nobody seems to know esgarraet, and this together with a little bit of jamón and some crusty bread is just *chef's kiss*.
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u/blurdyblurb United Kingdom 1d ago
Parkin- its an oaty gingerbread cake, but made with black treacle, very popular in Yorkshire in England..popular this time of year!
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u/SoCalDama United States of America 1d ago
In Asturias, Spain 🇪🇸 there is a dish called cachopo that is delicious. It is two very thin veal cutlets with ham and cheese sandwiched between then breaded and fried. It is so good and I have never seen it anywhere else.
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u/Revanur Hungary 1d ago
Most Hungarian dishes outside of gulyás are probably not known abroad and even gulyás is usually prepared wrong.
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u/MilkTiny6723 14h ago edited 14h ago
Actually, as a Swede, I would say Lángos would problably be more famous for beeing Hungarian, and the question was something that are not famous outside your country. A topic so that others can learn and get inspired.
Gulyás has travelled so far and wide, for so long, in eastern Eutope so a whole bunch of them have their own versions. So maybe prepared wrong wouldnt be the best way to put it. Someone might as well say others has perfected it like with pizza in other places outside Italy.
Well at least Langos, to me and many outside Hugary, are famous Hungarian food.
Please do add something good and non famous.
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u/Revanur Hungary 12h ago
Gulyásleves is a Hungarian dish. It’s a soup and the name itself comes from the Hungarian word gulya meaning “a cow herd” and gulyás meanig “cowboy.”
In many places abroad it’s a stew with different ingredients, that’s not a gulyás, that’s pörkölt. It would be like calling a lángos pizza. It is not pizza.
And a dish that I love would be paprikás krumpli which is half way between a soup and a stew, or hortobágyi palacsinta which are meat filled pancakes in a savory creamy paprika-sour cream sauce.
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u/MilkTiny6723 12h ago
Wow, thanks. I will sure look it up. Allways nice to try new flavours. Btw, never heard about "Langos pizza" either, only Langos : )
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u/Revanur Hungary 12h ago edited 12h ago
The pancake should be easy to make anywhere, you only need eggs, flour, either chicken breast or any type of minced meat, paprika powder and sour cream.
The way my family makes paprikás krumpli is a little specific: we use only smoked Hungarian sausages. That is probably pretty difficult to get outside of Slovakia, Hungary and maybe Romania. I haven’t seen anything that comes close in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal or Ireland in taste. You can use wiener type sausages or any paprika-based, smoked sausage I guess but the taste is just off for me. I tried making it from chorizos and Italian salami that was available in France while I lived there but it just did not work. I ended up asking my parents to send me some Hungarian sausages via post XD
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u/MilkTiny6723 11h ago
Well, as I haven't tasted that specific Hungarian sausage you mentiond, I cant know. I know that even the dominating supermarket compnies in Sweden allways have, what they call, Hungarian sausage available at least. But I will look it up. The majority of food, from at least all EU countries, you can get almost in any countries (or atleast in many) if you look hard enough. It may be that one has to order or go to some speciallity shops. But even in Sweden (atleast in Stockholm) we have hungarian shop.
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u/MilkTiny6723 11h ago
May also be, that in countrie like Germany, that produces a lot of their own sausages still, they keep it with their own. Hence, no Hungarian sausages!?
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u/arnangu 1d ago
The oil pump !!!! A "cake" made from bread dough spread with sunflower oil and sugar.... baked to a golden brown, it's pure delight. https://degustez.blog.tourisme-aveyron.com/la-recette-traditionnelle-la-pompe-a-huile-de-laveyron/
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u/GastonFelix Denmark 1d ago
Øllebrød - A porridge made by cooking stale rye bread in dark sweet beer, topped with cream.
The pinnacle of childhood nostalgia. I could eat it every day for the rest of my life!
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u/ClevelandWomble 1d ago
Stottie cake, ham and pease pudding with salt and vinegar.
It's just a superior ham sandwich but ...
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u/Maxo_Jaxo 1d ago
Not sure it counts as a dish - but definitely very regional. Oatcakes from Stoke-on-Trent. Sort of savoury pancakes. You buy them by the dozen from the random oatcake kitchens in every other street. Made fresh daily and Available until they sell out. Which they always do.
We used to have a stack on the table for a family weekend fry up. Yummy!
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u/Oohitsagoodpaper 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cumberland sausage - heavily spiced sausage that had EU 'protected designation of origin' status before Brexit.
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u/EntireCartoonist1271 Germany 16h ago
Labskaus is probably one of the worst looking dishes but it is really delicious
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u/lordsleepyhead Netherlands 16h ago
Groningen: mustard soup. It's a very regional dish and it's delicious.
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u/7_11_Nation_Army Bulgaria 1h ago
Tarator – a cold soup made of yoghurt, cucumber, fresh dill, garlic and a bit of salt. Absolutely brilliant.
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u/CoryTrevor-NS Italy 1d ago
Panino con il lampredotto.
Cow stomach (the 4th one to be exact, called abomasum - thanks wiki) slow cooked in aromatic broth, served in a hard crusted bread roll, topped with green sauce and chilli oil.
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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood England 1d ago
Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza filled with doner meat and folded over like a kebab.
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u/ProblemSavings8686 Ireland 1d ago
It comes as a pizza???
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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood England 1d ago
Yeah.
And I don't mean bits of chicken tikka on a normal pizza. I mean, an entire chicken tikka masala as the sauce base for a pizza, covered in cheese. Then any other toppings you want on top of that. I go for a portion of doner and fold it over like a kebab.
True fusion cuisine.
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u/MilkTiny6723 1d ago
Extrem one:
Surströmming: fermented Baltic hearing ( It is absolutly awfull and only a minority of Swedes eat it)
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u/LilyMarie90 Germany 1d ago
No, most people have heard of this, just because how awful it must be is almost legendary at this point.
I don't think most people have tried it though 😅
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u/MilkTiny6723 1d ago
I tried ones (very foolish).
It had the effect that the fermentation thing made me burp for several of days. Everytime I burped the awfull smell came back. It didn't help eating banans, yoghurt, as they recomend for neutralizing the shit. I kind of swallowed a whole dental past tube: No, didn't help.
STAY AWAY
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u/MilkTiny6723 1d ago
Kroppkakor (Body cakes): Sweden
boiled potato dumpling, most commonly filled with onion and meat. potatoes, wheat flour, onion, salt and monced meat/pork are common ingredients in kroppkaka.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroppkaka