Cooking Tour
3 Hours
Exciting Culinary Vacation
Cooking tour is a great way to combine your love of gastronomy and travel into an extraordinary experience. Cooking tour through the Hungarian kitchen provide you with the opportunity to explore delicious traditional foods and special ingredients.
Traditional Hungarian dishes are primarily based on meats, seasonal vegetables, fruits, fresh bread, cheeses and honey. Recipes are based on centuries-old traditions around spicing and preparation methods. Typical spices used to give Hungarian cuisine its unique taste like paprika grown in Kalocsa or Szeged, and onions grown in Makó. Some other common ingredients are garlic, sour cream, cottage cheese, walnut and poppy seed in sweet meals, caraway seed, black pepper and a variety of herbs including parsley, bayleaves, tarragon, celery, thyme and savory.
Hungarian culinary specialties with an international reputation include goulash, various refreshing fruit-based cold soups, chicken paprika, stuffed cabbage, foie gras, roast duck, and letcho (a combination of green peppers, tomatoes and onions). Soup is a very important meal in Hungarian cuisine thus a perfect Hungarian lunch and sometimes dinner starts with some kind of soup.
Pastry specialties include Dobos layer cake, máglyarakás (layers of biscuits and apples, topped with whipped egg whites), somlói galuska (a combination of white and/or chocolate cake and vanilla pudding covered with chocolate sauce and whipped cream), vargabéles (baked pasta and cottage cheese with raisins), Gundel crêpes (filled with walnuts and topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream), and various strudels.
If you want to try how to make traditional Hungarian dishes, attend our organized cooking course in Budapest. Talented and friendly chefs tell you all you need and want to know about Hungarian cuisine and show you all cooking practices and tricks so that you'll be able to treat your family and friends to a fantastic Hungarian dinner in your homecountry. 3-4 dishes will be cooked by your group, then comes the eating and drinking..
Optional:
1 hour guiding in the Great Market Hall before cooking, visit of the market and shopping.