Traditional Hungarian home cooking adapted to N. American measurements and kitchen tools.
This comprehensive original cookbook was first printed in 1984 and is presently in sixth printing by popular demand.
Eva's Hungarian Kitchen contains all the fondly and nostalgically remembered traditional home recipes, that mothers and grandmothers cooked for their families, adapted to the modern kitchen.
Authentic recipes, methods and ingredients.
Introductions to history, traditions and customs.
Titles and index in both English and Hungarian.<BR>
144 pages, coil bound with several mouth-watering color pages.
ISBN 0-9691659-0-0
Excerpt
Lecso
3 tablespoons cooking fat
1 large onion, diced
2 teaspoons paprika, Hungarian
2 lb sweet banana peppers
2 large overripe beef steak tomatoes; cut into chunks
1/2 teaspoon salt
Wash and dry whole peppers on paper towel. Remove stem and core by cutting around the leaf-like collar with knife pointing to the tip of the pepper. Run the knife around the inside to remove the long white veins. In the meantime saute the diced onion in the cooking fat on medium high heat until it begins to look transparent. Add the peppers,continue to saute stirring often. If the peppers give off more than 1-2 tablespoons of water,increase the heat a little. Remember you are stir frying not boiling the food. Never cover the pot. In a few minutes the peppers collapse and are tender. Stir in the salt, paprika and the tomatoes. Continue to cook until the tomatoes turn mushy. Serve with boiled rice or boiled potatoes.
You may also add chunks of wieners or sausage to the lecso or use it as a sauce with broiled pork chops.
Professional Reviews
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While ethnic cookbooks tend to be the most complicated and laborious to follow, Kende tried to make hers a step-by step education begining with the simplest Hungarian classic and ending with the most complex.
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Don't be a slave to tradition
Kende isn't a typical ethnic cook.
It's a well known fact that ethnic cooks, saddled with the job of recreating the memories of far-away homelands and the good old days, end up slaves to the tradition, she says.
But not Kende.
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