Hungarian Garlic Recipes

Hungarian cuisine — Goulash, chicken paprikash, lángos — bold paprika-spiced Carpathian cuisine — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Hungarian cooks work with garlic, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and caramelising.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with sweet hungarian paprika, sour cream, fine sea salt, potatoes, tomatoes and caraway seeds. The dishes here span hungarian classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.