Hungarian Tomatoes 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 tomatoes, 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, caramelising and frying.

Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with sweet hungarian paprika, onions, lard or vegetable oil, caraway seeds, egg and potatoes. The dishes here span hungarian classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.