Recipes of Czech cuisine at home

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There are many nationalities in the world. Moreover, they differ from each other not only in appearance, mentality, religion, but also in cuisine. For example, Mexican cuisine is famous for its spiciness and bitterness, from Italian we mainly know such dishes as pasta, pizza and dessert tiramisu, and from German - Bavarian sausages and beer.

However, each cuisine is extremely individual and varied. It is very easy to verify this. You just need to go to her homeland, go to a specialized restaurant or perform one or another national dish on your own at home. The first two options are quite tempting, but also too expensive and not accessible to everyone. But the third is quite acceptable. Therefore, in this article we explore the recipes of Czech cuisine. Let's find out what dishes are considered national and how to perform them.

Famous Czech soup

Each cuisine offers a range of dishes. Moreover, among them there are options for soups, main courses, desserts, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, as well as many other tasty and very original things. For example, those who have been to the Czech Republic at least once knowthat the inhabitants of a large country and its guests - tourists - adore a breathtaking soup in bread. No wonder it is considered the national dish of Czech cuisine! You can taste this dish almost everywhere. After all, it is served in elite restaurants and cheap eateries.

For those who cannot yet afford to go on a grand journey, we advise you to follow the recipe below. To prepare one serving, you will need products such as:

• one round loaf;
• one hundred grams of fresh champignons;
• two medium potatoes;
• one large onion;
• a small bunch of fresh herbs;
• half a cup of cream;
• one glass of water;
• 50 grams of butter;
• a pinch each of ground black pepper and s alt.

To please your loved ones with the signature dish of Czech cuisine, you must perform the following manipulations:

1. First, peel the potatoes and rinse under running water.
2. Then chop it into cubes, pour into a saucepan of a suitable size, pour water and put on fire. Cook until completely tender.
3. Meanwhile, peel and finely chop the onion.
4. Rinse mushrooms thoroughly and cut into small cubes.
5. Put a piece of butter on a well-heated frying pan.
6. Melt it completely, add the onion and mushrooms, fry until lightly browned.
7. After that, as indicated in the original Czech recipe, add s alt and cream.
8. Stew infor five to seven minutes.
9. During this time, the potatoes should have been cooked. Therefore, our next step is to add mushroom mass and ground pepper to it.
10. After ten minutes of stewing over low heat, the soup should be removed and smashed into a homogeneous mass with a blender. If there is not enough liquid and the dish is too thick, it can be diluted with boiled water or cream. The main thing is not to overdo it!
11. When the soup is ready, leave it to infuse and start preparing the "dishes". That is bread.
12. To do this, cut off the top of the loaf and carefully scrape out the crumb with a spoon, leaving only thick walls.
13. Then send the bread to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about twenty minutes.
14. After the specified time, it must be taken out and filled with soup.
15. The finished national dish of Czech cuisine should be garnished with finely chopped herbs and served.

Simple garlic soup

This dish is also a hallmark of the beautiful Czech Republic. It is very easy to prepare it at home. And then we will tell you in detail how.

But first, let's explore what ingredients you need:

• one and a half liters of chicken broth;
• five medium potatoes;
• one head of garlic;
• one slice of white bread;
• 50 grams each of butter and grated cheese;
• four bay leaves;
• a pinch each of ground black pepper, marjoram and s alt.

Czech cuisine dishes frompotatoes offers a great variety. To prepare one of the tastiest and quite simple to make, you need:

1. Peel potatoes, rinse thoroughly under running water and cut into small cubes. Approximately 1x1 centimeter.
2. Then cut off half a piece of butter and melt in a pan.
3. Add potatoes.
4. Fry over high heat until golden brown.
5. Then add bay leaves and finely chopped garlic.
6. Fry until a slight smell of garlic spreads through the kitchen.
7. Then put fragrant potatoes in the broth, s alt, pepper, add marjoram, mix everything and start cooking so that the vegetable becomes soft and crumbly.
8. Without wasting time, we prepare croutons. To do this, cut a slice of bread into small cubes, spread in a pan, greased with the remaining piece of butter. Fry until golden brown on all sides.
9. Pour the finished soup into bowls, add croutons and sprinkle with grated cheese.

This Czech cuisine recipe will take only a few minutes to execute, but the finished dish will surely please all household members and, quite possibly, will fall into the family recipe book. After all, its taste is truly divine, and after tasting a specific garlic smell will not remain. Although there are a lot of this ingredient in the soup. That is why the dish is national and is served in every cafe in a large country.

Original goulash

Czech cuisine offers a huge number of delicious dishes. Photo andwe will explore the technology for preparing the most original and simple ones in the article. The following recipe, which we would also like to share with the reader, is remarkable not only because of the taste, but also because of the unusual way of serving. Cooking it is quite simple, but first you need to purchase the following ingredients:

• one round loaf of white bread;
• half a kilo of pork tenderloin;
• two large onions;
• one juicy bell pepper;
• one liter of broth;
• one and a half tablespoons of flour and one olive oil;
• a pinch of spices: ground black pepper, marjoram, Provence herbs, ground paprika.

National Czech cuisine is simply impossible to imagine without this dish. Therefore, if our reader manages to go to this beautiful country, you should definitely try it. In the meantime, you can limit yourself to homemade food, which is quite simple to make. You just need to follow the steps below:

1. First, pour olive oil into a frying pan and heat it well.
2. Then add peeled, washed and chopped onion in half rings. Fry until soft and almost translucent.
3. Cut the meat into small pieces (about 3 x 3 cm), rinse thoroughly under running water, dry with a towel and put in a pan.
4. S alt, pepper, add spices, mix and simmer over medium heat until juice is released.
5. After that, pour the bell pepper chopped into strips or half rings, pour in the broth, mixand cover the pan with a lid. Simmer for about an hour.
6. While there is free time, you can prepare the bread. To do this, just as described in the first recipe, cut off the top of the loaf and remove the crumb. And then dry it in the oven.
7. When the goulash is almost ready, add the flour diluted with broth, stirring quickly so that no lumps form. We continue to simmer for about ten minutes.
8. After the required time, put the goulash in the bread and take a sample. If desired, it can be garnished with herbs or served with Czech beer, as traditional Czech cuisine suggests.
9. The recipe for the second meat course from the photo below is suitable for everyday lunch. However, best of all, it decorates the festive table.

Baked shank

The baked boar's knee is one of the most delicious Czech dishes. Therefore, we could not leave it without due attention. So, for its preparation you will need the following ingredients:

• one and a half liters of dark beer;
• one head of onion;
• one juicy carrot;
• half head of garlic;
• big bunch of your favorite greens;
• one tablespoon each of mustard sauce and honey;
• half a teaspoon each of cumin, ground black pepper, cloves and s alt;
• ten black peppercorns;
• three bay leaves.

To fulfill the recipe of Czech cuisine at home, you should perform the following manipulations:

1. First, prepare the shank. Do itquite simple - you just need to grind it over the fire, then rinse it thoroughly under running water and put it in a pan that is the right size.
2. Then peel the onions, carrots and garlic. Cut the first component into four parts, the second into medium sticks, and leave the third whole.
3. Add vegetables, bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, s alt and beer to knuckle.
4. Bring the liquid to a boil and simmer covered over low heat for one hour.
5. Then turn the shank over, add the remaining spices and cook for another hour.
6. Meanwhile, mix mustard and honey in a small bowl.
7. When the shank is ready, it must be transferred to a baking dish, filling with broth about a quarter.
8. Then generously coat with mustard-honey mixture and put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about an hour.
9. However, it is important to note that every fifteen minutes the shank should be taken out in order to pour over the broth and grease with sauce.
10. When the mind-blowing dish of Czech cuisine is ready, it should be served with a special cabbage side dish, which is very easy to make. And then we will tell you how.

Steamed white cabbage

Czechs have great respect for cabbage. And they serve it as a side dish for many meat and fish dishes. Moreover, they use both white and red vegetables. We will consider both options for delicious and easy-to-make dishes in this article. Let's start with a more affordable one that can be prepared for every day.

To make it you will need the following ingredients:

• one fork of white cabbage;
• two large onions;
• one big and juicy red apple;
• half a glass of white wine;
• four tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• three tablespoons of flour, two of granulated sugar, and one of freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• a pinch of s alt and ground black pepper each.

How to cook:

1. So, to try out this recipe of Czech cuisine, the cabbage must be peeled from the top leaves, rinsed under running water and chopped into strips.
2. Pour oil into a frying pan and heat well.
3. Add finely chopped onion and fry until the juice starts to stand out.
4. Then add sugar and mix thoroughly.
5. Then lay out the cabbage.
6. Reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the white vegetable for twenty minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. When the required time has passed, add s alt, pepper and wine.
8. Stir everything again and, closing the lid, continue simmering for five to seven minutes.
9. In the meantime, prepare the apple. To do this, we wash it well and rub it on a coarse grater. With or without the peel, depending on your preference.
10. After the specified time, send the apple to the pan.
11. Sprinkle with flour and mix again.
12. Simmer for a few more minutes and pour over the dish with lemon juice.
13. Turn off the fire and insist the finished meal for about a quarter of an hour.

Steamed cabbage is the national dish of Czech cuisine. We presented the recipe with a photo of the finished result. We hope that now this dish will have even more admirers!

Steamed red cabbage

If the reader does not like the previous version, we offer another one. It is notable for its use of red cabbage.

Required ingredients:

• half a kilo of red cabbage;
• two green apples;
• two onions;
• one juicy lemon;
• prunes in the amount of five pieces;
• one tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• one glass of clean water;
• half a teaspoon of cumin;
• a pinch of s alt.

To please your loved ones with a bright and tasty dish, you should perform this Czech cuisine recipe (see photo below). To do this, you need to perform fairly simple steps.

How to cook:

1. Peel the onion, rinse and chop into half rings.
2. Pour into a pan and fry in oil until golden brown.
3. Wash the cabbage and cut into strips.
4. After that we send to the bow.
5. Apples are also washed, grated on a coarse grater and after ten minutes of frying the cabbage, add to the pan.
6. Sprinkle them with lemon juice so they don't turn black.
7. Add s alt, honey, cumin and finely chopped prunes.
8. Stir everything and simmer until cooked, periodically adding water so that the cabbage does not burn.

The finished side dish can be served, for example, with fried chicken, as shown in the photo. The recipe for Czech cuisine at home is very simple to perform. But the finished dish will be accepted with great joy by the household. Well, the guests will begin to beg the hostess to tell how to cook such a culinary masterpiece.

Czech drowners

Another unique and incredibly delicious dish may seem strange to many, because we would never have thought to cook it. But if you still dare to do this, then a simple recipe for Czech cuisine will definitely be included in the family cookbook. So, for the original dish, you will need a liter jar with a screw cap, as well as the following products:

• half a kilo of bacon;
• three medium pickled cucumbers;
• one pod of hot red pepper;
• three onions and one garlic;
• half a glass of wine vinegar;
• half a liter of pure water;
• two tablespoons each of sunflower oil and s alt;
• one tablespoon of sugar;
• three bay leaves;
• 10 allspice;
• two carnations.

Surely it has already become obvious to the reader: drowned people are nothing but pickled skewers. This dish of Czech cuisine goes well with cabbage, the recipe of which we considered in the previous section. Or with regular boiled potatoes. By the way, it also fits perfectly as a snack with beer!

How to cook:

1. First of all, you need to peel the garlic from the husk, and the hot pepper from the stalk.
2. Then cut the first component into slices, the second into rings, and the cucumbers into slices.
3. After that, we proceed to the preparation of the sausages. They should be peeled and carefully cut on one side.
4. Put a piece of cucumber, garlic and pepper into each pickle.
5. Meanwhile, it is necessary to peel the onion from the husk and chop it into rings.
6. Place half of it in the bottom of the jar.
7. Place skewers on top.
8. Onions again, the remaining cucumbers, garlic, peppers and another layer of pickles, fill the jar in this way to the very top.
9. When the process is over, you can proceed to the preparation of the marinade. To do this, put bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, granulated sugar and s alt in a saucepan. Bring the liquid to a boil and add wine vinegar. After the marinade begins to boil again, pour in the oil. Stir until s alt and sugar are completely dissolved.
10. Finally, remove the saucepan from the stove and cool the liquid for a couple of minutes.
11. Then pour it into a jar of spices and close the lid.
12. After it has completely cooled, we send the jar to the refrigerator for a week.
13. After the specified time, you can take a sample!

Thus, the original recipe for Czech cuisine at home is quite easy to make. It would be a wish!

Mysterious "Svichkova"

The next dish, whose name is interesting,but few people understand, is a second course. In the Czech Republic, every housewife knows and knows how to cook it. Therefore, we would like to tell the reader what Svichkova is and how to make it right. Let's start, as usual, with the list of necessary ingredients:

• one kilogram of beef tenderloin;
• half a glass of sunflower oil;
• three glasses of pure water and one of cream;
• large onion;
• a small juicy lemon;
• two hundred grams of celery root;
• two tablespoons of flour;
• two teaspoons each of thyme and granulated sugar;
• 10 allspice;
• four bay leaves;
• a pinch of s alt and ground black pepper each.

So, according to the traditional recipe of Czech cuisine "Svichkov" (see the photo above), for its preparation, the following manipulations should be performed:

1. Rinse the meat thoroughly, rub with s alt and leave to marinate for a few minutes.
2. At this time, pour half a serving of oil into a frying pan (it is better to use a deep one), heat it up well and add finely chopped vegetables: carrots, onions, celery root. Of course, each component must first be cleaned and rinsed.
3. Fry until a light blush, then lay out the tenderloin, pour water, put the bay leaf, pepper and thyme.
4. Reduce the heat to medium, close the pan with a lid and simmer the meat until tender.
5. Meanwhile fry on the rest of the oilflour until golden brown.
6. When the meat is well stewed, carefully pull it out and put it aside.
7. Add flour to the sauce and continue to simmer for five minutes.
8. Peel the lemon, cut into circles and send to the pan.
9. After three or four minutes, pour in the cream, s alt, pepper and cook for another seven minutes.
10. Finally, the sauce must be pureed with a blender.
11. And then serve "Svichkova" on the table.
12. You need to decorate this dish as follows: put the tenderloin on a beautiful plate, pour the sauce on top, scatter cranberry berries next to it.

And it is also important to note that Svichkova is a dish of Czech cuisine, to which red wine goes perfectly. Therefore, if the hostess wants to prepare food for a holiday where beer is not entirely appropriate, then we advise you to follow this recipe.

Carlsbad roll

Another very remarkable dish will also decorate any celebration. Although the ingredients are expensive, it's worth it. After all, this roll is sure to make a splash!

So, the following components are needed to execute the recipe:

• half a kilo of beef tenderloin;
• eight pieces of bacon;
• 60 grams of ham;
• two chicken eggs and pickled cucumber;
• half a glass of pure water;
• one teaspoon olive oil;
• a pinch of ground black pepper.

If the reader was looking for an original second course recipe with a photo, Czech cuisine has many great options in its arsenal. For example,to surprise guests with a delicious meatloaf, you should:

1. Crack the eggs into a deep bowl, beat them vigorously and pour them into a greased frying pan.
2. Fry the resulting pancake on both sides until cooked and leave to cool completely.
3. Waste no time, prepare the meat: cut the tenderloin along the grain, rinse thoroughly, beat well and pepper to taste.
4. Layer the bacon, ham, egg pancake and thinly sliced cucumbers over it.
5. When the indicated manipulations are completed, you need to roll the meat into a roll and tie it with a special thread.
6. Pour the remaining oil into the pan and put the roll.
7. Fry, turning occasionally, until golden brown on all sides.
8. Then transfer to a baking dish, pour water and send to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about an hour. However, you can’t forget about the roll, because every fifteen minutes it needs to be poured with sauce.

A traditional recipe for Czech cuisine at home (it will be easier to understand the cooking process with a photo) is not difficult to execute. But the result will not leave the household indifferent!

Czech chicken

Perhaps it might have seemed to our reader that the Czechs, unlike us, do not favor dishes from the most affordable meat. To correct this impression, we have described a delicious traditional Czech chicken dish. It will require the following ingredients:

• three slicesham;
• two large tomatoes;
• one hundred grams of mozzarella cheese;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a jar of olives;
• half a kilo of chicken fillet;
• four tablespoons of olive oil;
• a pinch of Provence herbs, s alt and ground black pepper.

How to cook:

1. Chicken meat to get rid of veins, wash and cut into cubes.
2. Spice up with s alt, pepper and spices.
3. Pour oil into a frying pan and heat well.
4. Then add the meat and fry until golden brown.
5. Then cut the ham into strips and add to the meat.
6. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer its contents for seven minutes.
7. Remove the skin from the tomatoes, chop the flesh finely, pass the garlic through a press, cut the olives into rings and send after the ham.
8. In five minutes, the original dish of Czech national cuisine must be removed from the stove. Put it on a plate and garnish with sliced mozzarella.

Thus, every hostess can pamper loved ones with original dishes of Czech cuisine. After all, it is quite simple to do this.