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The best Hungarian Easter recipes vol.1
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It is well-known that the traditional Hungarian Easter breakfast or lunch cannot be missing the ham and the Easter eggs or the popular breaded chicken breast, but what if one would like to spice up the traditional meals and cook something new, something extraordinary for Easter?
The following recipes contain the traditional Easter ingredients, though, with a slight twist that is although quite ordinary, it makes the particular meal stand out. Your guests will surely lash unto these first.
Stuffed eggs with greens
Ingredients
- 10 eggs
- salt to taste
- 6 strips of bacon
- 1 tablespoon of mustard
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 8-10 strings of chives
- 1 string of spring onions
- freshly ground pepper
Preparations
Hard-boil the eggs in salty water and peel them in cold water. Let them cool down. Warm up a pan and cook the cut-up bacon for 3-4 minutes, until it is crispy.
Cut the eggs in half at their length, take out the yolks and put them in a mixing bowl. Break and soften the yolks with a fork, then add the mustard, the cut-up parsley, chives and spring onions to it. Season it with salt and pepper to taste. Finally, add the grease of the cooked bacon to the yolk and mix it well.
Replace the yolk with this paste with the help of a teaspoon. Sprinkle the eggs with the bacon and serve them with toast or fresh baguettes.
Ham in bread dough
Ingredients
- 1 decagram of fresh yeast
- 40 decagrams of flour
- 10 decagrams of wholemeal flour
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- salt
- 1 decilitres of room-temperature beer
- 1 egg white
- 1 kilograms of ham
- 25 decagrams of fresh horseradish
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
Preparation
Ground the yeast into one decilitre of lukewarm water and then solve it. Mix the two different flours with the sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, beer, the egg white. Knead it for 3-4 minutes, until it becomes springy. Leaven it covered for at least an hour.
In the meantime, put the ham into a pot and pour water on it. Boil it, and then cook it covered on low heat for further 30 minutes (or until it starts to soften). Take it out of the pot and let it cool for 10 minutes. Drain it afterwards.
