A FOOD TRADITION
Slovak Cuisine
Slovak cuisine combines potato, cabbage, dairy, grains, mushrooms, and preserved meats in hearty Central European dishes and pastries.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Hubová polievka
A hot Slovak mushroom soup usually prepared by simmering mushrooms with potatoes, onion, herbs, and seasoning, often with sour cream or flour for body.
Huspenina
Huspenina is a Slovak savory pork aspic made by simmering pork feet, skin, and meat in seasoned stock and chilling it until set.
Jaternice
Jaternice are Slovak pork sausages made from seasoned pork offal and meat mixed with rice and stuffed into a casing before cooking.
Kapustnica
Slovak sauerkraut soup is simmered with mushrooms and commonly includes smoked sausage or pork, with regional additions such as cream or prunes.
Koložvárska kapusta
A Slovak baked layered casserole of sauerkraut, rice, seasoned minced pork, and commonly sour cream.
Laskonky
Slovak meringue sandwich cookies made from baked egg whites and sugar with ground walnuts and commonly a buttercream filling.
Lokše
Lokše are thin Slovak potato flatbreads made from cooked potatoes and wheat flour, often served with butter or another savory topping.
Makovník
A Slovak sweet yeast-raised pastry or roll filled generously with ground poppy seeds and typically enriched with dairy and sugar.
Opekance
Slovak Christmas bread nuggets made from baked yeast dough and served softened with milk, honey, and poppy seeds.
Paren é buchty
Slovak steamed yeast buns made from enriched wheat dough and typically filled with fruit preserve or poppy-seed filling.
Pečená kačica s lokšami
Roasted duck is served with lokše, traditional thin potato flatbreads that are commonly brushed with duck fat.
Skalický trdelník
A Slovak sweet yeast dough wound around a cylindrical spit, baked until golden, and coated with sugar and commonly ground walnuts and cinnamon.
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