The Hungarian mixed grill or Fatányéros is a traditional Hungarian mixed meat

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dish (or ''pecsenye'' in Hungarian), originating from Transylvania. The dish ''Fatányéros'' was on the menu since 1900 at the famous restaurant Wampetich (later

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) in the City Park (''Városliget'') in Budapest, as "''fatányéros''—Hungarian mixed grill on wooden platter". The dish was served on wooden platter, and contained grilled slices of veal, beef, pork cutlets, and a slice of goose liver and a slice of bacon—grilled or roasted on a spit. As a side dish

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or thick slices of fried potatoes are served, together with fresh mixed green salad, with a big knife with Hungarian motives stuck in the middle of the steak. Steaks called ''pecsenye'' are part of the traditional

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and may refer to any kind of

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meat: pork, beef, poultry or game. Other Hungarian ''pecsenye'' or steaks are for example ''Cigánypecsenye'' (Gypsy roast). These steaks are often served on a wooden platter, like ''Bakonyi pecsenye'', ''Tordai pecsenye'' or ''Erdélyi fatányéros'', arranged in a very decorative way with garnishing, fried vegetables and salad. The dish is popular in

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as ''plankstek'' (lit. "plank-steak"), and was at its height of popularity there in the 1970s. In Sweden, it is commonly served with

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, vegetables, and Béarnaise sauce. The Swedish book '' Maträtternas historia'', rewarded best book in culinary history 2020 of

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, has a different theory of the origin of the Plankstek. In the food culture of Native Americans, they used to cook fish and sometimes meat on a cherrybrick over open fire. The first time the course appears in New York in Charles Ranhofer cookbook

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from 1893.

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