Strapačky (Slovak) or sztrapacska (Hungarian) is a dish popular in

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

and

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It is similar to

bryndzové halušky () ( Hungarian: ''juhtúrós galuska'', ''csírásgaluska'', ''sztrapacska'', or ''nyög enyel�'', Austrian German: ''Brimsennocken'') is one of the national dishes in Slovakia. This meal consists of halušky (boiled lumps of potato dough similar ...

where the base compound of the dish is halušky (dumplings); however, in Slovakia, instead of bryndza, stewed

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is used. In Hungary, sztrapacska is traditionally accompanied with juhtúró, the local equivalent to bryndza. It is thus akin to

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with ewes' cheese. Residents of Vanyarc, located in Hungary approximately 80 kilometers from Budapest, have held a Festival of Strapačky (Vanyarci Haluskafesztivál) every September for almost 40 years. Ethnic Slovaks from all over Hungary compete for prizes at the festival.

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