Túrós csusza () is a traditional
Hungarian savoury
curd cheese noodle dish made with small home-made
noodles or
pasta
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.
Traditionally, noodles used for this dish are home-made with flour and eggs, mixed into a dough, and torn by hand into uneven fingernail-sized pieces that are then boiled in water.
The noodles are cooked in salt water and drained, crumbled cheese (
túró), chopped, fried, crispy
bacon
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, topped with thick Hungarian sour cream (
tejföl) and lightly salted. The mixture is then heated in the oven for a few minutes before serving.
Other Hungarian pasta dishes
Savoury
Cabbage squares
Cabbage squares or cabbage and noodles
[June Meyers Authentic Hungarian Heirloon Recipes Cookbook] is a savoury Hungarian pasta dish.
Macaroni bows or home-made thin pasta squares (like tiny
lasagne
Lasagna (, ; ), also known by the plural form lasagne (), is a type of pasta, possibly one of the oldest types, made in very wide, flat sheets. In Italian cuisine it is made of stacked layers of pasta alternating with fillings such as ragù ...
) are boiled in salted water, drained, and mixed with some cooking oil or fat. The finely grated cabbage is slowly sautéed in a bowl with oil or fat, with salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of sugar, until it becomes golden brown. The cabbage is then mixed into the hot pasta and served.
Sweet
Walnut pasta
Layers of pasta, jam and ground walnuts mixed with sugar, finished with noodles, are placed into a greased pan. The dish is heated in the oven for a short while and served hot.
Poppy seed pasta
Boil noodles in salted water. Sugar and ground poppy seeds are mixed and sprinkled on the hot noodles and served. This dish is also a Polish meal and a Polish Christmas dish.
See also
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List of pasta dishes
References
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Pasta dishes
Noodle dishes
Bacon dishes
Cheese dishes
Hungarian cuisine
Baked foods