- First meal
- Second courses
- Snacks
- desserts
The cities of the Czech Republic abound with sights, so the main pastime for a tourist will be visiting architectural monuments and visiting many museums. This is a great way to work up a fair appetite, therefore, sooner or later, sitting at a table at one of the many restaurants or street cafes, you will be faced with the choice: "What to try?"
The national cuisine of the Czech Republic is related to the German and Austrian ones, adjusted for the national flavor. Basically, these are hearty meat dishes with side dishes, thick soups and various snacks for beer. All this is very appetizing and tasty, and the hefty portion size will make you carefully calculate your strength at the table.
First meal
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- Garlic - garlic soup with potatoes, eggs and smoked meats, seasoned with herbs and grated cheese. Served with croutons.
- Kulaida - thick soup with potatoes and mushrooms and sour cream. Served with herbs and boiled egg.
- Gulyashova vole - spicy goulash soup with garlic, pepper and tomato paste.
- Tsibulachka - onion chowder with cheese and croutons.
- Zelnyachka - sauerkraut soup with smoked meats.
- Drshtkova - tripe soup with spices and pepper.
- Bramboraca - potato stew with smoked meats and mushrooms.
All of the above dishes have a rather thick consistency, since semolina, grated vegetables or egg yolk are often added to them during cooking. Almost all soups can be ordered in the form of "Vole in bread", ie soup-in-bread is when the first course is served inside a round loaf that can be eaten with the main course. Usually Bramboachka and Gulyashov's vole are cooked this way.
In addition to soups, you can order a broth called "Vyvar" in Czech.
Second courses
All the main dishes of Czech cuisine are, first of all, meat! It doesn't matter which one - pork, beef or lamb, the main thing is that there is a lot of it. The portions are large, so it will be enough for two people, and "/>
The main culinary pride of the Czech Republic is the famous all over Europe pork knuckle or "Boar's knee baked". This is a beer-baked pork leg with mustard and horseradish, served on a wooden board or on a tray with sauce. Serving sizes can be up to two kilograms, so that's enough for three.
Also, you should definitely try:
- Veprova grub in honey is baked - baked pork ribs in honey. Served with various sauces and pickled vegetables. The portions are rather big - a pound or more.
- Svichkova - beef tenderloin with sour cream, lingonberries, lemon slices and whipped cream. There are endless recipes and variations - every Czech family has a unique secret of this dish. Served with dumplings to be dipped in sauces.
- Goulash - Czechs have a great variety in terms of the preparation of this dish. It is made from pork, beef, lamb, rabbit, poultry, or platter. The meat is stewed over low heat with the addition of garlic, pepper, caraway seeds, and then boiled with flour and tomato paste. On the table, goulash always coexists with dumplings or stewed cabbage.
- Vepro-dumplings-zelo - fried pork with traditional dumplings and stewed sauerkraut. A simple and favorite dish of Czechs that can be found everywhere.
- Kakhna baked - duck baked with fruits and spices coated with honey. She - "Bohemian Duck" - a festive dish for every Czech. Served with dumplings or stewed cabbage. There is also a goose cooked in a similar way.
- Rizki plneny - chicken schnitzel with cheese and smoked meats like "cordon blue", seasoned with herbs. Served with baked potatoes or potato salad.
Czech cuisine is rich and varied, so listing all kinds of cutlets, steaks, steaks, hams can take several pages - and everything is tasty, satisfying and affordable.
For fish dishes, we recommend trying baked carp with horseradish and garlic, or baked trout. Carp chops and local fish soup are very good.
Snacks
Since beer is the indisputable symbol of the Czech Republic, snacks are almost the main dish in any establishment. And their variety is able to please even the most discerning visitor.
The most common appetizer and side dish in Czech cuisine is dumplings. In fact, these are steamed balls of wheat or potato dough, which in the Czech Republic often replace bread. There are dumplings "/>
Be sure to try the fried cheese breaded with a local variety - Garmelin, served with a choice of sauces and even a side dish of cabbage. Alternatively, you can order Olomouc cheese cakes - a kind of Czech appetizer that is good only when fried. By the way, the usual "cheese plate" in the Czech Republic is also in the order of things. Finishing the cheese theme, it is worth mentioning croquettes - balls of grated cheese, breadcrumbs with egg. This appetizer is of English origin, but very popular in the Czech Republic.
Meat snacks are also very diverse:
- The drowned are the Czechs' favorite pickled sausages like cucumbers with spices.
- Tlachenka - brawn or jelly from pork legs, kidneys, tongue and heart. It is consumed with chopped onions, sprinkled with peppers and drizzled with vinegar.
- Klobasa is, of course, fried sausage in all its variety. The rich selection of recipes amazes the imagination: meat, liver blood, boiled, smoked, peppercorns and others, others, others …
- Bramboraki - potato pancakes with marjoram. The Czech variety of potato pancakes is recognized by the local population as the main national dish. They can be found both as a side dish for meat and as a separate dish. Street vendors make bramboraki large enough to wrap meat fillers in them, like kebabs or shawarma.
And since we have already mentioned fast food, then we cannot fail to recall the Czech hot dog - Parek in the video (Sausage in a bagel). Very simple and delicious.
desserts
And again Dumplings! Poppy, honey, vanilla dumplings with various fruit fillings: apple, apricot, plum. There is something to please yourself! But besides dumplings:
- Czech strudel - also known as the Stretched strudel or the Stretched zavin. A kind of flaky roll with apple, cinnamon and nuts. Sometimes zavin is served with ice cream and whipped cream. Wonderful delicacy!
- Khorka weasel - vanilla ice cream with warmed berry syrup and fruit.
- Payments - thin round waffles with various fillings - from apple and chocolate to tiramisu and herbal liqueur!
- Trdlo is a cylindrical roll rolled in sugar and baked over an open fire. In the Czech Republic, it is sold everywhere - the most popular street sweets.
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There are so many tasty and interesting dishes, snacks and delicacies in the Czech Republic that you want to exclaim - how can you not try all this ?!
