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Family Home Recipes
Homemade family recipes from Slovakia
1,966 popular recipes from Domáce recepty, a Slovak recipe website, translated into English – with ingredients in metric units and step-by-step instructions.
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What to cook today?Weekly lunch menuSoup and a main course every day, plus a cake at the weekend. With shopping lists, a new menu every Monday.See the menuWhat to pack for school?Snacks for kidsFive homemade snacks for the school days – spreads, filled and savory pastries, something sweet on Friday. New every Monday.See the snacksPlan it your wayMeal plannerBreakfast, soup, a main course and dinner for every day. Calories per person and the shopping list add up by themselves.Plan my week
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Side dishes
Baked zucchini chips with garlic, cheese and dill
Main dishes
Zucchini pancakes with kefir and parsley
Soups
Slovak sour potato soup with paprika and cream
Main dishes
Breaded pork cutlets baked in mustard and ketchup sauce
Dinners
Sedliacka výplata: potatoes with sauerkraut and sausage
Main dishes
Egyptské zemiaky: layered potato casserole with ground pork
Main dishes
Fučka: Slovak mashed potatoes with flour and fried onions
Christmas recipes
Cookies that keep until the holidays, Christmas Eve dinner and a festive lunch.
Soups
Kapustnica: Slovak sauerkraut soup with smoked sausage
Baked goods
Linzer cookies with 4 ingredients – old-fashioned recipe
Baked goods
Vanilla crescent cookies with walnuts
Baked goods
Vianočka: Slovak braided raisin and almond bread
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Christmas baking planner
Choose your cookies and we will show you when to bake each one so that it is fresh on Christmas Eve – honey cookies well ahead, cream ones only a few days before the holidays. Plus one shopping list for everything.
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Fast food
Cigánska pečienka: beer-marinated pork and potatoes
Baked goods
One-egg walnut cake: batter ready in 5 minutes
Main dishes
Pan-fried chicken schnitzel in mustard marinade
Dinners
Podplameník: potato yeast flatbread with bacon and onion
Dinners
Apple pancakes like potato pancakes, 10-minute prep
Pizza
Sheet pan pizza with garlic cream, bacon and corn
Main dishes
Chicken and grated potato bake with sour cream and cheese
Baked goods
Garlic butter yeast rolls with sour cream and cheese
St. Martin’s Day (Martinmas)
St. Martin’s Day recipes
St. Martin’s goose or roast duck with lokše and braised cabbage, plus goose liver with onions – for the festive lunch on November 11.
St. Martin’s gooseRoast duckGoose liverPotato lokšeRed cabbage
All St. Martin’s Day recipes (15)
Traditional Slovak cooking
Grandma’s recipes
Sauerkraut soup, fučka, cabbage rolls, crackling biscuits or poppy seed rolls – dishes that have been cooked in Slovakia for generations, including the holidays they belong to.
Bryndzové haluškySzegedin goulashSteamed bunsPoppy seed rollSt. Martin’s goose with lokše
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Ready in 35 minutes or less – for a weeknight dinner or unexpected guests.
Light recipes
With calories per serving – for when you want to eat lighter.
High-protein recipes
With protein per serving – for when you play sports or work out.
30 g protein · 341 kcal
Breakfast
Spinach and Balkan cheese egg and egg white omelet
36 g protein · 443 kcal
Main dishes
Braised pork shoulder with onions and caraway
39 g protein · 564 kcal
Main dishes
Roast pork shoulder with garlic and potatoes
33 g protein · 468 kcal
Salads
White bean salad with tuna and red onion
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Baked goods
Gluten-free gingerbread cookies: 400 g gluten-free flour and honey dough rests overnight
No-bake desserts
No-bake wine balls: Mix 250 g ladyfingers, nuts, cocoa and 120 ml red wine
Breakfast
French toast: You dip 6 bread slices in eggs and milk and cook them in butter
Main dishes
Chicken breasts in pan gravy: Sear 500 g in butter, then simmer for kids
Main dishes
Broccoli mac and cheese: you coat 300 g macaroni in a sauce with 150 g Edam
Breakfast
Pumpkin pancakes for kids: cook 300 g of Hokkaido squash and mix with yogurt
Breakfast
Flourless egg muffins: Bake 8 eggs with spinach and cheese in 12 muffin cups
Side dishes
Oven vegetable fries: you bake 3 carrots, 2 parsley roots and zucchini at 220°C (425°F)
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About these recipes
Family Home Recipes is the English edition of Domáce recepty (“home recipes” in Slovak), a Slovak recipe website online since 2015. It offers 1,998 recipes – traditional Slovak dishes and everyday home cooking – translated from the Slovak originals, with ingredients in metric units and oven temperatures in °C and °F. Every recipe links to its Slovak original. More about us.