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Family Home Recipes
Homemade family recipes from Slovakia
2,019 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
Christmas helper
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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Recipes we cooked and photographed ourselves. Each one comes with our tip.
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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
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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.
29 g protein · 328 kcal
Breakfast
Creamy scrambled eggs with cottage cheese: no cream and 29 g protein per serving
33 g protein · 320 kcal
Fish
Butter-basted pike-perch: Christmas Eve fish if you worry about carp bones
35 g protein · 510 kcal
Main dishes
Chicken breasts in pan gravy: Sear 500 g in butter, then simmer for kids
29 g protein · 376 kcal
Salads
Salmon avocado salad: bake the salmon in 12 minutes and add lemon dressing
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Homemade Christmas mead: start your honey, water, and yeast mixture in November
Other recipes
Homemade gingerbread spice blend instead of a packet: 9 spices and a coffee grinder
Baked goods
Homemade Slovak Christmas wafers: soft from the iron, crisp only once cooled
Main dishes
Štefánska roláda: egg-stuffed meatloaf with a yellow center that slices better cold
No-bake desserts
Honey nougat: whip egg whites with hot honey and let it set overnight
No-bake desserts
Christmas cake pops: ladyfingers and mascarpone, no baking or special mold
No-bake desserts
Homemade salónky: dip no-cook fondant candies in chocolate and hang them on your tree
Other recipes
Hot grog: rum with lemon, diluted with water for British sailors
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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 2,052 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.