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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
American recipes
Salads
KFC-style coleslaw with yogurt dressing
Baked goods
Savory quark muffins with cheese and vegetables
Cakes and baking
Vanilla muffins with milk chocolate centers
Baked goods
Savory bread muffins with mozzarella and garlic
Baked goods
Quark muffins with raisins and butter
Baked goods
Vanilla pudding-filled muffins
Chicken
Savory chicken muffins with quark and vegetables
Breakfast
American-style pancakes with honey
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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Recipes we cooked and photographed ourselves.
TestedMain dishes
Onion-braised reverse-breaded pork cutlets
Breadcrumbs thicken the sauce
TestedMain dishes
Roasted pork collar steaks with braised sauerkraut
TestedPizza
Spicy homemade pizza with salami and chili
A puffy crust in a regular oven
TestedSalads
Crispy chicken poke bowl with edamame and cashews
No rice, sweet-savory soy dressing
Slovak classics
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
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
All grandma’s recipes (77)
Quick recipes
Ready in 35 minutes or less – for a weeknight dinner or unexpected guests.
30 minBaked zucchini fritters with bell pepper in a muffin tin
30 minCheese and parsley fritters from stale bread rolls
10 minGarlic milk: traditional warm drink
35 minWalnut sheet cake with fruit jam
Light recipes
With calories per serving – for when you want to eat lighter.
91 kcalBonn vegetable soup with ginger and green pepper
136 kcalBeet salad with creamy yogurt and garlic
362 kcalGarlic pork cutlets from Liptov, marinated in milk
301 kcalBaked chicken breasts with sour cream and cheese
High-protein recipes
With protein per serving – for when you play sports or work out.
21 g protein · 283 kcalMoist oat and quark bread
40 g protein · 328 kcalBaked boneless chicken thighs with honey mustard
48 g protein · 428 kcalGerman sauerbraten
29 g protein · 376 kcalSalmon avocado salad
Newest recipes
Baked goods
Cinnamon roll sheet cake
All the flavor with no rising needed
Main dishes
Pork neck with apples and honey in pan sauce, with rice or potato wedges
Baked goods
3-ingredient Parmesan breadsticks
Yogurt dough without butter or eggs
Main dishes
Zemiaková baba
Sheet-pan potato bake with leftover braised cabbage and bacon
Main dishes
Vepřo knedlo zelo
Roast pork collar with onion, garlic, dumplings and sweet-and-sour cabbage
Other recipes
Homemade almond marzipan
For marzipan potatoes, figures, and Christmas stollen
Soups
Spicy carp halászlé
Hungarian fish soup served on Christmas Eve in southern Slovakia
Other recipes
Hriatô: hot Slovak spirit drink with honey and bacon for Christmas evenings
Baked goods
Yeasted apple cake with cinnamon
A Christmas Eve tradition in Kysuce
Soups
Vilija: Slovak Christmas Eve legume soup sweetened with prunes and dried apples
Baked goods
Chocolate-dipped cat’s tongue cookies
Use egg whites, save yolks for Linzer cookies
Main dishes
Hungarian Christmas stuffed cabbage rolls with smoked meat
Töltött káposzta
From our home cooks’ kitchens
Baked goods
Soft gluten-free, dairy-free walnut crescent rolls
By Anička
Baked goods
Cinnamon roll sheet cake
All the flavor with no rising needed
Main dishes
Pork neck with apples and honey in pan sauce, with rice or potato wedges
By Ľubica
Baked goods
3-ingredient Parmesan breadsticks
Yogurt dough without butter or eggs
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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 2,217 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.