Soups
Slovak cuisine
Slovak home cooking is built on potatoes, sauerkraut, bryndza sheep cheese, smoked meats and flour. The traditional dishes here are sorted by type – soups, halušky and dough dishes, potato dishes, meat, cakes and festive recipes – and each section links to the whole category.
The best-known dishes are at the top of each section. All recipes are in the list of all recipes and in the A–Z list.
Soups
Kapustnica made with sauerkraut, kulajda with mushrooms and dill, bryndza demikát, bean, pea or sour potato soup – thick soups that often stand in for a main course.
Soups
Kulajda: Czech potato and mushroom soup
Soups
Slovak sour potato soup with paprika and cream
Soups
Bryndzový demikát: Slovak sheep cheese soup
Soups
Bean soup with potatoes and rice
Soups
Slovak cabbage soup from Orava with smoked bacon
Soups
Mushroom soup with potatoes – grandma's recipe
Soups
Goulash soup with beef and potatoes
Halušky, pirohy and dough dishes
Bryndzové halušky and strapačky, pirohy filled with bryndza, šúľance and noodles with poppy seeds, steamed yeast buns or cabbage pasta squares – the dough is made at home from flour, eggs or potatoes.
Main dishes
Bryndzové halušky: Slovak potato dumplings with sheep cheese
Main dishes
Strapačky: Slovak potato dumplings with sauerkraut and bacon
Main dishes
Bryndzové pirohy: Slovak sheep cheese dumplings
Main dishes
Pirohy: Slovak pierogi dough with egg
Main dishes
Bryndzové pirohy: Slovak pierogi with sheep cheese
Main dishes
Šúľance: Slovak potato dumplings with poppy seeds and butter
Main dishes
Sweet poppy seed noodles from homemade egg dough
Main dishes
Parené buchty: Slovak steamed yeast buns with plum butter
Potato dishes
Fučka and chamuľa, potato pancakes, lokše and sedliacka výplata – potatoes with sauerkraut, fried onions, bacon or sour cream.
Main dishes
Fučka: Slovak mashed potatoes with flour and fried onions
Dinners
Chamuľa: Slovak potato mash with semolina and fried onions
Dinners
Sedliacka výplata: potatoes with sauerkraut and sausage
Main dishes
Potato pancakes with sour cream
Main dishes
Potato pancakes with sauerkraut
Side dishes
Lokše: Slovak flatbreads without potatoes
Main dishes
Lokše: Slovak sauerkraut flatbreads
Dinners
Potatoes with sauerkraut and smoked bacon
Meat and Sunday lunches
Szeged goulash, stuffed peppers and cabbage rolls in tomato sauce, breaded schnitzel or fried cheese, roast duck with red cabbage and St. Martin’s goose with lokše.
Main dishes
Szegedin goulash with pork, sauerkraut and sour cream
Main dishes
Stuffed cabbage rolls with pork and rice in tomato sauce
Main dishes
Stuffed bell peppers in tomato sauce
Main dishes
Crispy breaded pork cutlets (schnitzel)
Main dishes
Fried Edam cheese with tartar sauce
Main dishes
Garlic pork cutlets from Liptov, marinated in milk
Main dishes
Martinská hus: roast goose legs with red cabbage and lokše
Main dishes
Whole roast duck with apples and red cabbage
Cakes, buns and baking
Baked and steamed buns, poppy seed and walnut rolls, Bratislava crescents, pork crackling and bryndza scones, strudels and Linzer cookies.
Baked goods
Makovník and orechovník: Slovak poppy seed and nut rolls
Baked goods
Bratislavské rožky: walnut and poppy seed crescents
Baked goods
Oškvarkové pagáče: Slovak pork crackling biscuits
Baked goods
Buchty: Slovak buttery filled sweet buns
Baked goods
Bryndzové pagáčiky: Slovak cheese and crackling biscuits
Baked goods
Sabinovské buchty: Slovak spiced fruit buns
Baked goods
Záhorácke kapustníky: cabbage-filled yeast pastries
Baked goods
Dukátové buchtičky: baked yeast buns with vanilla sauce
Christmas and holidays
Christmas wafers with honey, Christmas sauerkraut soup, fried carp, bobáľky with poppy seeds, Christmas braid and soft honey cookies – dishes that belong to the holidays in many Slovak families.
Appetizers
Christmas wafers with honey, garlic and walnuts
Soups
Kapustnica: Slovak sauerkraut soup with smoked meat
Soups
Christmas kapustnica: Slovak sauerkraut soup
Main dishes
Breaded fried carp for Christmas Eve
Baked goods
Bobáľky: Slovak yeast dough bites with poppy seeds
Baked goods
Vianočka: Slovak braided raisin and almond bread
Baked goods
Medovníky: soft Christmas honey cookies with egg white icing
Salads
Grandma-style potato salad with pickles and mayonnaise
Dishes named after a region
Some recipes carry the name of the region or town they come from: Orava cabbage soup with bacon, kapustníky from Záhorie, Sabinov buns, chamuľa from Detva, garlic pork schnitzels from Liptov and poppy seed and walnut rolls from Rača.
More collections
Dishes cooked for generations, and the holidays they belong to, are in the collection Grandma’s recipes. For the holidays there are Christmas Eve dinner recipes, Christmas cookies and baking and St. Martin’s Day recipes.