Ah, it's Hungarian Fried Bread that can have a variety of toppings!
Lately, I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Langos which is a traditional Hungarian food that's rather like a fried bread. Thinking about langos makes for a nostalgic moment in taking me back to my grade school experiences staying with my grandmother, Julia Nagy, in Cleveland, Ohio.
That one year alone with grandma helped to put on 15 pounds from all of her fantastic Hungarian and Slovak cooking. Of course langos were a big part of the menu along with stuffed cabbage, hungarian goulash, pierogi, butter horns, kifli, strudel, apple pie, and oh so many other goodies!
Langos -- it's basically fried bread. IMHO, it's a Hungarian take on what we know as a pizza!
Photo courtesy of cistinka.sblog.cz.
Have you ever tried a Lángos?
Lángos photo courtesy of cistinka.sblog.cz
Lángos in a frying pan
Lángos FAQs
Lángos (pronounced LAHN-gosh) is a Hungarian food speciality, a deep fried flat bread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salthttp://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Sandwiches/Hungarian.Langos.html Hungarian lángos], sometimes sugar and water.
Feeling nostalgic :: Me and grandma in her kitchen!
My Grandmother's TIP!
She usually used just a bread dough and topped the langos with confectioner's sugar! YUMM YUMM!!!
Recipe submitted by Elizabeth C.
Ingredients:
3 c. flour
1 pkg. yeast
1 pinch salt
1 tsp. sugar
1 c. water
1 pat butter
Directions:
Melt butter in saucepan, add water and heat through until warm (105-115 degrees). Pour into large bowl. Add yeast and sugar to bowl and let stand for a few minutes for yeast to soften. Add 2 cups flour to bowl and beat with electric mixer until well blended. Add the rest of flour to bowl.
Knead on a lightly floured surface until dough is smooth and elastic. Place dough in greased bowl, cover with damp paper towel and let rise for 1 hour.
Punch dough down and roll dough on floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness.
Cut as desired pieces and fry in hot oil until slightly brown. Remove from oil and place on several thicknesses of paper towels to cool. Rub with fresh garlic before serving.
The Lost Art of Baking With Yeast: Delicious Hungarian Cakes & Pastries
by Baba Schwartz
The Lost Art of Baking With Yeast: Delicious Hungarian Cakes & Pastries
Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)
List Price: $17.95
Principles of the lost art of yeast baking, with hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection; with Hungarian recipes for cakes, slices, pastries, buns, includes the author's famous Golden Dumpling Cake.
Baba Schwartz's book is the culmination of a lifetime of superb baking. She is based in Melbourne.
Le Creuset Cast-Iron Skillet
This would be a great frying pan for langos!
Lángos pictures
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Langos! It's basically fried bread.
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Recipe by Ilona Horvath
Submitted by Carolyn K.
2 medium potatoes
1 1/4 to 1 2/3 cups of milk
1 oz yeast
a pinch of sugar
14 oz flour
1/2 tspn salt
1 liter ( 1 quart) of oil
Directions:
Cook the well washed potatoes. In a mug, prepare the leavening agent: crumble the yeast into 1/2 cup lukewarm milk, add the sugar and mix with a little flour.
Sprinkle the top with 1/2 tspn of flour, cover with a cheesecloth and at a warm room temperature let it raise. Peel and mash the potatoes. Sift rest of the flour into a deep bowl, depress in the middle and pour in the leavening agent.
Add the still warm mashed potatoes, 1 tablespoon oil and lukewarm salted milk to make a medium stiff dough, then beat with a wooden spoon or mixer until bubbly.
Sprinkle the top with 1/2 tspn flour cover with a cheesecloth and put in a similary dry warm place for about an hour to raise to twice its size. Tear pieces of the dough and pull them thin, palm size.
Put them in plenty of very hot oil and fry one side under cover, remove the cover and fry the other side until crispy. You can sprinkle with salt or rub with garlic.
Carolyn K.: The langos in Budapest is to die for, I was addicted. The recipe above comes from a recipe by Ilona Horvath.
Magdi's Quick & Easy Hungarian & Other Gourmet Recipes
by Magdi Zold
Magdi's Quick & Easy Hungarian & Other Gourmet Recipes
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 10/07/2008)
This unique cookbook is written with the today's busy lifestyle in mind introduces modern versions of recipes handed down for generations. The cookbook brings the true traditional taste of Hungary to your table by choosing among the easy-to-follow recipes. The book is packed full of practical tips,useful hints and step-by-step lavish color photography.
Magdi Zold: I wrote this book because friends always ask for my recipes. After their countless cooking disasters, they insisted that I put together a collection of recipes with an easy to follow step-by-step guide.
Not all the recipes in the book are mine. Some were handed down from my grandmother to my mother and then to me, some were given to me by friends, and others are the result of combining recipes with personal experience and taste.
Lángos how to make video
I love the background music -- sounds like a Chef Keem video!
Hungarian Fried Bread (Lángos)
Hungarian Fried Bread with many various toppings. Most common are sour cream with cheese, sour cream with cheese and bacon, plain, cheese only, garlic only, sour cream only, sour cream with garlic, cheese, and bacon, and many, many more variety; some are even top with sweets as chocolate and jam :) You might find typos in this video, am too lazy to fix it :P
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Recipe from Cooks.com
1 lb. flour
3/4 lb. mashed potatoes
1 tsp. sugar
1 pkg. dry yeast
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. milk
Oil to deep fry
Put yeast in lukewarm milk with sugar and let rest 15 minutes.
In another bowl mix the flour and mashed potatoes and make a well and add the yeast mixture and begin to blend. When well mixed immediately knead until smooth and satiny.
Let rise in warm place covered with a clean cloth until dough has doubled its size. Punch down then take a piece about the size of a large hand and pat until it is about 2 inches thick. Then drop into the hot oil and cook on both sides until golden brown.
NOTE: May be eaten with garlic butter or sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar on just plain sugar. --www.cooks.com.
Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes
by Clara Margaret Czegeny
Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes
Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 10/07/2008)
Helen's Hungarian Heritage Recipes by Canada s newest cookbook author, Clara Czegeny - is a culinary treasure of truly Hungarian Classic Recipes passed down through generations of the Szabo-Czegeny families. Take a culinary journey through Hungarian Cuisine that is boldly brushed with paprika.
Whet your appetite for this subtle and complex cuisine - a melding of Germanic, Slavic, Tartar, and Turkish influences. Recipes are complete with meticulous instructions, humorous anecdotes, lavish illustrations, memories, traditions, lore and lots of love. Learn about, create, and taste the flavours and culinary traditions of Hungary - from Chicken Paprikas and Cabbage Rolls to Poppy seed and Walnut Rolls and the famous regal Dobos Torte.
Lángos Hungarian video
482 Nagyvisnyó "paraszt" túrós lángos, peasant 'langos' cake
A felvétel szünetében kétfős stábunk jóllakott túrós lángossal. "Paraszt" lángosnak is hívják. Régen kemencében sütötték ezt is, külön nem, hanem a kenyérrel együtt. Akkoriban enyhén sósan ették kaporral, de házilag aszalt mazsolát is tettek bele. Lagzikba, még ma is süt. Ha nem is megy el, akkor is elküldi. Halotti tor esetén is ezt fogyasztották. Amit mi kóstoltunk, az az újabb ízlésnek megfelelően kissé édes, de az íze nagyon finom. Régebben szilva lekvárral is készítették. A receptet elmondta Piroska néni, a közeljövőben, a bővebb kiadásban közöljük.
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June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes
by June V. Meyer
June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes
Amazon Price: $20.00 (as of 10/07/2008)
June Meyer's Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes cookbook has 95 wonderful kitchen-tested family recipes. It is nicely organized with one recipe per page and each recipe is preceded by a short colorful remembrance or historical fact. The cookbook has 195 pages, measures 9X7 and is spiral bound so it will lay flat in the kitchen.
It has an Ingredients page, an Alphabetical and Category Recipe Index with English and Hungarian names, A chapter on Hungarian Christmas Cookies, The Danube Swabian Coat of Arms, A History of German Settlement in Southern Hungary and a History of The Danube Swabians in the Twentieth Century by Historian Susan Clarkson. It also contains the Origin of June Meyers Family Recipes and an account of life in Altkeer, Batchka region, Hungary around the turn of the century.
The Recipe Categories include Relish & Pickles, Salads & Slaws, Soups and Dumplings, Main Course, Side Dishes, Sauces, Pastries, Hungarian Christmas Cookies, Fillings For Kipfels And Cookies, and Other Hungarian Goodies. I am sure you will enjoy the food, authentic recipes and stories.
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Oh, I so would love to hear if you have had a Langos recently! How did you like it? Where did you have it? In Hungary maybe? Or, maybe at a Hungarian restaurant in the US? OR, did YOU make it?
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lakeerieartists
Welcome to the Comfort Food Group! Posted September 11, 2008 |
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a_willow
Langos! :) Can I have some more please? - That's my question after eating few of them! :) Posted August 16, 2008 |
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KimGiancaterino
There's a vendor who makes these at the Farmer's Market in Los Angeles. So simple and delicious! Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z. Posted June 27, 2008 |
Lodge Cast-Iron Skillets are great for frying Lángos
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