This week going down the lane with the … Made in Hungary … Traditional Hungarian veggie thick soups. Prehaps, the foreigners call them stew … so let it be. These dishes are not well known to those who have not visited and tasted them at Hungary. Moreover, the Hungarian veggie thick soups are historicals as they were born in Hungary in the 16th century. Kids in those days hardly have ate veggies so by cooking them was easier to bring into their meals.
The word “Főzelék” stands for a sort of a thick veggie dish. It is a unique category in the Hungarian cuisine. It is in between the a soup and a stew meal. It is cooked typically by simmering, but some like it mashed and then will have a puree kinda soup. Caution … not all the veggie based soup are to be mashed. It gets its thickness with flour which has the consistency of gravy. The “főzelék” is often included as a main course for lunch or supper. The “Főzelék” is a real, typically home-made meal and not often appears on the restaurants list of menüs. Really worth to go for it, most probably many will love it. Usually peas (“borso”), yellow or green beans (sárgabab or zöldbab”), pumpkin (tök), lentils (“lencse”) … knowing that not too many are fond of spinach (“spenót”) but hopefully will like the flavor of it cooked this way. Are and will be spread here some of the traditional Hungarian thick veggie meals.
To-day’s “Főzelék” – Green Pea Thick Soup
Ingredients – for 4 person – preparing time: cca 50 mins.
75 dkg green pea or 2,50 kg podded peas, 2 tbs oil, 6 dkg flour, 3 dkg sugar, 4 eggs, 100 ml milk, 300-400 ml water, salt, pepper to taste, 1 bunch of parsley. 1 tbs of Hungarian sweet red paprika powder as you wish for the coloring.
Cooking: Add cleaned, washed peas into boiling water adding salt and the sugar in the same time, in another pan preparing gravy with 2 tbs of oil and 6 dkg flour, as the gravy color turns light brown add the 1 tbs Hungarian red paprika powder stir ongoing a bit, turn down to low heat and add the finely chopped parsley, dissolve the pea water, let the jerky cool a little. If it is too thick, step-by-step pour a bit of water. Be careful to take only the required amount of the pea cooked water. Can be supplemented with fried eggs when serving.
May read more about other traditional Hungarian soups by visiting previous receipt @ “Q” & “A” Culinary Heritage Into Hungarian Kitchen.
© by Aggie Reiter
Rolling in Budapest 
Posted by Chris on 16/09/2020 at 11:20
I’ve never heard of green pea soup…But I’m a foreigner so what do I know ????….It looks interesting and I surely would like to try but the vegie soup is the number one for me….Thanks again..