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The City’s Best Stuffed Cabbage Restaurants
Funzine ^ | 11/22/18 | Funzine

Posted on 12/10/2023 4:10:56 PM PST by DallasBiff

Stuffed cabbage, or as we call it “töltött káposzta” is of Ottoman-Turkish origins, but it became a popular dish in Hungary in the 18th century. It has several variations across the country and abroad as well; in the Balkans, for instance, they use grape leaves instead of a cabbage coat. Here we share the traditional recipe with you.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: hungary; ottoman; slavic; stuffedcabbage
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To: nopardons

> Did your family make “dirty noodles”? <

It’s a bit surprising, but even my grandparents (who were all born in Hungary) rarely cooked traditional Hungarian food. I got to see a variety only by going to local Hungarian-American festivals. And one of them is still held near me every summer.

Some exceptions to my family’s Americanized food: Very often they’d serve the traditional stuffed cabbage, palacsinta (a sweet pancake), and as a treat kürtőskalács(chimney cake).

And now a confession. I know how to spell palacsinta. But I had to look up kürtőskalács. I mess up the accent marks every time.


21 posted on 12/10/2023 5:45:30 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: nopardons

And that’s what we call kapusta. My background is Polish and Serbian.


22 posted on 12/10/2023 6:20:36 PM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Leaning Right
My family, for all following generations have made lots of different Hungarian dishes, could/can dance the czardas, and have handed down the History of Hungary and many of it's traditions.

The same is true for those of Hungarian descent, that I have known in REAL life, to some extent or other. So I find your family experience somewhat unusual. But everyone and everyone's family IS different! That's what makes each of us "special" and interesting.

I LOVE palacsinta and make a special one every New Year's Eve, for good luck.

But they don't have to be desert/sweet; there ARE savory fillings for them as well...just like strudel!

The very BEST Hungarian desert is DOBOS TORTE; beats anything and everything hands down! And considering that all Hungarian deserts and cookies are marvelous, that's saying something!

23 posted on 12/10/2023 6:24:03 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

> So I find your family experience somewhat unusual. But everyone and everyone’s family IS different! <

And since we’re swapping stories, here’s one more. My late mother was a decent cook. And she made a few Hungarian dishes, as I mentioned earlier.

But in her later years, she loved Bulgarian pastries. There was a Bulgarian social hall maybe 20 minutes away, and twice a month I’d make a pastry run there.

That was one nice thing about where I lived (and still live). Lots of interesting nationalities that all got along. That Bulgarian social hall still exists, and I’ll sometimes go down there for the music.

And yes, the band plays an occasional czardas!


24 posted on 12/10/2023 6:41:03 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: MomwithHope
I'm 3/4 Hungarian and 1/4 German and I learned what kapusta meant watching early T.V.! Ernie Kovacs had a wonderful T.V. show, on which one of his skits was THE KAPUSTA KID.

I was watching the show with my grandmother, when the skit came one, and that was when she told me what kapusta meant. LOL

25 posted on 12/10/2023 6:44:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Leaning Right
NYC used to be like that, but that has mostly all disappeared now; the same is true in Chicago.

There's an Hungarian restaurant a couple of towns away, where I now live, but it doesn't compare to what we eat in our house, so we stopped going.

You're VERY lucky to still have some ethnic places nearby!

26 posted on 12/10/2023 6:48:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: MomwithHope
Dad would sour a few heads of cabbage whole inside his big barrel of kapusta

Fermented? Do you have a recipe?

27 posted on 12/10/2023 7:13:11 PM PST by GOPJ (Does Hannity have a DNC connected dominatrix feeding him questions? It would explain a lot.)
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To: DallasBiff

Holupky.

Did not know it was Turkish. Just hearty Slavic peasant fare.


28 posted on 12/10/2023 7:15:11 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: nopardons

“An d now the Turks make paprika and it STINKS; it’ll also turn every sauce/gravy you put it in... a wretched BROWN! “

Szeged Hungarian Paprika keeps it’s beautiful red color in your sauces...

https://www.amazon.com/Szeged-Hungarian-Paprika-Sweet-Ounce/dp/B0012690UC/ref=asc_df_B0012690UC/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=658877598418&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4044985938710083527&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012123&hvtargid=pla-2081560204018&psc=1&mcid=151aa048939f30fb8068d3bf8d783cf7


29 posted on 12/10/2023 7:21:00 PM PST by GOPJ (Does Hannity have a DNC connected dominatrix feeding him questions? It would explain a lot.)
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To: nopardons

I agree about the recipe. Ours uses ground beef and cooked rice wrapped in fresh softened cabbage. We do add kraut in between the layers of rolls in a light tomato sauce.

I have Ukrainian blood...ate a lot of these and still make them on occasion.


30 posted on 12/10/2023 7:26:26 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: GOPJ
Hate to break the flow here, butt we're just about wiped out of these thoughtful holiday gifts. They're perfect for YOUR Constitution ignorant DC Swamp critter.


31 posted on 12/10/2023 7:29:46 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: GOPJ
That's the ONLY brand I buy and have done, for many decades.

Before that, my family, for 5 generations, my family bought their paprika from PAPRIKA WEISS, the MAJOR importer of paprika from Hungary, in Manhattan, from the time he began the business which continued to use his name, through his family's generations who ran that Hungarian emporium.

Thankfully, no matter where I've lived afterwards I could/can but the Szeged brand at local grocery stores, but thanks for posting the link, for other! It's THE only paprika everyone should buy!

32 posted on 12/10/2023 7:31:07 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Adder
That's EXACTLY the correct way to make stuffed cabbage, the Hungarian way! :-)

The recipe, at the link, is a total mess and inaccurate! Perhaps it's the translator's problem, I don't know.

33 posted on 12/10/2023 7:37:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: GOPJ

Price is up 1.00 where we get our smoked sweet paprika. It’s the best. 8.95 for 1 pound. They are in Detroit. They also sell lots of sausage making stuff, we get natural casings there.

https://www.butcher-packer.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=32_135_160&products_id=1122&zenid=1dc67a49b4bfb667720e84cc4840e0ef

On the sour heads. It’s just the same as making kapusta. Shredded cabbage and salt. I only use kosher salt. Trim the older leaves on the heads and surround them with the shredded cabbage. As I said this is how my Dad did it. Chicago climate, in the garage all winter. I use a #6 crock and layer the outer leaves of the cabbage heads only. When it’s all fermented you can fold up the leaves and can them separate, cover with kraut juice and a little water.


34 posted on 12/11/2023 3:23:50 AM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: DFG

I went there for my 70th birthday. It certainly was a Taste of Poland. I think we ordered everything on the menu, then we bought kielbasa from their deli to take home.

My family did not use tomato sauce on our galumpki. We spread a thick layer of sauerkraut on top and added the juice from the sauerkraut jar to the pan. I guess that’s how it was prepared in the southern part of Poland my Babcia came from.


35 posted on 12/11/2023 4:33:13 AM PST by heylady
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To: Montana_Sam

If you aren’t already, rinse the saurkraut in a sieve before cooking. Makes the taste much milder.


36 posted on 12/11/2023 7:17:18 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MomwithHope

Thanks for sharing.


37 posted on 12/11/2023 8:03:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Does Hannity have a DNC connected dominatrix feeding him questions? It would explain a lot.)
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To: MomwithHope

Thanks for the link: https://www.butcher-packer.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=32_135_160&products_id=1122&zenid=1dc67a49b4bfb667720e84cc4840e0ef


38 posted on 12/11/2023 9:21:28 AM PST by GOPJ (Does Hannity have a DNC connected dominatrix feeding him questions? It would explain a lot.)
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