Recipes from Slovakia, food, traditions, and language lessons

Toasted Slovak Snack (Zapekanka)
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Zapekanka is a popular Slovak street snack. It's a bread roll sliced in half, topped with mushrooms, onions, ham, bacon, and cheese, and toasted un...

Loaded Schnitzels (Plnené Rezne)
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Recipe for dinner of pork schnitzels loaded with cheese, ham, and hard boiled eggs. Definitely Man vs. Food worthy!

Cabbage Noodles (Kapustové Fliačky)
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Recipe for fliacky, pasta flakes mixed with cabbage and topped either with powdered sugar or bacon bits.

Oatmeal (Ovsené Vločky)
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Oatmeal is a delicious and healthy way to start your breakfast. It goes great with white coffee.

Red Cabbage Soup (Červená Kapustová P...
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Recipe for easy and delicious soup made from fresh green cabbage and tomato paste. It goes great with a slice of toasted bread.

Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms (Huby s...
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Recipe for scrambled eggs with mushrooms. This is a great way to use up stems and other mushroom bits and pieces that would otherwise go to garbage.

Mushrooms with Bacon (Huby so Slaninou)
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Portobello mushrooms can be turned into a quick snack by filling the caps with bacon, as shown in this recipe.

Potato Porridge (Fučka)
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Recipe for potato porridge topped with fried onions and bacon that many call the second national dish of Slovakia.

Spinach and Egg (Špenát s Vajcom)
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Recipe for a simple vegetarian dish, fried egg on spinach, served with mashed potatoes.

Christmas Eve Cake (Štedrák)
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Recipe for a delicious layered Christmas Eve cake filled with plum jam, poppy seed, walnut, and farmer cheese sweet fillings.

Christmas Cookies Part 5: Chocolate T...
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Šuhajdy are Slovak chocolate truffles made in muffin baskets filled with sweet walnut or coconut ganache cream filling.

Christmas Cookies Part 4: Walnuts (Or...
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Walnut cookies are very common around Christmas time in Slovakia. They are two cocoa shells filled with sweet cream. Visit here for the illustrated...

Meal in a Foil (Živánska)
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Here is a recipe for a great camping meal called zivanska. It's pork, potatoes, onions, carrots, peppers, and bacon wrapped in aluminum foil. It's ...