Mákos guba (Bread rolls with poppy seeds)
Ingredients:
(make about 4 portions)
7 pieces of rolls
200 g of poppy seeds
half a liter of milk
250 g of sugar
1 vanilla sugar
5 g butter
Heat the milk till it is hot. Cut the bread into small pieces (about 1 inch thick).
Put the bread pieces into a large bowl and pour the milk over it.
Fine-grind the poppy seeds in a coffee grinder with the sugar together.
Set aside for about 10 minutes and let the bread absorb the milk.
Take the bread out of the milk and mix it with the poppy seeds sugar mixture.
Butter a dish and put the bread mixture into it.
Cover the top of it with some more sugar and put some butter pieces on the top too.
Put it into the oven for 10 minutes. Serve it with icing sugar or honey drizzled on top.
Even such a simple dish has many variations. For example, if you like raisins,
you can add 30 g of raisins into the poppy seed-milk mix.
Another favorite version is to top it with vanilla pudding or custard.
Fish soup
At Cristmas Eve many Hugarian families have fish soup as dinner.
You need several types of fish if you want to make real good fish soup. Buy 250-300 g fish per person.
The ideal types include crap, catfish and sturgeon. If you have only one type of fish, buy smaller ones, too.
Ingredients:
2 onions
2 tomatoes
1 kg fish (several type of fish, fillet)
1 kg fish ( several types too (usually fish head, or tail) to mash for the so called basic soup)
salt
paprika powder
chili pepper
Preparation:
Put the fish (the smaller ones) in enough water that covers them.
Put a green pepper, two tomatoes and two onions in the water too.
Cook it for a long time till everything is soft. (At least two hours).
Then mash the cooked fish and the other ingredients together.
This so called basic soup has to be boiled. If it boiled put paprika in it.
Later on the salted fish fillets put into the soup and cook it at least 15-20 minutes.
If necessary add some more salt. Serve it with bread and if you like you can use chili pepper to make it hot.
