Túrós csusza
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Turos csusza is a Hungarian savoury curd cheese noodle dish or cottage cheese noodle dish made with small home made noodles or pasta.
Turoscsusza is a traditional pasta dish of the Hungarian cuisine.
The original Hungarian noodles used for this dish are home-made with flour and eggs, mixed into a dough and torn by hand into uneven fingernail-sized pieces and boiled in water. Spaghetti
, fusilli
or large egg macaroni
bows can be used instead of the home-made noodles.
The noodles are cooked in salt water and drained, mixed with butter, crumbled curd cheese (traditionally sheep's milk cheese) or cottage cheese, chopped fried crispy bacon
, topped with special thick Hungarian sour cream (tejföl) and lightly salted. The mixture is then heated in the oven for a few minutes before serving.
Macaroni bows or home-made thin pasta squares (like tiny mini lasagne) are boiled in salted water, drained, and mixed with some cooking oil or fat. The finely grated cabbage is slowly sauteed in a bowl with oil or fat, with salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of sugar, until it becomes golden brown. The cabbage is then mixed into the hot pasta, and served immediately.
Turoscsusza is a traditional pasta dish of the Hungarian cuisine.
The original Hungarian noodles used for this dish are home-made with flour and eggs, mixed into a dough and torn by hand into uneven fingernail-sized pieces and boiled in water. Spaghetti
Spaghetti
Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin. Spaghetti is made of semolina or flour and water. Italian dried spaghetti is made from durum wheat semolina, but outside of Italy it may be made with other kinds of flour...
, fusilli
Fusilli
Fusilli are long, thick, corkscrew shaped pasta. The word fusilli presumably comes from fusile, archaic or dialectal word for "rifle" , referring to the spiral-grooved barrel of the latter...
or large egg macaroni
Macaroni
Macaroni is a variety of moderately extended, machine-made, dry pasta made with durum wheat. Macaroni noodles do not contain eggs, and are normally cut in short, hollow shapes; however, the term refers not to the shape of the pasta, but to the kind of dough from which the noodle is made...
bows can be used instead of the home-made noodles.
The noodles are cooked in salt water and drained, mixed with butter, crumbled curd cheese (traditionally sheep's milk cheese) or cottage cheese, chopped fried crispy bacon
Bacon
Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon . Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, boiled, or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon must be cooked before eating...
, topped with special thick Hungarian sour cream (tejföl) and lightly salted. The mixture is then heated in the oven for a few minutes before serving.
Cheese pasta
The pasta is cooked in salt water and drained, mixed with butter. Layers of the cooked pasta, alternating with layers of grated cheese are baked in the oven.Cabbage squares
Cabbage square or Cabbage and Noodles is a most unusual, but indeed very tasty Hungarian savoury pasta dish.Macaroni bows or home-made thin pasta squares (like tiny mini lasagne) are boiled in salted water, drained, and mixed with some cooking oil or fat. The finely grated cabbage is slowly sauteed in a bowl with oil or fat, with salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of sugar, until it becomes golden brown. The cabbage is then mixed into the hot pasta, and served immediately.