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🇨🇿 Traditional dishes from Czech Republic

3 dishes people actually cook in Czech Republic: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Czech Republic? 3 traditional Czech Republic dishes, from Trdelník (135 min, the quickest) to Svíčková (1650 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Svíčková

1 day and 4 hours · medium · 12 ingredients

Svíčková, a traditional dish from Czech Republic

Beef larded with smoked bacon, marinated a full day on root vegetables, then braised and served under a sauce thickened only by those blended roots and cream.

  • 1000 g beef sirloin
  • 100 g smoked bacon
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 parsley root
  • 200 g celeriac
  • 1 onion
  • 200 ml heavy cream
  • 50 g butter
  • 500 ml beef stock
  • 5 allspice berries
  • 10 black peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves

Trdelník

2 hours and 15 minutes · medium · 9 ingredients

Trdelník, a traditional dish from Czech Republic

A rich yeast dough wound in a ribbon around a wooden roller, turned over coals until caramelised, then rolled hot in crushed walnuts, sugar and cinnamon.

  • 500 g all purpose flour
  • 100 g walnuts
  • 130 g sugar
  • 250 ml milk
  • 80 g butter
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 21 g fresh yeast
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 6 g salt

Vepřo-knedlo-zelo

4 hours and 15 minutes · medium · 11 ingredients

Vepřo-knedlo-zelo, a traditional dish from Czech Republic

The Czech Sunday roast whose name simply lists its three parts: pork, bread dumplings and sour cabbage cooked with caraway.

  • 700 g sauerkraut
  • 1200 g pork shoulder
  • 1 bread dumplings
  • 2 tbsp caraway seeds
  • 3 onions
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp lard
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

What do people eat in Czech Republic?

Copper documents three dishes from Czech Republic: Svíčková, Trdelník and Vepřo-knedlo-zelo. Butter and onion each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are fried. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 28 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Czech Republic?

The three recipes need 28 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Czech Republic entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Czech Republic take?

Trdelník is the quickest at 135 minutes. Svíčková is the longest at 1650 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 255 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Czech Republic is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Czech Republic here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Trdelník is the shortest way in.

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