Czech cuisine and food
by Prague Central Hostels
Czech cuisine has both influenced and been influenced by the cuisines of surrounding countries. Many of the fine cakes and pastries that are popular in Central Europe originated in the Czech lands. Its obvious since until 1918 Czech lands has been part of The Habsburg Monarchy.
The main part of old style Czech cuisine makes all kinds of meat, mainly pork, beef and chicken but also rabbit, duck or goose. Fish is rare, with the occasional exception of fresh trout, and carp, which is served at Christmas.
At present Czechs do not eat traditional Czech cuisine every day since its quite heavy but still is popular specially on special occasions.
Knedlik (dumpling) is very popular side dish. They can be wheat or potato based, and are sometimes made from a combination of wheat flour and stale bread or rolls. They are typically large and served cut into slices, in contrast with the smaller dumplings found in Austian cousine. Only potato-based dumplings are usually smaller. |  |
Soups (polevka)
- potato soup (bramborova polevka or bramboracka)
- garlic soup (cesnekova polevka or cesnecka)
- chicken noodle soup (kureci polevka s nudlemi)
- beef soup with liver dumplings (hovezi polevka s jatrovymi knedlicky)
- sauerkraut soup (zelna polevka or zelnacka)
The Main Course (hlavni chod)
- roasted pork with dumplings and cabbage (veprova pecene s knedliky a se zelim)
- marinated beef sirloin with cream sauce (svickova na smetane or simply svickova)
- fried cheese (smazak, smazeny syr)
- roasted duck with dumplings and cabbage (pecena kachna)
- beef with cream dill sauce (koprova omacka)
- fried carp or trout
- baked or boiled pork knee (pecene/ovarove koleno)
Side Dishes
- boiled potatoes
- roasted potatoes
- mashed potatoes
- bread or potato dumplings
- potato salad
Desserts
- fruit dumplings (ovocne knedliky)
- zemlbaba or zemlovka
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