Czech cuisine

Even though Czech cuisine is not an absolute synonym for healthy cooking, there are for sure many meals you would "die for". Regardless of the fact, that they are “a little bit” higher in calories, fat, spices and/or sugar.

Traditional Czech food is not exactly what one would call dietary, however it perfectly goes with the tasteful Czech beer.

Czech launch usually starts with soup.

Some popular Czech soups are:

• potato soup

• garlic soup

• chicken noodle soup

• beef soup with liver dumplings

• sauerkraut soup with grilled sausages

• goulash soup with dark bread

The Main Course

It mostly consists of pork or beef meat with sauce and a side dish.

The most common and liked is Pork-Cabbage-Dumplings (vepřo-zelo-knedlo). Dumplings are the Czech traditional side dish made from wheat or potato flour, boiled in water as a roll and then sliced.

A good choice can be the Guláš (read like “goulash“), even though it basically belongs to traditional Hungarian cuisine.

Side Dishes

The most common Czech side dishes are:

• bread dumplings or potato dumplings

• boiled potatoes

• roasted potatoes

• mashed potatoes

• French fries

• rice

• potato salad – cold mixture of boiled potatoes, onion and other vegetable

Desserts

Desserts come in many varieties

• crepes filled with jam or strawberries

• honey cake called - Medovník

• dumplings filled with fruit – blueberry, strawberry etc.

• apple strudel

• apple strudel

• kolache (koláče)

Beverages

It is not a big surprise, that as far as drinks go, a Czech meal is often accompanied by the national beverage - beer. Usually restaurants offer alcoholic as well as non-alcoholic beer.

Specialties (snacks) served in Pubs and Beer halls – often eaten instead of full meal in late hours...

• “Utopenec” - could be translated like “Drawned”. It is a sausage pickled in vinegar, oil, red pepper and other spices. It goes perfectly with the beer.

• “Nakládaný hermelín” - could be translated like “Pickled ermine cheese”. It is seasoned with garlic, paprika, onions, pepperoni.

• “Zavináč” - could be translated like “Pickled herring”. It is served with onion

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