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Street Food: The Monthly Mingle Roundup

September 5, 2012 by Zizi

Thank you for participating in the Street Food Monthly Mingle and thank you, Meeta for letting me host this event. I got to know more and more beautiful food blogs & bloggers around the world. All the attendees sent delicious food recipes or intersting, new-to-me stories I didn’t know about. I learnt a lot and hopefully you will too.Note: this is the only time when meat appears on my vegetarian food blog! 🙂

And now… let me introduce you all the participants of this Street Food Monthly Mingle… Come travel with us around the world!

Simone at Junglefrog Cooking – Prawn coconut spring rolls

Sayantani at A Homemaker’s Diary – Char kway teow (Malaysian stir fried flat rice noodles with shrimp)

Richa at Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice – Chicken kathi roll

Eva at Food Vegetarisch – MĂĽcver (Turkish zucchini fritters with yoghurt)

Mairi at Toast – Spicy grilled salmon and salsa two bite salad

Ren at Fabulicious Food! – Watermelon and feta salad with Za’atar crumble

Tandy at Lavender and Lime – Pap and wors with tomato and onion relish

Katy at Happy Baking Days – Papas rellenas

Hannah at Bright Palate – Royal milk tea

Robin at What About the Food? – Spicy Tunisian chicken kebabs

Elise at Homemade – Dondurma MaraĹź (chewy Turkish ice cream)

Shivani at Yellow Butterfly – Jhal-Muri

Jehanne at The Cooking Doctor – Simit (Turkish sesame bread ring)

Karin at Yum and More – Porchetta sandwich

Sonali at Mellow n Spicy – Samosa chaat

Meeta at What’s For Lunch, Honey? – Currywurst

Me, myself & Zita at Zizi’s Adventures – Lángos (Hungarian fried flat bread)

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Lángos, The Hungarian Street Food

August 23, 2012 by Zizi

Thanks for Monthly Mingles hosting I get to know more and more beautiful food blogs around the world. Thank you for those who already sent delicious food recipes with intersting, new-to-me stories I didn’t know about. I’m learning a lot. If you would like to participate, I’m still waiting for your recipes and photos until the end of August.

I chose Street Food as this month’s mingle theme because I love traveling. My Pinterest “Places I’d like to travel to” photo album proves that there are many dream destinations on my wish list (the question is who doesn’t?)… and with all your amazing recipes (the roundup will come in the beginning of September) we can all travel around the world… at least virtually.

Meet a very popular street food speciality of Hungary, the lángos. It is a deep fried flat bread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salt and water (kind of bread dough). Lángos can be made with yoghurt, sour cream or milk instead of water, a dash of sugar along with salt and sometimes with flour and boiled mashed potatoes, which is called potato lángos. It is eaten fresh and warm, topped with sour cream and grated cheese, rubbed with garlic or garlic butter, or doused with garlic water. Lángos may be cooked at home or bought from street vendors around the country. The name comes from láng, the Hungarian word for flame.

Traditionally lángos was baked in the front of the brick oven, close to the flames. It was made from bread dough and was served as breakfast on the days when new bread was baked. Nowadays lángos is always fried in oil.

Lángos is also very popular and known as a fast food at fairs and in amusement parks in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, in Serbia and in Romania.

To be honest I haven’t made lángos on my own before. This time I asked my wonderful mom to help me make the dough, fry the lángos and do the food styling with me. We had so much fun together, we laughed until we cried during the photo shoot.

Lángos

Ingredients (makes  about 10 lángos, it depends on the size)

– 300 g all-purpose flour
– 7 g dried (instant) yeast
– 250 ml water
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– sunflower oil for frying
– toppings: sour cream, grated cheese, garlic

Method

In a mug dissolve the salt in the water. In a bowl combine the sifted flour with the yeast. Add salty water to it and stir through (if it’s very sticky, add a little bit more flour). Work the dough with a wooden spoon or with your hands until the dough comes off the bowl  and gets smooth. Leave the dough in the bowl, cover with a clean cloth and let it rise for 30-40 minutes or until it has doubled in bulk.

Once it is rested, carefully tip out the dough onto a floured surface, stretch out into a square and cut out about 10 cm (3,93 inch) round shapes with a big glass (big cookie cutter also good). Stretch out each piece with your fingers into a rund shape with the centre being thinner than the edges. Let the pieces rest for another 30 minutes on the floured surface.

In a saucepan heat sunflower oil. Place lángos into the hot oil, fry it on one side until golden brown then turn. Repeat with the remaining lángos dough.

Serve while it’s hot. You can eat it simple or sprinkle with chopped garlic or douse with garlic water and top with grated cheese and sour cream.

Enjoy!

The famous Hungarian garlic from MakĂł…

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Filed Under: lacto, vegan Tagged With: monthly mingle, snack, street food, traditional Hungarian

Monthly Mingle Streetfood

August 2, 2012 by Zizi

I started writing my Hungarian food blog a couple of years ago (the English one a bit later) and I remember that one of the first foreign food blogs I discovered was Meeta’s What’s For Lunch, Honey? She is one of the most talented food blogger and food photographer, a real role model for everyone (she is for me :)). That’s why I’m honored to be the host of Monthly Mingle August – a virtual food and recipe game started by Meeta.

I chose Street Food as this month’s mingle theme. One of my dream is to travel around Vietnam and the first thing I’ll try there is pho soup. My idea is to share your favorite street food recipe of your country or share one of your travels’ favorite street food recipe. Hope you get excited just to read this month’s theme. 🙂

How to participate in Monthly Mingle:

1. Create a dish that fits the Street Food theme.

2. Post about it on your blog from now till 31 August midnight 2012 (entries must be in English, please).

3. Your creation should be prepared for the current Monthly Mingle theme and shared with a maximum of 2 other blog events. Let’s try and keep the creations as fresh as the ingredients you use.

4. You must provide a link to this post and the official Monthly Mingle page.

5. Once you’ve posted your dish, please email me at zizi[at]ziziadventures[dot]com with Monthly Mingle in the subject line and include:
– Your name
– Your blog name
– A link to the post where the dish appears
– The name of your dish
– A 550 pixels wide photo

Let’s mingle together and travel around the world!

Stay tuned until my Hungarian street food recipe!

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