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Lángos

Name: Lángos
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Hungary
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 150g Potato (boiled and mashed); 2 tsp Dry yeast; 150ml Milk; To taste Oil for frying; 150g Sour cream; 100g Melting Cheese (grated); 2 cloves Garlic

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Fried potato dough topped with sour cream and cheese — Hungary's favorite street food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lángos is a traditional snack of dough made with mashed potato, stretched flat and deep-fried. It's the classic Hungarian street food, found at stalls in spa towns, markets, and festivals. The most popular way to eat it is hot and crisp, rubbed with garlic and topped with plenty of sour cream and grated cheese.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall near Budapest's Széchenyi baths, bathers fresh from the pools buy steaming lángos.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 400g
Potato (boiled and mashed) 150g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 150ml
Oil for frying To taste
Sour cream 150g
Melting Cheese (grated) 100g
Garlic 2 cloves

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix bread flour, mashed potato, yeast, milk, and salt, knead, and let rise for about 1 hour.
Divide into 6 pieces and stretch each into a flat round by hand.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides.
Rub grated garlic over the surface as soon as it comes out of the oil.
Spread with sour cream and scatter with grated cheese.

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