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Pogácsa

Name: Pogácsa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Hungary
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 100g Butter; 100g Shredded Cheese; 100g Sour cream; 1 Egg; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 1/2 tsp Salt

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small cheese scones — a Hungarian savory bake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pogácsa are small round savory bakes loved all over Hungary, with cheese, potato, or cracklings (pork crackling) worked into the dough. The tops are scored in a crosshatch before baking. They're eaten with wine, at parties, and as a snack for the road.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Budapest bakery, little round buns with crosshatched tops are piled in baskets and packed into paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 250g
Butter 100g
Shredded Cheese 100g
Sour cream 100g
Egg 1
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut cold butter into the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add half the cheese, the sour cream, and egg yolk and bring together.
Roll to 1.5 cm thick and score a crosshatch on top.
Cut out with a 4 cm round cutter.
Brush with beaten egg white, top with the remaining cheese, and bake at 200°C for 18 minutes.

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