Food of Czechia
Czech cooking is robust and comforting: meat with rich sauces, bread dumplings, sauerkraut, potatoes and soups. Pork, beef and game are common, with carp for special family gatherings. Sweet dumplings, pastries and fruit cakes round out a meal that is usually accompanied by a soup first.
Svickova
Marinated beef in creamy vegetable sauce with dumplings.
How to make Svickova na smetane- Main dishes (10)
- Breakfast (3)
- Street food (3)
- Soups (4)
- Salads (3)
- Breads (2)
- Desserts and sweets (6)
- Drinks (3)
- Fruits and produce (5)
Staples
- pork
- beef
- dumplings
- potatoes
- cabbage
- bread
- flour
- mushrooms
Signature flavors
- caraway
- marjoram
- garlic
- paprika
- dill
- poppy seed
- allspice
Main dishes
Marinated beef in creamy vegetable sauce with dumplings.
Key ingredients: beef, cream, root vegetables, dumplingsFull guide →
Roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut.
Key ingredients: pork, dumplings, sauerkraut
Czech beef goulash with onions.
Key ingredients: beef, onions, paprikaFull guide →
Breaded fried cheese served with tartar sauce.
Key ingredients: cheese, breadcrumbs, tartar sauce
Breaded pork or chicken cutlet.
Key ingredients: pork, breadcrumbs, potatoesFull guide →Sliced bread dumplings.
Key ingredients: flour, yeast, milkRoast duck with red cabbage and dumplings.
Key ingredients: duck, red cabbage, dumplingsPotato pancakes with garlic and marjoram.
Key ingredients: potatoes, garlic, marjoramPork stew with sauerkraut and cream.
Key ingredients: pork, sauerkraut, creamPickled soft cheese with onion.
Key ingredients: hermelin cheese, onion, oilBreakfast
Crisp roll with butter or jam.
Key ingredients: roll, butterEggs with bacon.
Key ingredients: eggs, baconOpen-faced sandwich with spread.
Key ingredients: bread, spread, vegetablesStreet food
Sweet spiral pastry.
Key ingredients: dough, sugar, walnutsFull guide →Sausage in a roll with mustard.
Key ingredients: sausage, roll, mustard
Fried dough with toppings.
Key ingredients: dough, garlic, cheeseFull guide →Soups
Creamy dill and potato soup with egg.
Key ingredients: potatoes, dill, cream, eggPotato soup with mushrooms.
Key ingredients: potatoes, mushrooms, marjoram
Garlic soup with croutons.
Key ingredients: garlic, potatoes, cheeseTripe soup.
Key ingredients: beef tripe, paprikaSalads
Potato salad with mayonnaise and pickles.
Key ingredients: potatoes, pickles, mayonnaiseFull guide →Sweet and sour cucumber salad.
Key ingredients: cucumber, vinegar, sugarLight cabbage salad.
Key ingredients: cabbage, vinegarBreads
Rye and caraway bread.
Key ingredients: rye flour, caraway
Crusty braided roll.
Key ingredients: flour, yeastDesserts and sweets
Dumplings filled with plums or strawberries.
Key ingredients: dough, fruit, butter, sugarSweet pastries with poppy seed or fruit.
Key ingredients: dough, poppy seed, cheese
Crepes with jam.
Key ingredients: flour, eggs, milk
Sweet yeast buns.
Key ingredients: dough, jam
Honey layer cake.
Key ingredients: honey, creamFull guide →Sweet braided bread with raisins and almonds.
Key ingredients: flour, raisins, almondsDrinks
Czech cola-like soda.
Key ingredients: herbs, caramel, sparkling waterCzech boiled coffee.
Key ingredients: coffeeRaspberry syrup soda.
Key ingredients: raspberry, sparkling waterFruits and produce
Used in dumplings and jam.
Key ingredients: dumplings, jam
Orchard apples.
Key ingredients: strudel, juice
Summer berries.
Key ingredients: dumplings, fresh
Foraged mushrooms.
Key ingredients: soups, sauces
Fills pastries.
Key ingredients: pastriesDish guides from Czechia
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Svíčková na smetaně: Matyáš Havel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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- Kulajda (1): Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Česnečka: Nillerdk, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Potato salad (1): SajjadF, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Houska: Ludek, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pfannkuchen mit Zucker: Jan Homann, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Buchteln: Gerhard Juengling at de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Honey cake Medovik: insatiablemunch @ Flickr ; cropped by Off-shell, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sklenice Kofola: Martin Strachoň, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Plums African Rose - whole, halved and slice: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) single2: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sparrige Schüppling (Pholiota squarrosa): Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Poppy seeds: Odedr, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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