Absolutely! 🇭🇺 A warm bowl of Hungarian Chicken or Hen Soup (called “Húsleves” in Hungarian) is a traditional Sunday meal starter — hearty, aromatic, and made with love. It’s made with an old hen or chicken, simmered low and slow with root vegetables, spices, and sometimes egg noodles or semolina dumplings.
🍲 Traditional Hungarian Chicken (or Hen) Soup – Húsleves
🧺 Ingredients:
- 1 whole chicken or old hen (about 1.5–2 kg), cut into parts
- 3–4 carrots, peeled and halved
- 2–3 parsley roots (or parsnips), peeled
- 1 small celery root (or 2–3 celery stalks)
- 1 onion, unpeeled, halved
- 2 cloves garlic, whole
- 1 small tomato
- 1 small green pepper (Hungarian wax pepper if available)
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- Whole black peppercorns (5–6)
- 1 bay leaf
- Fresh parsley for garnish
- Optional: homemade nokedli (egg noodles), csipetke (pinched dumplings), or fine vermicelli noodles