Langos (langos, Hungarian, literally "fiery") - a common treat in the form of picnics, holidays in the air, during fairs and folk festivals. The dish is popular in Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia and Romania. The recipe for cooking langos is simple, like all ingenious - it's a cake made from yeast dough , fried in vegetable oil.
Most often langos served with garlic sauce and / or cheese, sour cream. There are two main versions of the origin of the Langosh. According to one of them, to the Hungarians the recipe came from the Turkish culinary traditions. According to another version, the history of cooking lozenges like langos roots goes back to ancient Roman times.
Sometimes I want to make some simple, quick, but not quite ordinary dish, and so, Hungarian langosh - just the right option for such a case. Especially if you, for example, in the country and you can put the table in the open air, under a canopy, on the veranda or on the balcony.
How to cook langosh?
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - about 500 g;
- water is cold - about 300 ml;
- yeast - 15 g fresh or 5-6 g dry;
- salt;
- sugar-0.5-1 tsp;
- vegetable oil;
- cheese;
- sour cream;
- garlic;
- greenery.
Preparation
We start the dough from the sifted flour by the odorless or unpaired method.
We will consider the spooky. 2 tablespoons of flour mixed with sugar and yeast and dissolved in slightly warmed water (glass, temperature about 30 degrees C). Put the container in a warm place for about 20 minutes. We pour the spoon into a bowl and sift the flour. We add a pinch of salt. We knead the dough with oiled hands.
We roll it in a lump, put it in a bowl, cover it with a clean towel and let it stand in a warm place for about 20 minutes, after which we knead and stir. You can repeat the cycle again, but it is not necessary. We divide the dough into pieces, form lumps and roll them out with a rolling pin in flat cakes or we form cakes with our hands.
Fry tortillas with a turn in a lot of oil to a beautiful golden hue and spread on napkins to oil the glass. Finished cakes rubbed with garlic or smeared with a brush garlic sauce. Prepare it as follows: shovel garlic with hot red pepper in a mortar with a pinch of salt, add a little oil or water. Served with cheese, sour cream and herbs.
Of course, it is good to serve other suitable dishes (thematically suitable Hungarian, Romanian, Austrian, Slovak, Czech or Serbian) and a glass of good grape wine, a fragrant palinka or fruit rakia.