How are you preparing for Christmas and New Year 🎄 Already decided on your holiday menu?
We have prepared the Top 5 Christmas dishes that are most popular among Slovaks. Maybe you can choose something tasty for yourself 😉
🍽️ Kapustnica.
This is a hearty soup made of sauerkraut, sausage, mushrooms, and various spices. It’s hard to find a Slovak family that doesn’t make kapustnica at Christmas.
🍽️ Carp dishes
Carp is a traditional Christmas fish in Slovakia. It is usually baked in the oven with vegetables or in a sour cream sauce. Equally popular is the thick fish soup (Rybačka), which is popularly prepared on Christmas Eve.
🍽️ Lokša (Lokša).
Thin pancakes made of potato dough with various fillings: sauerkraut, minced meat, duck meat, jam, etc. Sometimes they are served without filling, sprinkled with poppy seeds, powdered sugar, or soaked in melted butter.
🍽️ Nut cake (Orechovník)
A sweet pie filled with ground nuts and flavored with rum or brandy. It is traditionally served at Christmas.
🍽️ Strudel
Slovak strudels are usually characterized by a wide variety of fillings and a combination of different ingredients in the filling: apple, poppy seeds, and nuts or cottage cheese with buttercream, raisins, and others.
Most of these dishes you can also try at the Christmas fair in Bratislava.
Of course, the traditional menu differs in different regions of Slovakia, so we have collected only the most popular dishes. Traveling through different Slovak cities you can discover other interesting tastes!
