Czech cuisine
Czech cuisine is made up of Hungarian and German cuisine.
Most of the Czech cuisine is meat, pork, beef,
poultry, rabbit and venison. Fish, mostly
freshwater. Carps are mostly eaten just for
Christmas. Some people eat trout, perch and eels.
Fruits and vegetables has a lot of vitamins. They are very important
for the body. Next are legumes, mushrooms, dairy products, cereals,
bread, vegetable and animal fats, spices and herbs.
The Czech cuisine is dominated by animal fats, flour and meat. But
recently the Czechs are trying to eat healthy.
In Prague and the Czech Republic in the restaurant dominate roasted
and grilled meat, soup in a loaf of bread and so on. The Czech cuisine
is still rich of good food, but the best dishes are home made from our
ancestors.
The most famous and best Czech delicacies are homemade cakes
filled with poppy seeds. :o) yami yami…
Czech cuisine has 5 phases: breakfast, snack, lunch, afternoon snack
and dinner.
Breakfast is the base of a good day. (example: bread, rolls, jam, butter,
cheese, etc)
For snack we can have fruit, vegetables or dessert.
Lunch is soup and main meal.
Dinner can be hot or cold, up to the habit and taste.:)
Here you can learn more about
different types of food …
Czech soups
An important part of Czech kitchen and traditional meals is
soup. Cookbook of Czech foods offers many soups, from
meat broths with various inserts and vegetable spice,
through vegetable soups to typical soups with dried
mushrooms. They are often prepared with thickening, pulses
and with share of meat, offal or sausages. They are served
as a separate meal with pastry.
Traditional soups are for example:
potato soup
garlic soup
goulash soup
tripe soup
bean soup
cabbage with sausage
chicken soup with noodles
beef with liver dumplings and noodles
dill soup
cabbage soup
etc…
Czech proverb :
Soup is a ground, who doesn’t eat it that one is a plug. :)
In our country people eat a lot of fatty food because we are the second
fattest nation in Europe. In our country there are many fast food but only
in larger cities. The most famous is the KFC and McDonald's where they
do the best fatty food.
The nearest fast food in our region is about thirty miles in Hradec
Kralove. In recent years, KFC and McDonald's compete. They make the
best chicken and pork here. The best and the most popular meal is fried
chicken with French fries. The KFC have a lot of good food including:
juicy chicken breast in original packaging with vegetables and delicious
sauce in the baked tortilla. Another excellent food is Grander: It's a
crunchy roll with a big piece of chicken steak with two slices of tomato,
lettuce, cheese, mayonnaise and sauce. Annexes to the chicken pieces
are mostly just chips, salad, mashed with gravy. If you are very hungry,
you can go to pizzeria too. It isn’t typical for Czech meals but the Czech
love it. We have got pizzeria in our town and the new fast food restaurant
in our town is Kebab house. There is very good meat with Turkish bread.
The most typical food in our country is pork, dumplings and sauerkraut.
This meal is very famous and very delicious. I like it too. In restaurants,
you can take a chicken breast with potatoes or French fries.
When you go to McDonald's , you can order a typical hamburger or
cheeseburger.
Czech Main meals
The most typical Czech dishes are : Beef, potato pancakes,
dumplings, sauerkraut and pork ...
Beef – Sirloin of Beef is very popular in Czech peoples.
Consists of bread dumplings, sauces and meats. Sauces
you can created by mixing vegetable.. Dumplings are
made from flour, milk, salt, yeast. And the meat .. is just
meat, of course, cooked. And when it finishes, it's very
good :). Usually you add the cranberries.
Potato Pancakes Potato pancakes are also very tasty and they are easy to
prepare. Need a pan, potatoes, flour, eggs, milk,
marjoram and salt:) All the mix, when it's finished you
must heat the pan and than put the "mix" on the pan.
Furthermore, when we succeed, it looks very nice :). We
had Potato Pancakes for lunch, and it's very goooooooood
:)
Dumplings, Sauerkraut
and pork
–It is the most popular
meal in
CZ. Lots of turists come here for this food. Cabbage is
cooked, meat is roasted, and the dumpling is potato or
bread. I think that the potato dumpling is better than
bread dumpling. My mother made this food very well :)).
This food is the best on the world for me :).
In the Czech Republic fishes are typical food especially at Christmas.
Most common Czech fishes used for food are fishes living in the
Czech Republic free (pike, perch…) and fishes reared in ponds
(carp…), but recently it is popular many types of fish from abroad.
From fishes there are many types of food: soups, fillet, and many
others
The most typical fish in the Czech cuisine is carp, lot of
Czechpeople think carps live in the Czech Republic ever, but is not
true, the origin of carp is near the Black sea, but in medieval ages it
was extended across Europe and to Bohemia too. Carp is reared in
ponds in the Czech Republic especially in the south of Bohemia near
town Třeboň. Carp is on territory of the Czech Republic from time of
medieval ages, because people can eat carp and other fishes in the
time of fasting and for its lower prize, but at Christmas people eat it
from 17th century and it is most popular from 19th century. Carp can
be cooked in many ways (Carp on blue, Carp on beer, Fried carp
fillets…)
In the Czech Republic are grown different kinds of vegetables and
fruits.
 cereals - wheat, barley, maize, rye, oats
 oilseeds - rapeseed, poppy, sunflower
 root crops - potatoes, sugar beets
 legumes - peas, green bean, lentil
 textile plants - flax, hemp
 Vegetables - roots, fruits, leafy, soya
 Fruit - strawberries, apples, plums, peaches,...
In the Czech Republic is customary to pot vegetables and fruits
and eat mostly cooked, they are used as a supplement. Fruits
and vegetables are popular and are prepared in various ways.
A typical Czech food is veggie pancakes (made from potatoes).
Here is a recipe for this delicacy:
750 g peeled raw potatoes,
1 / 4 l milk
2 eggs
salt
pepper
marjoram spoon
5 to 10 cloves garlic
5-6 tablespoons flour
Czech sweets
When you like to taste something
sweet,
go to the Czech patisseries and bakeries ! In the patisseries
you can buy this delicious : ’’little Indian ’’ (marshmallow) ,
little bomb , tiramisu , sweet tube , our renowned prayer
books from Miletin , little coffin with whipped cream, little
wreath , little vane with caramel icing , chocolate and a lot
of next … In the patisseries you can buy an icecream too !
One of the best Czech icecreams is “icecream from
Opocno” There is a delicious smell in the czech bakeries .
You can buy there cookies , cakes and pieces of all kinds
!And drink it down with hot chocolate !
Beer is slightly alcoholic fermented drink made from barley malt,
hops and water by brewing yeast. The beer is highly popular
drink in the Czech Republic and abroad. In the Czech territory it
is the most famous alcoholic drink. Beer is one of the symbols
of the Czech Republic.
One Czech man drinks about 160 liters of beer per year.
Czech beer is a big piece of Czech culture and I think the
Czech beer is the best beer in the world.
Famous titles are: Svijany, Budweiser Budvar, Pilsner Urquel,
Radegast, Braník, Starobrno, Gambrinus,
Pardál, Krakonoš etc.
1 bottle of Czech beer: 9 Kč, 35 cent, 1,5 PLN
Becherovka is traditional and high-quality alcoholic beverage.Alcohol
content is about 38 %.Becherovka is 100% natural product.It's only
water from Karlovy Vary, quality alcohol, natural sugar and a very
specific and harmonious blend of herbs and spices. Recipe for the
correct amount blend of herbs and spices know only two people now.
Becherovka agres about 2 months and then it is ready for drinking.
Vitus Joseph Becher was at the beginning of the Becherovka.
Becherovka started to be sold in 1807. Becherovka is drink cold,
usually alone, but you cant add it to mixed drinks.The most famous
mixed drink is beton, it is Becherovka and Tonic, the other mixed
drink is with cola, top-topic etc.. There are two types of Becherovka:
Becherovka Lemond and original Becherovka.
Coffee Jihlavanka
Jihlavanka is a long-selling brand of roasted coffee in our market, primarily due to taste that
perfectly matches the Czech consumer habits, as well as for the optimal balance between
quality and price.
About Coffee
The word coffee is derived from the Arabic word "qahwah", which means the power and
excitement.
There are many types of coffee plants, but the two most famous. Arabian coffee tree (Coffea
arabica) and strong coffee (Coffea robusta).
Because each person reacts individually to coffee, there is no universally applicable dosage.
Everyone has to find himself, as the number of bears, and accordingly adjust their
consumption of coffee
Jihlavanka is a kind of popular coffee in the market There are many kinds of this coffee:
Jihlavanka Standard, which is the most popular for roasted coffee and have two versions - the
standard Jihlavanka extra soft and Jihlavanka standard extra strong. This coffee is delicious.
KOFOLA
Kofola is a carbonated soft drink produced in the Czech
Republic and Slovakia. It is the principal rival of Coca-Cola and
Pepsi.
Kofola is based on KOFO sirup. Kofola is composed of 14
natural substances that gives it taste of Kofola.
History
Kofola originated in Czechoslovakia in 1960. Kofola was
created as a domestic alternative to Coca-Cola and Pepsi. It
has become very popular because it was cheaper than the
"original" counterparts and more affordable in communist
Czechoslovakia. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989,
the market got more caffeinated drinks. Then began a period of
decline.
Now kofola is popular mainly among young people, because it
is cheap and very good. It is served in pubs, restaurants, bars,
but is also sold in supermarkets in PET bottles (0,5l 1l, 2l).
Kofola draft at the pub costs about 20 CZK (0,4 l), in the
supermarket cost 2 l kofola about 25 CZK.
1EURO = 25 CZK
1PLN = 6,3 CZK
Grandma´s tea is a special fruit tea, which looks like fruity sauce with
fruity juice together. But this tea has got really old Czech prescription. In
the past, our grandmothers conserved superfluous fruit from their gardens
over winter by this one method. So this is the inception of Grandma´s tea.
Nowadays, preparation of these teas is the same like in the past, only fruit
is different. This tea is made from different fruit (currant, black berries,
apple, pear, strawberry, raspberry...) and seedlings, which are special for
health problems and for disorders (cardamom, sallow-thorn berries, star
anise...). There are 18 kinds of Grandma´s tea.
You can´t buy it in any supermarkets, only on the internet, in special shops
with healthy food or quality restaurants and cafes can offer it to you.
You can taste these flavours:

Pineapple with cardamom

“Arónie” with cardamom

Elderberry with cinnamon

Blueberry with cardamom

Cranberry with cinnamon

Black currant with cardamom

Pear with ginger

Apple with cinnamon

Strawberry with cinnamon

Raspberry with cinnamon

Apricot with cinnamon

Blackberry with cardamom

Sallow-thorn berries with cardamom

Plum with star anise

Cherry with cardamom

Mango with anise

Orange with cinnamon

Peach with anise
Grandfather´s mystery is the news. It´s of the same making, but alcohol is
added there. You can taste 8 kinds of this medicinal withal invigorating
drinks.
Jana
Dalibabová
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Mineral water from Karlovy Vary
The mineral water from Kralovy Vary (Karlovarské
minerální vody in czech) is the largest and most famous producer of
packed water in Czech Republic. Today, the company is selling three
kinds of it’s water: Mattoni, Magnesia and Aquila. This water is
exporting to 20 countries in the world.
History
The company was founded in 1873 by Mr. Heinrich
Mattoni in the west of Czech republic. He built the
spa Karlovy Vary and rent the small village
Kyselka. He was exporting the water in glass
bottles (about 300 pieces). Until this time he was
selling it in ceramics pots, so business was faster
and better. In 1894 Mr. Mattoni constructed a
railroad track between Vojkovice nad Ohří and
Kyselka. When he dead (in 1890), Karlovy Vary was
already very famous in the world.
Mattoni
Mattoni is a mineral water from the virgin nature
around Karlovy Vary. It is suitable for drinking all
year because it has balanced content of minerals.
Mattoni is official water of the International
Association of bartenders.
Magnesia
Magnesia is very rich for magnesium and little
of sodium so it has special taste. It refreshes the
body. This mineral water is recommended by
Czech medical chamber.
Aquila
Aquila was made for healthy life style and it is
suitable for babies so it has got little of sodium
(just 0,002%). It is recommended by Czech
medical chambre too.
Slivovice ( plum brandy)
Is distillated alcoholic baverage, favourite in central Europe
and the Balkans, mainly in the Czech Republic, Moravia. I´ts
usually made from plums, but sometimes you can find pear
brandy, peach brandy nectarine brandy….
Production: Ferment of plum brandy is used for production.
In a suitable vessel fermented fruit ripe at least 6 weeks.
The domestic production of fruits with stones and carefully remove stems and rotten fruit are used for production.
Production is performed in the distillery.
The most famous Czech plum brandy
Daniel Kroupa