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List of World’s 100 Best Dishes Now Includes a Hungarian Broth

• 6 Jan 2025 10:50 AM
• Hungary Today

International gastronomy website Taste Atlas has made a list of the world’s 100 best dishes at the end of 2024. A famous Hungarian dish, one that is present at almost every household on Sundays, has managed to earn a place in the top 100, reports Drive.hu.

Taste Atlas has published its ranking of the 100 best foods in the world this festive season. The portal focuses on the cuisines and dishes of individual nations, acting as a kind of gastronomic world map. To compile its ranking of the 100 best dishes in the world, Taste Atlas has worked its way through 11,258 national dishes and some 367,847 reviews.

This year, a Hungarian dish also made the top list, coming in at number 77.

Hungarian broth is justifiably famous, it appears on the table in most Hungarian households on Sundays, so it is no wonder that it has caught the attention of international audiences.

Broth is a medicine in all cultures, especially in ours. Hungarians turn to this dish when they are sick, even when they are healthy, whether it is a usual weekday or a wedding, and whether it is the cold winter or summer.

To such an extent that it has become a trademark of authentic Hungarian cuisine that it is almost impossible to find a specific recipe for it, because everyone prepares it differently, according to their own family traditions.

Some things are for sure though: it is made in a big pot, with meaty bones and vegetables, simmering for several hours. The meat, however, may come from different animals, depending on whether the family prefers beef, pork or chicken.

This year’s number one favourite, according to Taste Atlas, was the Colombian lechona, a pig stuffed with vegetables and spices.

The pork is cooked for several hours, and the dish, which can serve up to 100 people, is usually served during the festive season. The runner-up is Italy’s classic, Neapolitan pizza, while the bronze medal-winning dish is a Brazilian one: picanha, a tasty cut of beef.

Taste Atlas also revealed which Hungarian dishes, apart from broth, foreigners like the most, and which dishes they did not like. In addition to meat soup, other popular dishes include french toast, Csabai sausage and fánk, a sweet traditional Hungarian donut.

However, wine soup, traditional tripe stew(pacalpörkölt in Hungarian), brawn (disznósajt in Hungarian, pig stomach filled with mainly chopped boiled pork head and ear meat, and mildly smoked) and poppy seed pasta, among others, did not win the hearts of foreigners.
 

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