Hungarian Bean and Barley Stew

In the spring of 2011 a number of us from the bakery visited Budapest to continue our studies of Hungarian foodways. We were excited to learn more about sólet (SHOW-let), a traditional Hungarian bean and barley stew usually cooked with some sort of protein—eggs, sausages, brisket, and goose are all common.

Sólet is also a traditional Jewish dish, known by the similar name cholent. Traditionally, it was cooked overnight in the oven of the community baker (as t