Other Vegetable Preparations

Hungary is famed for its vegetable gardens. The Hungarian name for green peas is cukorborsó, which means “sugar peas, ” and without additional flourishes they do taste like a sugared vegetable. Yet you will rarely find a Hungarian housewife simply steaming, boiling or sautéing peas; she would consider that as only the first step. Plain boiled vegetables are incomprehensible to a Hungarian.