← Back to globe
Street Snack · Fried Cheese Rounds

Smažené Tvarůžky

Smažené Tvarůžky — street food from Olomoucko (Haná/Olomouc Region), Czech Republic
📷 Closely related photo — Photo: Fry72 (Karel Frydrýšek) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Frying actually mellows the cheese's notoriously strong smell, which is part of why it became the more crowd-friendly way to eat it out on the street.

Rounds of Olomouc's pungent curd cheese, breaded and deep-fried until the outside is crisp and the inside runs soft, served with tartar sauce and boiled potatoes or bread from Olomouc market stalls and street kitchens.

Why it's made this way: Breaded fried cheese is a Czech pub classic, and giving the same treatment to the region's famously strong local cheese turned it into a distinct Olomouc specialty.
Read it in context →

More from Czech Republic

Trdelník Smažený sýr (Fried Cheese) Bramborák (Potato Pancake) Chlebíčky (Czech Open-Faced Sandwiches) Staropramen Utopenci
Part of World of Street Food — 3443 dishes from 118 countries. Something wrong here? Tell us in the comments below. Photo credits.