Market Stall · Palóc-Style Stew Soup
Palócleves
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It was invented as a birthday gift — a Budapest restaurateur created it for a novelist's birthday, then named it not after the writer himself but after the writer's own nickname for his home region.
A hearty soup of lamb or mutton, green beans, potatoes, and soured cream, seasoned with paprika and caraway, ladled hot from pots at markets and festivals across the Mátra and Nógrád hill country of northern Hungary.
Why it's made this way: Restaurateur János Gundel created it around 1892 for the birthday of novelist Kálmán Mikszáth and named it after the Palóc people, an ethnic group native to the highlands north of the Mátra and Bükk mountains where Mikszáth was born.
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