Palacsinta

Description

Palacsinta is a crepe-like dessert that is thin, golden-pale in color, soft, moist, and almost transparent. In Hungary, palacsinta is never consumed for breakfast, but is instead served as an appetizer or a main dish, stuffed with ham, mushrooms, cabbage, almonds, fruit jam, or ground walnuts. The most famous sweet palacsinta is called Gundel palacsinta , named after a restaurant that invented it. It is folded into a triangle and filled with a mixture of ground walnuts, rum, raisins, orange peel, and whipped cream. The whole concoction is then traditionally topped with chocolate syrup. Other notable palacsinta types include the highly elaborate savory iteration known as Hortobágyi , which involves stuffing the baked circles with minced veal stew, rolling them up tightly, bathing them in a rich paprika-and-sour-cream gravy, and baking the entire pan in a hot oven until bubbling.