Czech Cuisine - Snacks

Snacks

Since beer is sometimes a part of Czech life, many popular Czech dishes and cheeses are usually eaten as pub fare. But It more depend on personal taste. Many people do not drink beer at all.

Bramboráky (regionally called cmunda or vošouch in Pilsen and "strik" or "striky" in Czech Silesia) are fried pancakes made (very similar to rosti) of rough-grated or fine-grated raw potatoes (brambory in Czech), flour and rarely with sliced sausages (although this is not common, because bramboráky are usually intended to be traditional meal, where meat was mot eaten daily.) or sour cabbage. They are spiced with marjoram, salt, pepper, and garlic, and usually sized to fit the cooking dish. Smaller variants are often eaten as a side dish. There is a similar dish from the Slovakian-Ruthenian borderland called harula, which is prepared also with less milk and fat, and the addition of an onion. Harula are baked on tin in an oven instead of frying.

Utopenci (literally "drowned men", singular: utopenec) are piquantly pickled bratwursts (Czech "špekáčky") in sweet-sour vinegar marinade with black pepper, bayleaf, lots of raw onion and chilli peppers. They are one of dishes available in Czech Pubs (it saves time of preparation). They are not much in better restaurants.

Dried apple chips (Křížaly) and imported dried banana chips.

Potato chips Czech republic has also many companies making potato chips. One of them, The Bohemia Chips company was started in 1982 and daily makes 450 000 packs of potato chips with many flavours. Company Chips Praha is making beet and celery chips sold as Tretter´s chips.

Roasted peanuts are common.

Obložené chlebíčky (Garnished breads), a type of snack or appetizer made not from Czech normal "bread" but roll-like but bigger pastry called veka, sliced and garnished. It can have butter, ham, cheese andslice of boiled egg or salads (like potato salad) or spreads on the top. Decorated mostly with fresh sliced or pickled cucumber, tomato, red or yellow bell pepper, sliced reddish, parsley. Jednohubky - are simillar to obložené chlebíčky, but small and they have many kinds. The main thing is that it is small amount - one mouthful, impaled on stick.

Cheese

Smažený sýr (colloquially smažák, fried cheese in Czech triplecoat) is one of Czech dishes. A slice of cheese (usually Edam or Hermelín) about 1 cm thick (or, a whole serving of Hermelín) is coated in layer of flour, layer of egg and layer of bread-crumbs like Wiener schnitzel and fried and served. It can be served with tartar sauce (tatarská omáčka in Czech) or ketchup and potatoes.

Nakládaný hermelín is a soft cheese, same family as brie and camembert marinated with peppers and onions in oil. It is a pub-food.

Pivní sýr (Beer Cheese) is a soft cheese, usually mixed with raw onions and mustard, and spread on toasted bread. It is a pub-food too.

Olomoucké syrečky or "tvarůžky" is an aged cheese with a strong odour. It's made and sold from Loštice, a small town in Moravia. The tradition of making this cheese dates back to the 15th century. The company A.W. of Josef Wesselss started to produce it in 1876. Tvarůžky can be prepared in a number of ways—for example, you can fry it, marinate it, or add it to Bramboráky. But not many people can stand its odor.

Czech Hot dog (párek v rohlíku) is found in streets. It is served with boiled or steamed sausage dipped in mustard or ketchup and inside and put into a roll with hole made inside. Not in sliced bun like common hot dog. It is German influence.

Langoše Lángos came from Hungarian influence.

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