24 czech recipes

Czech Christmas cookies rolled paper-thin, packed with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg, sweetened with molasses and brown sugar. Crisp, spicy, and not too sweet.

Traditional Czech liver dumplings made from chicken livers, onion, and marjoram, simmered in chicken broth. Old-world comfort food at its finest.

Czech cabbage soup roasts beef bones and short ribs with vegetables, then simmers with cabbage, tomatoes, sauerkraut, and lemon juice for sweet-sour Eastern European comfort. Hearty winter meal.

Soft, pillowy Czech-style yeast dumplings (knedliky) made from bread flour, milk, egg, and yeast. Simmered in boiling water and sliced thick to soak up gravies and sauces.

Czech beer-braised chicken with caraway and onions, roasted until golden. Dark beer creates rich gravy in this Central European comfort dish. Serve with red cabbage and dumplings.

Traditional kolache fillings: ground walnut, dried apricot, coconut-pecan, and poppyseed. Four classic Czech and Eastern European pastry fillings for cookies and yeast buns.

Kolaches (kolacky) made with a tender cottage cheese and butter dough, filled with pineapple or apricot filling, and dusted with powdered sugar. A Czech pastry classic.

Kolache with soft, buttery yeast dough and a center filled with your choice of fruit, jam, or pie filling. A Czech-Texan pastry tradition that makes 18 tender rolls from scratch.

Czech-style bread dumplings (knedliky) shaped into small loaves, wrapped in foil, and boiled. Tender, sliceable rounds for soaking up gravy.

Czech kolaches made with soft yeast dough and a homemade apricot filling. These pillowy rolls get an indentation pressed in the center to hold sweet fruit puree.

Traditional poppy seed kolache with a buttery almond dough and homemade filling of poppy seeds, honey, dates, and nuts. A Czech-style pastry that makes 60 pieces.

Bohemian chicken and dumplings with paprika-marjoram gravy and handmade bread dumplings cooked in the chicken stock. A Czech comfort food classic that's been warming kitchens for generations.

Kolacky cookies made with a tender cream cheese pastry dough filled with fruit spread, pinched into tri-cornered shapes, and baked golden. A Czech holiday cookie tradition.

Traditional poppy seed kolachky filling made with scalded milk, sugar, and a full pound of poppy seeds. A simple three-ingredient Czech and Polish pastry filling.

Old-world Czech kolachky yeast dough rolled in powdered sugar, filled with jam or cheese, and baked into delicate folded pastries. The classic Slavic holiday cookie.

Rosky's (Czech rohlíky): cream cheese pastry cookies filled with apricot, dusted with powdered sugar. The Old World holiday cookie your grandmother kept on the tin every Christmas.