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Palacsinta | Traditional Pancake From Hungary, Central Europe | TasteAtlas
Palacsinta | Traditional Pancake From Hungary, Central Europe | TasteAtlas
Palacsinta | Traditional Pancake From Hungary, Central Europe | TasteAtlas
Palacsinta | Traditional Pancake From Hungary, Central Europe | TasteAtlas

Palacsinta

Palacsinta is a Hungarian 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 that is filled with a combination of ground walnuts, rum, raisins, orange peel, and whipped cream. The whole concoction is then traditionally topped with chocolate syrup.