Map reveals the colour palettes of each country’s favourite dishes

Research has shown that colour is one of the most effective sensory cues when it comes to imagining the flavour of food, inspiring Pyszne.pl to uncover the colour palette of each country’s typical lunchtime meal.

By scraping a reputable restaurant review site to find the most dominant lunchtime dishes for each country, Pyszne.pl then analysed the colour hues of each of the most popular dishes, and now can reveal all.

Europe

Spain’s colour palette consists of oranges and browns, thanks to their popular lunchtime dishes cocido and escalivada. Cocido is a chickpea-based stew made with a variety of meats like chicken, chorizo and pork belly, whereas escalivada is one for the vegetarians, consisting of roasted vegetables and garlic.

Hungary

Hungary’s colour palette consists of greens and browns, due to the most popular lunchtime meal of gulyás. The traditional Hungarian soup is a symbol of the country, made up of meat and vegetables and often sprinkled with coriander to produce the green hues.

Hungarian cuisine is based on meat, seasonal vegetables, fruit and fresh bread. The basic seasoning is red sweet pepper. Everyone has heard of the famous Hungarian goulash, fish soup and Dobos cake. It is a homely cuisine, but very aromatic, based on one-pot dishes that are distinguished by unusual aromas.

Aromatic Hungarian dishes in various versions also appear in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is enough to mention only the goulash, the famous bogrács or the lecsó, although it is worth noting that the varieties of these dishes often differ significantly from the Hungarian originals. Many dishes in Hungarian cuisine are shepherd’s dishes, which then made a huge career not only among the Magyars.