RECIPE: the famous Hungaricum Túró Rudi and its variations

Túró Rudi, a Hungaricum made with cottage cheese and chocolate, is everyone’s favourite. Unfortunately, as with everything else, it gets more and more expensive due to rising prices. The good news is that you don’t have to give it up. Here’s how to make Túró Rudi at home!

Ingredients for 20 pieces:

• half kg cottage cheese
• 10 dkg icing sugar
• 1 dl water
• 2 dkg gelatine
• 1 lemon
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 40 dkg dark chocolate

Preparation:

1. Squeeze the cottage cheese through a sieve.
2. Mix the strained cottage cheese with the lemon zest, sugar and vanilla sugar.
3. Dissolve the gelatine in the water. Wait for it to swell, put it in the microwave for a short time to allow it to become more liquid.
4. Mix the liquid gelatine thoroughly with the cottage cheese mixture. If necessary, you can also use an electric whisk. When the mixture is homogeneous, put it in the fridge for at least half an hour.
5. Form the cooled mixture into rolls about 10 centimetres long. While you are making the chocolate icing, put the prepared cottage cheese sticks back in the fridge.
6. Melt the dark chocolate over steam and dip the bars into the chocolate mixture.
7. Place the chocolate coated cottage cheese sticks on baking paper or greaseproof paper and wait for the chocolate coating to harden. If you want a thicker chocolate coating, do the dipping process several times, cooling the bars between each dip.
8. When you’re ready, pack them in a container that can be sealed – you can keep your homemade Túró Rudi sticks for up to a week.

Of course, you don’t have to imitate the store-bought shape, you can make smaller or larger bars, balls, flat triangles or anything else, Nosalty recommends. Maybe the bar is the best, if you want to layer the cottage cheese and the fruit or the jam.

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Variations for Túró Rudi:

For orange, or any other fruity flavour, add a few tablespoons of freshly squeezed juice, and if possible (for oranges, for example), the finely grated peel.

In the case of fruit, another example is the banana version, which is made by blending half a banana and adding 3-4 teaspoons of this thick mixture to the cottage cheese.

The preparation is the same for raspberry-flavoured Túró Rudi sticks, with the same amount of fruit. When using jam, the recommended amount is 2 tablespoons, but it depends on how thin the jam is, however, you can use baking jam. You can also experiment with different special jams, such as figs, quince, sea buckthorn, or stick to the usual versions, such as strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, peach, plum, sour cherry.

The original Hungarian recipe is available on noinetcafe.hu.

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Source: noinetcafe.hu, nosalty.hu