Czech potato salad or brambory salad (from the Czech brambory - potato) is a dish of the national cuisine of this country. Similar salads are prepared in Austria and Germany. It usually contains red onions, pickled cucumbers, bacon cracklings and other products, and is seasoned with mayonnaise, yogurt, and vinaigrette dressing.

It is traditionally served at Christmas, just like our Olivier. It can also be an excellent side dish for sausages, meat schnitzels, chops, ham, barbecued meat, fried fish (Christmas carp).

Brambo salad

Making Czech potato salad

Of course, preparing Czech potato salad in another country with the same precision as in the Czech Republic is impossible. Because the products are different, and the atmosphere of relaxation and travel plays a big role in the perception of taste.

There is no need to think that there is some classic recipe for Czech potato salad with exact adherence to the ingredients and their proportions. Similar to Greek salad, every family or restaurant prepares it differently.

Czech salad has only one thing in common - boiled potatoes, which are boiled in their skins or simply cubed. Young potato skins are not peeled.

Making Czech Potato Salad

There are “poorer” options - potatoes, onions, herbs and mustard with wine, and there are recipes that are immediately obvious: the dish is festive. So that the potato pieces absorb all the aroma of the marinade, season it hot. Hence its other name - Czech warm salad.

You can decorate the potato salad with slices of lemon and pickled cucumber, boiled egg slices, and fresh herbs.

We offer several different delicious recipes for brambo salad. Try to cook the one you like best.

Czech Potato Salad Recipe

Classic old Czech salad recipe

• 1 kg potatoes
• 4 eggs
• 150 g carrots
• 160 g pickled cucumbers
• Half a medium onion
• 1 apple
• 60 g canned green peas
• 150g celery root
• 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons grain mustard
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 peppercorns
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• Salt, ground black pepper to taste

They say that this recipe for making potato salad has been known since the 18th century. Finely chop the onion, pour in a couple of tablespoons of cucumber pickle, and leave for half an hour. Boil the potatoes in their jackets, while still hot, peel and chop, mix with onions to absorb their flavor. Wash the carrots and roots, also cook until tender along with bay leaf, pepper and thyme, cool. Cut everything into small cubes and place in a salad bowl. Add chopped cucumbers, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper, stir. Lastly, add the boiled eggs and apple. The finished Czech salad should stand in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

Czech salad

Holiday recipe for potato salad with chicken and cheese

• Potatoes - 750 g
• 4 boiled chicken fillets
• 125 g Emmental cheese
• 1 piece each red and green bell peppers
• 1/2 pickled cucumber
• 1/2 onion
• 1 egg
• 150 ml natural yogurt
• Mayonnaise - 100 g
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 100 ml vegetable broth
• Salt, pepper to taste
• A pinch of sugar

Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel them while hot and cut them into slices, heat the broth and pour it over the potatoes along with finely chopped onions. Grate the cheese, cut the meat, peppers, cucumber, and egg into cubes. Mix all the ingredients for the sauce, add to the potatoes, stir and add the rest of the ingredients. Let the finished salad stand for half an hour and serve.

Czech salad

A simple recipe for warm Czech salad with butter

• 800 g potatoes
• 1 red onion
• 50 ml dry white wine
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• 1 teaspoon mustard with grains
• 100 ml olive oil
• Salt, parsley

Boil the potatoes in their jackets, cut them into slices or halves of slices. Pour wine over it and stir. Add finely chopped onion and parsley. Mix vinegar, mustard and salt, pour in oil in a thin stream, whisking the mixture. Pour the dressing over the salad and serve. The taste of the snack can be varied with bacon cracklings fried in a small amount of vegetable oil. And also add some green peas and sprinkle the salad with finely chopped onion feathers.

Czech warm salad

Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not specified

Czech salad with ham and its recipe are already traditional for our family. Back during the Iron Curtain, our relative visited the Czech Republic and, among other foreign things, brought the recipe for this salad. The salad, quite spicy, will suit any feast. The recipe talks about serving it in festive portions, but the salad can also be served in a common dish, but for this you need to take a large serving ring, or form the correct shape with your hands.

Ingredients:
- chicken;
- egg;
- apple;
- ham;
- vinegar or lemon juice;
- green pea;
- gherkins;
- mayonnaise.

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Boil chicken fillet or thigh, cut into small cubes or disassemble into fibers.



Boil the egg and grate on a grater with medium holes.




Choose firm apple varieties, preferably with white or green flesh. Peel and grate the apple, sprinkle with a little vinegar or lemon juice.




Add mayonnaise and mix. If the mayonnaise is tender, add a little salt. This will be the centerpiece of the salad.
Arrange the salad using a serving ring. It can be completely replaced with an empty plastic bottle with the top and bottom cut off.

Strain the peas. This step should not be skipped, since we do not need the liquid from the peas.




Place the peas on top of the salad and press lightly with your hand. If you are making a salad using a serving ring for the first time - generously brush the top with mayonnaise - then the peas will definitely stay in place.




Slowly remove the ring and adjust any fallen peas.






Cut the ham and gherkins into equal pieces. This point is extremely important for salad design.



Place ham and cucumbers one by one along the edge of the salad, as shown in the photo.




For strength, you can grease the sides of the salad with mayonnaise so that the cucumbers and ham fit tightly to the salad.



The salad looks very appetizing and will attract the attention of guests with its stripes.
The portion serving of the salad was described above.






To serve the salad in a common dish, you can cut all the ingredients into cubes, but do not add peas to the salad, just sprinkle them generously on top of the salad. Decorate the edges of the plate with diced ham or herbs.

Czech salad recipe with step-by-step preparation.

• Type of dish: Salads
• Recipe difficulty: Complicated recipe
• National cuisine: Czech cuisine
• Occasion: Lunch, breakfast

• Preparation time: 1 hour
• Cooking time: 20 minutes
• Number of servings: 6 servings
• Calorie Amount: 253 kilocalories

Among the variety of salads called “Czech”, the most authentic seems to us to be the option that is a little reminiscent of the Olivier meat salad, but has a number of significant differences - the shape of the cut, the type of salad dressing, etc.

Ingredients for 6 servings

• Dried basil 5 g
• Ham 200 g
• Beef tenderloin 200 g
• Natural yogurt 1 tbsp.
• Potatoes 6 pcs.
• Chicken breast 1 pc.
• Pickled silver onions 18 pcs.
• Fresh marjoram 6 g
• Dry marjoram 5 g
• Cucumbers - gherkins 10 pcs.
• Pitted olives 20 pcs.
• Dried parsley 5 g
• Salt 1 pinch
• Gouda cheese 150 g
• Pickled garlic 1 head

Step by step recipe

1. The meat is boiled and baked in advance. Vegetables are boiled in their jackets.
2. Cut the baked beef tenderloin into long pieces.
3. We remove the shell from the ham and cut it into the same cubes as we did with the beef.
4. We do the same with boiled chicken breast.
5. Now we repeat the shape of slicing with potatoes.
6. And with gherkins. If you choose larger cucumbers (barrel or pickled), fillet them before slicing.
7. Chop the garlic that was marinated with the gherkins.
8. Cut the olives in half.
9. Three large cheeses.
10. Add some of the cheese to all the ingredients that were chopped before.
11. Grind a mixture of dried herbs (marjoram, basil, parsley) into natural yogurt. Add salt. Some people use sour cream or mayonnaise (with the same herbs) in this salad.
12. We dress our “Czech” salad.
13. And mix gently. Czech salad is almost ready. You just need to put it in salad bowls and sprinkle with the remaining cheese, garnish with fresh marjoram leaves, silver pickled onions and whole giant olives. Have a pleasant gastronomic experience!

Czech cuisine was formed from numerous borrowings and local culinary preferences. It features quite hearty dishes, as well as juicy-sweet desserts.

We will tell you in this article which Czech dishes are the most popular in our country. We will also describe their recipes and tell you how they should be presented to the table.

Features of Czech cuisine

The most typical dishes of Czech cuisine are baked pork knuckle, soups, dumplings and utopenci.

It should also be noted that side dishes in the form of potatoes (boiled or fried), stewed cabbage and various cereals are very popular in the Czech Republic. A real delicacy in this country is roast goose with red cabbage.

As for snacks, the most popular among them are hermelins, fried cheese and Olomouc cheesecakes.

Like Austrian, Czech national cuisine involves the frequent use of meat or fish. As a rule, such dishes are served together with sauces, to which cumin is always added.

The most common baked goods in the Czech Republic are buns, rolls, buns with cheese, poppy seeds and jam. On the streets of this country you can always see tents in which delicious and high-calorie products are baked, rolled in nuts or sugar.

Czech cuisine: recipes

If you want to make an original dish for the dinner table, we suggest making Czech meatballs. The combination of a meat product with a sweetish cranberry sauce will definitely be appreciated by all members of your family and will ask for more.

So, to make the mentioned dish, we will need the following components:

• minced beef - about 500 g;
• nutmeg - 1/2 dessert spoon;
• fresh or frozen cranberries - 400 g;
• soy sauce - 2 large spoons;
• gray bread - 2 pieces;
• whole milk - ¼ cup;
• ground cinnamon - 1/2 small spoon;
• light sugar - ½ cup;
• orange juice (lemon can be used) - 1/2 cup;
• black pepper - 1/2 dessert spoon;
• table salt - 1/2 dessert spoon;
• fresh honey - 1.5 large spoons;
• fresh herbs - use to taste.

Preparing the sauce

Czech cuisine has always been famous for its tasty and aromatic sauces. To make this meatball filling, mix cranberries with sugar, honey, water (1/4 cup), orange juice, cinnamon, honey and pepper. All ingredients are mixed, placed on the stove and brought to a boil. Reducing the heat to low, simmer the sauce for about 15 minutes until slightly thickened.

Making meatballs

While the sauce is cooking, you can start preparing the meatballs. Gray bread is soaked in milk and then added to the mixed minced meat. Add herbs, nutmeg and table salt to it. After mixing all the ingredients, they are formed into small meatballs and then fried in vegetable oil.

Final stage

After the Czech meatballs are covered with a golden crust, sweet cranberry sauce is added to them and simmered under the lid for about 5-9 minutes.

The finished dish is presented to the table with potato or some other side dish.

Making delicious soup in bread

Czech cuisine is very popular in our country. One of the most famous dishes of this European state is soup in bread. Incredibly nourishing, thick and tasty, it is easy and simple to prepare.

To implement this recipe we will need:

• fresh beef - about 1 kg;
• garlic cloves - 10 small pieces;
• onions - 2 heads;
• juicy carrots - 3 pcs.;
• tomato paste - 2 large spoons;
• adjika - 2 small spoons;
• light flour - 3 small spoons;
• butter - at least 100 g;
• medium potatoes - 5 tubers;
• salami sausage - about 100 g;
• salt, sweet paprika - to taste;
• small round rye bread - 4-5 pcs.

Making soup

Czech cuisine, the recipes of which are presented in this article, is famous for its delicious and satisfying soups. To make such a dish at home, place fresh beef meat in a deep pan and cook it for about 2 hours, after adding salt and pepper to taste.

While the broth is preparing, you need to start processing the remaining ingredients. Melt butter in a frying pan and then fry finely chopped onion and garlic in it. Add carrots there and cook for another 7 minutes.

After the described steps, add tomato paste and adjika to the frying pan. All ingredients are seasoned with paprika and salt, stirred and simmered for about 10 minutes. Also, wheat flour is fried in a separate saucepan and butter is added to it. At the same time, make sure that no lumps form in the sauce.

After the meat is cooked, remove it from the broth, add potato cubes and cook for about 10 minutes. Next, add fried, chopped salami, wheat flour with butter and shredded beef to the bowl. In this composition, the Czech soup is boiled for about 7 minutes, after which it is poured into rye bread pots and served.

Making a delicious salad for the holiday table

Czech cuisine (photos of dishes are presented in this article) includes many warm salads. If you are not familiar with any of them, then we present the famous Prague appetizer with beef, apple, fresh bell pepper and pickles. We will tell you exactly how to make such a tasty and nutritious salad right now.

For this we need:

• beef as fresh as possible - about 200 g;
• pork not too fatty - 200 g;
• pickled cucumbers - about 200 g;
• white onion - 1 pc.;
• bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• green salad leaves - 4 pcs.;
• green apple - 1 pc.;
• fresh lemon juice - 1 large spoon;
• medium calorie mayonnaise - 200 g;
• vegetable oil - use to taste (for frying foods).

Preparing Ingredients

To prepare a warm Czech-style meat salad, you must use only fresh and young meat. It is washed thoroughly and all inedible parts are removed. After this, the beef is cut into thin strips and fried in vegetable oil until golden brown and soft. Next, add onion half rings to the meat and continue cooking for about 5-9 minutes.

As for the green apple and bell pepper, both ingredients are thoroughly washed, peeled and chopped into strips. Pickled cucumbers are processed exactly the same way.

Correctly forming a delicious Czech salad

After frying the beef with onions, remove the ingredients from the stove and cool slightly. Then all excess oil is drained from them, pickles, fresh apple and bell pepper are added. The products are flavored with lemon juice, salted and seasoned with mayonnaise.

This salad is presented to the table while still warm, along with a piece of dark bread.

Making delicious Czech dumplings

This dish is the hallmark of Czech cuisine. There are many recipes for preparing such a product. We will consider only one of the simplest options. For this we need the following set of ingredients:

• light wheat flour - about 500 g;
• whole milk or drinking water - approximately 250 ml;
• dry granulated yeast - 4 g;
• table salt - about 2 dessert spoons;
• granulated sugar - ½ dessert spoon.

Cooking process

In fact, there is nothing complicated in making Czech dumplings. Pour granulated sugar into warm drinking water and stir until dissolved. After this, add granulated yeast and a dessert spoon of wheat flour to the same bowl. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and leave aside for ¼ hour.

After time has passed, add table salt to the dissolved yeast and add the remaining wheat flour. After kneading a soft and homogeneous dough, cover it with a towel and leave it warm for 50 minutes.

After the base swells, knead it again and divide it into 4 parts. We form flat cakes from each product and roll them into a loaf. In this case, we do not use flour.

Having formed mini loaves 15-20 cm long, leave them aside for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, fill a large saucepan with water and place it on the stove. After the liquid boils, carefully place all the formed dumplings into it.

After adding a little salt to the water, close the dish with a lid and cook the contents over very low heat for 10-13 minutes. By the way, the liquid should cover the products so much that they float freely in the pan.

After time has passed, turn the flour product over to the other side using a spatula and cook for another 5-7 minutes. To check the readiness of the dumplings, cut them in half. If the thickness of the product is sticky and sticky, then it is recommended to cook them for a few more minutes.

Let's sum it up

Now you know what Czech cuisine is like. Using the recipes described, you are sure to get delicious and nutritious dishes that will satisfy you and all members of your family.