Ahoj všichni! In this video, I'm gonna share with you nine
traditional Czech pub foods.
So grab your beer and let's get started.
I'm Katrina Dzuris, an American living in České Budějovice
Czech Republic
And you're watching Czeching with Katrina.
Well, you can't really talk about pub foods without having
a beer, can you.
Especially in Czech Republic, the largest beer drinking
nation in the world.
I was going to wait till all the pubs opened in Czech Republic
to do this video so that I could order the foods and you
could see them live.
But then I got to thinking, I don't think they're ever going
to freaking open.
So I'm just doing it now in this kitchen.
Now, most of these Czech foods I have never eaten and never
desire to eat because they look disgusting.
So I didn't come up with this list.
My 38 year old stepdaughter, who is from Pilsen and frequents the
pubs with all of her Czech friends, helped me prepare this list.
Perhaps it's a little different in different areas
of Czech Republic, but in South Bohemia, these are the traditional
Czech foods that you're going to find in a pub.
And I'm talking pups without a full kitchen; pubs that just
have a small kitchen and provide like little pub foods.
The first one you're going to find is one that I actually
enjoy and order all the time.
Gulášová polévka.
It's usually made with beer.
So gulášová polévka is a soup very much like Hungarian
guláš, but it's not as thick because it's made as a soup
and it's got potatoes in it.
It's quite delicious, quite filling.
And I suggest you get it when you're in Czech Republic.
The second one on the list is also one that I'll eat.
It's a little bit greasy, but it's still pretty good.
Bramboráky. Bramboráky is really just potato pancakes.
So most of you have heard of potato pancakes. In Czech Republic,
they don't really have carrots and stuff like you would find,
like in Israel, but they're just pretty much garlic and flour
and eggs, milk.
They are quite delicious, although a little greasy.
I like to make them at home with sweet potatoes and coconut
oil to make them a little more healthy.
But in the pub you're going to find them probably most likely
done in lard, but they're pretty good still.
Number three
Utopence.
Utopence is a gigantic thick pickled sausage,
so it takes a long time to make you have to leave it sit
until it pickles, just like any kind of pickled food.
But it's a really thick sausage and they usually eat it with
vinegar and onions.
The next one on the list is the one I think is one of the
most disgusting.
Tatarak. So that is a raw meat, usually beef,
sometimes salmon, but it's raw.
It's disgusting.
They literally take a piece of toast and rub it with garlic
and then put raw meat on top of it and eat it.
It's weird, strange gross, but quite popular in Czech Republic.
I know that they use a really high quality meat, like they
don't make it with just any meat.
They use a high quality meat.
It's quite popular.
Lots of people like it.
I think it looks awful.
I've never tasted it, never planned to taste it.
I don't want to.
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Number five.
Salam s cibule
Let's try this again.
Salam s cibule, which is really just salami with onions, so
it doesn't look too bad.
I've really never had it because I just kind of avoid pork
and there's usually bramborák or gulášová polévka there.
So I'll just get that instead.
But it is not bad.
It's salami with onions.
Number six, step number six, let's take a drink.
Tlačenka.
Tlačenka in English is known as head cheese.
Not really sure why, but it's pieces of meat and some other
stuff in there.
Not really sure what maybe the skins and then they smoke
it, I think.
And then they put it all in this gelatin.
So it's like in a gelatin.
So it's really hard.
Gelatin is actually quite healthy for you.
It's a good thing to eat.
So it's probably not that unhealthy, Tlačenka,
but it's made with pork.
But then what they do is they take it and they slice it and
they put a slice on the plate and they pour vinegar over
it and some chopped onions.
And so they eat it that way.
I think with some bread.
Number seven.
Jitrnice.
Jitrnice is liver sausage.
Sausages made from liver meat.
So if you like liver, you'll probably like it.
Like I said, never had it, never plan to.
I have had liver and I just can't handle the texture.
So this is liver sausage.
Number eight.
Jelíto.
Jelíto is blood sausage.
I don't even know what blood sausage is.
It sounds really gross.
I think they eat something like blood soup too, but that's
not typical for pub food, but anyways, it's got a lot of
blood in it, I guess
I'll look into that and let you know.
Jelíto is a traditional Czech blood sausage prepared with
pig's blood and ground pork meat, mainly head belly and offal.
It incorporates lard and various spices, such as margarine and cumin.
Since it is a non smoked sausage, it's traditionally boiled
or fried before it's served alongside a pungent mustard,
horseradish and cabbage.
And finally, number nine.
Sekaná
Sekaná is really just meatloaf.
I'm not a fan of meatloaf, not American meatloaf,
not Czech meatloaf. I don't really eat meatloaf.
Something about throwing some breadcrumbs in with your meat
just doesn't sound that good.
I imagine it's filling and it makes your meat go a lot farther.
And I know some people just love it, but not me.
It's not my thing.
When I go to the pub, there's actually
usually two things on here that I didn't put on the list
and that's French fries and potato chips and that's because
they're not traditional Czech foods.
But those are usually at every pub,
so I usually order hranolky, which is French fries or I have
gulášová polévka or I have bramborák.
Sometimes I might just get some potato chips.
So there you have it. Nine traditional pub foods.
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