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Cottage cheese pasta sprinkled with crackling, served with fresh dill
Savoury cottage cheese pasta topped with plenty of sour cream and pork cracklings.

Hungarian cottage cheese pasta with crackling

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Main Courses
Túrós csusza is more than pasta: it is a play of textures and temperatures. Hot, fatty pasta meets cold, tart curd cheese and sour cream, crowned by crispy bacon crackling. Traditionally made from hand-torn pasta, generously drizzled with rendered bacon fat.
🕒 Prep Time 10 mins
🍳 Cook Time 15 mins
⌛ Total Time 25 mins
🍽️ Servings 5 servings
🔥 Calories 550 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Hungarian

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Large pot for pasta
  • Frying pan for bacon
  • Serving dish (preferably warmed)

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Milk

Instructions

1 ✓

Cut the bacon into small cubes (lardons), and fry in a pan over medium heat until crispy and fat renders. Remove crackling, set fat aside.

Tip: Slow frying ensures fat melts out completely (rendering), and remaining tissue becomes crispy.
2 ✓

Boil pasta in boiling salted water, then drain. Do not rinse!

Tip: The starch layer remaining on the pasta surface helps fat and sour cream adhere better.
3 ✓

Immediately toss the pasta with the hot bacon fat.

Tip: The fat coats the pasta, preventing it sticking together.
4 ✓

Mix with half the curd cheese and a little sour cream. Warm together for a few minutes (in oven or on stove), but do not bake crispy.

Tip: Gentle heating unifies flavours.
5 ✓

Serve piled with remaining cold curd cheese, drizzle generously with sour cream, and sprinkle with crispy crackling.

Tip: The hot-cold contrast gives a sense of freshness in a heavy dish.

Recipe FAQ

The pasta stuck together.
You didn't mix it fast enough with the fat. Toss with bacon fat as soon as you drain it!
Too dry.
Needs more sour cream, or you baked it too long (if warmed in oven). Túrós csusza is good when it's juicy.

Ingredients

  • 500 g Pasta squares or torn pasta
  • 300 g Curd cheese (or dry cottage cheese)
  • 300 ml Sour cream
  • 200 g Smoked bacon
  • 1 tsp Salt