PAPRIKA
Mar 03, 2022
4 minutes
Few cuisines are quite so intertwined with a single ingredient as Hungary’s is with paprika — the spice that gives some of the country’s best-known dishes their intense orange colour and characteristic peppery flavour. Paprika is made from the dried ground pods of several types of capsicum annuum pepper, and it comes in a range of heat levels from édes (sweet) to csipos (hot) and different levels of coarseness.
Most of Hungary’s paprika is grown in the south, particularly around the city of Szeged and the town of Kalocsa, and in Budapest it’s sold everywhere, from small grocery stores to local food markets, where
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