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If you find yourself hungry while exploring the historic center of Prague, make sure to stop by one of the many street vendors and try langos bread. This deep-fried delight will satisfy your hunger and tastes absolutely delicious!
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➜ What Is Langos
Langos (langoš in Czech) is a Hungarian flatbread made from yeast dough. Pieces of proofed dough are stretched into discs and deep-fried from each side until golden and crispy.
Langos tastes neutral on its own, but it can be topped with both sweet or salty toppings. Czechs probably love the variant with garlic sauce topping, grated cheese, and ketchup the most.
Langos is typical Czech fast food, usually sold in the summer season at festivals, carnivals, and holiday destinations.
➜ Pronunciation
Hungarian call this bread lángos, in the Czech, it is langoš. The pronunciation in both languages is very similar: /ˈlaːŋɡoʃ/
I recorded a short audio clip on how to pronounce the Czech word "langoš".
Try out: Topinka garlic bread is another sort of goodness from the Czech easy recipes category!
➜ Ingredients
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Ready to make langos from scratch? Let’s take a look at the shopping list:
- Instant yeast; Czechs usually use fresh yeast, but instant yeast works as well in this recipe
- Milk; lukewarm, to create proper conditions for the yeast
- Sugar; to feed the yeast
- Potato; boiled ahead, ideally the day before; the potato needs to be cooled down
- All-purpose flour
- Vegetable oil; added to the dough
- Salt
- Oil; for deep frying
- All-purpose flour; to dust the worktop
✅You’ll find the exact amount of ingredients below in the recipe card, which you can also print out.
Langos Topping
- Fresh garlic, pressed
- Water
- Salt
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I used the simplest topping in this recipe, just crushed or pressed garlic mixed with water and salt. It’s incredibly tasty and perfect for your very first encounter with this delicious food.
➜ How to make langos bread
This recipe calls for a potato add-on, this means a portion of boiled, cooled, and grated potato. In other words, we are going to make potato langoš!
STEP 1: Cook potato and let it cool down. If you don’t forget, the ideal time is to boil a potato the day before.
STEP 2: Warm half of milk, the milk should be lukewarm, not too hot. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar to the milk and sprinkle instant yeast in it. Stir and let the yeast work in a warm place for 10-15 minutes until bubbly.
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STEP 3: Peel and grate the boiled, cooled potato. For grating, I used a hand grater.
STEP 4: Place the flour combined with the salt in a large bowl, add the activated yeast mixture, grated potato, vegetable oil, and the rest of the milk. Make a semi-tough dough, use a wooden spoon and your hands, or a kitchen mixer with a proper attachment.
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STEP 5: Let the dough leaven in a warm environment. My favorite method is to place a pot with hot water in the bottom of a turned-off oven, add the bowl with the dough, close the oven door, and allow the dough to rise. In this humid and warm environment, the yeast dough leavens like crazy! It takes less than 1 hour, and the dough is doubled, and ready to use.
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⤍ Learn how to make dough rise in the oven.
STEP 6: Flour a worktop, dump the proofed dough on it, and divide into 6 equal-sized pieces. Shape them into balls and let them leaven for another 15 minutes.
STEP 7: Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Langos should swim in oil while frying, you need at least a 1-inch layer of oil.
STEP 8: Stretch each piece of dough with your fingers into a 10-inches (25 cm) large, thin disc.
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STEP 9: Fry until golden, then flip and fry the other side. It’s done in a flash. Count on 1 minute for each side.
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STEP 10: Make the garlic topping: Peel garlic cloves and press them. Add pressed garlic in a small bowl and combine with water, add salt, stir.
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STEP 11: Brush the top of langos with garlic topping and serve warm.
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➜ Langos Topping
You can eat langos with sweet or salty topping.
Sweet variations:
- Sour cream with sugar, small fruit, drizzled with honey
Salty variations:
- Rubbed with garlic sauce, topped with grated cheese (eg Cheddar) and ketchup
➜ Useful Tips
- There are also langos recipes without potatoes. However, potato langoše taste even better than the plain ones!
- You could make langos a little bit healthier if you used a paper towel and drained the exceeded fat out of them right after frying.
More Czech Bread Recipes:
- Rohlíky – bread rolls
- Housky – braided bread
- Smaženka – bread crumbs omelette
➜ Where Does Langos Come from and What Does Its Name Mean?
Langos is authentic Hungarian food, its name (lángos, or langosz, langosh) is derived from the word flame. That’s because Hungarian shepherds used to make langoses in fire flames.
Czechs were a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy back in the day, and thus both cuisines have many recipes in common.
Lángos Bread
Author: Petra Kupská
This is a recipe for potato Lángos, a Hungarian deep-fried flatbread. It is also a popular street food in the Czech Republic, where it is known as Langoš.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins
Cook Time: 15 minutes mins
Leavening Time:: 45 minutes mins
Total Time: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins
Servings: 6
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Ingredients
Langos dough:
- 1 medium potato boiled and cooled
- 1 cup lukewarm milk lukewarm
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 ½ Tablespoons sunflower oil (or canola)
- 1 teaspoons salt
Topping:
- 3 cloves garlic peeled and pressed
- ¼ cup water
- 1 teaspoon salt
For frying:
- oil for frying sunflower oil or canola
Instructions
Before you start cooking: Cook 1 medium potato and let it cool down. Peel the cooled potato and shred it on a hand grater with small holes.
Making yeast starter: Add 1 teaspoon granulated sugar to half of the 1 cup lukewarm milk, then sprinkle in 2 teaspoons active dry yeast. Stir the mixture and let it sit in a warm place for 10-15 minutes until it becomes bubbly.
Place 3 cups all-purpose flour combined with 1 teaspoons salt in a large bowl, add the activated yeast mixture, grated potato, 3 1/2 Tablespoons sunflower oil and the rest of the warm milk. Use a wooden spoon and your hands, or a kitchen mixer with a dough hook attachment, to make a semi-tough dough.
Allow the dough to rise in a warm environment until it doubles in size, which should take about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Flour a worktop, dump the proofed dough on it, and divide into 6 equal-sized pieces. Shape them into balls and let them rise for another 15 minutes.
Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat (350 °F). To fry the Langoš properly, you need at least a 1 1/2-inch layer of oil, so they can float while frying.
Use your fingers to stretch each piece of dough into a thin disc about 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter.
Fry until golden brown, then use heat-proof tongs to flip and fry the other side. It cooks quickly, taking about 1 - 1 1/2 minute per side.
Make the garlic topping: Peel 3 cloves garlic and press them. Add the pressed garlic to a small bowl, combine with 1/4 cup water and 1 teaspoon salt. Stir well.
Brush the top of Langoš with garlic topping and serve warm.
Notes
- The basic recipe makes 6 Langoš bread.
- There are also Langoš recipes without potatoes. However, potato Langos taste even better than the plain ones!
- You can make Langoš a bit healthier by using a paper towel to drain the excess fat immediately after frying.
Nutritional estimate pro serving
Calories: 459kcal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 1183mg | Potassium: 290mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 67IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 3mg
Servings: 6
Calories pro serving: 459
Course: street food
Cuisine: Czech
Keyword: deep-fried flatbread, potato lángos
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