Hungarian layered potatoes or potato casserole – in Hungarian rakott krumpli – is considered to be a popular comfort food in the Hungarian cuisine. This Hungarian layered potatoes dish is made with smoked paprika sausage and boiled egg bought together with sour cream and baked to perfection. It is quick and tasty, not difficult to make, even for beginner home cooks.
Hungarian layered potatoes is one of those certain dishes that don’t call for a lot of ingredients, but the different versions can still cause serious debates, because those are examples of how “there is no accounting for tastes”, and we all grew up loving the version our family makes. Goulash soup, lecsó, Hungarian plum dumplings and even the Hungarian fermented cucumber belong to this category.
This is my version of ingredients I use for preparing Hungarian layered potatoes.
Ingredients for 4 persons
- 1 kg potato
- 5 eggs
- 300 g smoked paprika sausage (chorizo style)
- 600 ml sour cream
- 2 Tbsp oil
- salt and black pepper to taste
How to prepare Hungarian layered potatoes
- Boil the potatoes in salted water, peel them and cut into slices.
- Make hard boiled eggs, peel them and cut into slices.
- Cut your sausage into coin slices.
- Then start layering the ingredients in a baking dish. First a little oil (I used coconut oil), then the sliced potatoes, season them with salt and black pepper and sprinkle them with sour cream.
- Then continue layering with eggs, then sausages, and sprinkle this layer with sour cream.
- And then add another identical layer of potatoes, eggs, sausages and sour cream.
- Finish with a layer of potatoes and cover the top of this last layer with sour cream.
- Bake the potato casserole for approximately an hour in an oven preheated to 200°C or 400°F, or until the top layer turns golden brown.
Extra tips for the perfect culinary experience
You can serve your Hungarian layered potatoes as a side dish but we Hungarians often eat it as a main dish. If you are a carnivore, you can throw in bacon or frankfurter. Some people add oil or egg yolks to mix into the sour cream, cheese as a topping
I love eating this dish with extra sour cream on top and with some pickles. Give it a try!
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