Halaszle appears as a signature dish in 1 Hungary cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.

Halászlé · Budapest

Hungarian river-fish soup of carp, catfish or pike-perch, hot with paprika, the broth thickened only by the heads and bones. The signature Christmas Eve dish along the Danube and Tisza.

Halászlé is the fisherman's soup of the Danube and the Tisza, with regional schools, including the Szeged version. The dish became a Christmas Eve staple in Budapest through the 20th century. Hungarian carp is the canonical fish.

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