Svíčková is absolutely delicious by my opinion and the whipped cream and cranberries yeah i like it but lot of czechs eat without it. If my granny saw me taking potato dumpling in Svíčková i will probably get headshot with kitchen rolling pin :D
Svíčková - its not a dessert, more of a lunch or dinner meal. But I understand the confusion- it was like a treat for me as a kid😂 Its a vegeteble sauce with spices, beef meat and bread dumplings. I understand the confusion with the wiped cream, its usualy sereved with svíčková along side lemon slice and cowberry jam, giving it little bit sweeter taste.(In my opinion) Nice video, and hello from Czechia/Czech Republic! 👋
The whipped cream is not a sweet whipped cream but natural cream whipped stiff...and the dish is no dessert. "Svickova" is a sirloin roast with gravy. My grandmother made it like this and the recipe was from her Czech but at her lifetime = "Bohemian" mother, my Great-Grandmother. ..and that´s how I cook it from time to time. The tenderloin was salted + peppered and wrappred in bacon, and then seared on all sides in a roasting pan with lard. Then she added diced carrots, diced celery roots and diced onions just short term and then dashed it with beef broth + added a laurel leaf + some few peppercorn + thyme + some juniper berries and put that roasting pan with a lid on it in the oven for an hour at 180 degree/356 Fahrenheit. While every 10 -12 minutes or so she flipped the meat and dashed it again with the broth from the roasting pan to prevent that the meat is drying out.. After that hour she took out the meat and with the rest of what´s left in the roasting pan she made the gravy by adding a bit starch and boild it up. Then she took it from the stove taste it for if more salt or pepper was needed + stired in a table spoon taragon mustard, then she blended the gravy so that the boiled veggies in the gravy got creamy also binding the gravy + and finally added and stired in a bit of cream (she didn´t serve the cream extra in whipped form = that´s a pure restaurant thing to do because in the restaurant the gravy is kept warm for hours which can´t be done when it´s with cream because the cream would then flocculate after some time which is then not a nice look). Served with bread dumplings + lingon berries.
svíčková is a lunch/dinner meal. it's basically a cream sauce made with root veggies (carrots, celeriac, parsley root, an apple and a few spices) served with a slice of beef tenderloin and bread dumplings. it's often garnished with some whipped cream, a slice of lemon and a bit of cranberry jelly that you can mix in to get a more creamy, tangy taste. it gets its name from the Czech word for beef tenderloin (svíčková in cz) which is the meat that is traditionally used for this meal. the reason why people are upset about the wrong type of dumplings in the picture is because for sauces you should use bread dumplings. the reason why you should use them is because bread dumplings are really soft and porous and they soak up the sauce well. the potato dough dumplings on the other hand are really dense and have their own flavour which isn't great because the sauce sits on them and clashes with it. basically there's a bunch of dumpling types and each is good for a different thing kinda like with pasta and using the wrong type of dumpling also makes it seem like the restaurant is cheaping out on you. btw dumplings can absolutely be a dessert/sweet food. there are a lot of recipes for dumplings with sweet fillings like blueberries, plums, apricots or strawberries. those are usually made from a yeast dough and are garnished with crumbled farmer's cheese, sugar and melted butter. it's a very summery dish thanks for reacting, much love from czechia
I have never seen anyone serving the "little dumplings" with that sauce :D It's something that just doesn't happen so it really suprised me. I hope you'll get the chance to sometime try that dish tho because it's delicious :D it's one of our national foods and I think you would like it
about tipping.....in usa tips are main part of servers salary. thay are paid badly. In czech republic thay get proper salary and tips are just extra money. You will give them extra money if you are satisfied.....why give someone some gifts if you are not satisfied. We use to just round price to next bigger number. If someone takes money from czech person like this...he probably will get hurt.
Thats actually not the case, If the server does not get enough tips the restaurant pays the extra to make up for it to reach minimum wage, but if they do that then its capped at a certain amount but with tips there's no limit for how much they can make
@@AjZ530 ok, in czech republic server gets proper salary, not just minimum wage. Minimum wage in czech republic is around 18.000 czech crowns and average salary of server in Prague is around 35.000 czech crowns. All tips are just extra money for them to get better life, thay don´t depend on tips at all. So demand tips is considered rude....and put tips to the bill automatically is just stealing money....it is serious crime.
of course it is normal to give tips if you are satisfied with servise.....but it is just a gift to server, it is not normal to demand it or just take it by yourself.
Not really, in Czechia, it's actually pretty similar to USA, they get low salaries and live from tips. Ofcourse it's changing, but it's still more like standard.
@@PidalinDude, it's nothing similar to US, czech minimum wage is actually liveable, not to mention the tip is usually just rounding up to next pretty number: "That will be 164." "170." "Thank you."
Hi. I live in the Czech Republic. He explains that you want to have typical Czech food and you will get an imitation. Pork loin is not served with potato dumpling anywhere. The red is cranberries and then whipped cream. It's like your BBC sauce is sweet and served with meat. To us, it's like ordering a hamburger and getting the meat with the bread. google translator
Thank you.. a lunch menu/todays dish, is at least not heard of in USA? At first, in my country its common to take at least an half hour lunchbreak.. and walk togheter with ones colleges to a lunch resturante! I know, Americans are not used to walking becuse there is seldome anything in a walking distance. However, I have visited several European countrys.. its comon sens in all countries I have visited that there is a differens betwen todays dish/lunch and a la carte menu! Becuse its todays big bulk sale, one or two dishes less refinment, smaler portions and less condiments! Its more like how people eat at home! And then one have tourist traps.. its not always bad.. and let me explaine them in a good way, they are in best case adapted to tourists expectations of the local culinaritys/food/traditions/condiments/whatever! Soo only visited a handfull european countries, as a tourist or on bussiness trips.. lunch/todays meal is served at lunchtime.. often 11-14 a clock.. "sorry for military time".. befor that its breakfast.. if they even is open and later its dinner/alacarte! Are there scams.. probably.. like the tiping, scamers gonna recon one is "american" and put a tip on your bill, those are scamers! Becuse in every country in Europe I have visited (only a handfull) both the VAT and there staffs sallary is included on the menues prices! Its more comon at resturants and for taxi drivers.. "keep the change"!
its allways the same if ur in your country but another state for example or we visit another state in our country (germany) and u not sure about things ....ASK. its that simple.
its quite a simple concept - daily menu is cooked in bulk - dozens and dozens of servings prepared beforehand which significantly lowers the cost to make them but its made specific for that day with very few options on that days menu to ensure the food is sold out by the end of the day the normal menu is cooked on order which is substantially more time/work intensive to prepare that one single specific serving and thus it has to cost more
It was said in the video, if someone had actually read the menu, they would have noticed right away that it was a different menu, they could have asked and also, they had their phone with them and could have translated and read it. He would have immediately realised that it was not a scam, I think everyone should check how the situation really is before condemning someone publicly!
Svíčková is absolutely delicious by my opinion and the whipped cream and cranberries yeah i like it but lot of czechs eat without it. If my granny saw me taking potato dumpling in Svíčková i will probably get headshot with kitchen rolling pin :D
Amen for that bro.. .:DDDD u made my day :DDD
Svíčková - its not a dessert, more of a lunch or dinner meal. But I understand the confusion- it was like a treat for me as a kid😂
Its a vegeteble sauce with spices, beef meat and bread dumplings.
I understand the confusion with the wiped cream, its usualy sereved with svíčková along side lemon slice and cowberry jam, giving it little bit sweeter taste.(In my opinion)
Nice video, and hello from Czechia/Czech Republic! 👋
Thank you lol
The whipped cream is not a sweet whipped cream but natural cream whipped stiff...and the dish is no dessert.
"Svickova" is a sirloin roast with gravy.
My grandmother made it like this and the recipe was from her Czech but at her lifetime = "Bohemian" mother, my Great-Grandmother. ..and that´s how I cook it from time to time.
The tenderloin was salted + peppered and wrappred in bacon, and then seared on all sides in a roasting pan with lard. Then she added diced carrots, diced celery roots and diced onions just short term and then dashed it with beef broth + added a laurel leaf + some few peppercorn + thyme + some juniper berries and put that roasting pan with a lid on it in the oven for an hour at 180 degree/356 Fahrenheit. While every 10 -12 minutes or so she flipped the meat and dashed it again with the broth from the roasting pan to prevent that the meat is drying out..
After that hour she took out the meat and with the rest of what´s left in the roasting pan she made the gravy by adding a bit starch and boild it up. Then she took it from the stove taste it for if more salt or pepper was needed + stired in a table spoon taragon mustard, then she blended the gravy so that the boiled veggies in the gravy got creamy also binding the gravy + and finally added and stired in a bit of cream (she didn´t serve the cream extra in whipped form = that´s a pure restaurant thing to do because in the restaurant the gravy is kept warm for hours which can´t be done when it´s with cream because the cream would then flocculate after some time which is then not a nice look).
Served with bread dumplings + lingon berries.
svíčková is a lunch/dinner meal. it's basically a cream sauce made with root veggies (carrots, celeriac, parsley root, an apple and a few spices) served with a slice of beef tenderloin and bread dumplings. it's often garnished with some whipped cream, a slice of lemon and a bit of cranberry jelly that you can mix in to get a more creamy, tangy taste. it gets its name from the Czech word for beef tenderloin (svíčková in cz) which is the meat that is traditionally used for this meal.
the reason why people are upset about the wrong type of dumplings in the picture is because for sauces you should use bread dumplings. the reason why you should use them is because bread dumplings are really soft and porous and they soak up the sauce well. the potato dough dumplings on the other hand are really dense and have their own flavour which isn't great because the sauce sits on them and clashes with it. basically there's a bunch of dumpling types and each is good for a different thing kinda like with pasta and using the wrong type of dumpling also makes it seem like the restaurant is cheaping out on you.
btw dumplings can absolutely be a dessert/sweet food. there are a lot of recipes for dumplings with sweet fillings like blueberries, plums, apricots or strawberries. those are usually made from a yeast dough and are garnished with crumbled farmer's cheese, sugar and melted butter. it's a very summery dish
thanks for reacting, much love from czechia
An apple in svíčková? Are you sure? 🤔
@@Forseti2 some people put it there because it helps with the sauce's texture. I know my gran did it that way, but you're right in that it's optional
I have never seen anyone serving the "little dumplings" with that sauce :D It's something that just doesn't happen so it really suprised me. I hope you'll get the chance to sometime try that dish tho because it's delicious :D it's one of our national foods and I think you would like it
about tipping.....in usa tips are main part of servers salary. thay are paid badly. In czech republic thay get proper salary and tips are just extra money. You will give them extra money if you are satisfied.....why give someone some gifts if you are not satisfied. We use to just round price to next bigger number. If someone takes money from czech person like this...he probably will get hurt.
Thats actually not the case, If the server does not get enough tips the restaurant pays the extra to make up for it to reach minimum wage, but if they do that then its capped at a certain amount but with tips there's no limit for how much they can make
@@AjZ530 ok, in czech republic server gets proper salary, not just minimum wage. Minimum wage in czech republic is around 18.000 czech crowns and average salary of server in Prague is around 35.000 czech crowns. All tips are just extra money for them to get better life, thay don´t depend on tips at all. So demand tips is considered rude....and put tips to the bill automatically is just stealing money....it is serious crime.
of course it is normal to give tips if you are satisfied with servise.....but it is just a gift to server, it is not normal to demand it or just take it by yourself.
Not really, in Czechia, it's actually pretty similar to USA, they get low salaries and live from tips. Ofcourse it's changing, but it's still more like standard.
@@PidalinDude, it's nothing similar to US, czech minimum wage is actually liveable, not to mention the tip is usually just rounding up to next pretty number:
"That will be 164."
"170."
"Thank you."
Hi. I live in the Czech Republic. He explains that you want to have typical Czech food and you will get an imitation. Pork loin is not served with potato dumpling anywhere. The red is cranberries and then whipped cream. It's like your BBC sauce is sweet and served with meat. To us, it's like ordering a hamburger and getting the meat with the bread. google translator
You can eat so deliciously and cheaply in Prague! 🥰
Maybe one day we will be able to try it.
Thank you.. a lunch menu/todays dish, is at least not heard of in USA?
At first, in my country its common to take at least an half hour lunchbreak.. and walk togheter with ones colleges to a lunch resturante!
I know, Americans are not used to walking becuse there is seldome anything in a walking distance.
However, I have visited several European countrys.. its comon sens in all countries I have visited that there is a differens betwen todays dish/lunch and a la carte menu!
Becuse its todays big bulk sale, one or two dishes less refinment, smaler portions and less condiments! Its more like how people eat at home!
And then one have tourist traps.. its not always bad.. and let me explaine them in a good way, they are in best case adapted to tourists expectations of the local culinaritys/food/traditions/condiments/whatever!
Soo only visited a handfull european countries, as a tourist or on bussiness trips.. lunch/todays meal is served at lunchtime.. often 11-14 a clock.. "sorry for military time".. befor that its breakfast.. if they even is open and later its dinner/alacarte!
Are there scams.. probably.. like the tiping, scamers gonna recon one is "american" and put a tip on your bill, those are scamers!
Becuse in every country in Europe I have visited (only a handfull) both the VAT and there staffs sallary is included on the menues prices! Its more comon at resturants and for taxi drivers.. "keep the change"!
its allways the same if ur in your country but another state for example or we visit another state in our country (germany) and u not sure about things ....ASK. its that simple.
pls react to balkan games were diffrent by Living Ironacally in europe
I would have thought it's a scam too though, why would anyone know there are two different menus in a restaurant?
it's a normal thing here, daily menus are everywhere
also you can see the daily menu is one paper while the normal menu is a full book
its quite a simple concept - daily menu is cooked in bulk - dozens and dozens of servings prepared beforehand which significantly lowers the cost to make them but its made specific for that day with very few options on that days menu to ensure the food is sold out by the end of the day
the normal menu is cooked on order which is substantially more time/work intensive to prepare that one single specific serving and thus it has to cost more
@@Asghaad Ah I see, thank you! That makes sense, but it can be confusing.
It was said in the video, if someone had actually read the menu, they would have noticed right away that it was a different menu, they could have asked and also, they had their phone with them and could have translated and read it. He would have immediately realised that it was not a scam, I think everyone should check how the situation really is before condemning someone publicly!