Strapačky

Strapačky, known in Hungarian as sztrapacska, is a dumpling dish eaten in Slovakia and Hungary. Its base is halušky, small soft dumplings, which places it close to the better known Slovak dish bryndzové halušky. The difference lies in the topping: in Slovakia the dumplings are served with stewed sauerkraut where bryndza sheep cheese would otherwise go, while in Hungary sztrapacska is traditionally eaten with juhtúró, the local counterpart of bryndza, so that it resembles gnocchi dressed with ewe milk cheese. The dish is celebrated in Vanyarc, a Hungarian village roughly eighty kilometers from Budapest, where ethnic Slovaks from across Hungary gather every September for the Festival of Strapačky and compete for prizes.