In the mood for something sweet? Let’s cook Czech-style noodles with poppy seeds; they’re made in a flash with only a few ingredients. Guaranteed success!
What Is Nudle s mákem
Nudle s mákem is a Czech sweet treat, usually served as a main dish. Cook some wide noodles, sprinkle with a topping consisting of ground poppy seeds and powdered sugar. In the end, pour melted butter over noodles.
Czech kids love this delicacy, and they ask their grandmas to make nudle s mákem again and again.
This is one of the easy Czechoslovakian recipes, in Slovakia known as “rezance s makom”.
Another very popular Czech poppy sweet treat is Škubánky s mákem.
Ingredients
- Wide noodles; if you don’t have them on hand, use any different kind of pasta. In my opinion, twisted pasta variations are fine for “nudle s mákem,” for example, fusilli or farfalle. They are not smooth but a bit crooked, so the ground poppy seeds don’t slide down but get stuck in their folds.
- Poppy seeds; ground. In Czech, I can easily buy ground poppy seeds in a store. In the USA, if you can get whole poppy seeds only, use a particular mill or a clean coffee grinder to grind poppy seeds. Ground poppy seeds are a must for this dish.
- Sugar; powdered sugar works best and creates a lovely and delicious topping (in Czech posypka) with poppy seeds.
- Butter; unsalted, to pour the noodles.
Instructions
Follow these steps and serve your sweet pasta in less than 30 minutes!
STEP 1: Cook the noodles according to the producer’s instructions.
STEP 2: Meantime, mix powdered sugar and ground poppy seeds in a bowl. Let melt butter over lower heat.
STEP 3: Strain the noodles properly. Try to get rid of most of the liquid from the noodles' surface.
STEP 4: Arrange the noodles in a bowl, sprinkle with poppy seed sugar mixture, and pour melted butter over them.
STEP 5: Serve warm as a separate main dish.
Noodles with poppy seeds in Czech style are sweet goodness. In our family, we always add a generous amount of poppy seeds and sugar to noodles, much more than it’s often demonstrated in other recipes.
Cook’s Tips
- Cook the noodles tender to bite only; try not to overcook them.
- After cooking noodles, strain them but not rinse, nudle s mákem are eaten warm.
🍲 Czech poppy seed recipes:
- Kohoutí hřebeny – puff pastry with poppy seed filling
- Makovec – coffee cake with lemon icing
- Poppyseed filling – maková náplň
Or browse the category with Easy Czech recipes for more ideas.
Noodles with Poppy Seeds – Czech Nudle s mákem
Ingredients
- 4 oz (120 g) dry wide noodles
- 4 Tbsp ground poppy seeds
- 6 Tbsp powdered sugar
- butter unsalted (melted)
Instructions
- Cook the noodles according to the producent’s instructions.
- Meantime, mix powdered sugar and ground poppy seeds in a bowl. Let melt butter over lower heat.
- Strain the noodles properly. Try to get rid of most of the liquid from the surface of the noodles.
- Arrange noodles in a bowl, sprinkle with poppy seed sugar mixture and pour over with melted butter.
- Serve warm as a separate main dish.
Notes
- Makes 2 yields.
- Noodles with poppy seeds in Czech style are sweet goodness. In our family, we always add a generous amount of poppy seeds and sugar to noodles, much more than it’s often presented in recipes.
- Cook the noodles tender to bite only; try not to overcook them.
- After cooking noodles, strain them but not rinse, nudle s mákem are eaten warm.
DISCLAIMER: Because I come from Central Europe, my recipes are based on metric units such as grams or milliliters. Check out how I convert metric units to the U.S. system:
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