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.
✅ You’ll find the exact amount of ingredients below in the recipe card, which you can also print out.
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.
Recipe card
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:
Conversion chart
John Leggatt
Hi Petra,
I just found your website, thanks to Jen's video on Jan. 13. I can't wait to surprise my wife Jitka (from Zlámanec south of Zlin) with a meal from your recipes on your site.
She cooks mainly Japanese style dishes, such as Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki* (a kind of Japanese pizza-omlette, but better), but for the holidays she treats me to Czech treats, such as rumové kuličky. (I was delighted to see that very recipe on your site!)
Thank you for providing the Czech-recipe name with the dishes; your doing so helps me with my Czech-language learning.
But for the pandemic, we would have moved from the US to Moravia or Praha by now. Until this thing (the pandemic) is over, we'll just have to rely on people like Jen and Hanza, and you and your boys, to get through it.
Best wishes to you and Hanza,
Sincerely,
John
PS: Thanks to Hanza for his valuable work on your site.
* see Hiroko's Japanese-food site at:
https://www.hirokoliston.com/okonomiyaki-omelette/
Petra Kupská
Ahoj John,
Thank you for your kind comment, and I'm glad you checked out this poppy seed noodle recipe after watching Jen's video! Jen is a very friendly person and was very nice to me when I tried to speak in my broken English 🙂
I will be very pleased if you and your wife Jitka like the recipes from my blog. I try to write them in English and in US measurement units, it's a big challenge for me. Rumové kuličky (rum balls) are always a good idea to enjoy!
What does Japanese food taste like? I looked at the website you linked to and the okonomiyaki omelette looks very tasty. I believe that if you get into the secrets of Japanese cuisine, you can prepare such dishes very quickly.
Are you planning to move to the Czech Republic? That's great! I think we have a beautiful environment and pretty fair living conditions here. Both Prague and Moravia have their own unique charm, you won't go wrong!
Best wishes to you and your wife from me and my son!
Petra