Csipetke (“CHEE-PET-KAEH”) is a type of pasta that is cooked into soups, most often vegetable soups such as bean or pea soup, but it is sometimes added to gulyásleves as well.
It is made by mixing flour, egg, water and salt to produce a hard, dry dough, which is then pinched into small pieces and thrown into the boiling soup. The word comes from the verb “csípni,” which means “to pinch.”
