🍲 Goulash

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Goulash (Gulyás in Hungarian, meaning cattle stockmen) is a dish from the Hungarian cuisine. Here is one very simple Goulash stew recipe, being pretty close to the idealised version. Make sure to use sweet paprika and not hot paprika. Hot paprika will make the soup too spicy and of the wrong consistency when used exclusively.

Goulash
Goulash — photograph by gran, licensed CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia.
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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • Olive oil
  • 3 onions, chopped
  • 1.5 lb (750 g) stew beef, cubed
  • 2 bell peppers, chopped
  • 1 tomato, chopped
  • 2 tbsp ground sweet paprika
  • 5 black peppercorns
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 6 cloves garlic
  • Salt to taste
  • 4 potatoes, chopped

Method

  1. Fry half of the onions in a pot with olive oil.
  2. Put a layer of meat over the fried onions, then a layer of raw onions, peppers, tomato, whole garlic cloves, spices, and salt. Add another meat layer; continue until you have used all the ingredients except the potato.
  3. Cover the meat with water. Put on a lid, and simmer on low heat. Add water only if there is not enough while cooking. It requires almost no stirring.
  4. When the meat is cooked and tender, add potatoes. Add additional water to cover it if needed, and cook for further 15 minutes until the potatoes are tender.
Where this came from. Adapted from Goulash in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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