Hungarian Beef Goulash Authentic Hungarian Goulash Food

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GOULASH (GULYáS)

Steps:

• Melt the pork lard or butter/oil in a Dutch oven or other heavy soup pot over medium high heat and cook the onions until beginning to brown, about 7-10 minutes. Add the beef and cook until the beef is just starting to brown, 7-10 minutes. Add the bell peppers, tomatoes, and garlic and cook for another 6-8 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the paprika, salt, pepper and caraway (if using) (note: paprika becomes bitter if at all scorched). Add the beef broth, bay leaf, return to the stove and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. Add the carrots and potatoes. Return to a boil, reduce the heat to medium, cover, and simmer for another 30-40 minutes or until the beef is nice and tender. Add salt to taste. Remove the bay leaf.

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Cut meat into 1-inch cubes then salt.
• Chop onions and brown in oil.
• Add beef and paprika, simmer for 1 hour.
• Add water, potatoes, bay leaf, and pepper.
• Cover and simmer for 40 minutes.
• Separately mix Bisquick and milk.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto boiling stew and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
• Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
• Serve over cooked, wide egg noodles, top with a dollop of sour cream.

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium high heat. Saute onions until soft, then add beef and brown. Stir in caraway seed, marjoram, garlic and paprika. Pour water over all, lower heat to low and simmer for 2 1/2 hours.
• Add potatoes and cook until tender, another 45 minutes to 1 hour. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve.

HUNGARIAN GOULASH I

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook onions in oil until soft, stirring frequently. Remove onions and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, combine paprika, 2 teaspoons salt and pepper. Coat beef cubes in spice mixture, and cook in onion pot until brown on all sides. Return the onions to the pot, and pour in tomato paste, water, garlic and the remaining 1 teaspoon salt. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until meat is tender.

CROCK POT HUNGARIAN BEEF GOULASH

Steps:

• Place onions and carrots in crock pot.
• Combine next four ingredients; toss beef with this mixture and add to crock pot.
• Combine broth, wine, tomato paste, paprika and garlic; pour over beef.
• Cover crock pot and cook 7-8 hours on low.
• When stew is ready cook noodles and transfer to platter.
• Stir sour cream into stew.
• Top noodles with stew.

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Saute the onions in a dutch oven with 2 T olive oil over medium-low heat until they are golden and carmelized, about 45 minutes.
• Put the onions in a bowl and add 1/2 cup of water to the pot, scrape up all the brown bits and then pour it into the bowl of onions.
• In a plastic bag shake the flour, thyme, marjoram and beef until coated.
• Brown beef in the dutch oven with 1 T olive oil and save the extra flour mixture.
• Add the onions, 2 cups of water, wine, bay leaf and paprika.
• Cover, simmer and stir occasionally for 3 hours or until tender.
• Put 2 cups of sauce in a saucepan, pour a little warm water into the reserved flour mixture until it is the consistency of cream, add it to the saucepan and cook, stirring, until thickened.
• Pour contents of saucepan into dutch oven and cook another 5 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper and serve over noodles.
• If using sour cream add it just before serving.

TRADITIONAL HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Melt shortening in large skillet.
• Add beef, onion and garlic; cook and stir until meat is brown and onion is tender.
• Stir in catsup, Worcestershire, sugar, salt, paprika, mustard, cayenne and 1 1/2 cups water.
• Cover; simmer 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
• Blend flour and 1/4 cup water; stir gradually into meat mixture.
• Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
• Boil and stir 1 minute.
• Serve over noodles.
• To freeze: Assemble as directed. Cover and freeze.
• To serve: Thaw in the fridge. Re-heat, covered at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

HUNGARIAN BEEF GOULASH AND SPAETZLE

Steps:

• GOULASH:.
• In a large heavy pot over medium heat add the bacon and fry for about 5 minutes until crisp and remove to paper towel and reserve.
• Sauté the onions and sugar until caramelized.
• Add the garlic and caraway seed.
• Cook for one minute.
• Add the sweet paprika, thyme(if using), marjoram(if using), and bay leaf.
• Sauté another minute, until fragrant.
• Add the tomatoes, red peppers, and 3 cups of broth.
• Bring to a boil and then simmer 10 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf.
• In a Dutch oven, add the oil and sauté the beef and brown evenly on all sides, turning with tongs; season generously with salt and pepper.
• While beef is searing, sprinkle the flour evenly in the pot and continue to stir to dissolve any clumps.
• Deglaze with vinegar and the remaining broth.
• Pour the contents of the other pan into Dutch oven and bring to a boil, then lower to simmer and cook about 1-1/2 hours until very tender, stirring occasionally.
• Taste and adjust the seasoning.
• Remove from heat and stir the sour cream into the goulash just before serving.
• Garnish with chopped parsley and broken pieces of crispy bacon.
• Serve with freshly made spaetzle.
• SPAETZLE:.
• In a small bowl, beat together the egg yolks, egg and milk.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, nutmeg, salt, and pepper.
• Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and mix with hand until well blended.
• Do not overmix at this stage.
• Cover the bowl and refrigerate.
• Allow the batter to rest for at least 1 hours.
• Bring salted water to a boil.
• Place the batter on the end of a cutting board and cut small slices of batter into the water.
• Cook for 4-5 minutes, until done.
• Transfer cooked spaetzle to a bowl, with a strainer.
• OR (edited 02/26/06)Place a perforated hotel pan on on top of the pot. Place the batter on the pan and force it through the holes to form spaetzles. Cook 4-5 minutes. Transfer the spaetzle to a different bowl with a strainer.
• Over high heat, place a large sauté pan until it gets very hot.
• Add butter and the boiled spaetzle.
• Sauté until golden.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Serve with the goulash all in one large platter(the spaetzle all round and the goulash in the middle) sprinkle with a generous amount of parsley, over the goulash as well as the spaetzle.
• Serve with warm loaf of bread so as to sop up all that yummy gravy.

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN GOULASH (GULYASLEVES)

Steps:

• 1. Brown onions in shortening. Reduce heat to low. Add beef, salt, pepper, and paprika. Cover and cook for 1 hour.
• 2. Add hot water, diced potatoes and bay leaves. Cover and simmer until potatoes are done and meat is tender.
• 3. Prepare egg dumpling batter: 1 slightly beaten egg 1/8 tsp. salt 1/4 c. + 2 Tblsp. flour Add salt to egg. Stir in flour. Let stand for 1/2 hour.
• 4. Drop dumpling mixture by teaspoonfuls onto top of goulash. Cover and simmer 5 minutes after dumplings rise to surface.
• 5. Serve with sour cream.

OLD WORLD HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Cook beef in butter, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned.
• Do not drain.
• Place beef and sliced onion in a slow cooker.
• Mix partially cooked elbo macarroni, beef broth, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, season salt, liquid smoke, salt, and pepper; stir into beef mixture.
• Cover and cook on low heat 4-5 hours (I always use the longer cook time).
• Mix water and flour; gradually stir into beef mixture.
• Stir in green pepper.
• Cover and cook on high heat 30 minutes. Serve with a dolop of sourcream atop.