Piquant goulash

Hungarian goulash recipe

Ingredients

0,4 kg leg (beef)

0,3 kg mixed soup vegetables (0,1-0,1 kg carrot, parsley root and celeriac)

2 dl sour cream

1 big onion

2 green peppers

1 tomato (it can be frozen letcho too)

3 spoons of oil

1-1 level spoonful of red paprika and salt

2 bay leaves

10 whole peppers

1 clove of garlic

0,005 kg grained caraway

Hungarian goulash recipe – Piquant goulash

BográcsgulyásWash the meat, dry it and chop into 2-3 cm sided cubes. Chop the cleaned vegetables into circles. Chop the washed and pitted green peppers, cut the tomatoes into thin segments. Parch the cleaned and chopped onion on the heated oil, then get it off the fire and add the red paprika. Add two tablespoons of water immediately.

Put it on the fire, add the meat chops, and stir it constantly until the meat gets white. Add 1,5 l water to the meat and boil it until it gets half soft, and add the vegetables. Add the salt and he seasoning, and until the topper boil soft the ingredients. In the last 1-2 minutes, add the tomato and the green pepper, you have to boil them for a few minutes. Smooth the sour cream with some soup, and add into the kettle. Boil it, and get it off the fire.

Interesting facts about the Hungarian goulash

Once it was the shepherds food, as its names stands for (the goulash is the shepherd in other word). The name is from the Árpád-era (from the 10th to the 13th century), the food itself is made later. From the second half of the 18th century, through the villager cuisine became the goulash common food. In the beginning, the goulash in every Hungarian household is eaten and offered, but after a few years, in the reform era (the first half of the 19th century) the goulash was on every restaurant’s menu.

Its popularity, the fame on the table is comes with the development of the national consciousness. From the middle of the 18th century, everything, which is Hungarian, was a tool against the straining of the German language. It could be literature, music, dance, clothing, habits, foods, or drinks. It has become famous, it has been popularized, was the favorite. It happened even with the shepherd food, well known as the goulash…. Detalis

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