(Mama's Real) Goulash
By: zeke
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 1:32pm

Ingredients




500 tos 700grams stew beef (cubed ½- ¾)
3 teaspoons approx. paprika
4 medium potatoes
2 medium onions
3 ,4 good size carrots
large can chopped tomotoes
1 tablespoon oil
1 green pepper (capsicum if ya Aussie)
3/4 bay leaves
pepper
water

Preparation

1 Fine chop onions and saute in oil 2 Add paprika (of heat, you don't want to burn paprika!) and stir in well 3 Stir in cubed stew beef 4 A bit of ground pepper 5 Add can tomotoes and simmer for 30 min. 6 Add potatoes (whole or cut in half and/or peeled if you like) 7 Add carrots sliced (good chunky slices) 8 Green pepper (nice chunky pieces) 9 Add bay leaves 10 Add water till potatoes almost covered 11 Bring to boil and simmer for another 20 min. or so 12 Always keep lid on pot

About


This is from my mothers (she was polish but married to a hungarian) receipe book. She taught me to cook by feel rather than exact measurements. It was always = if it looks like this or tastes liker this or has this consistency etc. One hint don't use to much paprika - that's a mistake most people make. If I have a bit of bacon fat around I will also use this to saute the onions. Enjoy on a nice winter day!