Best Hungarian Goulash With Sauerkraut Recipes

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.

SZEKELYGULYAS (SAUERKRAUT GOULASH)

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a 4- to 6-quart saucepan or casserole over medium heat. Add onion and saute until translucent, about 3 minutes. Remove pan from heat, and add 2 tablespoons water and the sweet paprika and hot paprika. Place pan over low heat, and saute 3 minutes. Add pork, garlic, caraway seeds, dill and 2 more tablespoons water. Cover, and cook until pork is tender, about 1 hour, stirring occasionally and adding a tablespoon or two of water if it seems too dry.
• Add chopped pepper and tomato to pan. Cover, and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Uncover and cook, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add sauerkraut and toss gently to combine. Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for an additional hour.
• Combine sour cream and heavy cream and mix well. Transfer half the mixture to a serving bowl, and refrigerate until needed. Add flour to the remainder, and stir until smooth. Add to pan. Cover and continue to cooking, stirring occasionally, for 15 to 20 minutes. Garnish with a dollop of the reserved sour cream mixture, and pass the remainder separately.

HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Place the onions, carrots and green peppers in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Sprinkle meat with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. In a large skillet, brown meat in oil in batches. Transfer to slow cooker., Add broth to skillet, stirring to loosen browned bits from pan. Combine the flour, paprika, tomato paste, caraway seeds, garlic, sugar and remaining salt and pepper; stir into skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Pour over meat. Cover and cook on low for 7-9 hours or until meat is tender., Cook noodles according to package directions. Stir sour cream into slow cooker. Drain noodles; serve with goulash.

TOP-RATED HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown beef, pork and onions in oil over medium heat; drain. Add the water, paprika, salt and marjoram; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours or until meat is tender. , Just before serving, combine flour and sour cream until smooth; stir into meat mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Serve over noodles.

HUNGARIAN GOULASH WITH SAUERKRAUT

Steps:

• In a dutch oven heat oil and brown the meat on all sides, when browned set aside.
• Add onions to the skillet, saute 5 minutes.
• Pour off excess fat and return meat to the pot.
• Sprinkle in the paprika and Majoram.
• Top with sauerkraut.
• Bake covered for 1 hour 350F degrees oven.
• Add salt.
• When ready to serve stir in the sour cream and caraway seeds.
• Serve over hot buttered noodles.

HUNGARIAN GOULASH WITH SAUERKRAUT

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large Dutch oven over medium high heat. Add onions and saute until golden, about 7 minutes. Remove to a large bowl.
• Brown meat in Dutch oven and three batches, allowing about 10 minutes per batch and removing to bowl as it browns.
• Blend the paprika with the warm water and the salt and pepper.
• Return onion and meats to pot along with any accumulated juices, the paprika mixture, and beef broth, and bring to a boil. Adjust heat and simmer mixture until all meats are tender, about 2 hours. Check pot occasionally and add a little more water if mixture threatens to scorch.
• Mix in sauerkraut, cover and simmer 10 minutes, then smooth in sour cream and heat through 5 minutes. Do not allow to boil or sour cream will curdle. Taste for salt and pepper and add if needed.