You asked me for the goulash recipe. There are many variants of the meal cooked in our country. You can find Segedin
(Segedínsky guláš - Pork in a delicate sauce containing sauerkraut and
a little half-and-half), Jeleni (venison), Kanci (wild boar), Veprovy (pork),
Chaluparsky (cottage), Fazolovy (beans), Hospodský (innkeeper), Kruti (turkey),
Jarni (spring) and so on. But the best
one is Hovezi (beef) goulash.
Recipe
of beef goulash:
500g (abt. 1 lb.) beef meat (some prefer shin – aka.
shank from the lower front leg), flour (fine, smooth), cumin, marjoram,
salt, milled pepper, ground sweet pepper (cayenne pepper- not so hot – probably
should be paprika), 100g (1 medium) onion, 3 cloves of garlic, fat
Fry the finely chopped onion on hot fat in a pot. It
should be goldish; not dark brown nor black. Add chopped meat, pieces should be
the same size, let’s say 2x2x2cm (3/4 in. cubes), and fry to pink. Add all
spices - quantity depends on, what taste you prefer. Add water and stew it
slowly. If there is a need, add water. It takes quite a long time until the
meat is soft (depends on meat). To have it thicker add several spoons of flower
and boil another 10 minutes. At the end,
flavor with garlic. Serve with dumplings, rice, pasta or bread. It sounds easy
but you have to try it several times to know how much, how long, what kind of
beef, etc.
Cream sauce (gravy) with dumplings and beef is eaten very
often in Czech. It is a traditional food and meal is usually very tasty and
filling. There are many kinds of this sauce too. Thick cream is always basic.
Mainly women are careful of a meal like this. They put on weight easy and
quickly if they eat too much of it. Men too, but they don’t care too much.
How are plum dumplings cooked? There is dough prepared
from boiled potatoes and flour. Whole plums are wrapped in the dough. The dumplings
are boiled in hot water about ten minutes. They must not be over boiled. On a
plate they are powdered by grated cottage cheese (it is called hard, I don’t
know if you have it in the USA), with powdered sugar and they are buttered at
the end. It is really tasty.
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