How To Cook Hearty And Warming Goulash: 8 Simple Recipes

In the cold season, you want to warm the house and yourself with a spicy and hearty dish. Goulash is what you need!

In the cold season, you want to warm the house and yourself with a spicy and hearty dish. Goulash is what you need! It is slowly cooked on the stove, spreading warmth and tomato-paprika aroma throughout the apartment, the finished meat falls apart and melts in your mouth, and it is so nice to dip bread in thick gravy.

Goulash is a thick Hungarian soup, for which pieces of beef or veal are stewed with smoked bacon, onions, ground bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes. Hungarian shepherds used to cook goulash on a fire: in a cauldron they fried meat with onions in lard until crusty, then poured in water, added potatoes, tomatoes, paprika. 

In our everyday life, goulash is usually called boneless meat stew, for which the meat is first fried, then stewed in tomato sauce. Moreover, we are used to cooking goulash from any meat and not necessarily served with potatoes; pasta, buckwheat, mashed potatoes - a great addition. Usually goulash is stewed for no more than two hours.

We present simple step-by-step recipes for cooking goulash - with beef, pork, chicken, minced meat, eggplant, pasta, as well as a recipe for Greek stew - stifado. Click on the link to view the detailed recipe.

 

Hungarian goulash

In this version of goulash, pieces of beef are fried until brown and then stewed in dark beer. The dish is spicy and the meat comes out incredibly tender.  

 

Goulash with eggplant

When preparing this goulash variant, neither tomato paste nor tomatoes are used. Meat, eggplant and onions are the basis of the dish, and as a side dish you can choose rice, for example. 

 

Pork leg goulash

Pork with onions, spices and grated tomatoes is incredibly fragrant and soft, and this goulash is cooked in just an hour. The gravy is thick and rich. Perfect served with mashed potatoes!

 

Minced meat goulash with pasta

Goulash in 20 minutes? Yes! A quick version of minced meat goulash with pasta is an economical, simple and satisfying dish. It is better to choose pasta from durum wheat so that they keep their shape and do not boil in tomato sauce. Any stuffing will do.

 

Pork goulash with gravy

Even a novice hostess can cook such goulash. The dish is recommended to be prepared from a pork neck, do not spare garlic, tomatoes, allspice. If you manage to find ground baked paprika (baked bell pepper), feel free to add it to any goulash! This is a great note in a bouquet of goulash flavors!

 

Pork goulash with potatoes

An unusual ingredient in this version of goulash is an apple! It will bring a new touch of taste to the usual dish. To prepare goulash according to this recipe, fry the chopped pork and onion in pieces, fry the apples separately and boil the potatoes. Stew well, combine all the ingredients and serve with herbs.

 

Chicken goulash with gravy

For lunch or dinner, make chicken goulash with gravy and serve with boiled rice. The chicken must be cut and fried in oil in a saucepan or deep frying pan. Add onions, carrots, tomato juice or canned tomatoes pureed in a blender. Season to taste and simmer until soft. Simple, fast and delicious!

 

Stifado beef

It is no coincidence that we added stifado to the list of goulash recipes. This is meat, traditionally rabbit meat, stewed with a lot of onions - onions or shallots, and tomatoes. Stifado according to our recipe is prepared from beef with quince. We cook the dish for about four hours in one pan: gradually introduce one ingredient at a time, fry, then simmer. If you are not in a hurry, be sure to cook stifado and feast on it. Enjoy!