Super Flavorful Goulash Soup

Hello world an Happy New Year!

This is my first post of 2014 and I've chosen a super tasty recipe to inaugurate the new year! What am I talking about? The gulash soup recipe! This dish is Hungarian, but it is widespread in all over the East Europe. There are two versions of the gulash: gulash soup or gulash meat, which is a stew with the same ingredients, more or less.

Let's see how to cook this gulash soup.

Ingredients

2 onions

1 carrot

500 gr potatoes 

1 pepper

600 gr of stew beef meat

1 garlic clove

3 teaspoons of sweet paprika

1 teaspoon of cumin

Olive oil

1 lt of vegetable stock (do it yourself!)

Salt

Preparation time: 3 hours

7 servings

1) Chop the onions grossly and cook over very low heat with a little bit of olive oil for 15 minutes. Be careful not to burn the onions, nor to become golden.

2) Add the clove og garlic, the teaspoon of cumin, the beef stew and let cook for few minutes.

3) Add the 3 teaspoons of sweet paprika, one spoonful of stock, salt and let cook over very low heat for 90 minutes with the saucepan lid.

4) Now you can add the chopped pepper and carrot, all the stock the and let cook for 45 minutes.

5) Now add the chopped potatoes (big pieces as the beef stew) and cook for 45 minutes.

With this very slow cooking, the meat will become very tender and the vegetables will remain compact.

My family liked this soup very much, hope you too!

P.s. I've taken this recipe from this site, which is very famous in Italy, but I've changed some ingredients and time of cooking.