Czech Republic’s take on goulash just as my grandma makes it! more Czech comfort food that brings back all the nostalgia 🙂
Serves: 4, long cook time for reducing ~2 hours
Ingredients
- 3 large onions, diced
- 500-700 grams of stew beef – e.g. chuck steak, diced
- 2 tablespoons of sweet paprika
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- 3 minced garlic gloves
- 250 grams of pasta or 1 Czech dumpling loaf
- 50 grams of butter and olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of plain flour
- 400ml of beef stock
- 200ml red wine
- caraway seeds
- 2 bay leaves
Directions
- place a generous amount of oil and the butter in a hot large pot
- put onion in the pot, brown the onions
- place beef, paprika and flour into the pot
- once the beef is seared, place stock, wine, tomato paste, caraway seeds and bay leaves into the pot. season as require
- boil on low heat for 1.5-2 hours or until adequately reduced
- place garlic in the last 5 minutes, season again as required. remove bay leaf.
- boil past of your choice or make Czech dumpling during the cook