Pörkölt

Botch

Pörkölt is a Hungarian beef and onion stew; saw a thumbnail on EweTube and it looked pretty tasty.  Reading thru the recipe I thought, "Hey, this is just goulash," and I did some digging.  That Shining Beacon of Wisdom, Siri, tells me Pörkölt is a stew concentrating on the meat, while Goulash is more of a soup.  But the Hungarian restaurant I liked in Dayton OH the goulash was definitely a stew, and a few EweTubers claim the opposite, also.  Guess it's just like american chili, is it a soup or a stew?  Depends on who's making it!  (it also occurred to me, american chili at it's most basic is beef, grease, salt and chile peppers; pörkölt/goulash is the same (paprika (a full 1/4 cup in this recipe) is a ground chile).  
 

 
Wanted to partially cook the beef chuck on the Egg, get some smoke on it, but had some thunderstorms roll thru so I used smoked paprika.  Was supposed to be served on mashed potatoes but, because the recipe didn't call for draining either the bacon grease nor the beef grease, I made rice to soak it up.  This one's a keeper.  TFL.  

INGREDIENTS:

4 slices thick-cut bacon 

2 cloves garlic , minced

1 large tomato

1 large yellow onion, minced

1 green bell pepper, chopped

1/2 tsp caraway seeds

1 bay leaf

1 1/2 pounds (700 g) stewing beef , cut into 1/2 inch pieces

1 1/2 tsp Salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

4 tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika

INGREDIENTS:

2 lb (1 kg) potatoes

1 tbsp salt

3 tbsp (50 g) unsalted butter 

1/2 cup (120 ml) warm whole milk  

1/2 tsp salt

Garnish with extra butter 

• Cut up and cook the stew ingredients, simmer 2~3 hours
• Make mashed potatoes, serve 

JohnInCarolina

I'd hit it.

cmac610

DAYUM that looks great!

dbCooper

That looks and sounds really good!

Foghorn

Yep.  All night long.

GrateEggspectations

My kind of meal. 

…Also, is a hot dog a sandwich?

YukonRon

GrateEggspectations said:

My kind of meal. 

…Also, is a hot dog a sandwich?

Only if you put it on bread. 

YukonRon

Love the recipe, thank you for sharing! Will be making some soon!