Here’s another Hungarian comfort food. I buy lamb chunks and trim off the fat, or get a lamb shoulder and cut it into small pieces. You can substitute something else, although you don’t need to use the crock pot with more tender cuts of meat.
Serve the goulash over dumplings if you have time to make them, or wide egg noodles if you don’t. I put the goulash over fusilli pasta today because I was pressed for time and that’s what I had. You could take a shortcut and brown the meat and vegetables at the same time, but I like it better done in two parts. Also, I’ve made it successfully with and without the white wine.
Somewhat lacking in the photo department today because my camera is going wonky, but there isn’t much to document in a slow cooker recipe!
Hungarian Lamb Goulash in Slow Cooker
1-2 lbs meat trimmed into bite-size chunks
2 T flour
2 T avocado or hemp oil, divided
1 chopped Vidalia onion
1 chopped bell pepper
2 crushed garlic cloves
2 T paprika, divided
1 t thyme
1/4 C flour
2 C organic broth
1/2 C white wine (optional)
1 lg can crushed tomatoes, or 2 pints of your canned tomatoes
1 C sour cream
Dust the meat chunks with flour. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan over medium heat and add the meat. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of paprika over the meat then brown on all sides. Afterward put the meat in the crock pot.
Add another tablespoon of oil to the pan and add the onion, pepper, and garlic. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of paprika and the thyme over the vegetables and sauté for 5 minutes. Stir the flour into the vegetables. Add the broth (wine if you want); stir and cook one minute. Add the vegetable mixture and tomatoes to the crock pot with the meat. Stir and set the crock pot on low for 8 hours.
Afterward, start boiling the water for the noodles or dumplings. Put the sour cream in a bowl and add a couple tablespoons of the juice out of the crock pot and stir. Repeat, slowly stirring juice into the sour cream until it is warm, then pour the sour cream mixture into the crock pot and mix. Heat the pot on high for 10 minutes while you make the noodles. Put some cooked noodles in serving bowls and ladle the goulash on top.
