Mamas Goulash Recipes

MAMA'S GOULASH

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the ground beef. Break up the meat with a wooden spoon and brown until no longer pink. Drain excess fat.
• Add onions, celery, green pepper, and garlic. Cook until the veggies are tender about 3-5 minutes.
• Add beef broth, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes with juice, Worcestershire sauce and seasonings; stir well.
• Stir in macaroni until well combined. Cover with a lid and simmer for 18-20 minutes. Remove from heat. Top with shredded cheese and garnish with fresh chopped parsley.

MOM'S GOULASH

Steps:

• Season beef with salt, pepper, and paprika.
• Brown seasoned beef and onion in oil until all sides are brown. Cover with water and simmer for 3 to 4 hours or until tender. Add water whenever level goes below the ingredients.
• An hour before serving, add potatoes and chili.

MAMA'S GOULASH RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown & crumble meat until no longer pink. Drain off excess fat. Add remaining ingredients except macaroni. Stir and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add macaroni and continue to simmer for an additional 20 minutes or until macaroni is tender. Serve.

MOM'S SIMPLE GOULASH

Steps:

• Fry hamburger, pepper, and onion in large skillet.
• Drain fat if needed (if you're not sure, you can also only cook the macaroni part way so that while simmering the uncooked pasta will soak up excess moisture when added to the mixture).
• Add remaining ingredients and heat well.
• Add macaroni and heat through.

MAMAS TEX-MEX GOULASH

Steps:

• In a large skillet or Dutch oven, brown ground beef and onions. Add salt and pepper. Drain grease from pan.
• Add remaining ingredients except macaroni. Heat to a simmer.
• Meanwhile, cook macaroni according to package directions for al dente. Drain, then and to sauce and heat through. You may need to add extra water to keep from getting too dry.

MAMA'S GOULASH--MY WAY!

Steps:

• Brown ground meat with onion and garlic. Drain excess grease.
• Put all the ingredients except the meat and macaroni into the slow cooker and then stir the meat in (so it doesn't settle on the bottom). Cook on high for at least three hours (or on low for 6 to 8 hours) to allow the flavors to blend.
• A couple of hours before you want to eat stir in the dry macaroni. You CAN put it in at the beginning, but it will grow and grow, especially if you let it cook all day, so if that's your plan, start with really tiny pasta, like tiny elbow mac or stars. I sometimes just cook the pasta in a pan of water and stir it into the goulash 15 or 20 minutes before I serve it. That way, it's done perfectly--isn't mushy or "crunchy." Pasta can be very tricky in a slow-cooker.
• At this point, the goulash should be juicy--almost a soup, so if it starts to get too thick, add some hot water or hot tomato juice.
• None of these amounts or ingredients are critical. Use what you have or what your kids like. Use pinto beans if they don't like kidney beans or leave out the garlic. Leave out the cayenne and turmeric if your family doesn't like the little bit of "heat" they add.
• MY MOTHER'S METHOD (great for throwing together when you get home from work) was to cook the macaroni al dente, brown the meat, then put it all in a kettle on the stove and let it simmer for a couple of hours until dinnertime. The taste isn't quite as mellow, but it's still awfully good, and doesn't require as much advance planning! :D

MOM SYKES' HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the stew meat, caraway seeds, onion and paprika. Cook and stir until the meat is browned, and the onions are translucent. Add the garlic and lemon zest, and cook for about a minute, then stir in the tomato paste and beef consomme, adding water if necessary to cover the meat. Cover, and simmer over medium-low heat for 1 1/2 hours.
• Just before the meat is done cooking, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add egg noodles, and cook until tender, about 8 minutes. Drain and serve the goulash spooned over the egg noodles.

MAMA'S BEST GOULASH

Steps:

• brown meat with onion in pot or skillet at medium heat
• Add to large skillet or pot-- all seasonings.
• next step is to add all tomato products and water.
• add peas and corn
• add water and macaroni. Cook about 15 minutes.
• Before goulash has cooked for an hour you finish it off with sprinkled cheeses and breadcrumbs on top. The bread crumbs should brown and cheeses have melted.
• You can finish off in oven to brown at 350 for 10 min.