Goulash – Hungarian Inspired Beef Cheek Stew
This heartwarming and heavily spiced goulash hits all the right notes! Fill your kitchen with incredible smells with this meal prep friendly Hungarian-style beef stew.
Servings: 5
Ingredients
- 2 lbs beef cheeks
- 2 bell peppers
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 2 small potatoes
- A couple cloves of garlic
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp Better than Bouillon
- 35 g Goulash Cream
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut and wash vegetables. Cube up the beef, and rub with salt and pepper.
- Put a pan on high heat with a bit of vegetable oil. Sear the beef in batches and reserve.
- Add aromatic vegetables and stir, until they pick up a bit of colour and wilt a bit.
- Add tomato paste and stir into the vegetables. Return the beef, along with the goulash cream, and add water to cover.
- Add Better than Bouillon, stir to dissolve, bring stew to a simmer and cover.
- Clean up, do whatever else you want as long as stir the stew every couple of minutes for the next two and a half hours or so.
- Taste the beef. Once beef is almost tender, wash and cut the root vegetables and add them to the stew.
- Taste and adjust for seasoning, Let the stew simmer uncovered for another 30 minutes. Make rice in the meantime.
- Once root vegetables are tender to your liking, assemble and serve.