Goulash

Ingredients

• 800g mutton or beef, cubed
• 5 onions, sliced
• 4 tbsp sweet paprika
• 1 tsp caraway seeds
• 2 capsicum, chopped
• 3 tomatoes
• 3 potatoes, chunks
• 4 garlic cloves
• 3 tbsp oil or lard
• Bread or rice

Method

1. Onions to meat should be roughly one to one by weight. That's the recipe most people get wrong.
2. Cook the onions slowly in oil for 20 minutes until completely soft and golden.
3. Brown the meat hard in a separate pan, then add it in.
4. Take the pot OFF the heat before adding the paprika — paprika burns and turns bitter within seconds on direct heat. Stir it through, then return to low.
5. Caraway, garlic, tomatoes, capsicum and water to just cover. Simmer covered 70 minutes.
6. Potatoes for the last 25 minutes. It should be thick, not soupy. Bread.