"Bogrács" goulash soup

Ingredients for 8 people:

• 1.5 kg boned shin beef,
• 2 large onions,
• 6-7 tbsp oil or 80-100 g fat,
• 1 heaped tsp Univer garlic paste,
• half tsp cumin seeds,
• 1.5-2 tbsp good quality paprika,
• salt,
• 2 medium green peppers (sweet, not hot) and tomatoes,
• 1 tsp Univer Red Gold (Piros Arany) spicy or Erős Pista,
• 3 tsp Univer Goulash Paste mild
• 4-5 carrots,
• 2-3 parsley roots,
• 2-2.2 kg potatoes

for the Hungarian pinched noodles:

• 100 g plain flour
• 1 egg

Preparation:

Cut the shank to small about 2 cm cubes as if you were cooking meat stew. Peel the onions and sauté in oil or fat over moderate heat in a cauldron. Throw in the meat and without adding any seasoning fry the meat in itself until turning white stirring or shaking the cauldron by the handle for 10-15 minutes.

Chop up garlic together with the caraways (chop up caraways separately if using garlic paste) and add to the meat together with the red pepper. Stir it for a moment or two, then immediately add about 200 ml water to prevent the paprika from burning. Add salt - begin with 1 heaping tablespoon - and season with the chopped paprika and tomato (If you use Letcho, it should also be chopped up). Add Piros Arany to spice it up, cover and steam meat over moderate heat (lift up cauldron) for about 1.5 hours until it is totally tender. Stir it occasionally and add a little water as required. Now, you have enough time to knead the dumplings.

Clean the vegetables. Slice up the carrot and the root parsley, add it to the meat and steam it while comfortably peeling and cutting the potatoes to about 2.5 cubes. Add it to the meat and pour as much water (approx. 3.5 litres) as the quantity of soup you wish to cook, then bring to a boil. You can also add quarters of 1-2 green paprika or tomatoes, if you happen to have plenty of it. Cover and continue to cook for about 30 minutes adding the noodles after 15 minutes. Finally, taste it, add salt and spices as necessary.

Useful advice from Univer:

You can give your goulash soup more punch with the following Univer products: mild or spicy Goulash Paste, mild Red Gold, Édes Anna, Onion Paste.