That looks amazing. My mom made something similar when I was a kid.
Back when I was a kid this was a cheap meal. My family was not flush with money so this was a regular meal. I came to love it and have passed that love on to my son. I expect that he will pass it on to his son when the time comes. It's funny that the simplest of meals can become such a comfort food.
Curious. In Australia we would use spaghetti and call it spaghetti bolognaise (our national dish). I thought goulash was a type of stew?
I used to add peas, corn and chopped carrot to this to get my kids to eat their veggies.
Shred some Colby + Parmesan over the top.
I still make it this way even though they're adults now, it's just the family bolognese. 🤷.
spaghetti bolognese with peas is super underrated IMO
You’re not wrong, traditional Hungarian goulash is indeed a slow simmered beef stew, but it has (imo) a pretty interesting story!
Throughout the Middle Ages, goulash migrated around, integrating itself into the flavors and tastes of lots of other old world cultures, like Albania and even Ethiopia, who still have their own version of goulash too which also resembles a type of stew.
In the mid-too-late-19th century many Hungarians migrated to The United States, so in keeping tradition, goulash integrated itself into the tastes and flavors of American culture, and thus what we see above was born. Even different regions within the states have their own version. In the Midwest (states like Minnesota, the Dakotas, Michigan) it can resemble more of a casserole, whereas the southern states, it could include chicken and rice.
What connects them all is really that it’s a comfort food, made in a single pot, and best eaten with family!
Gulyás is not a stew! You are thinking of pörkölt, that's what most other nations call "goulash". Gulyás is a soup.
That's really interesting! I once ate yak goulash in Bhutan - it was delicious.
thanks for including the recipe.
my dad has made a version of this since before i was born (45 years). he prefers the shell macaroni, but any will do. and rather than ketchup, his secret ingredient is a coupla cans of mushroom soup.
calls it "cowboy surprise" (also goulash), and i agree that it hits the comfort button.
TIL that Goulash is Beefaroni.
Only in the midwest. If you call this Goulash to a Hungarian person their heads would explode.
it has nothing common with goulash. just call it american.
Admittedly, I've never made it myself but I've always heard that paprika was a staple in goulash? Either way, looks tasty!
OP's recipe is an American goulash. What you're thinking of is likely a Czech goulash.
I wasn't aware of the US version - they sound quite different but both nice in their own way!
The American version has always been a childhood favorite. But the first time I had the Czech version, I was completely blown away by how delicious it was.
When I was growing up, my Mom made this a lot, and she called it 'chop suey'. That's also what my grandmother called it before her.
Same here, American chop suey. I think ours had celery.
My mom had a similar recipe that I still make to this day. She called it poor man's bolognese (it sounds better in Estonian) . Basically it was just ground beef, tomatoes, macaroni and seasoning. You added ketchup after cooking though. It's a really quick and simple meal when you have like half the ingredients for bolognese or the cheese is 7 euros like it is now.
Bro, that's a tasty meal right there!
We love it. It really is better fried in butter in a pan the next day. I like it just a little crispy around the edges.
🥺 me wants
Make some!
A staple in my house growing up, we literally called it "shit" and it included kidney beans.
Thats just beef macaroni my dude. Calling it goulash without paprika is probably a gonna be a food crime to many.
My family calls is macaroni. An American coworker pointed out that the call out goulash so I started calling it that as a joke.
My family has always called it macaroni. A coworker from Michigan told me that they call it goulash so I started calling it goulash as a joke. I've updated the title of this post (Lemmy is awesome in that regard) a couple of times to incorlorate feedback from the community.
Looks great! Here we skip all the fancy fresh ingredients, just elbow macaroni, ground beef, onions and drown it in ketchup. And we call it "junkie stew".
Yes. This is quick and dirty comfort food. I do all of the prep including filling a pot with water. As soon as I start cooking the onions I turn the water on. I can generally have the sauce ready to dump into the noodles by the time the noodles are done cooking. It's better if you let the sauce simmer for a while but you can slam it together in 15 minutes once you have the prep done.
TIL goulash is essentially Beefaroni. I’d always heard of goulash but never knew what it was. Gonna need to stock up on supplies for a lazy cooking day :)
This is American Goulash which is very different from Hungarian Goulash. American goulash is just macaroni with tomato sauce and hamburger. I love it.
Heresy. Why did you put pasta in it?
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