Wine goulash friday :)

Sometimes I do a wine goulash with variety of content. Whatever vegetables are there they end up in the pan and make goulash for me.

This time it was: 2 big carrots sliced into small tiny pieces, zukinie sliced into 0,5 cm pieces - 3 of them, 4 onions and 3 pieces of garlic. Spices included milled pepper, salt, sweet paprika powder and chilli paprika powder.

You can have it either with indian bread baked in tandoori oven ( matches very nice) or like me with small italian (real italian) macaroni balls.

 

First thing you do is glassing tiny chopped onions and garlic on olive oil or sunflower one ( will do as well). Later you put it aside and wait till it coold down. 

 

Subsequently you have your carrots done like this above. 

 

This is what you do with zukinie. 

Now the fun part.. After the onions cool down it comes time for paprika. You add up paprika as much as all the pieces are nicely covered with it- or even more. Paprika powder can not be burnt!!! Add spoon of chilli paprika powder too. Ideally it should be dark red, but somehow in Poland it ends up orange. Put it aside into a bigger pot where you will be doing the actual goulash. Start frying chopped meat ( either beef or pork or even poultry if you like). 

 Use bouplion dice or cook chicken leg long enough before you prepare everything. Ideally 1- 2 soup base dice are enough for 800 ml of water ( circa). Boulion should not be too salty! Once it's boiled add the prefried meet to your onions in the other pot and add up boulion as high as it almost covers meat.

 Once you see meat is soft add up carrots. Keep watching if you still feel strong paprika scent and taste ( don't mean too spicy here, strong is that you can differentiate you actually smell and taste paprika. If not, add some.

Some minutes after carrots when they are semi soft it's time for your zukinie. It is done quickly so watch it that it is just done but is not tearing into pieces. Check the taste, add some spices if you feel like it. 

Final touch is wine. If it happens that after some students party of a friend cheap red wine is a leftover, keep the bottle. Such wine is perfect for cooking. I usually add up half of the tea glass inside a pot with goulash and minute after turn off the heat. If your macaroni, potatoes, rice or indian bread is already there, start eating :) Enjoy :) 

This is my ready dish. With it a half glass of the red wine from small family winery in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and my day is done. I have not done a single important or productive things today. I have a headache since very morning and decided to take a rest and enjoy cooking. Bon apetite! Let me know how was it.