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Venison Goulasch
      #103327 - 24/04/08 01:06 AM

Looking for some traditional goulasch recipes for venison (or other meat as well).

Not necessary just "Hungarian" goulasch, ie with paprika, but any recipes from Germany, Czech, Slovakia, Austra, Slovenia etc

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #103808 - 29/04/08 03:28 AM

I have never made goulash, guess I never looked at any recipes. It seems to me the stuff served here is similar to spaghetti: elbow pasta, tomatoes, ground meat, garlic, onions all baked together. I did find this website that has many variations: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/877/0.shtml

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: AspenHill]
      #103828 - 29/04/08 01:44 PM

I grind my own deer meat because i like a coarse grind. I brown it in vegetable oil with chopped onions, a few cloves of fresh garlic (crushed with the flat side of a heavy blade) and green belle peppers. When its browned and the onions are tranlucent i transfer it to a big stainless steel pot. Cast iron doesnt work too well with acidic foods with lots of tomatoe. i add diced tomatoes and some tomatoe sauce. i season to taste with salt,fresh ground black pepper, oregano, basil, paprika, and cayenne pepper. i let that simmer real slow for an hour or so at very low heat. in a stock pot i cook some elbow macaroni with salt and a little olive oil. sometimes i add a little garlic powder to the water. cook till its el dente or so. add to the meat and sauce. then chow down! thats the kentucky version of goooolosh. i have never baked it before. i might try it though.

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #103835 - 29/04/08 05:42 PM

Venison is very fatless meat so be sure to mix it with beef or pork or even better add some bacon. You can mix venison like bear, red deer, roe deer, boar - just make sure you add the meat according to its softness i.e. bear and beef goes in first - 1 hour prior boar or red deer - roe deer is softest so it goes in as last...
Following some major rules when making goulash: goulash is a soup at the end - creamy form is made by onion preparation (fried and sqeezed) - use at least the same quantity of onion as meat - chopped onion must be fried - carefully - if onion is fried perfectly goulash is 95% done, you don't have to add much ingredients. If onion is over fried goulash will have bitter taste, if onion is underfried goulash will taste too sweet. However some essential ingredients with venison goulash here are cumin, juniper berries!!! and red wine (Merlot, Barbera, Cabernet...dry). Wine is added near the completion.

Gosh - makes me wanna eat one right now

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: AspenHill]
      #103878 - 30/04/08 03:49 AM

Quote:

I have never made goulash, guess I never looked at any recipes. It seems to me the stuff served here is similar to spaghetti: elbow pasta, tomatoes, ground meat, garlic, onions all baked together.




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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: 93mouse]
      #103880 - 30/04/08 04:03 AM

Ann, BibMaxx and 93mouse,

Thanks for the comments.

I have found a recipe which I used to make a large pot as first try. It worked quite well. I will post the recipe soom plus maybe a photo.

The recipe used as a base was a Hungarian one with some modifications.


Mouse, yes I did add about 500 gms of bratwurst sausage chopped to about 1.25 kgs of venison. I had some older bits of pieces in the freezer and boned them out and used all of it up.

Good idea to add some wine. I will do this on the second one.

I noted the requirement to have an equal quantity of onions to meat. Did not quite do this, but the amount of onions still worked well. Also noted many recipes advised to fry the onions then add the paprika only after taking off the heat, as supposedly frying the onions with the paprika on the heat creates bitterness. I used 20 gms of hot paprika and 20 gms of sweet paprika and the heat of the goulash at the end was hot but not excessive. Some might like it a bit cooler. Luckily I did not follow one Austrian recipe which advised about 125 gms of hot paprika!

The main ingredients included: venison; bratwurst; onion; potatoes; paprika; celery; capsicum (I used green plus red); tomatoes; parsnip; mushrooms; carrots; garlic; caraway seeds; bayleaf. I also used beef stock instead of water at the beginning.

While a true goulash is a soup I tried to thicken it a bit with some cornflour. Still a soup. I believe a thicker form is called a porkolt.

We are having a rainy week - at last! - with cold nights and it a good food for this weather.

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #103915 - 30/04/08 08:41 PM

Wow, I did not know goulash was really a soup! Interesting!

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: AspenHill]
      #103924 - 30/04/08 09:53 PM

The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Recipe Mark I

Ingredients:
Feeds: lots of persons! - will still have to estimate


  • Olive oil
  • approx 1.2 kg of venison cut into cubes
  • 500 gms of Bratwurst sausages cut into chunks
  • 6 - 7 onions, chopped
  • 6 cloves of garlic, grated
  • 4 carrots, diced
  • 3 parsnip, diced
  • 6 stalks of celery, sliced
  • 4 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 5 capsicum, in this case 3 green, 2 red
  • 6 - 7 potatoes, sliced into chunks
  • 15 - 20 field or button mushrooms, sliced
  • 20 gms Hot paprika
  • 20 gms sweet paprika
  • 4 teaspoons of caraway seeds, I ground these partially
  • 4 bayleaf
  • 1 litre beef stock
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • water
  • 3 desert spoons of cornflour


This recipe has some of my own modifications.

Instructions:

1. Heat up oil in a pot and braise chopped onions until they brown.

2. Remove from heat and sprinkle with the paprika powder while stirring them. Leaving the onions on the heat while adding the paprika may result in bitterness.

3. In a separate fry pan or pot, add more oil and slightly brown the venison cubes, and also the sausage chunks. Many goulash recipes do not brown the meat but add it with the stock direct to the pot at this point. This allows the dish to be cooked in a single pot eg on a fire, but browning will improve the flavour and retain more juices.

You may have to brown them in lots, just add the browned meat to the onions and do another lot.

4. The meat and residual heat in the pot (if browning the meat and onions at the same time) will keep it hot and the meat will give off its juices. Add the grated or sliced garlic, the caraway seed, the bayleaves, some salt and black pepper, and pour the litre of beef stock in. Some extra water or stock may be needed to cover the contents in the pot and then let it simmer. I left it simmer for 50 minutes when I tested the venison and sausages and they were already cooked. A lesser period may be OK. The meat should be about 50% cooked.

5. Add the diced carrots, parsnip, celery stalks, and potatoes. Add more water if needed, I added another 3 cups.

6. After aboout 30 minutes, add the tomatoes and capsicum for another 15 to 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are well cooked.

7. I added 3x desert spoons of cornflour, pre mixed with water to thicken the goulash a bit. This dish was still very soup like.

Like many spicy dishes goulash can be prepared and re-heated the following day and the flavour may be stronger and improved as well.

I'm eating this goulash in soup bowls with a spoon, and with fresh crusty bread and some cheese.

Perfect for a re-heated hunters lunch around a campfire to warm the belly and fire the soul.



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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #103942 - 01/05/08 12:54 AM

i am going to try that! i bet the brats really give it some gusto!

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #104159 - 03/05/08 04:18 PM

The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Mark I

The finished product ...





With bread and cheese, a lovely Winter's lunch.



Luckily I managed to get some photos as both batteries turned out to be flat on the camera.

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: NitroX]
      #104328 - 05/05/08 09:42 PM

Now that looks good!

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Re: Venison Goulasch recipes WANTED [Re: AspenHill]
      #186922 - 30/07/11 11:45 PM

Thought I'd lost this recipe but then thought, maybe I put it on the website!!! Yes I did.

Time to make a big pot of "Mark II" for winter lunches and dinners in 2011.

PS I've got a freezer of meat needing to be used up. Between Goulasch, the hungry dog, and other dishes it needs to be emptied for some space for "new venison".

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #211798 - 01/07/12 02:18 AM

Hungarian Venison Goulash or this case a Venison Porkolt, a thicker version of a goulash.




A Mark II recipe. Red wine, beef stock, mushrooms, onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes, parsnips, potatoes, red, yellow and green capsicum, garlic, black pepper, salt, hot paprika, sweet paprika, bay leaf, caraway seeds, and cornflour.



Cooked in a couple of large South African cast iron potjes, "Best Duty" no.s 3 and 4.



Fallow venison cuts being browned.



The onion and venison browned, all the ingredients are in and cooked over a number of hours.




Cooked over the coals.



The finished product.


The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Recipe Mark I

Ingredients:
Feeds: lots of persons!


Olive oil for browning the venison and onions
approx 3 kg of venison cut into cubes - this meat was cut off various pieces of venison, some already off the bone, some off the bone, shanks etc.
6 - 7 onions, chopped
6 cloves of garlic, grated
4 carrots, diced
3 parsnip, diced
6 stalks of celery, sliced
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
6 capsicum, in this case 2 green, 2 red & 2 yellow
6 - 7 potatoes, sliced into chunks
15 - 20 field or button mushrooms, sliced
50 gms Hot paprika
50 gms sweet paprika
8 teaspoons of caraway seeds, I ground these partially
4 bayleaf
1 litre beef stock
salt
black pepper
Red wine was substituted for water this time
6 or more desert spoons of cornflour - I wanted this goulash to be a thicker porkolt.

This is a much hotter mixture than Mark I and Mark III will back off the hot paprika a little.



This recipe has some of my own modifications.

Instructions:

1. Heat up oil in a pot and braise chopped onions until they brown.

2. Remove from heat and sprinkle with the paprika powder while stirring them. Leaving the onions on the heat while adding the paprika may result in bitterness.

3. In a separate fry pan or pot, add more oil and slightly brown the venison cubes. Many goulash recipes do not brown the meat but add it with the stock direct to the pot at this point. This allows the dish to be cooked in a single pot eg on a fire, but browning will improve the flavour and retain more juices.

You may have to brown them in lots, just add the browned meat to the onions and do another lot.

4. The meat and residual heat in the pot (if browning the meat and onions at the same time) will keep it hot and the meat will give off its juices. Add the grated or sliced garlic, the caraway seed, the bayleaves, some salt and black pepper, and pour the litre of beef stock in. I added red wine instead of water in Mark II. Extra stock may be needed to cover the contents in the pot and then let it simmer. I left it simmer for 50 minutes when I tested the venison and they were already cooked. A lesser period may be OK. The meat should be about 50% cooked.

5. Add the diced carrots, parsnip, celery stalks, and potatoes. Add more stock or wine if needed.

6. After aboout 30 minutes, add the tomatoes and capsicum for another 15 to 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are well cooked.

7. I added 6x desert spoons of cornflour, or more as it thickened to what I was looked for, pre mixed with water to thicken the goulash into a porkolt.

Like many spicy dishes goulash can be prepared and re-heated the following day and the flavour may be stronger and improved as well.

Perfect for a cold winter's day.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #211874 - 02/07/12 07:32 AM

John:
Your Goulash recipe looks delicous, what you call "Capsium" is aparently what we call Bell peppers, thanks for the photo's or I wouldn't have known what that was.
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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: aromakr]
      #211910 - 03/07/12 01:05 AM

Yes capsicum are what American's call "bell peppers" or "sweet peppers".

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #212146 - 06/07/12 01:05 AM

Perfect timing. A lot of Venison and Beef needs to be moved shortly and that looks like a great way to do it.

My German (from Russia) Grandmother used to make Goulash with noodles also. Is that in your dinner?

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: mickey]
      #216829 - 16/09/12 09:42 PM

Hi Mickey

I think noodles isn't traditional but if it works for you why not?

We know goulash is known traditionally as the Hungarian recipe, but also in Eastern and Central Europe it is often known as the hunters stew and probably has all sorts of regional and sub-regional variations.

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      #216864 - 17/09/12 04:21 PM

I like the recipe Sir, I also love those pots but I can´t buy them here and I reckon shipping might be a bit costly ! best

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: Mike_Bailey]
      #216879 - 18/09/12 12:02 AM

The Hungarian Goulash from a local restaurant, wonderful stuff - chunks of beef, potato, carrots, onions - lovely, quite thick - lots of paprika (which should be lightly pan fried/cooked with just a touch of oil, before adding to the mix), oh man, my mouth is watering now - looking good John, looking VERY good. Home made bread broken apart, not cut - yes - lovely.

Interesting use of the word capsicum - here, that's the ingredient in pepper spray for bears, dogs and what the police use on criminals & crowd dispersal.

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      #216894 - 18/09/12 04:38 AM

making me hungry looking at those photos!

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: GroovyMike]
      #231107 - 12/06/13 03:18 PM

FYI:

Gulasch is a German word, (pronounced "goo-lash"), and it is a standard meal in that country and much of Central Europe. But the original recipe is Hungarian, dating from the 9th century, and is often associated with a place called Szeged, which is famous for growing and drying peppers / paprika. The Hungarian word is Gulyas. It's pronounced something like "goo-ill-ya-shh", (said as one flowing word). It was originally a folk's dish, a shepherd's meal, cooked on a heavy iron kettle over an open fire.

You'll need a good quality sweet paprika for this meal. The recipe I have is from 1958, from my Hungarian mother-in-law's recipe book.

Transylvanian Gulyas:

2 lb sauerkraut
2 lb pork
2 onions
Red paprika pepper (1 heaped teaspoon)
2 fresh tomatoes or tomato paste
Salt
Sour cream
2 tablespoons lard, (or vegetable oil)
2 tablespoons chopped bacon.
flour.

Chop onions, put the 2 tablespoons of lard into a pan and when hot, add the onions. Stir until golden brown. Put in a good teaspoon of paprika pepper; stir. Now add the washed and cut up meat, the chopped bacon, the tomatoes or tomato paste, and a cupful of water. Stir, cover and cook for one hour, stirring from time to time. In the meantime cook the sauerkraut in a large pan, with enough water to cover. (note, for those that don't use sauerkraut much, it's normal to rinse sauerkraut first through a sieve, keeping the juices. Just use enough of these blended back to your taste or it will likely be too strong).

When the meat has been cooking for one hour, put the lard into a frying pan and make a roux with the flour, adding to it some liquid from the sauerkraut. Stir once, then mix the roux with the sauerkraut and add the meat too. Cook until the meat is thoroughly soft. Before serving, add sour cream or yoghurt on top.

The same meal can be made with beef and is much the same but with red wine, carrots, a bay leaf, a generous pinch of caraways, garlic clove, (crushed), and some beef stock as well as paprika.

This dish can have potatoes added, but they should be boiled separately. If re-heating leftovers, the potatoes tend to make the sauerkraut pasty. A peeled and sliced apple can (and should!), also be added to the sauerkraut, just as the onions start to colour.

I might have a German venison recipe variant for this dish, but my German hunting friend has my recipe book which he's probably forgotten about! It seems to me that, if you want to cook venison and sauerkraut, you might want to also consider Polish Bigos recipes which is another meal that is often served at communal hunts. It's equally delicious.


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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: Kiwi_bloke]
      #231109 - 12/06/13 04:07 PM

Chefkoch.de (means head-chef), has 109 recipes submitted by German speaking members that are about goulash with game. Not one of those I opened could be called traditional or even close. Most of them didn't even have paprika!

I'm looking at a Bigos recipe in a book, which says it's Poland's national dish, made from venison, chuck steak and pork, with (garlic flavoured pork and beef) kielbasa sausages, madeira, sauerkraut, tomatoes, dill seeds, dried mushrooms, (porcini mushrooms transform this dish into something that smells and tastes heavenly, if you can get them) and quite a few other ingredients.

What I suggest is, have a look at some of the US online recipe sites were Grandma from Poland explained to her new generation how to cook it. Then you'll get the recipe in English and it'll be traditional and authentic. The recipe I have here is true to type. It tastes best if made the day before.


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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: Kiwi_bloke]
      #231125 - 13/06/13 12:15 AM

KiwiBloke

Thanks for the two posts and yes please add the variations to the recipes when you get hold of the recipe book you mention.

When looking for a good recipe, I visited one Austrian website and one definitely does not want to use the amount of hot paprika in a recipe listed. The rest was fine, but the amount of paprika really was ridiculous. So people beware!

A problem with many American website recipes for Goulash is often they resemble European Goulash only in using the same name for the dish. Often using mincemeat, and more Mexican in style than anything Hungarian.

I may have mentioned this above but I remember attending a hunting festival in the Czech Republic at Hulaboka (I think?) and one of the events between the eleven countries represented in competitions, was a goulash cooking and judging competition. Did not get to try any of them unfortunately.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #232538 - 15/07/13 07:52 PM

Man that sounds good!
My mother cooks Goulash and Stroganoff which was quite nice (her mother use to cook for some German Count back in the fatherland).

I will pull out some Venison tonight and repair its marinade for tomorrow's Goulash or Stroganoff. I've been keen to give it a try.


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      #232588 - 16/07/13 04:29 PM

It all sounds mouth watering

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      #232609 - 17/07/13 01:38 AM

I have to make a new batch this winter still. Have a deer boned out in the freezer for it.

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      #247230 - 09/05/14 03:09 PM

Coming up to making Goulash time again.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #247231 - 09/05/14 03:40 PM

I made this recipe last weekend but instead of Wild Boar I used venison from a Sambar that I shot the week before and red cabbage instead of Sauerkraut. Tasted fantastic. The chap cooking, Francis Ray Hof has a lot of clips on cooking game and fish on youtube, and they are all pretty good. My eight year old daughter and I sat up until two in the morning one Saturday watching them together.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHvz39ASFE

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      #247237 - 09/05/14 04:41 PM

Looks tasty, I will try that!

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      #256015 - 30/10/14 08:14 AM

Finally got around to making this "winter's" big goulash cook up ... I know it is now Spring here but ... Mk III recipe, with some changes I think will work really well.

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      #256016 - 30/10/14 08:22 AM

The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Recipe Mark III

Ingredients:
Feeds: lots of persons! - will still have to estimate


Olive oil
approx 1.9 kg of venison cut into cubes
1 kg of Kassler - smoked pork/bacon cut into large cubes
6 - 7 onions, chopped
12 cloves of garlic, grated
5 carrots, diced
5 parsnip, diced
7 stalks of celery, sliced
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
4 capsicum, in this case 2 green, 2 red
8 potatoes, sliced into chunks
15 - 20 field or button mushrooms, sliced
60 gms Hot paprika
60 gms sweet paprika
8 teaspoons of caraway seeds, I ground these partially
0 bayleaf - I misplaced it and couldn't find it so left it out.
1 litre beef stock
3 cups Red wine, a Cab Sauv bottle was finished off in the goulash
salt
black pepper
water
0 desert spoons of cornflour



This recipe has some of my own modifications.

Instructions:

1. Heat up oil in a pot and braise chopped onions until they brown.

2. Remove from heat and sprinkle with the paprika powder while stirring them. Leaving the onions on the heat while adding the paprika may result in bitterness.

3. In a separate fry pan or pot, add more oil and slightly brown the venison cubes, and also the kassler.

You may have to brown them in lots, just add the browned meat to the onions and do another lot.

4. The meat and residual heat in the pot (if browning the meat and onions at the same time) will keep it hot and the meat will give off its juices. Add the grated or sliced garlic, the caraway seed, the bayleaves, some salt and black pepper, and pour the litre of beef stock in. Some extra water or stock may be needed to cover the contents in the pot and then let it simmer. Simmered for 30 minutes

5. Add the diced carrots, parsnip, celery stalks, and potatoes.

6. After about 30 minutes, add the tomatoes, capsicum and mushrooms for another 15 to 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are well cooked.

7. I did not add any cornflour this time as the liquid was not excessive.

A photo will be posted some time later.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #256545 - 10/11/14 11:32 PM

I think Vension Goulash Recipe is just yum and delightful. I would love to try that.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #285028 - 10/07/16 05:04 PM

Time for a goulash/porkolt again.

Quote:

Hungarian Venison Goulash or this case a Venison Porkolt, a thicker version of a goulash.




A Mark II recipe. Red wine, beef stock, mushrooms, onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes, parsnips, potatoes, red, yellow and green capsicum, garlic, black pepper, salt, hot paprika, sweet paprika, bay leaf, caraway seeds, and cornflour.



Cooked in a couple of large South African cast iron potjes, "Best Duty" no.s 3 and 4.



Fallow venison cuts being browned.



The onion and venison browned, all the ingredients are in and cooked over a number of hours.




Cooked over the coals.



The finished product.


The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Recipe Mark I

Ingredients:
Feeds: lots of persons!


Olive oil for browning the venison and onions
approx 3 kg of venison cut into cubes - this meat was cut off various pieces of venison, some already off the bone, some off the bone, shanks etc.
6 - 7 onions, chopped
6 cloves of garlic, grated
4 carrots, diced
3 parsnip, diced
6 stalks of celery, sliced
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
6 capsicum, in this case 2 green, 2 red & 2 yellow
6 - 7 potatoes, sliced into chunks
15 - 20 field or button mushrooms, sliced
50 gms Hot paprika
50 gms sweet paprika
8 teaspoons of caraway seeds, I ground these partially
4 bayleaf
1 litre beef stock
salt
black pepper
Red wine was substituted for water this time
6 or more desert spoons of cornflour - I wanted this goulash to be a thicker porkolt.

This is a much hotter mixture than Mark I and Mark III will back off the hot paprika a little.



This recipe has some of my own modifications.

Instructions:

1. Heat up oil in a pot and braise chopped onions until they brown.

2. Remove from heat and sprinkle with the paprika powder while stirring them. Leaving the onions on the heat while adding the paprika may result in bitterness.

3. In a separate fry pan or pot, add more oil and slightly brown the venison cubes. Many goulash recipes do not brown the meat but add it with the stock direct to the pot at this point. This allows the dish to be cooked in a single pot eg on a fire, but browning will improve the flavour and retain more juices.

You may have to brown them in lots, just add the browned meat to the onions and do another lot.

4. The meat and residual heat in the pot (if browning the meat and onions at the same time) will keep it hot and the meat will give off its juices. Add the grated or sliced garlic, the caraway seed, the bayleaves, some salt and black pepper, and pour the litre of beef stock in. I added red wine instead of water in Mark II. Extra stock may be needed to cover the contents in the pot and then let it simmer. I left it simmer for 50 minutes when I tested the venison and they were already cooked. A lesser period may be OK. The meat should be about 50% cooked.

5. Add the diced carrots, parsnip, celery stalks, and potatoes. Add more stock or wine if needed.

6. After aboout 30 minutes, add the tomatoes and capsicum for another 15 to 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are well cooked.

7. I added 6x desert spoons of cornflour, or more as it thickened to what I was looked for, pre mixed with water to thicken the goulash into a porkolt.

Like many spicy dishes goulash can be prepared and re-heated the following day and the flavour may be stronger and improved as well.

Perfect for a cold winter's day.




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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #285030 - 10/07/16 06:08 PM

They make this is in a few places in the hunting season in Spain. The best I ever had was made just using the back straps of a big fallow deer. It just melted in the mouth, gorgeous.

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      #285094 - 12/07/16 04:30 PM

Very chilly day today, stormy, blue skies in the morning, but rain, hail, and sideways wind and rain. 7 deg C, at 4 pm, which is cold for here. Will get below Zero tonight is my guess. I love this sort of weather ! But also perfect weather for goulash.


But need to get some more firewood up in the middle of the storm. :~

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      #318050 - 14/07/18 04:07 PM

A week ago made up a new batch of goulash. Having visited Transylvania recently and enjoyed the local goulash a number of times, but too few times, so decided to make my own when returning home. Lots of lovely Transylvanian and Romanian dishes when in the country, so enjoyed many different dishes of the cuisine. The Transylvanian goulash soups were less spicy than the recipe I make. Transylvania was part of Hungary for a long time. Also had a sizable German population in the Southern part of the Carpathian mountains from many centuries ago, until the people migrated away after WW1, WW2 and finally the 1990's. Many of these villages ar enow empty or only a few houses occupied, or new inhabitants having moved into the empty houses. Sizable and lovely cities now have new Romanian names.

This batch of goulash was made in the city, so no fire cooking. Also I forgot to get out the venison from the freezer, so this one was pork along with some kassler which I like adding. About a two kilogram roast of pork with the rind removed, and cut into chunks. Vegetables were in the quantity I had brought with me, so either similar to the mark II recipe or half of it. Recipes are not "painting by numbers" but changable variations. Which still work.

So I ended up with two much for a pot on the stove. So made up two lots, about half of the Mark II quantity in volume. So I used a stove top pot and a slow cooker. I thought the slow cooker would result in some wonderful result. Each had about a quarter of the paprika, hot and sweet, so about half in total. I decided to add some extra sweet paprika to both pots, a bit in the stove pot and a fair extra to the slow cooker.

How did it all work out?

Ate a meal of the stove top pot dish that night. It was lovely and thick, the "gravy" was smooth and thick. But it was HOT! Hotter than I wanted and liked. Edible, but really was wondering if I would enjoy eating it much.

Was worried about the slow cooker, as I had added more paprika to it than the stove top pot. BUT it ended up mild. Perfect for the wife, but milder than I like it. The meat was less tender and the vegetables more solid than the stove top pot. Opposite to what I expected.

After separating some of the milder spiced version for the wife, ended up mixing the two together for a quite perfect spicey result. Hot but not over the top.

So in future the quicker stove pot or fire pot method will be my choice. Not a slow cooker. Unless it is made well before needed and can cook for a long time without me having to supervise it every half hour or so.

Goulash perfect for winter and cold frosty nights. So good, there isn't much left, so another cook up might be needed this July. The next will be venison, pork and kassler. Yum.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #328900 - 28/05/19 02:05 AM

Getting chilly in the Southern Hemisphere again. Time for another venison goulash cook up I feel.

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Re: Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #340288 - 20/04/20 03:41 AM

Fire ban season finishing end of April, and nights are chilling right down, so May 1 or thereabouts will be Autumn/Winter Goulash cooking time.

Have lots of meat in the freezers. Time to find some of the bigger lots, old sausages etc and make a melody goulash combination.

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      #372279 - 14/12/22 12:23 AM

Cool Summer. Must make this again. If it stays cool will kill some of the farmed deer somi don't have to feed them now grass is finishing. Lots of freezer space too. Make good use of venison for home made venison mince, sausages, Thai curries. mince Vindaloo, chops, steaks and of course roasrs.

If it stays cool. Far easier. Nice lovely cool winter. Nights down to 10°C, days from 17 to mid 20,s. One day of 45°C. I "cooked" that day, the 7th and had an early Christmas Dinner for part of the family.

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      #376001 - 13/04/23 11:49 AM

This time is definitely coming again.

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      #376006 - 13/04/23 04:09 PM

Hard to get used to the seasons there. Was a really balmy 10C (50F) today. Really warm, could drive with the window open. and dash blowers running full cool. I was wearing a coat to the range.

edited: needed the "u". It was quite pleasant with the window down.

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      #376561 - 06/05/23 07:07 PM

Autumn weather here, but winter temperatures for us. 11 Dec C today, 4 last night. 1 deg C tonight forecast and 13 C tomorrow.


Cooked up a big pot of "Coronation" Empire-Commonwealth Vindaroo (Vindaloo kangaroo mince) with British mashed potatoes, and a serve of Aussie lamb chops a la Jalfrezy. Didn't get to the Aussie Chicken Maryland Sri Lankan Curry.

But a big potjenof wood coals cooked Venison goulash is absolutely needed soon for the cold weather.

Went to bed last night dreaming of waking up to a white snowy wonderland ... Perhaps tonight, but not snow but frost. Antarctic weather travelling North across the Southern Ocean.

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      #376568 - 07/05/23 01:30 AM

Sounds delightful. We had freezing temperatures every night up until about 1 1/2 weeks ago, now it's up to mid 20C in the daytime & 5 at night.

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      #376575 - 07/05/23 07:41 PM

Minus - 1.3 deg C last night. Getting chilly. Goulash and fireplace weather.

I still haven't lit a fire yet. Maybe tonight?

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      #376592 - 08/05/23 05:29 AM

I used to love the fall, when temps dipped below freezing and crisped up the air, put frost on the game trails, fired up the hunting fever.
Nowadays, it just means the end of fishing season. 33 minutes to 2PM and it's 8 degrees today, with rain. Supposed to go up to 20 or so, nice summer weather, in a day or two.

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      #380704 - 08/11/23 12:50 AM

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The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Mark I

The finished product ...



Luckily I managed to get some photos as both batteries turned out to be flat on the camera.




I haven't made goulash yet this year. Maybe a Christmas goulash.

Spring has been cold enough for goulash.

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      #380705 - 08/11/23 12:53 AM

Quote:

Time for a goulash/porkolt again.

Quote:

Hungarian Venison Goulash or this case a Venison Porkolt, a thicker version of a goulash.




A Mark II recipe. Red wine, beef stock, mushrooms, onions, celery, carrots, tomatoes, parsnips, potatoes, red, yellow and green capsicum, garlic, black pepper, salt, hot paprika, sweet paprika, bay leaf, caraway seeds, and cornflour.



Cooked in a couple of large South African cast iron potjes, "Best Duty" no.s 3 and 4.



Fallow venison cuts being browned.



The onion and venison browned, all the ingredients are in and cooked over a number of hours.




Cooked over the coals.



The finished product.


The Nitro Express Venison Goulash Recipe Mark I

Ingredients:
Feeds: lots of persons!


Olive oil for browning the venison and onions
approx 3 kg of venison cut into cubes - this meat was cut off various pieces of venison, some already off the bone, some off the bone, shanks etc.
6 - 7 onions, chopped
6 cloves of garlic, grated
4 carrots, diced
3 parsnip, diced
6 stalks of celery, sliced
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped
6 capsicum, in this case 2 green, 2 red & 2 yellow
6 - 7 potatoes, sliced into chunks
15 - 20 field or button mushrooms, sliced
50 gms Hot paprika
50 gms sweet paprika
8 teaspoons of caraway seeds, I ground these partially
4 bayleaf
1 litre beef stock
salt
black pepper
Red wine was substituted for water this time
6 or more desert spoons of cornflour - I wanted this goulash to be a thicker porkolt.

This is a much hotter mixture than Mark I and Mark III will back off the hot paprika a little.



This recipe has some of my own modifications.

Instructions:

1. Heat up oil in a pot and braise chopped onions until they brown.

2. Remove from heat and sprinkle with the paprika powder while stirring them. Leaving the onions on the heat while adding the paprika may result in bitterness.

3. In a separate fry pan or pot, add more oil and slightly brown the venison cubes. Many goulash recipes do not brown the meat but add it with the stock direct to the pot at this point. This allows the dish to be cooked in a single pot eg on a fire, but browning will improve the flavour and retain more juices.

You may have to brown them in lots, just add the browned meat to the onions and do another lot.

4. The meat and residual heat in the pot (if browning the meat and onions at the same time) will keep it hot and the meat will give off its juices. Add the grated or sliced garlic, the caraway seed, the bayleaves, some salt and black pepper, and pour the litre of beef stock in. I added red wine instead of water in Mark II. Extra stock may be needed to cover the contents in the pot and then let it simmer. I left it simmer for 50 minutes when I tested the venison and they were already cooked. A lesser period may be OK. The meat should be about 50% cooked.

5. Add the diced carrots, parsnip, celery stalks, and potatoes. Add more stock or wine if needed.

6. After aboout 30 minutes, add the tomatoes and capsicum for another 15 to 20 minutes until the carrots and potatoes are well cooked.

7. I added 6x desert spoons of cornflour, or more as it thickened to what I was looked for, pre mixed with water to thicken the goulash into a porkolt.

Like many spicy dishes goulash can be prepared and re-heated the following day and the flavour may be stronger and improved as well.

Perfect for a cold winter's day.







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Re: Nitro Express Venison Goulash [Re: NitroX]
      #380707 - 08/11/23 02:04 AM

I really like the the sound of the recipe. I will have to Translate some of the ingredients from Australian to American.

Caspacium in American is Bell Pepper.
Sweet Paprika is standard paprika
Hot Paprika is, well hot.
Cornflour is not corn starch, it is finely ground corn flour, even finer than cornmeal.
Venison is deer meat.

I will use one of these for the venison.



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