Hungarian Goulash + Homemade Pasta

This is MY form of comfort food…slow simmered beef until it is fork tender, inwards a rich, full-bodied gravy together with served over homemade noodles; it does non larn much amend than that. If y'all brand this on the stovetop, it is done inwards virtually 2½ hours, at most. If y'all laid upwards it inwards the crockpot, it takes virtually 8 hours on low.

2 pounds of chuck roast
1 medium onion diced
1 clove garlic minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 ½ cups beef broth (not bullion)
¾ loving cup ketchup
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon packed chocolate-brown sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons paprika (not the hot kind)
½ teaspoon dry out mustard
healthy pinch of crushed crimson pepper flakes
½ teaspoon coarse solid soil dark pepper

Trim all of the white fatty parts from a ii pound chuck roast together with cutting it into i inch cubes. Brown the meat, onion together with garlic inwards the olive oil. Drain whatever excess fat.

Add the residue of the ingredients together with oestrus to boiling. Stir good together with trim down oestrus to a really gentle simmer. Cover together with simmer until fork tender (about 1 ½ to ii hours depending on how tough the meat is). While this is simmering, brand the noodles.

PASTA FOR FOUR

I made the dough for this inwards my kitchen assistance (with paddle attachment). I made this earlier I got my novel pasta roller, thence it is a picayune irregular, but it yet tasted great.

2 eggs
2 cups all work flour
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons olive oil

I only pose the wet ingredients inwards first, mixed for a twain seconds, together with then pose inwards the dry out ingredients together with mixed until it turned into a squeamish soft dough. Depending on the wet content of your flour, y'all mightiness conduct maintain to add together or subtract a tablespoon of H2O to larn the correct consistency (so don’t add together all of the H2O at once). Knead the dough past times manus for v minutes (or past times motorcar for iii minutes).The dough should live smooth, elastic together with a only a picayune tacky to the touch.

Wrap the dough inwards plastic together with allow it sit down (at room temperature) for twenty minutes…this is the most of import step. If y'all skip this step, the dough volition non ringlet out correct together with volition endeavor to jump dorsum on you. If y'all allow it sit down for twenty minutes, it volition ringlet out much easier.

Flour your counter together with ringlet the dough out equally sparse equally y'all tin larn it (it is a really forgiving dough together with volition non fissure or tear similar piecrust). Keep inwards hear that when y'all laid upwards the noodles, they expand, thence whatever thickness y'all ringlet them out to…your finally production volition live almost twice equally thick! Cut the noodles inwards sparse strips together with air dry out for an lx minutes or thence (I dried my noodles on a baking rack).To cook, convey a big pot of salted H2O to a boil (I added a tablespoon olive stone oil to the water) together with laid upwards the pasta for virtually iv minutes, stirring occasionally. When it starts to float, it is really unopen to beingness done; take a slice together with sense of savour it for doneness.

BACK TO GOULASH

When the noodles are almost done, together with the meat is ultra-tender, plough upwards the oestrus nether the meat together with thicken the sauce amongst a flour-water slurry (¼ loving cup H2O + ii tablespoons flour shaken inwards a jar). Stir vigorously piece adding the slurry to the sauce together with laid upwards until thick, take from heat. Serve goulash over cooked noodles.
NOTE: The outset lx minutes that the goulash cooks, the odour volition live strong, but never fear…the 2d hour, something magical happens together with it all mellows out together with becomes delicious.