Goulash (or gulyás? )

[detroitdad]

(Mod edit: moved to new post KKA)

I've been hungry for goulash. It turned it really well.

 

[TastyReuben]

I've been hungry for goulash. It turned it really well.

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Looks utterly delicious!

My grandmom, when she made goulash, it was like the goulash you’d find in Germany/Central Europe (goulasch - big hunks of slow-cooked meat), but when my mom would make it, it was the American version like you have above. That used to always puzzle me.

I love both!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I've been hungry for goulash. It turned it really well.

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It looks delicious but doesn’t look like any goulash I recognise, to me that looks like a ziti, I guess there’s some cultural differences in our goulashes?!

 

[Barriehie]

It looks delicious but doesn’t look like any goulash I recognise, to me that looks like a ziti, I guess there’s some cultural differences in our goulashes?!

There's a continents worth of history on that dish.

The History of Goulash

 

[TastyReuben]

It looks delicious but doesn’t look like any goulash I recognise, to me that looks like a ziti, I guess there’s some cultural differences in our goulashes?!

Yep, I referenced that earlier (I may have suspected there’d be a “But that’s not goulash!!!” hue and cry raised… ), but here’s the Wiki page on it:

American goulash - Wikipedia

That’s what was funny about growing up in my family - grandmom made “Old World” goulas(c)h, but her daughter, my mom, made American goulash.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yep, I referenced that earlier (I may have suspected there’d be a “But that’s not goulash!!!” hue and cry raised… ), but here’s the Wiki page on it:

American goulash - Wikipedia

That’s what was funny about growing up in my family - grandmom made “Old World” goulas(c)h, but her daughter, my mom, made American goulash.

Lol that page compares it to chop suey which is also nothing like how anyone knows chop suey to be

 

[detroitdad]

It looks delicious but doesn’t look like any goulash I recognise, to me that looks like a ziti, I guess there’s some cultural differences in our goulashes?!

It's our take on it. Normally we have kidney beans in it, but I can't eat beans any longer

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

It's our take on it. Normally we have kidney beans in it, but I can't eat beans any longer

I love the European version of Hungarian goulash but I like the look of yours too.
So much so the ziti that was already planned for lunch tomorrow will now have a goulash twist on it, thanks

 

[karadekoolaid]

Gulyás is Hungarian. The word means "herdsman" and the the dish goes way back to the 10th century.
Is it good? Is it yummy? You bet; so like any good , yummy dish, it's spread across the world and taken on national characteristics.

 

[Barriehie]

It's called potafoo (pot-a-foo) around here; Southernized 'pot of food'.

(pot-a-foo)

Pretty much anything excluding the kitchen sink...

Got ya with the speaker?

 

[karadekoolaid]

They make it here with steak and Spanish paprika. Close, maybe; Hungarian paprika never arrived there until the 16th century.

 

[badjak]

It looks tasty, but I would not have identified it as goulash/gulyas.
But then, the goulash I grew up with is probably quite different from the Hungarian version

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

This is how the version I’m familiar with looks

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

This is how the version I’m familiar with looks

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That's how I know goulash, I had a very good goulash soup in Interlaken, Switzerland, it was a local speciality.

 

[Barriehie]

This is how the version I’m familiar with looks

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That looks like the Hungarian ones I found.