Ingredients
400g rump steak
1 Tbs BiCarb in warm water
1/4 tsp Blairs Hot sauce (optional)
Cracked Black Pepper
100g Flour
1 Red bell pepper (capsicum)
60g snow peas
1 very large white onion
1 very large field Mushroom
4 Tbs salted butter
1 Tbs Sweet Paprika powder
1 tsp Tabasco sauce
140g Tomato paste (1 tub)
100ml sour cream
Boiled rice to serve.
Method::
Cut the beef into 1 cm strips. Flatten with a meat mallet. Soak in
Bicarb for 20 minutes. Drain and rinse thoroughly. Grind
over lots of pepper. Set aside in a colander to drain.
Cut the stem out of the bell pepper, slice into strips.
De string snow peas. Slice the onion vertically into strips to make long pieces. Remove mushroom stem and peel. Slice
Mushroom into thin long vertical strips.
Seperate the meat pieces and toss in flour.
Use a large frypan. Add 3 Tbs of salted butter and add the mushroom slices.
Cook till browning (3 minutes) and turn. Cook till browned. Push to
the edge, add more butter and begin frying the bell pepper 1 minute.
Deep fry the beef strips 90 seconds and set aside.
Add the paprika and toss through the mushroom and bell pepper for 30
seconds. Add tomato paste and stir through. Add 2 Tbs water. Add the
snow peas and then the onion. Add the tabasco sauce. Cook 1 minute.
Add the sour cream and stir through. Add the beef strips and stir
through.
Crack in more pepper and cook 2 minutes.
Serve
in a well of rice and dot with extra sour cream.
Stews are my least favoured form of cooking.
As a kid in a poor neighbourhood stews made with low quality meat
were a staple. Chew and chew and chew. Tasteless over cooked
veggies. I grew to dislike the texture and taste of stews. I can
appreciate when someone serves me a stew of today's standards with
better meat, lots more herbs and spices, good technique with real
flavour. Still don't like it.
This is like a stew but it is not. Its like a stir fry but its not.
It is not even a goulash. I don't know what it is but it is really
good. Lets call in a Baboina. The veggies are borderline soft but
still intact, the meat is tender and not overcooked, the paprika and
pepper through the tomato and sour cream sauce give it a Hungarian
flavour with a bit of extra heat from the tabasco. Sounds great,
tastes even better.
Over the years I would cook it once or twice a year. Usually in the
middle of winter. I have adjusted ingredients and technique along
the way. Turns one lowish quality steak into a meal for four.
Baboina Beef Goulash Recipe
Its not a stew, its not a stir fry, its a
Baboina