Based on a traditional Hungarian stew, this warming soup is packed full of flavour and filled with tender, slow-cooked beef. Get creative with the vegetables in this soup and add your favourites in!
Recipe: Goulash Soup
Prep and cooking time: 1 hour 30 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely diced or minced
- 1 tsp ground paprika
- 400g diced beef
- 400g mushrooms, sliced
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1L beef stock
- 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 200g potatoes, cut into 1cm cubes
- 100g plain natural or Greek yoghurt
- 50g fresh flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
Method
- Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a large saucepan, over medium heat. Fry the onion, garlic, and paprika, until softened.
- Add the beef and stir until evenly browned. Add the mushrooms and carrots, and cook until softened.
- Pour in the stock and tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper. Stir to combine and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for up to 1hr.
- Add the potatoes and cook uncovered for 20- 30mins, or until the potatoes are tender.
- Ladle into bowls, and top with a spoonful of yoghurt and chopped parsley.
Hi, just a bit of a correction from a native Hungarian regarding the original Goulash. Goulash or Bean Goulash is not a stew. It is a soup, full of carrots, some onions and garlic, potatoes, beef and some kind of smoked meat like pork hock, herbs, like parsley and bay leaves, and ground paprika, salt and pepper to taste. The difference between the 2 types of goulash is that in the case of the bean goulash you add pinto beans to the soup as well which you pre-soaked overnight or for example butter beans and kidney beans to it.
is this diet suitable for an old (86) girl?
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Is it possible to freeze this soup? I know I can adjust the recipe for 1 or 2 people by changing the quantities, but interested to know for ‘batch cooking’
Hi Shareena, thanks for your question! You can freeze the soup 🙂
Hello team,
Can this be madera in a show Cooker. ? Thank you in advance
hi, do you have the nutritional info on this? I am making it for dinner tonight but im counting calories and need to know how many calories are in one portion
I’ve just made this but also added celery and green pepper … it was delicious …. I’m trying the free week so will be sampling your other recipes too …👌🏻
You shouldn’t have 2 foods on 1 bullet point, this isn’t the only recipe with this issue. Otherwise, looks like a tasty simple recipe.
Hi Dexter, thank you for your feedback. We have now adjusted all of the recipes to fix this issue. I’m so glad you like the look of this popular recipe!