Vegetarian Goulash

Sharon123's Note:

Miss good goulash and don't want the meat? Try this recipe adapted from Allrecipes! I have tweeked it and added a few things. I hope you enjoy!

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup celery, chopped
• 1/2 cup mushroom, sliced
• 1 small green bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup veggie crumbles (or veggie steak strips)
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1 teaspoon paprika (smoked paprika is wonderful!)
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can whole canned tomatoes, chopped, reserve juice
• 1/2 cup red wine (may use grape juice or veg. broth and a tsp. red wine vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon caraway seed (optional)
• 1 teaspoon tomato puree
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
2. Saute the onion, celery and mushrooms 5 minutes, or until just tender.
3. Mix in the green pepper and veggie crumbles, and saute 5 minutes more, until the pepper is tender. Mix in the garlic and paprika.
4. Stir the tomatoes with their juice into the skillet. Mix in the wine, oregano, caraway seeds and tomato puree. Bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to low, and simmer 25 minutes, until thickened.
5. Just before serving, stir in the sugar, and season with salt and pepper.
6. Serve with egg noodles or rice. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Chef #1103964]

Mostly followed the receipe, but used diced tomatoes instead of whole, added squash and zucc. and elbow mac. I loved this when I was a kid and still do. You can basically add any veggie you want and it will still come out great. I didnt add the puree or the red wine but added some garlic and it was great.

[Chef #1193604]

I remembered having goulash as a child (with meat in I presume) and so tried this out. What a hit, so full of flavour! I made a couple of changes in using romero rather than green peppers and mushroons in place of veggie crumbles. Towards the end of the cooking time I cooked some fine egg noodles in with the goulash, combining it all together worked really well. Thanks for the recipe!

[Annacia]

With the exception of using chopped tomatoes instead of whole I made this by the recipe and loved it. It's very hearty and filling. It went very well with Basmati rice. At the end of simmer time it was still very liquid so I added some cornstarch to thicken it to my preference. Excellent recipe Sharon :D.