Hungarian Steak Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium high heat. Saute onions until soft, then add beef and brown. Stir in caraway seed, marjoram, garlic and paprika. Pour water over all, lower heat to low and simmer for 2 1/2 hours.
• Add potatoes and cook until tender, another 45 minutes to 1 hour. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve.

Steps:

• Melt butter and oil in a large skillet over medium heat until the foam disappears from the butter, and stir in the steak cubes and onion. Cook and stir until the meat and onion are browned, about 10 minutes. While beef is cooking, mix together flour, paprika, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Sprinkle the flour mixture over the browned meat, and stir to coat.
• In a large soup pot, pour in the beef broth and water, and stir in the parsley, celery leaves, bay leaf, and marjoram. Stir in beef mixture, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until meat is tender, about 45 minutes.
• Mix in the potatoes, carrots, celery, tomato paste, and corn; bring the soup back to a simmer, and cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender and the soup is thick, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove bay leaf and serve hot.

Steps:

• Pat the meat dry.
• Trim away any excess fat and cut the meat into 3/4-inch cubes.
• Cut the onion in half and coarsely chop one half.
• Thinly slice the other half and set aside.
• Core, seed, and cut the bell peppers in half.
• Cut one half of each pepper into chunks and the other half into 1/4-inch strips.
• Set aside.
• Heat oil in a pressure cooker or large heavy saucepan over medium-high heat until it shimmers, about 3 minutes.
• Ad half the meat and brown on all sides, about 4 minutes.
• Transfer to a bowl with a slotted spoon.
• Add the remaining meat and repeat.
• Add the chopped onion and bell pepper chunks to the pot.
• Stir frequently until the vegetables soften, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add the sweet and hot paprika, black pepper and caraway seeds and stir for 1 minute.
• Pour in the beef broth.
• Add the bay leaves garlic, and tomato paste.
• Return the meat and accumulated juices to the pot.
• Cover and seal the pressure cooker, if using, and bring to full pressure over high heat.
• Regulate the heat and cook for 20 minutes.
• If using a saucepan, simmer partially covered for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Release pressure and uncover the cooker.
• The meat should be cooked through and tender.
• If not, re-cover the pan, bring back to full pressure and cook for 5 minutes more.
• Pour the soup through a colander into a bowl, leaving as much of the meat as possible in the pot.
• Pick out the meat cubes in the colander and return to the pot.
• Discard the bay leaves and vegetables In the colander as well as any remaining in the pot.
• Add the onion slices and bell pepper strips to the pot and pour the broth back in over the vegetables and meat.
• Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat to low, and simmer, uncovered until the vegetables are just tender, 7 to 8 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a large saucepan.
• Add the salt and noodles and cook until the noodles are just tender.
• Drain the noodles.
• Spoon 1/2 cup of noodles into each of 6 soup bowls.
• Ladle the hot soup over the noodles and serve at once.
• Pass the sour cream at the table.
• Note: Toast the caraway seeds in a small skillet over medium-low heat, tossing often, until aromatic, about 5 minutes.

Steps:

• First roast your meat and bones in a roaster uncovered at 300* for 2- 2 1/2 hrs.
• Drain the fat and place the meat and bones in a large soup pot.
• Cover with water and add the garlic, peppercorns, onion,bay leaf and salt.
• Bring to a boil and simmer for 1/2 hr.
• Skim any foam that forms.
• Now add the vegetables, except the green pepper, tomatoes, and cabbage leaves.
• Simmer until the meat and vegetables are done.
• The last 5 min.
• Add the tomatoes, green pepper and cabbage leaves.
• Remove and dicard the bay leaf and the soup bones.
• Refrigerate the soup and skim off any fat after it has chilled.
• The beef can be cut up into bite-size pieces and used for the soup or served as a side dish with a sauce and boiled potatoes to make an entree after the soup.
• Dumplings are very good with this soup as well.
• In Hungary they serve Chicken liver dumplings with the soup and a roux-like tomato sauce with the meat.