Today's dinner was a traditional Hungarian gulyás I got done myself with some home-made easy dumplings. I haven't had this in a long while and as I was chatting with my mother she mentioned how I used to love the dumplings when I was a kid.

✔︎ 400 g beef cut in cubes
✔︎ 200 ml tomato sauce
✔︎ olive oil
✔︎ 2 onions
✔︎ salt
✔︎ black pepper
✔︎ sweet paprika
✔︎ pinch of smoked paprika
✔︎ 2 glasses of water

✔︎ 4 tablespoons of flour
✔︎ 1 egg
✔︎ pinch of salt
✔︎ 50 g butter (room temperature or quickly in the microwave - do not melt completely)

1. Cut the onion in little pieces, place a deep pan on your stove with some oil. Add the onion and close after add the meat that has been cut in cubes. Cook well and add water so the meat cooks throughly. Add tomato sauce (if it's too sour add a little sugar and salt), paprikas and black pepper. Add water again and cook for 15 minutes so the meat turns tender.
2. When ready, try the meat with a knife and see if the meat is tender enough. Retire from heat and set aside.
3. Boil some water in a pan with a pinch of salt. Meanwhile,...
4. In a bowl add the butter, egg and flour and mix well together.
5. With a teaspoon take pieces of the mix and drop in the boiling water. Do this with all the flour mixture.
6. Leave them boil for 10 minutes.
7. Retire from heat, strain the dumplings and add to the goulash stew. Mix together.

Enjoy! This is a really tasty dish from Medieval Hungary that has travelled Europe up and down, dishes like this are typical especially in Scandinavia and even Iberia (some resemblance dishes). They are usually enjoyed with a glass of an alcoholic beverage, in Hungary, with pálinka, for sure.

How the dumpling looks like inside. Delish!