Friday, May 28, 2010

Goat meat goulash


You will need:

- About 3-4 lbs goat meat (stewed cut).
- 3-4 whole onions sliced.
- About 10 cloves of garlic chopped.
- Black pepper.
- 6 ounce can tomato paste.
- 2 tbps Hungarian sweet paprika.
- 1 tbsp cayenne pepper. (Optional).
- 1 bay leaf.

Marinate the meat with paprika, pepper and salt.
Coat the meat with a little all purpose flour. Dust out the extra.
Heat veg. oil in a deep pot and saute the sliced onions until they are light brown in color. Take the onions out from the pot. In the same pot throw in the bay leaf and flour coated meat.
Stir the meat until it is brown in color.
Put the rest of the ingredients in the pot .
Put salt to taste .
Pour about two cups of water, lower the heat and allowing it to simmer for about 2 hours. Stir it periodically.
Take it off the heat when the meat is tender and the gravy is thick.
Serve it hot with butter noodles or with rice.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Chicken A La King


You need:

- 2 cups cooked, shredded boneless chicken (thigh meat preferred).
- Sour cream.
- 1 1/2 cup chicken stock.
- A little all purpose flour.
- Salt.
- Unsalted butter.
- Half a cup pimento or roasted red bell pepper (stripped).

To serve 2 persons, boil two cups of uncooked chicken and reserve the liquid - which can be used as chicken stock.
Put 2 tbs of butter in a heated skillet. As it melts, put in 1 1/2 tbs all purpose flour. Stir it for a while then put in the cooked chicken. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour the chicken stock, stir it, and allow it to thicken. Once it thickens, turn off the the heat and put in 2 tbs sour cream and the pimento. Mix it with the chicken. Serve hot with egg noodles or buttered steam rice.