Vegetarian Hungarian Paprikash (Vegetable Stew with Dumplings)
This is the popular Hungarian vegetarian paprikash recipe, made vegetarian and healthy!
Ingredients
Dumplings:
- 2 eggs
- salt to taste
- 6 tbsp all-purpose flour or more; the consistency has to be a little bit thicker than sour cream
Stew:
- 1 carrot sliced
- 2 onions chopped
- 4 red bell peppers chopped
- 400 g canned tomatoes peeled, chopped
- 2 Tbsps all-purpose flour dissolved in 1 glass of cold water (add flour first, then pour water over it)
- 1 bunch parsley chopped
- 1 tsp ground pepper
- 2 Tbsp sweet paprika
- 1 tsp hot paprika
- 2 Tbsps oil
- 2 bay leaves
- salt to taste
Instructions
Dumplings:
- Fill one pot with water and bring to a boil.
- Whisk the egg whites until foamy.
- Add egg yolks and salt.
- Sprinkle one tbsp of flour at a time over the whisked eggs and incorporate.
- When the consistency is creamy you’re done.
- Now to the cooking part:
- Place a glass filled with cold water right beside you.
- Take about 1/2 tbsp of dough and slowly place it in the boiling water. The dough will slip off the tablespoon. Don’t fill the whole tablespoon because the dumplings will double their size.
- Dip the tablespoon in the glass with cold water.
- Repeat the process.
- Cover with a lid and let them boil over medium heat for 10 minutes.
- When ready, remove from heat and leave them in the pot until you finish the stew.
Stew:
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan.
- Add chopped onion. Sauté for 2-3 minutes.
- Add chopped peppers and sliced carrots.
- Add salt, pepper.
- Pour over 1/2 cup of water (just enough to cover all ingredients).
- Cover with a lid and cook for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
- Add chopped tomatoes, bay leaves and hot and sweet paprika.
- Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Add dissolved flour and stir for 2 minutes until incorporated.
- Remove from heat and add chopped parsley.
- Add dumplings and stir.