Szegediner Goulash with Bread Dumplings

Ingredients

• 600 g pork neck
• 300 g onions
• 1 Garlic clove
• 500 g Sauerkraut
• 2 tbsp clarified butter
• 1 tsp Caraway seeds
• 1 tbsp paprika powder
• 2 tsp Tomato paste
• 0.25 l beef broth (from the can)
• 1 red bell pepper
• 100 g Sour cream
• Salt
• pepper (ground)
• 8 rolls (day-old)
• 0.5 l milk
• 6 Eggs
• 80 g Butter
• 2 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp chopped parsley
• 20 g butter (for the towel)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash and dice the pork. Peel and finely chop onions and garlic. Heat clarified butter, brown the meat while stirring vigorously, remove it, then sauté onions and garlic until translucent. Break apart sauerkraut, add it, and season with caraway, salt, pepper, and paprika powder. Return the meat, stir in tomato paste, pour in broth, cover, and simmer for 1½ hours.

2. 2.

   For the dumplings, grate the crust of the rolls and cut them first into slices then cubes. Place in a bowl and pour over milk. Separate the eggs. Cream together butter, yolks, and salt. Add parsley and mix with the soaked roll cubes. Thoroughly combine all ingredients and let rest for 10 minutes.

3. 3.

   Boil a large pot of water with two tablespoons of salt. Whisk egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold into the roll mixture. Spread liquid butter on a towel. Shape the dough into a ~7 cm thick log, place it in the center of the towel, and loosely press both sides over the dumpling log (the dough will expand while cooking). Tie the ends together with a string.

4. 4.

   Attach the towel with the dumpling dough to a ladle handle using string (towel opening facing up) and hang it in the boiling water. Let the bread dumplings simmer for about 50 minutes. Rest the finished dumplings for 5 minutes before cutting.

5. 5.

   Halve the bell pepper, remove seeds, wash, dice, and mix into the goulash. Cook for an additional 8 minutes, then stir in sour cream at the end.

6. 6.

   To serve, unwrap the dumpling log from the towel and slice it into 2 cm thick pieces. Plate the goulash and arrange bread dumplings beside it.