Hungarian cuisine: tutajos keménylebbencs, a pasta stew

This is a traditional Hungarian dish that is based on a stew recipe, from facebook.com.

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Ingredients:

5-10 dkg smoked bacon

50 dkg lebbencs pasta (traditional Hungarian pasta, where the dough is rolled out, left to dry out and then broken into flat pieces)

Lebbencs

1 teaspoon of caraway seeds

1 onion

1 tablespoon of paprika

15 dkg smoked sausage or hot dog

30-40 dkg potatoes

Salt

1 pepper

1 tomatoe

Condiment mix

Hot pepper

Instructions:

• cut the bacon into little pieces, heat it up in a pot and toss in the caraway seeds for a few seconds. Add the pasta and fry them for about 10 minutes
• Chop the onion into small pieces, add it to the pasta. After a few minutes take the pot off the stove and add paprika
• Add enough water to completely cover everything in the pot, add salt and condiments, potatoes, pepper, hot pepper and tomato. Let it simmer.
• 3-5 minutes before it is done, add the sausage or hot dog (you could also leave this step out)

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This dish needs to have a lot of sauce, so add more water to it during cooking if there is not enough. 

A traditional Hungarian dish like this is usually eaten with a spoon. 

Enjoy your meal, jó étvágyat!

Photos and featured image: facebook.com

Source: Facebook.com