Recipes · Hungarian · Stews
Pörkölt (Hungarian Beef and Paprika Stew)
One serving has 641 kcal and 39 g protein, and at least a fifth of a woman's daily need of cobalamin (208%), zinc (163%), pyridoxine (124%), vitamin C (98%), selenium (71%) and niacin (69%). Ready in 170 minutes.
- Preparation: 20 min
- Cooking: 150 min
- Makes: 1 serving (721 g)
- Difficulty: Medium
- Diets: Dairy-free, Gluten-free, High protein
- Contains: beef, pork
Ingredients
- 170 g Beef chuck or shin
- 10 g Lard
- 120 g Onion
- 6 g Sweet Hungarian paprika
- 4 g Garlic
- 0.3 g Caraway, ground
- 30 g Hungarian wax pepper (lecsó pepper)
- 40 g Tomato
- 150 g Water
- 1 g Salt
- 150 g Potatoes, to serve
- 40 g Pickled cucumbers, to serve
Method
- Cut the beef into 2-3 cm cubes and chop the onion finely.
- Melt the lard in a heavy pot and cook the onion over medium-low heat for 10-12 minutes, stirring, until soft and golden but not brown.
- Take the pot off the heat and stir in the paprika; it burns and turns bitter in seconds over the flame. Add the beef at once with a splash of the water and stir to coat it.
- Put the pot back on the heat, add most of the salt, the crushed garlic and the caraway, cover and simmer very gently for 1 hour 30 minutes. Add the water a little at a time, only enough to stop it catching: pörkölt has a thick sauce, not a broth.
- Add the wax pepper and the tomato, cut into pieces, and simmer for 45-60 minutes more, until the beef is tender and the sauce is thick and glossy, with red fat shining on top.
- Meanwhile peel the potatoes, cut them into pieces and boil them in water with the rest of the salt for 20 minutes until tender.
- Serve the pörkölt with the potatoes (or nokedli) and the pickled cucumbers on the side.
Nutrition per serving
| Nutrient | Per serving | Share of a day's need |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 641 kcal | 30% |
| Carbohydrates | 46.6 g | |
| Water | 594 mL | |
| Fiber | 8.7 g | 30% |
| Protein | 38.8 g | 81% |
| Tryptophan | 0.43 g | |
| Threonine | 1.6 g | |
| Isoleucine | 1.6 g | |
| Leucine | 2.9 g | |
| Lysine | 3.1 g | |
| Methionine | 1 g | |
| Cystine | 0.41 g | |
| Phenylalanine | 1.5 g | |
| Tyrosine | 1.3 g | |
| Valine | 1.7 g | |
| Histidine | 1.2 g | |
| Fat | 35.1 g | |
| Monounsaturated | 16.2 g | |
| Polyunsaturated | 2.8 g | |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) | 0 g | |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) | 0 g | |
| Omega-6 | 2.5 g | |
| Saturated | 14.2 g | |
| Trans-Fats | 1.4 g | |
| Cholesterol | 122 mg | |
| Calcium | 101 mg | 10% |
| Copper | 0.5 mg | 56% |
| Iron | 6.9 mg | 38% |
| Magnesium | 104 mg | 33% |
| Manganese | 0.68 mg | 38% |
| Phosphorus | 479 mg | 68% |
| Potassium | 1,694 mg | 36% |
| Selenium | 39.2 µg | 71% |
| Sodium | 1,027 mg | |
| Zinc | 13.1 mg | 163% |
| Thiamin (vitamin B1) | 0.38 mg | 35% |
| Riboflavin (vitamin B2) | 0.47 mg | 43% |
| Niacin (vitamin B3) | 9.7 mg | 69% |
| Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) | 1.9 mg | 39% |
| Pyridoxine (vitamin B6) | 1.6 mg | 124% |
| Folate (vitamin B9) | 75.8 µg | 19% |
| Cobalamin (vitamin B12) | 5 µg | 208% |
| Choline | 151 mg | 35% |
| Vitamin A | 188 µg | 27% |
| Vitamin C | 73.5 mg | 98% |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 18.7 IU | 3% |
| Vitamin E | 2.5 mg | 17% |
| Vitamin K | 35.9 µg | 40% |
Shares of a day's need are for a woman of 30, 165 cm, 60 kg, lightly active, by the US and Canadian Dietary Reference Intakes. SustainBite works out each person's own needs, by the standard where they live: the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in Norway, the UK's, EFSA's in the EU.
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