Beef Soup Hungarian Style

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 lbs beef chuck
• 3 lbs beef bones with marrow
• 3 quarts water
• 4 medium onions
• 5 -6 carrots, sliced
• 5 stalks celery, sliced
• 2 medium potatoes, diced
• 2 -3 cloves garlic, whole
• 3 sprigs parsley, sliced only if you like to eat them,but leave them whole if you want them only for taste.
• 1 medium tomato, cut up
• 1 medium green pepper (optional)
• 3 -5 cabbage leaves, slice finely or 2 kohlrabi, peeled and sliced
• 12 peppercorns, crushed
• salt
• 1 bay leaf

Recipe

• 1 first roast your meat and bones in a roaster uncovered at 300* for 2- 2 1/2 hrs.
• 2 drain the fat and place the meat and bones in a large soup pot.
• 3 cover with water and add the garlic, peppercorns, onion,bay leaf and salt.
• 4 bring to a boil and simmer for 1/2 hr.
• 5 skim any foam that forms.
• 6 now add the vegetables, except the green pepper, tomatoes, and cabbage leaves.
• 7 simmer until the meat and vegetables are done.
• 8 the last 5 min.
• 9 add the tomatoes, green pepper and cabbage leaves.
• 10 remove and dicard the bay leaf and the soup bones.
• 11 refrigerate the soup and skim off any fat after it has chilled.
• 12 the beef can be cut up into bite-size pieces and used for the soup or served as a side dish with a sauce and boiled potatoes to make an entree after the soup.
• 13 dumplings are very good with this soup as well.
• 14 in hungary they serve chicken liver dumplings with the soup and a roux-like tomato sauce with the meat.