Making Roux for Hungarian Meatball Stew

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make Hungarian Meatball Stew. All right, so it's been about three minutes. Let's go ahead and pull that back. Watch out, there will be lots of steam. We're just going to give everything a nice stir, and what we've done is softened up all our vegetables, got a little color into them, which is good. Whoops, I'm making a mess. Our next step is we're going to add our paprika, and coat everything nice and evenly. This should be about everything; good old handy spatula. What we're looking for here is a nice even coating with the paprika. We don't want clumps, we don't want uneven color. Also, what we're going to do here is the paprika will help dry it up a little bit, and what that that will do is pick up a lot of that oil. We don't want to lose all of it, because we're going to use some of it for our rue here in a second. We're going to make it in the pan. As the paprika comes in contact with the pan, it will start giving it a roasted flavor. We're looking pretty even here now. Once we're pretty much done with the paprika stage, then we add our flour. When you add the flour, it's really, really important that you don't get any clumps, so I'm going to add it in waves; two little stages should be about right. What should happen here is that as you add it, you wait until you can't really see any more flour, then you add more. So you keep stirring it until you can't see it any more, then you add the rest; I think probably two little times should be enough here. I'm just going to keep stirring this until I can't see the flour any more, and we'll let this cook for about a minute, once I get to where I can't see the flour any more, just to really help get the flour to bind to the moisture that's coming out of the ingredients. That tells me my noodles are done, so what we'll do right now is while this is cooking for a minute, put the lid back on it, let it go for a minute, and then we're going to take our noodles and go dump the water out."