Summary: How to serve an authentic Hungarian meatball stew; learn more about traditional Hungarian food in this free cooking video.
Brandon Sarkis has been a professional chef for more than 12 years, and he has worked in Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga. His specialties are Asian, French and...read more
"My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to make Hungarian Meatball Stew. It's been five minutes, so we're going to carefully remove our lid, exposing a whole lot of steam. This lid's really hot. Now we're just going to kill the heat. We're going to take out trusty spatula, and go through and give everything a nice stir, make sure nothing is stuck to the bottom. Sometimes what will happen is you get some vegetables that get stuck under a meatball, and get held down, and stuck to the bottom. Looks like all is well here, though. Nice and thick, and looking good. Depending on how you're going to want to serve this, what you're going to want to do now is you can either remove your meatballs and hold them separately, or you can just serve it like this, or you can mix everything together with the noodles. The first thing we're going to do is go back to our noodles, take the lid off of them, and give them a nice stir. They're looking good. Let's plop some of our noodles here on the plate. Keep in mind; this isn't so much a noodle dish, in as much as they are served on top of the noodles. That's the important part. To serve this, you're going to want to get something like a ladle to get the most out of it. What I do for each and every portion is give you a ladling of the veggies and the sauce. Then I take my tongs, and I dole out the meatballs. There's one meatball there; that one's getting away from me. You figure each person gets about three meatballs. There you have that. There is your Hungarian Meatball Stew. It's a really great dish, summer or winter; probably more so the winter because of the noodles and the beef and everything. You can actually cook this and hold it in the fridge for a couple of days; not the noodles, just the stew part. If the sauce is a little too thick for you, you can just add a little bit of water at the end, to thin it out a little bit. This is actually the way I like it, nice and thick. You'll see that the meatball is fully cooked inside. I'll go ahead and cut into one. Good looking stuff right there, and so what you would do is just take a bite like this, and mix it with your noodles. There you go, it's fantastic. Thanks a lot for watching my video, and I look forward to having you watch some more of them. I'm going to go enjoy myself some Hungarian Meatball Stew."
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