This recipe comes from Unokáinknak ajánljuk (“We Recommend it for Our Grandchildren”) by Lejtényi-Waldhhauser. Despite its title, this dish does contain meat, and it’s meant to be served as a main course.
Ingredients:
1 kilogram potatoes
2 large onions
50 grams smoked bacon
50 grams lard
100 grams smoked kolbász
2 tablespoons paprika
Sour cream
Salt
Method:
“We are melting the smoked bacon with one spoonful of the lard,” write the authors. “Peel and then cut the onions into small cubes, sauté in the fat until they are clear. Take the pan off of the heat and mix in the paprika. We are peeling the potatoes, washing them, and cutting them into quarters. We’re putting them in the onions and fat, and returning the pan to the stove and mixing it. We pour water on it to cover, salt it, and when it’s almost ready we’ll put in the sausage, and cook it for a few more minutes. We’re serving it with sour cream.”
Been looking for this recipe, with the Kolbasz added, thank you.
Regards,
Mike.
Very simple but tasty recipe. All the better if you can get Kalosvari bacon and Mangalica kolbasz!
David Bye
From what my father told me (he was big in Scouting in Hungary before the war) this is THE traditional boy scout meal. Each boy would bring a potato and a hunk of kolbász, the leader would bring the lard, onion, paprika, etc. (no sour cream – too hard to handle on a hike). The cooking over an open fire was simple – and the quantity would automatically adjust itself to the number of participants. I made it too on my Amercan Boy Scout camp-outs – so much so that it became a tradition in my troop also.
Dear Sándor,
Here is a link that may be of interest- an online edition of a Hungarian Scouting cookbook from the 1930′s!:
Magyar cserkész szakácskönyv
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3673477/Magyar-cserkesz-szakacskonyv