Cooking Cheap

Sausage Goulash

I’m not really making this up. I found a recipe sort of like it but I changed everything so I guess it’s mine. Exact amounts don’t matter and should be adjusted to your tastes and what’s on hand. Serves 2 probably.

1/2 lb cheap Kielbasa (Polish) sausage, cut into smallish chunks, 1/2″?
1 strip of bacon.
1/2 Large White onion (it’s what I had) sliced
1/2 Green pepper, sliced into strips [optional]
1 small glove garlic chopped.
1 Big squirt of catsup (1 or 2 Tbl)
1 Tbl Worcestershire sauce
1/2 Tbl brown sugar
1 Squirt of prepared mustard, (1 tsp?)
1 tsp to 1 Tbl. Paprika. Depends on your paprika.
1 1/2 cups broth or stock, beef or chicken.

Dice bacon and render in a pot over medium heat. Remove bacon and brown sausage in drippings. Remove sausage, lower heat to around low and saute onions and bell pepper until onions are soft. 10 Minutes or so. Add garlic and saute for a minute or so.

Add stock to cover and bring to a simmer. Adjust seasonings (add cayenne or pepper sauce, salt and pepper, more paprika etc — what ever you need to save it). Simmer on low for 30 minutes adding water or stock as needed.

If your making my bread dumplings, you’d add them pretty soon (may need more stock or water and increase the heat on the pot to a hearty simmmer and conver] Remove dumplings and keep warm.

One can thicken the sauce with a flour or cornstarch slurry if the dumplings didn’t thicken it. It should be a thick sauce like North American Chili

That’s the plan. What happens will differ and results will be discovered.

[Much Later]
Call it just OK. Won’t kill you but you’ll stare at the left overs and wonder what you can do with them.