For our first family night dinner idea recipe, my daughter chose Ukrainian Goulash. I have never made this one before, that's for sure. The recipe comes from McCall's Great American Recipe Card Collection (1973), Budget Stretchers.



Ukrainian Goulash is easy to make, yet it has several steps and it requires a long cooking time in the oven. It's all well worth your efforts. Here's the result of our work:

The beef sauce is mild yet very rich. The recipe calls for you to brown your beef in "salad oil" then to use the drippings to brown your onion. For my taste, it's really too much oil. The next time we prepare this dish we will be using a cooking spray rather than oil.

The meat is tender as can be when it's done. However, next time I plan to cut the chuck a bit smaller than 1 1/2 inch cubes.

The recipe as written will definitely provide you with 8 servings. I froze our leftover sauce for a future meal.

I think this recipe could adapt well to being cooked in a crock pot. I'll have to experiment a bit with it and see what results.

The recipe suggests you serve the sauce over buttered noodles. We chose fettuccine. I think the dish would be excellent over white or brown rice.

Overall we really enjoyed cooking this dish. It gave the teen some experience with cutting raw meat, chopping per recipe directions, and browning.