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HUNGARIAN DELISH 

Vegan Gluten Free Pasta with Potatoes & Tofu 

May 1st, 2015

This is a one of my Grandmother’s very inexpensive recipes that was always vegan, even back in the day when I was just a little girl. Even though we did eat meat those days, we did not eat it so often us people do today. We had bean soup very often and other pasta potatoes dishes with cabbage. At summertime, we had a variety of veggies and fruits from the garden and framers market. It was all organic, but without the label and high price. I’m not saying it was all perfect those days, but last fifty years the food industry got much worse.  This is the main reason why I decided to create this blog.  I’m hoping that people will start cooking at home more and stop relying on the fast food and processed food from the big corporations. Instead they will support the local, organic farmers and small grass root companies that produce much healthier products. 

 

Sorry, I got little bit off track, so let’s go back to the Hungarian Delish. Well original name is Paprikash and it is a Hungarian dish, however I did add the tofu, just to make it more modern. It is very simple dish full of flavor and you can make it as spicy as you wish or not spicy at all. Hungarian dishes are quite common in Slovakia, where I was born, because they’re very close neighbors. I used to go shopping to Budapest, since they were more fashionable back in 80’s then what we had at home. It was communism those days, so the fashion industry was very poor. So as I said Hungarian food is part of our culture and I had few more that I’m planning to publish soon. For now see how you like this one, it is also gluten free and it goes very well with kale salad, or traditional sauerkraut or dill fermented pickles.  

 

 

 

Hungarian Delish Recipe

Author: Lena Novak – Lena’s Vegan Living

Recipe type: European

Prep time: 20min  Cooking time 30min  Total 50min

Serves 6

Ingredients

 

Brown Rice Pasta Shells 454g  (I use Tinkyada)

Potatoes 5 medium size peeled and cut into cubes (for the best results cooked one day before)

Onion 1 medium size diced

Garlic 4 cloves minced

Hungarian red paprika 1/3 cup

Cayenne Pepper to taste

Black Pepper to taste

Himalayan Pink Salt to taste

Oil

Scallions for garnish  

Chili peppers for garnish 

 

 

For scrambled tofu

 

 

Tofu organic medium firm 350g (I use Soyganic)

Hickory Smoke Liquid aprox.1tsp  (I use Encore Woodland)

Hungarian red paprika 1tsp heap

Garlic powder or dry minced 1tsp to taste

Bragg liquid aminos ¼ cup

Turmeric 1tsp heap

Cayenne pepper to taste

 

 

Process

 

Boil the pasta; follow the instructions on the package. Make sure you rinse it well with cold water and set aside. Leave it in the strainer until you need it

Next step is to make the scrabbled tofu

Break it down with your hands or a food processor; just make sure you don’t overdo it. Do your best to preserve the slightly course texture.

Heat up the oil in the frying pan and began, add the tofu and begin sautéing for a minute

When ready, add the Bragg sauce and garlic stir thoroughly

Add the turmeric and again stir thoroughly

At last add the red pepper with the cayenne pepper and stir thoroughly again and set aside

To cook the potatoes begin sautéing the onions in a large frying pan for a minute

Add the garlic and sauté until all turn golden (both onion and garlic)

When ready, add the potatoes with salt and pepper and sauté all together until the potatoes turn golden

Finally, add the pasta, red paprika with the cayenne pepper  and stir thoroughly

At the end add the scrambled tofu and stir thoroughly again

Garnish each portion with sliced scallions and tiny splash of chili peppers. 

 

I hope you will enjoy this dish as much as i do and let me know how you liked it. I’ll be waiting for your comments. 

 

Bon Appetit

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