Beef Style “Budapest˝ – Budapest Bélszín
“Q” What kind of beef meat is to buy, to suit to cook ˝Budapest˝ Sirloin?
“A” The fillet beef is an expensive cut of beef but make sure to get the middle section and not the tail ends – the plumper the better – also make sure the butcher does not fold or roll up the fillet to make it look rounder. It needs to be the middle cut of the fillet.
The ˝Budapest˝ Sirloin is a beef roast dish with mashroom, goose liver and green pea ragout. It can also be easily prepared at home and is something typically found in restaurnts as well. Can be served having rice or patatoes, but yet some like it with French fries.
Ingredients for 4 persons – Preparing time: 45mins
One large onion, salt, 1/2 tsp pepper sweet red paprika powder, 200 goose liver, 100 g smoked ham or bacon, 1 Hungarian sweet yellow pepper, 200 g mashrooms, 1 large tomatoe, 150g green peas, 600 g fillet of beef, 1/2 handful of parsley, oil for the stew and for the grill.
Cooking: Cut the smoked ham and the veggies into pieces. Dice the onion finely. Heat the oil in a saucepan and sweat the onion in it until translucent. Add the ham into the pan and fry until crisp. Deglaze the pan with some stock then add the sliced pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms and paprika powder. Cook over high heat, stirring lightly continuously til the veggies are browned. Add then the peas and continue cooking on lower heat until they are tender. Seasoning with salt, pepper and parsley. Now cut the beef and the the liver into slices, flatter a little with the palm of your hand. Heat the oil in a skillet and grill the for around 5 mins on both each side until the center is medium rare and in the same skillet grill the liver for about 1to 2 mins. (keep in mind only grill the goose liver when all is to be served cause it cools down quicky.) The place half of the ragout on a serving dish and on the fillets and the liver on the top. Place the rest of the ragout on each of the fillets and on top the goose liver. For side dish can have rice, potatoes or French fries.
There are other beef styles in Hungarian which are popular, just as forexample the Beef Stroganoff Style with mushroom, gherkins and shallot in creamy sause (see here @ previous recipe: https://rollinginbudapest.com/2020/06/08/part2-continue-gastronomy-inherited-over-50-years-of-russian-rule-hungary/
© by Aggie Reiter
Rolling in Budapest 
Posted by Chris on 08/09/2020 at 06:13
That looks absolutely delicious, adding the rice would be the perfect,companion, for a special occasion would be ideal…lovely presentation…..Thank You.
Posted by www.rollinginbudapest.com on 08/09/2020 at 15:48
Well doesn’t only look good but beside the locals, the foreigners who have once tasted this meal in Hungary … maybe slip out of their mind for a second where, what they have saw whiulst visiting Hungary, but their tummy does not forget the foody experiences 🙂