Hungarian Goulash Beef Stew

Ingredients

• 3 lbs stew meat (bite sized pieces)
• 1/4 cup oil
• flour (enough to coat all of the stew meat)
• 1 large onion
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 large red pepper, seeded and sliced into pieces
• 1 (15 ounce) can beef broth
• 3 -4 whole cloves, in a cheesecloth bag (to be removed later)
• 1 cup sour cream

Directions

1. 1 Coat the stew meat with flour and brown in the oil in a large pot.
2. 2 Remove from pot and add the onion to the drippings.
3. 3 Saute 10 minutes.
4. 4 Add meat, paprika,salt, cloves in cheesecloth, chopped capsicum pieces, pepper and beef broth.
5. 5 Bring to a boil reduce heat and simmer for two hours.
6. 6 Remove clove bag.
7. 7 Just before serving place the sour cream in a small bowl.
8. 8 Slowly add 1/2 cup of the hot gravy from the pot.
9. 9 Then add back to the beef mixture.
10. 10Serve over buttered egg noodles.