page_title: Gulyásleves
hierarchical_section_title: Gulyásleves
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Gulyás, készült a fegyverneki gulyásfesztiválon
context_page_description: Gulyásleves, is a Hungarian soup, made of beef, vegetables, ground paprika and other spices. It originates from a dish cooked by the cattlemen, who tended their herds in the Great Hungarian Plain. These Hungarian cowboys often camped out with their cattle days away from populated areas, so they had to make their food from ingredients they could carry with themselves, and this food had to be cooked in the one available portable cauldron over an open fire.
  The word bogrács is a loanword from Ottoman Turkish باقراج, meaning a cauldron made of copper; from the word "copper" in Old Turkish language.
  The original dish called bográcsgulyás was a stew, not a soup. Traditional Hungarian bográcsgulyás is often still cooked outdoors over an open fire in a cauldron, giving the appearance of a barbecue. Later on when the dish left the peasant cuisines and became popular even in the town, it started to be cooked more like a soup. Nowadays the dish served in the Hungarian restaurants is a soup, but the locals cook the dish called gulyás as a stew and gulyásleves like a soup.
  There are different variations of the recipe. The meat is beef, but often mixed meats are used.
context_section_description: Gulyásleves (gulyás and leves mean herdsman and soup in Hungarian), is a Hungarian soup, made of beef, vegetables, ground paprika and other spices.  It originates from a dish cooked by the cattlemen ( Hungarian: Gulya = cattle herder ) , who tended their herds in the Great Hungarian Plain (known as the alföld or puszta in Hungarian). These Hungarian cowboys often camped out with their cattle days away from populated areas, so they had to make their food from ingredients they could carry with themselves, and this food had to be cooked in the one available portable cauldron (called bogrács) over an open fire.
  The word bogrács is a loanword from Ottoman Turkish باقراج (spelled bakraç in modern Turkish), meaning a cauldron made of copper; from the word "copper" in Old Turkish language (spelled bakır in modern Turkish).
  The original dish called bográcsgulyás was a stew, not a soup. Traditional Hungarian bográcsgulyás (cauldron goulash) is often still cooked outdoors over an open fire in a cauldron, giving the appearance of a barbecue. Later on when the dish left the peasant cuisines and became popular even in the town, it started to be cooked more like a soup. Nowadays the dish served in the Hungarian restaurants is a soup, but the locals cook the dish called gulyás as a stew and gulyásleves like a soup.
  There are different variations of the recipe. The meat is beef, but often mixed meats are used (e.g. beef, pork and mutton or lamb). Tomatoes, carrots and fresh peppers (often hot chilies) are also added. Onions, paprika and caraway seeds provide its flavour. Cubed potatoes or pasta squares are typically added to this spicy soup. This dish is not to be confused with other dishes, like pörkölt or paprikás.
caption: An outdoor cauldron in Hungary, used for cooking gulyás
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