The Goulash I grew up with didn't have veggies but who cares? This recipe is yummy! I used V8 Spicy Hot tomato juice as a quick and easy way to give some zip and I used 1/2 t. of thyme instead of bay leaves. I added egg noodles and frozen petite at the end with the beans. (I like peas firm, not mushy.) Great recipe!

Very good recipe, although, as others have mentioned, it is much more like bableves than gulyas. I traveled to many regions of Hungary for 2 years and found several different varieties -- even one that could only be described as "vegetarian" gulyas. The most common version of gulyas, however, is a simple meat and potato soup, that often has a few noodles added for extra measure. Many restaurants in Hungary will spice it up with very hot peppers, which is what I did with this recipe.

Hello All, YES!!!! There is Gulash with beans in it! Called "Babgulyás"! It is more a soup than a stew if we want to be exact. There is a misunderstanding between gulash and "gulyas". Hunarians call their favourite soup gulyás-leves, and most of the foriners mix it up (and sadly we do not corredt them!) with an other meal called "pörkölt" or "paprikás" what is a stew. To mix you up guys even more, the interesting thing is, they are mostly the same, just the soup version has more stuff in it, like potatoes, carrots, celery leafs and celeriac, and more water! :) Or beans, if it is a (bean)-babgulyás! What you all call gulash is not the real thing, if we talk about a hungarian meal! I will put on this site the real "gulash" what is made of beef, pork or chicken and called "pörkölt". It is a hard name, this is why everybody says gulash! :) Oh, and I never ever ever have seen any kind of lemon or lemon zest in hungarian soup or stew!!!!! This is sure! Also we do not use butter for cooking meat, just fat or oil. Cheers, Andika

We substituted wild boar for the beef, left out the peas, and it was fantastic. Even if the Hungarians say it doesn't technically qualify as Hungarian goulash because it has beans in it, it was still a delicious recipe! And easy too.

Being Hungarian myself, I agree that it's unheard of to put beans of any sort in Goulash [thats what the fozeleks and such are for]. It's fine as a soup in general though.

My family really liked this recipe. I used ground beef and sauted onions, garlic and celery with the meat. The end result was great with lots of flavor~this recipe is very flexible, add what you have on hand and season until you are satisfied with flavor.

This is THE best Goulash I ever had! however, instead of using canned veggies, i used fresh, cooking it that long made them come out nice and soft. i also added about 1/2 package of wide egg noodles at the end with the kidney beans...yummy!!!