Red wine and vegetable goulash on mashed potatoes with turmeric

March 5th, 2022 | main dishes

Soul food at its finest: tasty vegetables in a velvety red wine sauce, served with golden mashed potatoes with turmeric. An irresistible vegetarian winter dish!

The colors alone stimulate the appetite: dark red vegetables – colored by wine and beetroot – and turmeric-yellow mashed potatoes. This is a dish that will probably convince even the last person to have a “veggie day”.

No, I am not a vehement vegetarian. But it’s certainly good to skip meat many days of the week. Very good, and even very important. And so this dish can be a wonderful alternative to a meat goulash. I’m sure everyone will be amazed!

I used a good Merlot for the sauce in this dish. If you want to cook without alcohol, you can replace the red wine with unsweetened elderberry juice.

Red wine and vegetable goulash on mashed potatoes with turmeric

(4 servings)

600 g beetroot

400 g of carrots

3 large red onions

cut into 2 cm cubes

5 sticks of celery

cut into 1 cm thick slices

15 garlic cloves, peeled, whole

3 TS frying oil (e.g. peanut oil, grapeseed oil)

sear the prepared vegetables in hot oil at high temperature

3 heaped TS tomato paste

add and fry

5 TS soy sauce

deglaze the vegetables with the soy sauce, reduce the heat

250 ml red wine (e.g. Merlot)

add and simmer for about 4 minutes

3-4 sprigs of thyme

2 sprigs of rosemary

3 bay leaves

add

300 ml vegetable broth*

add and bring to a boil

1 TS cornstarch

mix with some red wine and stir into the boiling vegetables

cover and let the vegetables simmer for 20 minutes, stir from time to time so that they don't stick to the bottom, keep an eye on the cooking point, the vegetables should be al dente

Salt, pepper from the mill

season to taste

2 sprigs of flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Roasted (chilli) cashew nuts or roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped

place the goulash on top of the smashed potatoes and serve sprinkled with parsley and nuts

* My homemade vegetable extract is perfect here, with this you can prepare a delicious vegetable broth in no time.

Turmeric Mashed Potatoes

1 kg floury potatoes

boil in salted water for about 15 minutes until soft

100-120ml milk

heat the milk, add to the potatoes and mash with the potato masher

1-2 ts turmeric

80 grams of salted butter

Salt, pepper from the mill

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