Gulyáskrém Hot Goulash Paste 240g

Hot Hungarian goulash paste with paprika, tomato, onion and spices. This spicy ingredient is a fiery shortcut to rich, authentic soups and stews at home.

What Is Hot Goulash Paste?

Gulyáskrém, or Hungarian goulash paste, is a richly seasoned cooking paste made with paprika, tomato, onion, cumin and aromatic spices. This Csípős version adds a lively chilli heat to the rounded, savoury flavour associated with a well-made Hungarian goulash.

It is more than a simple hot paprika paste. The tomato and onion base, bay leaf and spices are already blended in, making it an easy starting point for soups, stews, sauces and casseroles when you want deeper flavour and a noticeable spicy kick without measuring several separate seasonings.

Its smooth tube format dissolves easily into cooking and brings warm red colour, fragrant paprika character and lasting heat to the finished dish. It is suitable for vegans and vegetarians, making it just as useful in bean soups, lentil stews and vegetable casseroles as in meat-based dishes.

How to Use Hot Goulash Paste

Use hot goulash paste early in cooking, allowing the meat, vegetables and sauce to absorb its paprika, tomato and onion flavour. Start with around one teaspoon for four portions, then add more only if you would like greater heat. As it is preserved with salt, season carefully and adjust only once the dish has simmered.

• Add it to Hungarian goulash, beef stew or pörkölt for a rounded, fiery flavour base.
• Stir a little into chicken paprikash, bean dishes, potato casseroles and vegetable soups for a fuller, spicier finish.
• Use it to deepen tomato sauces, casseroles and marinades for pork, chicken or roasted vegetables.
• Mix a small amount into sandwich fillings, toasties or pizza sauce when you want a savoury Hungarian-style kick.
• Add it to lentil stews, mushroom dishes or roasted vegetables when you want paprika, tomato, onion and chilli warmth in one ingredient.

A Simple Cooking Tip

For an especially rich, fiery goulash, soften chopped onion in oil or lard, add the paste for a minute, then brown your meat before adding liquid. The paprika, onion and tomato flavours develop in the cooking juices from the very beginning.

For the same rounded goulash-style flavour without chilli heat, choose our mild goulash paste.

Where Does It Come From?

Gulyáskrém is made in Hungary by Univer, one of the country’s best-known makers of traditional cooking pastes and condiments. It is built around the flavours that define a classic Hungarian goulash: paprika, tomato, onion, cumin and bay leaf.

The hot Csípős version is for cooks who enjoy the rounded character of a goulash base with a more assertive chilli warmth. It brings the character of a long-simmered Hungarian dish to weekday soups, stews and casseroles in a convenient tube.

Explore more paprika pastes, goulash blends, herbs and store-cupboard flavourings in our Hungarian seasoning collection.

Ingredients & Nutritional Information

Ingredients

Paprika paste [raw mild and hot spice paprika, bell pepper, salt, modified starch, thickener: xanthan gum; acid: citric acid; preservative: potassium sorbate], tomato concentrate, onion paste [onion, salt, sunflower oil, modified starch, acid: citric acid; preservatives: potassium sorbate, potassium metabisulphite; thickener: xanthan gum], sunflower oil, salt, sugar, spices and celery flavouring, thickener: xanthan gum; bay leaf, preservative: potassium sorbate.

Allergy advice: Contains celery and sulphites.

Dietary information: Suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

Origin: Hungary.
Storage: Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Refrigerate after opening.

Nutritional Information