gulyásleves

thumb|260px|An outdoor cauldron in Hungary, used for cooking gulyás

'''''' ( and in Hungarian), 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 (known as the or 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 ) over an open fire.