Gulasch

My mom's gulasch. Brings everyone to their knees, everytime. What more is there to say. The key is to use a pressure cooker to get the meat really tender and falling off the (non-existing) bone.

• 1 pound lean beef (or 1/2 pound beef, and 1/2 pound pork)
  
• 1 pound white onions (the key 1 pound meat/1 pound onion ratio..!)
  
• canola oil
• 1/2 cp flour, spread out on a plate
• 1 TB tomato paste, mixed in 1/2 cp of water
  
• 1 hot pepper, finely diced
  
• salt, pepper
• 2 TB sour cream

Cut lean beef into 1 inch cubes. Dust in flour, and saute on high heat in hot oil in an pressure cooker (no lid yet). Saute and caramelize the beef cubes in batches. Remove beef from pressure cooker and set aside. Cut onions in thin slices, and saute in the open pressure cooker. Add beef back to pressure cooker. Mix tomato paste and water and pour into pressure cooker. Add hot pepper, salt and pepper, and mix well. Close pressure cooker with lid, and cook under high pressure for 25 minutes. Release steam, and slowly open cooker.

Mix in sour cream. Serve with egg noodles.