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Gothic is a game that was on of my favourite during my teenagehood – probably most of the older players perfectly remember the great atmosphere and very special texts in the Polish version of dubbing (as well as stiff combat mechanics xD). I know those who didn’t really like this series, but I still remember all the adventures of the Nameless – a story like in Gothic 1, 2 and Night of the Raven it’s very hard to find among most of contemporary productions. Therefore, despite many years on its back, it is worth giving this production a chance even today. I strongly encourage you to play it!

When I think about Gothic from the perspective of food, I immediately get a special goulash in my mind, which was a reward for completing several additional missions in official DLC to Gothic II, called Night of the Raven (released in 2003). Its author was Thekla, a cook on the Onar’s farm, who made food for mercenaries. Each serving of Thekla’s goulash gave as 1 point of strength for our character, and in the game we had the opportunity to get it only 5 times. Due to the lack of mention about its ingredients (all we know is that Thekla sends us only once for a packet of herbs), I tried to choose the ingredients so that most of them had a chance to appear in the Gothic’s universe. I chose pork meat (there were sheep on the Onar’s farm, so you can exchange pork for lamb – but in Poland we have limited access to this kind of meat), kvass (or alternatively dark beer) and honey – aren’t these the exact ingredients that are able to give strength to any warrior?

This recipe is so simple and universal that I use it very often in camping conditions, in a cauldron, during offline trips with friends from PGG (Poznań’s Gamers’ Guild) – we usually cook it with approx. 3.5 kg of meat, so even this amount of goulash doesn’t cause any problems with cooking. I also recommend this recipe for such feats – and beacause that this is one of your favorite recipes, we have refreshed the photos for a better visualization 🙂 Remember to lick the pot to the last drop!