Chicken paprikash
Chicken paprikash, from above
Non vegHungary

Chicken paprikash

Chicken in a rosy paprika and sour cream sauce. Hungary's comfort classic, with dumplings or rice.

60 minTime
41 gProtein each
mildSpice
Paprikás2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayChicken braised with onions, sweet paprika and sour cream.
The original
482kcalsame
41 gproteinsame
3 gfibresame
60minutessame

Csirkepaprikás.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

5 servings
Cooking oil (vegetable oil)2 tbsp
Onion2 large, finely chopped
Kashmiri chilli powder2½ tbsp sweet paprika (or Kashmiri chilli)
Chicken, curry cut (bone in chicken, small pieces)1 kg chicken pieces, skin on
Tomato1, chopped
Capsicum (green capsicum, green bell pepper)1, sliced
Water1¼ cups
Salt1½ tsp
Black pepper½ tsp
Sour cream¾ cup
Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1 tbsp

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Cook onions in oil for 10 minutes until soft and golden.
  2. 2Off the heat stir in paprika, then add chicken and turn to coat.
  3. 3Add tomato, capsicum, water and salt. Cover and simmer 35 to 40 minutes, turning once.
  4. 4Whisk flour into the sour cream with a few spoons of hot sauce, then stir into the pot. Simmer 3 minutes.
Serve it like this

Serve over nokedli dumplings, buttered noodles or rice, spooning plenty of sauce over. Cucumber salad on the side.

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What goes with Chicken paprikash: a bread or rice, a side, something to drink and something sweet.

Bread or rice Jeera rice30 min
Bread or rice Methi thepla40 min
On the side Smashed cucumber salad15 min
On the side Aloo gobi35 min
To drink Kokum sharbat25 min
Something sweet Puran poli90 min
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