Hungarian Chicken Paprikash

BoxO'Wine's Note:

The perfect Hungarian comfort food. Serve over my posted nokedli recipe. This recipe has been passed down in my family for generations. I use Better Than Bouillon chicken base to make the broth.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1/2 cup flour
• 3 tablespoons Hungarian paprika (preferably Szeged)
• salt
• pepper
• chicken piece (breasts, legs, or thighs, with bones)
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne)
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 cup sour cream

Directions:

1. Combine flour, 2 tbsp paprika, salt and pepper.
2. Dredge chicken pieces in flour mixture.
3. Reserve left over flour.
4. Add oil to large dutch oven.
5. Heat oil over medium high heat.
6. Add chicken and brown on both sides, about 10 minutes.
7. Remove chicken from pot.
8. Add little oil to pot (if bottom appears to be too dry).
9. Add onion, red pepper, 1 tbsp paprika, and salt.
10. Saute until onion is tender, about 2 minutes.
11. Return chicken to pot, and add enough chicken broth to cover.
12. Bring to boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer about 30 to 45 minutes, until chicken is done.
13. Remove from heat and let paprikash cool down.
14. Combine reserved flour and 1/2 cup sour cream.
15. Add small amount of liquid from pot into flour mixture and stir with whisk until smooth.
16. Add mixture to pot, stirring constantly.
17. Simmer 5 minutes.
18. Let cool down again and add remaining sour cream, stirring constantly.
19. Sauce should be a very pale orange color (almost white).
20. Cook about 1 minute until heated.
21. Serve over homemade Hungarian nokedli (spaetzel), wide egg noodles, or cooked cavatelli.

Reviews

[:(]

Very creamy, delicious, and mildly spicy, a dish that is true comfort food, just as advertised. I did wait to add the paprika until the onion was tender, since the parika tends to burn easily. I would definitely make this again! Thanks!

[Karenlyn2]

This is SO so good. So good. Tastes a lot like the version I had in Budapest... I was amazed at being able to replicate that at home. I used bone-in chicken thighs, plenty of salt, and increased the onion and paprika a bit. A PERFECT recipe that I'll make again and again. I wouldn't change a thing. This is one of those dishes that you keep thinking about long after you've made it.

[Scouter Girl]

Overall, this was a fabulous dish and definitely going into my "keeper" file! Next time I will add a tad bit extra broth, as I agree with some other reviewers that it was a little on the thick side. I only had low-fat sour cream on hand, but it was just fine for my husband and me. I'm sure it will be even more delish with the real deal. I also added a little Lawry's pepper mix just as a personal preference :)