Easy Chicken Paprikash Recipe [+Video] 🍗 MasalaHerb.com (2024)

Published: Jun 28, 2019 · Modified: Oct 1, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

We love Chicken Paprikash at home and over time I created a quick and easy paprikash prepared in one-pot only.

📕 What is Chicken Paprikash?

Chicken Paprikash is a chicken in sour cream paprika sauce dish from Hungary.

The dish is better known as Paprikás Csirke in Hungarian.

This dish is as popular as goulash in hungary and includes a lot of paprika.

Authentic chicken paprikash calls for in-bone chicken cuts, just like a curry.

🍗 Ingredients

The main ingredients in this dish are chicken, paprika and sour cream.

I will explain these in more detail.

Chicken

Pick whatever chicken you prefer to make this dish.

I used in bone chicken skinless drumsticks.

You can use boneless chicken cubes too if you prefer.

I don't like to cook saucy chicken meals with skin on the chicken but you can leave on the skin if you like.

My former Hungarian chef colleague introduced me to this dish and he would leave on the skin, which is apparently common n Hungary.

Paprika

Use sweet paprika in this chicken paprikash.

There are three common paprika tastes in Hungarian cooking.

• Sweet & Mild Paprika (édes)
• Hot Paprika (csípős)
• Smoked Paprika (füstölt)

Paprika can be mild and smoked too or hot and smoked.

Pick sweet pepper, which can be smoked too, in this paprika chicken dish because it compliments the meat better and because a lot of paprika is used in the recipe.

Sour Cream

The Hungarian pepper sauce is thickened and enriched with sour cream.

You can also use regular thick cream, such as creme fresh in this dish if you can't get sour cream.

Sour cream adds a slight tangy touch to the gravy flavor, which makes this dish so amazingly delicious!

Other Ingredients

Chicken Paprikash also includes onion, tomato paste to thicken the sauce black pepper, broth, garlic powder, butter, olive oil and whipping cream (for the sauce as well).

🔪 How to make it?

To prepare easy and the best chicken paprikash recipe from scratch, simply follow these steps.

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Step 1

Keep all ingredients ready, heat up a pan with the oil and cook the onions soft.

Add tomato paste, paprika and chicken pieces.

Step 2

Mix in chicken stock/broth and season well.

Cook the chicken on all sides and make sure to stir frequently.

Step 3

Add the sour cream with the whipping cream, mix in and cook further to a thick paprika sauce

Serve hot.

🥣 Serving

In Hungary, people usually serve the saucy paprika chicken dish with so-called nokedli.

Nokedli is the Hungarian name for Spaetzle noodles.

You can also serve the Hungarian chicken paprikash recipe with dumplings, as in Austrian Nockerl or Italian Gnocchi.

I like to serve up my paprika chicken with tagliatelle noodles or even plain cooked rice.

👁️ More Hungarian Recipes

• Hungarian Goulash Soup
• Stuffed Cabbage Rolls by simplyrecipes.com
• Pörkölt (Beef Goulash)

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