Paprikas is an Hungarian style chicken that has a fantastic taste. The recipe is best served with rice, dumplings or gnocchi.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoon "red-gold" cream
- 1 tablespoon sour- cream
- 2 tablespoon plus 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 400 g chicken, bones and necks
- 150 g onion, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon paprika, sweet
- salt, hot paprika to taste
- 1 small tomato peeled, and quartered
- 1 fresh bell pepper, seeded and quartered
- 11/2 cup sour cream
- 1 cup cream
- 3 tablespoon flour
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika for decoration
Method
- In a cup mix "red-gold" cream, sour cream and 2 tablespoons vegetable oil. Smear breasts of chicken with the mixture, put into refrigerator for 2 hours.
- In 3 l pan fry onion over vegetable oil until golden-yellow. Remove from fire, add paprika, mix, add 3 cups of water.
- Put pan back to fire, with bones and necks of chicken, season with salt and eventually with hot paprika. Add tomato, bell pepper and bake - covered - for half an hour.
- Remove bones and necks from pan. Using a whisker in a bowl mix sour cream, cream and flour until smooth, add to paprika - sauce. Bring to boil, allow to simmer for 2-3 minutes, drain, reserve hot.
- Put chicken breasts into baking pan, bake in oven over 160 °C for 15 minutes. They should be just "well done", remaining juicy inside.
- Remove chicken breasts from oven, sprinkle them with paprika and cut them into 4-5 slices.
- To serve put into each plate some sauce, sprinkle with sour cream, put some boiled gnocchi, rice or dumplings that you can buy or prepare yourself over the sauce. Put one slice of chicken breast on each plate on top of the gnocchi. Serve immediately and enjoy.
(Source: budpocketguide.com)