chicken paprikash recipe

Love comfort food? Try this Instant Pot Chicken Paprikash! Easy-to-pull-apart chicken thighs cooked in plenty of creamy sauce are ready in less than 30 minutes.

Instant Pot Chicken Paprikash

Large Onion

Garlic Cloves (, minced)

Olive Oil

Skinless Chicken Thighs (, bone in (900 grams))

Salt

Black Pepper

Sweet Paprika

Bay Leaf

Chicken Stock

Heavy Cream

Sour Cream

Corn Starch

Lemon

Dice the onion and mince garlic.

Press “SAUTE” function on your Instant Pot. Pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil in the inner pot.  Add the onion and garlic. Sauté this for a few minutes. Stir frequently to avoid burning the garlic. In about 3 minutes, add the chicken thighs. Cook them on both sides for a few minutes. All you need is to lock the juices inside.

Add salt, pepper and sweet paprika. Stir everything around with a wooden spoon so the thighs are coated with the seasoning.

Throw in bay leaf and pour in the chicken stock. Close and lock the lid, set the steam release to “SEALING” position. Press “MANUAL” and adjust the time to 5 minutes.

After the cycle is finished, wait for 10 minutes before releasing the pressure manually.

Press "SAUTE" and pour in heavy cream, sour cream and corn starch diluted in little water.

At last, squeeze in the juice of ½ lemon and taste. Add more seasoning or lemon juice, if needed.

Serve with dumplings, or pasta of your choice.

Chicken Paprikash or paprika chicken is a hearty Hungarian dish. This dish consists of chicken simmered in a flavorful, paprika gravy and served over a plate of egg noodles.

Homemade Chicken Paprikash Recipe

Lbs,

Tablespoons Canola Oil, (or vegetable oil)

Cup White Onion, (diced)

Tablespoons Hungarian Paprika

Cups Chicken Broth, (1/4 cup reserved)

(14.5 Ounce) Can Diced Tomatoes

Tablespoons All-Purpose Flour

Ounces Sour Cream

Salt and Pepper to taste

Heat the oil (over medium heat) in a...

Heat the oil (over medium heat) in a deep stockpot and add the onions, Cook them until soft and translucent, then add the paprika.

Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Place...

Season the chicken with salt and pepper.  Place it in the stockpot.

Carefully pour in the tomatoes and chicken broth.

Cover and simmer over low heat for 1...

Cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour.  Ensure that chicken cooks all the way through.

After the chicken cooks, remove it from the...

After the chicken cooks, remove it from the pan and set it aside.

Heat the remaining 1/4 cup of chicken broth...

Heat the remaining 1/4 cup of chicken broth just until warm. You can heat in your microwave.

Mix the broth and flour and stir until...

Mix the broth and flour and stir until a thick slurry forms. This is the roux.

Add the sour cream, salt, and roux to...

Add the sour cream, salt, and roux to the stockpot and whisk to combine.  Continue to whisk over low heat until gravy reaches desired thickness.

Serve the chicken and gravy over spaetzle or...

Serve the chicken and gravy over spaetzle or other egg noodles.

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Chicken Paprikash

Hungarian Chicken Paprikash - known as Paprikás Csirke - is a classic dinner dish. Made from pieces of chicken stewed in a sauce with loads of rich paprika, paprikash serves perfectly with Nokedli egg noodles!

Hungarian Chicken Paprikash

chicken pieces (e.g. thighs, legs, bone-in with skin)

onions

sweet paprika (ideally Hungarian paprika)

tomato

chicken broth

salt

pepper

sour cream

cornstarch (optional)

Peel the onion and chop it into very small pieces. Also, wash the tomato and cut it into small pieces as well.

Wash the meat, then pat it dry.

Heat the oil in a large pot, then add the onions and sauté them on medium heat for around 5 minutes until translucent. Stir regularly.

Add the tomato pieces, stir them in, and sauté them for a few minutes as well.

Turn down the heat to low. Add the paprika and a tiny splash of broth so the paprika doesn't burn (this would make it bitter). Mix everything together.

Now add the meat as well as the broth. The broth should just cover the contents in the pot.

Bring everything to a boil, then reduce the heat and place the lid on the pot. Let the chicken paprikash simmer on low heat for around one hour. Stir occasionally.

After 45 minutes remove the lid from the pot so that some of the water can evaporate and thicken the sauce a little bit. After the hour is up, see if the meat is tender and comes off the bone easily. If it doesn't, let it simmer for another few minutes until it is tender enough.

Remove the pieces of meat from the pot and set them aside on a plate. Then stir the sour cream into the sauce and add salt as well as pepper to taste. If you want the sauce to thicken further, you can also dissolve some cornstarch in a little bit of cold water and add it to the pot as well. Bring everything to a light simmer and stir constantly until the sauce has thickened. Place the meat back into the sauce to reheat.

Remove the chicken paprikash from the stove and serve with nokedli/spaetzle, other pasta such as fusilli, potatoes, or rice.

I grew up with a Hungarian family.  Both my parents were of Hungarian parents.  We had many different Hungarian dishes, one of which was Chicken Paprikas...my favorite.  
Mom's recipe is just like this one except she didn't brown the chicken and did not use tomatoes.

The dish came out tasting the way I had hoped.  Just like my mom made.  Loved it.  Thank you.   This is my keeper.   Wife gave me 20 points on a scale of 10.

This is how I grew up eating paprikas. No browning. 
I only use about a cup of broth a whole chicken. And per my grandmother in Hungarian, "a heaping wooden spoon of good Hungarian paprika ".

Very close to what I learned from my Hungarian mother-in-law except she added a section of Hungarian wax pepper, a tablespoon of tomato paste, and stirred a tablespoon of flour into the sour cream before adding it to the pot at the end.

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