Today’s Tuesday Tip is a recipe for Chicken a la Paprikash! Why not just Chicken Paprikash? I took some liberties by adding mushrooms since I’m trying to boost how many veggies we’re eating as well as using a mix of red and yellow peppers. This is a relatively easy dish to make and oh-so-tasty. Definitely a dish fit for a prince like Alexander from The Prince’s Gamble! I can definitely see Alexander having something like during a trip to Hungary and offering it up to the guests in his Atlantic City Casino. You can read more about Prince Alexander at https://amzn.to/3uuJkZE. For now, here’s the recipe for Chicken a la Paprikash!
Ingredients
16 ounces chicken breast, sliced
1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 medium yellow onion, sliced
6 mushrooms, sliced
4 tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika
14.5 ounce can Hunts Fire Roasted Tomatoes (drained)
1.5 cups chicken broth
1 cup sour cream
2 tbsp flour
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp butter
Salt and Pepper to taste
Directions
Heat butter and oil in pot and add peppers. Sauté until slightly softened. Add chicken and brown. You can make this by just cooking the chicken in the sauce later, but I find browning it adds more taste to the dish.
Add the mushrooms and onions and sauté until softened. Add the 4 tbsp paprika to bloom the spice. I was able to get some wonderful paprika from Budapest but if you can’t, Simply Organic’s paprika is wonderful. Make sure it’s sweet paprika and not hot paprika.
Sauté for a few minutes and then add the tomatoes and chicken broth. Bring to a low simmer and reduce the liquid by half.
While the liquid is reducing, mix the 2 tbsp of flour into the sour cream. This will help keep the sour cream from splitting when you add it to the hot mixture of peppers, chicken, etc.
Cook for another 10 minutes or so. Salt and pepper to taste. I served it over rice because I love rice but paprikash is traditionally served with Hungarian dumplings, known as nokedli. Nokedli are very similar to spaetzle and if you can’t get either of those, egg noodles make a great substitute.