Adlib Hungarian Paprikash Food

HUNGARIAN CHICKEN PAPRIKASH

Steps:

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

AUTHENTIC CHICKEN PAPRIKASH (PAPRIKáS CSIRKE)

Steps:

• Heat the lard in a heavy pot and brown the chicken on all sides. Transfer the chicken to a plate. In the same oil, add the onions and fry until golden brown. Add the garlic and tomatoes (and pepper if using) and fry another 2-3 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the paprika, salt and pepper (paprika becomes bitter if scorched).
• Return the chicken to the pot and place it back over the heat. Pour in the chicken broth. The chicken should be mostly covered. Bring it to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 40 minutes. Remove the chicken and transfer to a plate.
• In a small bowl, stir the flour into the sour cream/cream mixture to form a smooth paste. Stir the cream mixture into the sauce, whisking constantly to prevent lumps. Bring it to a simmer for a couple of minutes until the sauce is thickened. Add salt and pepper to taste. Return the chicken to the sauce and simmer to heat through.
• Serve the chicken paprikash with Hungarian nokedli, which is like German Spaetzle only they're very short and stubby. You can make nokedli with a spätzle scraper and using this recipe for the dough.

TRADITIONAL HUNGARIAN PAPRIKASH

Steps:

• Saute chopped up onion in the oil. Pull it off from the heat.
• Add the paprika (both kind) to the sautéed onion. (If you leave it on the heat while you do this, the paprika will burn) Mix it until the paprika dissolved.
• Add chicken. Mix it together with the onion-paprika paste, until all the pieces are covered with the paste. Turn your heat up high, brown the meat, while you constantly mixing it. While you doing it, be careful not to burn the paprika paste!
• When all pieces look white all around, turn down the heat to low, add salt, cover and cook. During your low heat cooking the juices of the chicken will come out, so your dish will cook in its own juices. If you pick dry meat (breast) you have to add some liquid(chicken broth).
• After 10 minutes add pepper piece to the food. Cook for another 10-15 minutes. Check for tenderness.
• Before serving, remove skin. Serve with pasta, or baked potato. Top the dish with a tablespoon of sour cream.
• Hungarians serve it with some pickled items on the side, such as cucumber, or pickled pepper.
• Enjoy.

REAL HUNGARIAN GOULASH - COOK'S ILLUSTRATED

Steps:

• Place rack in lower-middle position of oven and heat to 325°F.
• Sprinkle meat with 1 tsp salt and let stand 15 minute.
• In a food processor, combine paprika, peppers, tomato paste and 2 tsp vinegar until smooth, 1-2 minutes.
• Heat oil in Dutch oven until shimmering. Add onions and 1 tsp salt. Cover and reduce heat to medium. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions soften but are not brown, 8-10 minutes.
• Stir in paprika paste and cook until onions begin to stick to bottom of pan, 2 minutes.
• Add beef, carrots and bay leaf. Stir until everything is well coated. Scrape down sides of pot, cover and place in oven. Cook, stirring every 30 minutes, until meat is tender, and liquid is 1/2" below top of meat, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
• Remove pot from oven and add enough warmed beef broth to bring liquid level up to 1/4" below top of meat. Do not cover meat in liquid! Replace pot cover and return to oven about 30 minutes more, until a fork slides in and out of beef easily.
• Meanwhile, put potatoes, 1/2 cup beef broth and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce to a rapid simmer, cover, and cook until potatoes are tender, 20-30 minutes.
• Skim fat off surface of stew. Stir in 1 tsp vinegar and sour cream, if using. Remove bay leaf and adjust seasonings. Serve over boiled potatoes.

HUNGARIAN BEEF PAPRIKASH

Steps:

• Pat the beef dry, then salt and pepper before placing in the pot.
• Brown the meat on all sides for a few minutes in the pot with oil and butter.
• Transfer beef to a bowl.
• Add onions, garlic and more butter to pot. Sautee until tender, then transfer onion/garlic to a bowl.
• Add can of chopped tomatoes and mustard to pot, stirring and scraping all the bits off bottom of pot.
• Add in the onions and stir until combined with sauce, about 2 minutes.
• Empty the two cups of beef broth into pot, along with the Red Peppers. Stir until slightly softened.
• Add beef, and stir in hot sauce to taste. Remember the hot sauce gains strength as it cooks, so keep testing periodically to get the level heat you want, adding a little at a time.
• Add orange juice and stir over low heat for a few minutes, again testing the level of heat with the hot sauce. Leave uncovered while stirring.
• Once all is to a good boil, cover, reduce heat, and let simmer for one hour. You can even turn it off and let sit for a few hours, to have ready for a meal hours later.
• Now bring the pot to a boil, and add the sour cream. Sitr until blended. Sauce should have a rich orange color, and a creamy, not thick texture. If too thick, add more orange juice.
• Update the level "heat" with more hot sauce, if desired.
• Serve over white rice or thick egg noodles. Enjoy!

HUNGARIAN PAPRIKA POTATOES (PAPRIKAS KRUMPLI)

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt butter and olive oil.
• Sauté the onions for 5 minutes.
• Put all of the rest of the ingredients into the pot, just barely covering the potatoes with water.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
• Avoid stirring as much as you can to keep the potatoes from breaking apart.
• Cook for 30 minutes or until tender.

HUNGARIAN CHICKEN PAPRIKASH

Steps:

• Place a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat and cook bacon until crisp, about 4 minutes. Add onion and cook until soft and translucent, 3 to 5 minutes, stirring once or twice. Add chicken and tomatoes. Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Stir in paprika. Pour in 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup water and season with salt. Cover and simmer over low heat for 25 minutes. Remove lid and cook an additional 5 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to a plate and keep warm. Mix sour cream and 1 teaspoon cold water together in a small bowl. Add mixture to the pot and stir until gravy is evenly colored and smooth. Return chicken to the pot, cover and simmer on low for another 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, stir flour and salt together in a bowl. In a separate bowl mix egg and water together. Gradually add flour mixture and stir together until dumpling batter is very thick and mixture breaks from a spoon.
• Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot. Add 2 teaspoons salt.
• Drop 1/2 teaspoons of dumpling batter into the boiling water. Dumplings will rise to the surface in about 1 minute; boil for 5 minutes more. Use a slotted spoon to transfer dumplings to a bowl. Repeat steps until batter is used up and all dumplings are cooked. Mix 1 teaspoon of butter with cooked dumplings. Add dumplings to chicken mixture in the pot and allow to heat through.