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Chicken Paprikash
Also known as: Paprikás csirke
Hungarian chicken in sweet-paprika and sour-cream sauce.
About Chicken Paprikash
Chicken paprikash is a Hungarian dish of chicken in a paprika-rich sauce. Edyta’s traditional recipe uses bone-in, skin-on thighs and drumsticks, with sweet Hungarian paprika and sour cream.
Onion and garlic flavour the chicken broth, while paprika provides the sauce’s central character. Butter is the selected cooking-fat option; tomato paste remains optional in the version described by the creator.
The author describes succulent chicken within a creamy sauce. Nokedli is the selected traditional noodle accompaniment, while fresh parsley appears in the shopping list without a specified final use.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten).
Product-dependent or unconfirmed: Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Chicken Paprikash
Edyta’s traditional Hungarian bone-in chicken paprikash.
- Bone-in skin-on chicken thighsProtein
- Bone-in skin-on chicken drumsticksProtein
- ButterCooking medium
- Sweet onionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- FlourBinder
- Sweet Hungarian paprikaSeasoning
- Tomato pasteBase · Optional sauce · Optional
- Chicken brothLiquid
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Sour creamBase
- WaterLiquid
- Fresh parsleyAromatic
- Nokedli noodlesAccompaniment · ServingIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Bone-in skin-on chicken thighs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Bone-in skin-on chicken drumsticks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Butter: Milk. Card alternative selected instead of generic cooking oil.
- Sweet onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Flour: Wheat. Sauce and sour-cream mixture allocations combined; cereal unspecified.
- Sweet Hungarian paprika: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader sweet-paprika link; Hungarian style retained, no supplier certification.
- Tomato paste (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Narrative19 explicitly permits omission despite card listing.
- Chicken broth: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact compound formula unresolved.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Botanical kind unspecified.
- Sour cream: Milk
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit sour-cream/flour mixture splash.
- Fresh parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Narrative shopping list explicitly names it; card/method omit use. Not assigned an invented garnish step.
- Nokedli noodles: Wheat, Egg. Named traditional Hungarian noodle/dumpling side, complete subrecipe unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Cuisines & regions
- Hungarian Cuisine
- Szekely CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Banat CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Hungarian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.