Chicken Paprikas

What you need for the main dish!

Main Dish:

1 chopped onion

1 chopped green pepper

roughly one chicken

1 pint of sour cream

4 Tablespoons of butter or shortening

2 Tablespoons of salt

1 Tablespoon of paprika

1 teaspoon of pepper

Steps:

1. Saute onion, green pepper and butter together.

2. Add seasoning and the chicken

3. Saute together for 10 minutes then add water so the chicken is partly covered.

4. Cover and simmer for an hour or until the chicken is tender.

5. Make dumplings during this point so everything is ready at once (see below).

6. Add sour cream to make sauce. If it looks like there is too much water (ie the sauce will be too runny) feel free to scoop out some of the drippings before adding sour cream.

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What you will need for the dumplings!

Dumplings (enough for 3 people):

3 eggs

3 cups of flour

1/2 cup of water

3 Tablespoons of sour cream

1 Tablespoon of salt

Steps:

1. Mix all ingredients together well. This is harder than it sounds as there is a lot more flour than water in this dough. I recommend going for as much as you can and passing it onto a friend/sibling/parent who is in the kitchen with you. Also a standing mixer works great with this.

2. Drop teaspoonful into boiling water and cook for ten minutes

3. Drain and rinse with cold water

4. Serve with the rest of the dish!

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This is a family recipe based off a traditional Hungarian dish that my mother got from a cookbook left by my grandmother. She knew it was the right one that my father wanted because “it had the most stains on the page”. It’s easily among my favorite foods, though trying to spell it as a kid was hard (it’s papa-kash when spoken). Good luck and may your arms not give out making it!