Clay Pot Hungarian Chicken Paprika Recipes

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.

Steps:

• Sauce procedure: Cut whole chicken into it's constituent parts (breasts, thigh, etc.) and remove skin. Remove skin from thighs. (trim fat deposits and rinse all chicken thoroughly) This step is critical.
• Cut all chicken pieces in half. This exposes the crucial bone marrow. The more marrow you expose, the better the sauce. I chop the wings into 4 or five pieces. Do not add giblets and neck.
• In large pot, combine chicken, salt, Paprika, chicken base, and enough water to just cover the chicken pieces.
• Cook, partially covered, at such temperature that a simmer to very gentle boil is achieved. You want just a bit of bubbling.
• Do so until the chicken is thoroughly cooked and easily removed from the bone--About 1.5 hrs. (I cook the chicken until it is on the verge of falling off the bone. This extracts maximum flavor from the chicken.)
• Strain mixture to separate liquid and chicken. Place chicken into a warm serving dish.
• Return liquid to pot, and vigorously mix in sour cream and milk. I use a whisk for this. Carefully bring the sauce to a boil and remove immediately from heat. Failure to remove promptly will result in very messy boiling over!
• Set burner to it's lowest setting and return pot to the burner to keep sauce hot. The sauce is basically finished at this point. You may wish to fine tune by adding more salt, sour cream, Paprika, and/or chicken base. I sometimes add a 1/2 cup or so of heavy cream for added richness. You may also want to skim most of the liquid fat from the sauce surface.
• Noodles procedure: Combine flour, salt, and eggs in a hemispherical bowl large enough to accommodate mixing.
• Add about 1/2 cup water and proceed to blend ingredients with a fork until well blended. The consistency your striving for is such that the dough is clearly wet, adheres to the bowl, and is loose enough to slowly spread out when a dollop is applied to the cutting board. Add enough water to achieve this. I've never measured how much water I use, but think it's about 1/2 cup plus some. Actually, the consistency is not critical. I'm guessing you've made noodles (or dumplings) like this, and that additional, excruciating explanation is not necessary.
• Set a Dutch oven (good size pot) 2/3 full of water to boil. At this point, obviously the dough goes into the water. I place a good size dollop on a small cutting board and use a gently curved, sharp knife to cut perhaps 1/2" size blobs which are then vigorously swept off the board into the boiling water.
• They are done when they float to the surface. A perforated spoon is used to remove the noodles from the water which are placed in a warm serving bowl.
• I cut perhaps 3-4 dozen noodles, let them cook (very quick), remove, and proceed to add the next 3-4 dozen until all of the dough is consumed. If it looks like boiling over is about to occur, add some cold water.
• Finally: At this point you should have a pot of wonderful sauce, a bowl full of chicken pieces, and a bowl of noodles. For serving, place a good serving of noodles and half (maybe less) as much chicken into a flat bowl. Apply enough sauce to almost cover noodles and chicken.
• You may want to salt to taste. My wife likes pepper on it. I do not. In any case, Viola! That's it. I really want you to try this, as everyone on both sides of our family loves it. My instructions are laborious because attention paid to various details will produce a superb dish, while an average effort with average ingredients produce a result that is only very good.

Steps:

• Soak your clay cooker per its manufacturer's instructions; in my case, I soak the lid of my Glazed Schlemmertopf for 10 minutes before use.
• Place bacon, onions and green pepper into the clay pot.
• Salt and pepper the chicken pieces, sprinkle with paprika, then add to the pot along with the potatoes.
• Cover and bake at 425° for 1 hour 20 minutes (my clay pot requires going into a non-preheated cold oven before setting the oven temperature).
• Remove clay pot from oven; if adding sour cream, whisk it in at this time (I usually remove everything first then add it back in). Cover and let stand for 5 minutes.
• Serve with crusty French bread.

Steps:

• Wash and cut up chickens into pieces. Heat butter in large skillet and fry chicken pieces till browned. Remove from skillet and keep warm. Pour off most of fat from skillet and add chopped onions and garlic, saute till tender, add paprika and cook for a minute, add salt and pepper to onion mixture. Add chicken broth and stir well to remove mixture from bottom of pan. In a large dutch oven or cooking pot, add broth mixture and bring to a boil, add chicken. Make sure there is enough liquid to just cover all the chicken (if there is not enough, then add some water or more broth.)Cook covered on low heat till chicken is so tender it will fall off the bones. Remove chicken to a platter when fully cooked. Combine flour and sour cream, mix into the pot, cook slow, stirring often until thickened and smooth. At this point if sauce is not thick enough, add cream slowly while still cooking on low until desired thickness. You want to achieve a sauce that is a consistancy of gravy, but not too thick. Once this is done you will need to make some dumplings as follows:.
• 3-C. flour.
• 5 eggs.
• 2 teaspoons salt.
• 1/4 C water.
• mix ingredients together until smooth. Drop batter by teaspoons into boiling salted water. Cook 10 minutes. Drain. Rinse with cold water. Serve on plates and top off with sauce and chicken. This can also be served with the traditional Hungarian Cucumber salad.
• Hungarian Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream:.
• 2 cucumbers.
• 1 lg clove garlic, pressed.
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt.
• 2 T. vinegar.
• 1/2°C sour cream.
• Hungarian Paprika.
• Pare cucmbers and slice into thin slices, place in bowl,add garlic, toss with salt. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Drain cucumbers very well. Blend vinegar with sour cream and add cucumbers, mix well and sprinkle top with paprika generously, and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large skillet, saute onion in the oil until tender.
• Sprinkle chicken with paprika and white pepper and place in an ungreased roasting pan.
• Spoon sauteed onions over the chicken parts; add hot water to roasting pan.
• Cover and bake in preheated oven for 1½ hours or until juices run clear.
• Remove chicken from oven, reserve pan juices for the sauce and keep the chicken warm while you make the sauce.
• To make the sauce: In a small saucepan, combine cornstarch and cold water until smooth.
• Whisk in the pan juices from the chicken; bring to barely a boil over medium heat.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring until thickened.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the sour cream; serve hot over the chicken which I serve over hot cooked noodles (whole wheat preferred) or hot cooked brown rice.

Steps:

• Heat the oil or fat (don't use butter) in a heavy bottomed, eight quart stock pot over medium high heat.
• Sauté the chicken until browned on all sides. A four quart sauce pan can be used, but it may splatter.
• Remove the chicken and add the carrots, celery, and onions.
• Sauté these until the onions are translucent(about 4 minutes).
• Add the garlic and stir for another 30 seconds or until you get a strong garlic smell.
• Pour the wine into the pan (shedding a tear, of course) and stir until you can stick your nose over the pan and it doesn't burn. This means that most of the alcohol has cooked out.
• Return the chicken to the pot and add the stock and paprika. If the chicken is not covered in liquid, add water until it is.
• Stir to make sure all of the paprika is mixed in with the liquid. The liquid should have a deep red color. If not, add more paprika.
• Bring this to a boil.
• Once the liquid is boiling, reduce the heat to low and simmer for at least 2 hours. Feel free to stir every once in a while.
• After simmering, remove the chicken meat and bones (if any).
• Mix the flour and water together in a cup or bowl.
• Bring the remaining liquid and vegetables to a boil.
• Slowly whisk in the flour-water mixture until it thickens.
• Remove from the heat and whisk in the sour cream until it is dissolved.
• To serve, put the meat on a plate and pour the sauce over it. For an extra treat, check out the dumpling recipe!
• Cooking tip: Add Paprika to the thickening flour. It hasn't bit me yet.