Hungarian Chicken Breasts Recipes

Steps:

• Combine flour, salt and pepper in a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat., Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet. Add onion and cook until tender. Remove from pan and set aside. In the same skillet, melt remaining butter and brown chicken on all sides., Combine tomato juice, paprika, sugar and salt; add to chicken. Add bay leaf, broth and onion. Cover and simmer 45-60 minutes or until chicken is tender., Remove chicken to a platter; keep warm. Reduce heat to low, remove bay leaf and stir in sour cream. Heat through (do not boil). Pour sauce over chicken. Serve with noodles.

Steps:

• Chicken:.
• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Smash the garlic cloves, sprinkle with the 1 teaspoons salt, and with the flat side of a large knife, mash and smear the mixture to a coarse paste. Set half the garlic paste aside.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Set a v rack or regular rack in a roasting pan and brush with some of the melted butter. Stir the remaining garlic paste, the paprika, porcini powder, caraway seeds, and a generous amount of black pepper into the remaining melted butter and cook over medium heat, stirring until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Cool. Smear chicken cavity with reserved garlic paste, then stuff with the shallot and lemon zest. Brush spiced butter over chicken and season with salt.
• Tuck the wings under the back, cross the legs, and tie them with kitchen twine. Place chicken breast side down on the rack and roast until the back is golden brown, 35-40 minutes.
• Remove the pan from the oven and turn the chicken breast side up. Cut the string where it holds the legs together and gently spread the legs a bit. Baste the chicken with the pan drippings and roast again until the breast is golden brown and a meat thermometer inserted in the thigh registers 170°F, 20-25 more minutes.
• Move chicken to a carving board and let rest for 10 minutes before carving.
• To make sauce:.
• Whisk the horseradish into the sour cream. Carve the chicken and serve with the sauce and Parslied Egg Noodles for a great Hungarian dinner!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender. Sprinkle chicken with paprika, salt and pepper; place in an ungreased roasting pan. Spoon onion mixture over chicken. Add water. Bake, covered, 1-1/2 hours or until chicken juices run clear., Remove chicken and keep warm. Pour drippings and loosened browned bits from roasting pan into a saucepan. Skim fat. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and cold water until smooth. Stir into pan juices with onion. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until thickened, 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in sour cream. Serve with chicken.

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:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a skillet over medium heat, heat 2 tablespoons oil and add chopped onions, mushrooms and garlic. Sauté until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
• Tear bread into large pieces and place in a bowl. Sprinkle with enough water to thoroughly dampen it on all sides. Allow to sit for 1 minute, then squeeze out as much water as possible. In a mixing bowl, combine bread, egg, parsley and onion-mushroom mixture. Season generously with salt, pepper and paprika to taste.
• Divide stuffing into four equal portions. Gently pull enough skin from each chicken piece to be able to push stuffing mixture under skin. In a small bowl, combine remaining tablespoon oil with 1/2 teaspoon paprika and salt to taste. Mix well and brush over chicken pieces, saving a bit for basting.
• In a 9-by-13-inch roasting pan, scatter quartered onions, green beans and carrots. Place chicken pieces skin-side up on vegetables. Roast uncovered for 60 minutes, basting halfway through. (If chicken begins to look too brown, cover lightly with foil.) Lower oven temperature to 275 degrees and continue to cook until meat is opaque and white all the way through, about 30 minutes more. To serve, place an equal amount of roasted vegetables on each of four plates, topped by a portion of chicken.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400. Season the chicken aggressively with salt and pepper. Heat the oil and 1 tablespoon of the butter in a large, heavy, oven-safe sauté pan or Dutch oven set over high flame, until the butter is foaming. Sear the chicken in batches, skin-side down, until it is golden and crisp, approximately 5 to 7 minutes. Then turn the chicken over, and repeat on the other side, approximately 5 to 7 minutes. Remove chicken to a plate to rest.
• Pour off all but a tablespoon or 2 of the accumulated fat in the pot. Return the pot to the stove, over medium heat, and add the onion. Cook, stirring frequently with a spoon to scrape off any browned bits of chicken skin, until the onion has softened and gone translucent, approximately 5 minutes. Add the garlic, and stir again, cooking it until it has softened, approximately 3 to 4 minutes. Add the paprika and the flour, and stir well to combine, then cook until the mixture is fragrant and the taste of the flour has been cooked out, approximately 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and broth, whisk until smooth and then nestle the chicken back in the pan, skin-side up. Slide the pan or pot into the oven, and cook until the chicken has cooked through and the sauce has thickened slightly, approximately 25 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, set a large pot of heavily salted water to boil over high heat. Cook noodles in the water until they are almost completely tender, approximately 7 to 8 minutes. Drain the noodles, and toss them in a bowl with the remaining butter, then toss again to coat.
• Place the chicken on top of the noodles, then add the sour cream to the sauce, stir to combine and ladle it over the whole.

Steps:

• With food processor running, put the garlic through feed tube to mince.
• Cut whole onion into eighths; chop in processor.
• Heat oil in nonstick skillet and saute onion and garlic until onion begins to brown.
• Wash, trim and seed peppers. Dice coarsely. Add to the onion.
• Wash chicken, and cut into strips about 1/2-inch wide. Add to skillet, along with the tomatoes, caraway, sugar and paprika. Cover, and cook for about 10 minutes, until the chicken is cooked and peppers are soft.
• Mix a little of the yogurt with the cornstarch to make smooth paste; stir into the remaining yogurt. Just before the dish is ready, stir in yogurt mixture and cook over medium-high heat until sauce thickens. Add pepper. Serve over polenta.

Steps:

• Heat butter and oil in heavy skillet. Add peppers. Saute over medium heat until tender-crisp - about 3-4 minutes - stirring occasionally. Remove from pan.
• Add chicken breasts to skillet. Saute for 10-15 minutes until just cooked through, turning once. Remove from the pan and keep warm.
• Add the vinegar to the pan. Bring to a boil, scraping up brownings. Add the cream and boil until reduced by about half.
• Add chicken to the pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Simmer until chicken is heated, basting with the sauce.
• Serve chicken with sauce spooned over. Garnish with sauteed peppers. Sprinkle with the snipped fresh chives.