Hungarian Chicken Recipes

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.