Chicken Paprikash | Milk Street TV Season 8, Episode 23

sour cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

chicken

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: pork

Turkey is leaner, while pork is often less expensive.

sweet paprika

🥗Healthier: smoked paprika

💰Cheaper: regular paprika

Smoked paprika adds depth, while regular is more accessible.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier, while margarine is often cheaper.

Start with a whole lot of paprika, both sweet and hot.

Chop a whole bag of onions and prepare to cry while cutting them.

Add the chopped onions to a pot and sweat them down until translucent.

Prepare a purée with roasted red peppers, hot paprika, salt, sugar, and lemon juice.

Add half of the purée to the pot with the onions, saving the other half for later.

Pour in some broth, holding back a bit to add at the end for different flavor layers.

Add three teaspoons of hot paprika and a quarter-cup of sweet paprika to the pot.

Cover the pot and let it simmer for about 30 minutes to meld the flavors.

While the chicken cooks, prepare a cucumber salad by tossing sliced cucumber with kosher salt to draw out moisture.

Make nokedli (Hungarian dumplings) by mixing flour, eggs, water, pepper, nutmeg, and a bit of salt into a loose dough.

Use a special tool to scrape the loose batter into boiling water to cook the nokedli.

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