With traditional paprikash, chicken is served in a thick, creamy paprika sauce over a bed of egg noodles. In this streamlined recipe, you rub a paprika-based spice mixture on bone-in chicken thighs, sear the chicken in a skillet, then toast rice and veggies in the chicken drippings. The chicken goes back into the skillet, then the whole thing goes into the oven for 30 minutes. Fluff the rice with a fork, add a few chopped herbs, and dinner is served!
A Few Tips Use chicken thighs. I prefer them to chicken breasts because they are more flavorful and budget-friendly. Go for the bone-in, skin-on thighs for the most succulent, tender results. Use sweet or hot paprika. Since paprika is the predominant flavor in this dish, there is a hearty amount in the seasoning blend used on the chicken. Sweet Hungarian paprika or hot paprika will both work in this recipe, so use the kind you enjoy most. Paprika Chicken
Serves 4…