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    Mom's Polish Wedding CHICKEN PAPRIKAS


    Source of Recipe


    rc-Phil

    Recipe Introduction


    the author's mother made this for her catering business for Weddings.

    List of Ingredients











    CHICKEN PAPRIKAS

    1 onion, sliced thinly
    4 tablespoons butter or margarine
    1/2 teaspoon black pepper
    3 - 4 heaping tablespoons paprika
    cayenne pepper to taste
    whole chicken
    chicken broth and enough water to cover chicken
    1/2 pint of sour cream
    1 tomato, cut up (optional)
    1 cup flour
    1-1/2 cups cold water

    Recipe



    Saute onion in butter. Add pepper and chicken. Sprinkle paprika
    generously over top. Add cayenne pepper to taste. Add water to cover
    chicken with about an inch more. (I mix the water with chicken broth
    for more taste.) Add tomato, if desired. Cover and let simmer slowly
    till tender, about 1 or 2 hours. Remove chicken.

    You can add the sour cream to the pot at this point by loosening the
    sour cream with some of the juice and then stirring it into the pot.
    Or, you may wait and add it to your individual bowls when serving.

    De-skin and de-bone the chicken and set it aside. I then add 1 cup
    flour shaken with 1-1/2 cup cold water to the broth to thicken it.
    And add the chicken meat. Bring back to a boil to thicken.

    DUMPLINGS

    2 eggs
    1 cup water
    2 cups flour
    pepper, to taste
    1/2 teaspoon marjoram

    Mix eggs and water together and add to flour and spices. It should be
    thick but still a little runny. Drop by the tip of a teaspoon into
    slow boiling broth (my mother used a melon ball spoon but I could
    never get the hang of that.) The dumplings will rise to the top of the
    broth as they are done.

    You can drop them into boiling salted water. Drain and rinse with hot
    water. Then add to paprikas. Or, I just bring the broth to a slow
    boil and drop the dumplings into it. I use the tip of a teaspoon to
    do this with. The dumplings expand quite a bit so only drop tiny
    little bits. Dropping the dumplings into the broth gives them more of
    the paprikas flavor and saves an extra pot.

 

 

 


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