Chicken Paprikash from Aunt Sophie

By Maudie30

Sophie's Polish style recipe and the best ever!
This is an easy recipe for old world comfort food. You can serve it with mashed potatoes, or spaetzle or bread dumplings and a side of a green vegetable or salad.

Ingredients

• 2 Tbls vegetable oil
• 1 3 lb fryer cut up
• to and pepper to taste
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/4 C all purpose flour
• 2 medium onions halved and sliced thin
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 Tbl Hungarian paprika
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 1/2 to 2 cups chicken stock
• 1/2 C sour cream
• 1 lb spaetzle

Preparation

Step 1

Heat a large skillet and add the oil.

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and cook in oil with bay leaves about 10 minutes, or until browned. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.

Add flour and onions to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in salt, paprika, pepper and 1 1/2 C stock. Add chicken, cover and reduce heat to medium. Simmer 25 minutes or until fork tender.

Remove the bay leaves and discard. Remove chicken.
Stir in tempered sour cream into the mixture to form a gravy. If too thick add more stock.