🍗 Chicken paprikash (paprikaš sa piletinom)

Name: Chicken paprikash (paprikaš sa piletinom)
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Serbia · Balkans
Ingredients: 800 g chicken thighs, skin removed; 2 red bell peppers, sliced; 2 onions, finely chopped; 3 tomatoes, grated; 2 tbsp sweet paprika; 2 tbsp sunflower oil; 100 ml cooking cream; Salt, pepper and 300 ml water

Origin: Serbia · Balkans

542kcal

per serving · 350 g

155kcal

per 100 g

52 gProtein15 g / 100 g

28 gFat8 g / 100 g

18 gCarbs5 g / 100 g

Paprikaš sa piletinom is a Balkan chicken stew simmered in a sauce of sweet paprika, bell peppers and tomato, finished with a spoonful of cream. The sauce is brick-red and silky, and the chicken turns very tender. It is served hot in deep plates, often with boiled potatoes or rice on the side.

Diets

✓

No porkfor halal, the meat must be halal-slaughtered

✓

Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

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Keto-friendly5 g carbs per 100 g

✓

High protein15 g protein per 100 g — 39% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: chicken

Not veganbecause of: chicken, cream

Contains dairybecause of: cream

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Milk

What it is made of

chickenbell peppertomatopaprikacream

Recipe

4 servings60 min

Ingredients

800 g chicken thighs, skin removed
2 red bell peppers, sliced
2 onions, finely chopped
3 tomatoes, grated
2 tbsp sweet paprika
2 tbsp sunflower oil
100 ml cooking cream
Salt, pepper and 300 ml water

Method

Soften the onions in the oil over medium heat for 8–10 minutes.
Take the pan off the heat, stir in the paprika, then add the chicken and brown it lightly.
Add the peppers, tomatoes, water, salt and pepper; cover and simmer for 35–40 minutes.
Stir in the cream, warm through without boiling and serve.

How to make it lighter

Use skinless chicken breast or thighs and remove visible fat to trim the stew.
Halve the cream or add it only at the table: 1 tbsp of cooking cream adds roughly 30–50 kcal.
Bulk the plate with extra peppers and a side salad instead of a large starchy side.

History

The dish is the Serbian and wider Balkan version of paprikash, the paprika stew closely associated with neighbouring Hungary. Today chicken paprikaš is an everyday home dish in Serbia and across much of the former Yugoslavia.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →