Chicken paprikash

  • Good for lunch

Less suited for dinner.

Chicken legs braised on onion with sweet paprika, the sauce finished with sour cream. 4 servings without a side; serve with bread dumplings or rice.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,170 g

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Ingredients

  • 700 gCHICKEN LEG AND THIGH WITH SKIN
  • 200 gONION
  • 30 gBUTTER, UNSALTED
  • 8 gOREGANO, DRIED
  • 1 5 ml teaspoonSALT, AVERAGE
  • 0.25 5 ml teaspoonPEPPER, BLACK PEPPER
  • 300 gWATER, TAP WATER
  • 2 dlSOUR CREAM, 10-12% FAT
  • 20 gFLOUR, WHEAT FLOUR, SEMI-COARSE

Method

  1. Finely chop the onion and fry it in the butter until golden. Season the chicken legs with salt and pepper.
  2. Brown the chicken on both sides on the onion, take off the heat, stir in the paprika and immediately add the water.
  3. Braise covered for about 40 minutes until tender.
  4. Lift out the chicken, whisk the sour cream with the flour, stir it into the juices and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring. Blend the sauce if you like and return the chicken to it.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
2,107.9 kcal
Protein
138 g
Fat
157.5 g
Carbohydrate
33 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
41.4 g
Fibre (Fineli)
7.7 g
Saturated fatty acids
63.7 g
Sodium
3,165.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
7.9 g

Per serving

Energy
527 kcal
Protein
34.5 g
Fat
39.4 g
Carbohydrate
8.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
10.4 g
Fibre (Fineli)
1.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
15.9 g
Sodium
791.4 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
2 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
180.2 kcal
Protein
11.8 g
Fat
13.5 g
Carbohydrate
2.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
3.5 g
Fibre (Fineli)
0.65 g
Saturated fatty acids
5.4 g
Sodium
270.6 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.68 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some specific ingredients are represented by the closest generic food with the same culinary function.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Milk

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • THL Fineli (20.0) · Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL), Fineli · CC BY 4.0