Paprika Chicken

Name: Paprika Chicken
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup vegetable oil; 2 cubes frozen crushed garlic or 6 garlic cloves, crushed; 2 onions, roughly chopped; 2 tbsp paprika; 3 skinless, boneless chicken breasts (approx. 600 g/1 lb 5 oz), chopped into 2 cm/¾ in cubes; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tsp salt; 1 chicken stock cube, crumbled; 200 g/7 oz canned chopped tomatoes; cooked rice, to serve; 4 tbsp sour cream; small handful fresh parsley, leaves picked and chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

30 Minute Mowgli

By Nisha Katona

Published 2021

About

This is my mother-in-law’s recipe and was one of the dishes she cooked for me when I met her for the first time in Budapest. My husband is Hungarian and our first date, over 25 years ago, was at an Indian restaurant in Lamb’s Conduit Street, London. It was a test of sorts, as I knew that if he didn’t love my food, then the relationship wasn’t going anywhere! I ordered him a chicken tikka masala, his first ever curry and one that often acts as a gateway into Indian cuisine. In much the same