chicken paprika
- noun
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pollo a la paprika
- At the dinner party, everyone loved the chicken paprika served with rice and a side salad.
Examples
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For dinner, we enjoyed a hearty chicken paprika topped with a dollop of sour cream.
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The chef prepared a flavorful chicken paprika simmered with onions and seasoned perfectly with paprika.
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The chicken paprika recipe is actually an excellent dish that can be a favorite and is easy to put together.
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The chicken paprika is served along with great accompaniments to create an excellent meal.
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The chicken paprika functions well with excellent accompaniments to be a very good meal.
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Goulash, chicken paprika.
Synonyms
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7.7
A Hungarian stew of meat and paprika often served with sour cream
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A Hungarian dish of chicken cooked in a paprika sauce with sour cream
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a dish of chicken cooked with paprika' is directly derivable from combining 'chicken' (the main ingredient) and 'paprika' (the spice/sauce ingredient); knowing both words allows a learner to infer it is a chicken dish flavored with paprika. This noun-noun composition (ingredient + seasoning) is a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern for dishes, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Chicken paprika likely comes from Hungary, where cooks made chicken in a red sauce flavored with lots of paprika. The name is simply chicken + paprika, so it refers to 'chicken with paprika' — chicken cooked in a paprika, onion and sour-cream sauce.