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chicken paprikash

chicken paprikash

1 6.1
A Hungarian dish of chicken cooked in a paprika sauce with sour cream
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈpæprɪkæʃ/
translation icon : pollo paprikash
  • This chicken paprikash is delicious.

Examples

  • Last night, I made chicken paprikash with tender chicken and a rich paprika sauce.

  • Her grandmother's secret recipe for chicken paprikash includes a dash of sour cream at the end.

  • For dinner, we enjoyed a hearty serving of chicken paprikash accompanied by fresh bread.

Synonyms

paprikash
vschicken paprikash
2 7.7

A Hungarian stew of meat and paprika often served with sour cream

is the same style but limited to one specific meat rather than various meats
chicken paprika
vschicken paprikash
3.4

A dish of chicken in broth with onions and paprika, usually served with sour cream

is the same dish but named in a slightly different form

Surface Forms

chicken paprikash singular
chicken paprikashes plural

Morphology

chicken + paprikash

This is a compositional food-name: 'chicken' (the ingredient) combined with 'paprikash' (a type of stew flavored with paprika) yields a dish made with chicken in the paprikash style. Such ingredient + dish-type formations are cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to a chicken stew flavored with paprika (often finished with sour cream).

Etymology

The dish chicken paprikash gets its name from how it is made: chicken cooked slowly in a sauce with lots of paprika, the red spice. It is often finished with 'sour cream', so the name gives a simple picture of the main ingredient and the kind of dish it is today.