Easy Chicken Goulash

5 from 5 votes

A quick an easy midweek twist on a classic, this Easy Chicken Goulash is just as delicious as a traditional beef goulash but is ready in half the time! (Serves 4-6 depending on appetite and accompaniments)

Course Main Course

Cuisine Eastern European, Hungarian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1

Servings people

Calories 449kcal

Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium onions sliced
1 green (bell) pepper sliced
1 red (bell) pepper sliced
90 g smoked lardons or chopped streaky bacon (I use the little packs of Tesco Finest Lardons)
4 teaspoons smoked paprika
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
3 cloves garlic crushed or grated
800g g chicken thigh cut into bite size pieces
400 g tin chopped tomatoes
Salt and pepper to taste

To serve...

Rice or pasta/mash/baked potatoes/bread
Sour cream optional
2 tablespoons parsley optional

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Put the onion, peppers and olive oil in a large saucepan and fry gently, with the lid on for 5 minutes, until the onions and peppers are softened but not brown.
Add the lardons (or chopped streaky bacon) and turn up the heat. Fry for 3 minutes until the lardons, peppers and onions have a little colour.
Turn down the heat and add the paprika, caraway seeds and garlic. Fry for 1 minute.
Add the chicken, tinned tomatoes, salt and pepper and bring to the boil.
Turn down the heat, put the lid on and cook for 45 minutes. Add a little splash of water if it gets too dry. Alternatively you can cook this stew in the oven. Cook at 180C (160C fan/ gas mark 4 / 350F) for the same length of time (or longer!)
Serve with rice, sour cream and a sprinkling of parsley.

Notes

This Easy Chicken Goulash will be perfectly cooked and delicious after 45 minutes, but can be cooked for up to 1h30 if you need it to – a longer cook will result in a more concentrated and more developed flavour.

This goulash can also be cooked in a slow cooker: follow the recipe as above then transfer to your slow cooker and cook for 3 hours on high or 6 hours on low.

Suitable for freezing.

Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

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