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Dinner · 45 min · 4 bowls

Pork paprikash

Szegedin logic: paprika bloomed, pork, sour cream off the heat. Not chicken paprikash. Mustard if the caraway jar is empty.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 45 min

easy

Why tonight. Szegedin logic: paprika bloomed, pork, sour cream off the heat. Not chicken paprikash. Mustard if the caraway jar is empty.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • pork
  • paprika
  • onion
  • tomato
  • sour cream

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dijon.

Method

  1. Twice as much onion as looks reasonable, cooked long and soft. This is an onion dish with pork in it.
  2. Paprika off the heat, always. It scorches in seconds and burnt paprika is bitter for the whole pot.
  3. Pork browned hard in batches first, then everything together and a long low braise.
  4. Sour cream at the table rather than in the pot, or it splits into grain and whey.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

pork
The forgiving meat. Shoulder takes hours and rewards them, chops take minutes and punish you for one too many, and the fat is the flavor in both cases.
paprika
Color and a mild sweet pepper flavor, and it scorches into bitterness almost instantly.
onion
The base under most of this library.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
sour cream
Acid and fat that cools heat and loosens a heavy dish.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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