Paprika Chicken Bowl with Aji Verde Sauce and the Works

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Recipe Highlights:

• A quick to assemble marinade and cooking weight gives you deep and crispy flavored crusting on your chicken thighs.

• Using Greek Yogurt for your Aji Verde Sauce is a smart change up that bolsters flavors and is also healthier.

• Finding a solid imported Paprika is key (it doesn’t have to be expensive).

• Roasted Red Pepper, Tomatoes and Tamari is an umami rich blanket of flavor for your bowls

• Assemble as a rice or salad bowl, sandwich or wrap as you like throughout the week

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“These Paprika Chicken Bowls are super satisfying! Complete with some tamari roasted red peppers and cherry tomatoes, some quick pickles and a luscious and lightly spicy Greek Yogurt Aji Verde Sauce. Best of all, this all takes just about 1 hour of total work to make!”

Enjoy!
Joey

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Table of Contents:

• All about that Paprika
• Finding a Good Paprika
• Marinades for Days
• Browning Your Chicken
• Pan Sauce Basics
• Greek Yogurt Aji Verde (Green Sauce)
• Squeeze Bottles FTW
• Roasted Red Peppers and Tomatoes
• Tamari on Everything?
• What is a Quick Pickle?
• Rice or Salad?
• Stacked Sandwich Remix
• Youtube Video
• Recipe Mods and Notes
• Full Recipe
• Macros
• Comments

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All about that Paprika

The central flavor pillar of this recipe is paprika, which is a spice made from dried and group red peppers. Paprika is an extremely regional spice that is made in many different countries and can have varying levels of heat and sweetness. This can depend on the parts of the peppers being used as well as their varieties and other treatments.

While originating from, and still popular in, Central and south America, many people think of Europe when they think of paprika. These days, Hungary and Spain are some of the world’s largest producers of Paprika and are commonly associated with it in the states.

Hungarian paprika is what I am most familiar with and can come in a many varieties from sweet and delicate to fiery spicy! It’s also worth noting that other Eastern European and Balkan countries like Serbia also produce similar quality paprika. Many of these brands however are not as easy to find in the states.

You will also often see smoked paprika on the shelves among the paprika varieties. Smoked paprika is most commonly associated with Spanish style paprika and can also have varying levels of spice and sweetness.

Paprika really is the kind of ingredient that is made all over the place with many slight variations based off of both preference and regional circumstance.

For this recipe, we are referencing a Peruvian style chicken with a less spicy and sweeter paprika. It’s not smoked and has a lovely and sweet floral bouquet.

Note: When cooking with paprika, it’s helpful to mix it with a little bit of warm water before hand to ‘bloom’ or kind of ‘awaken’ the more floral and delicate flavor notes. With a marinade like this, the paprika will more or less bloom on it’s own overtime so isn’t quite necessary.

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Finding a Good Paprika

While paprika is very easy to find at most grocery stores, not all paprikas are equal.