Covered Dishes Made with Cuisinart MultiClad Pro Cookware and a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer

Our family reunion will be in the Poconos this weekend and it is time to begin cooking! My covered dish this year is Hungarian chicken paprikas in honor of our Hungarian heritage and my entry in our cookie bake-off contest is a hot and spicy molasses cookie. I will use my KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer for the cookies and Cuisinart MultiClad Pro cookware for the chicken. We are celebrating 115 years in America this year, so my covered dish and cookies should really be extra special in honor of this milestone.

Blending five batches of cookies definitely will be a breeze with my KitchenAid Artisan mixer. It can easily handle nine dozen cookies, so blending five dozen is nothing. If you enjoy a small zing in your food, you would definitely love this cookie. It has an unusual blend of spices plus cayenne pepper gives it a tangible kick. I don’t think anyone else will think of entering a piquant cookie in this year’s competition, so this could possibly be my year!

I will make use of my Cuisinart MCP-12 sauté pan and skillet to make the chicken paprikas. With my great grandmother’s family recipe and around an hour in my kitchen, the dish will certainly prove worthy of our celebration. Served on top of steamed rice or buttered noodles, it is always a family favorite.

I will make the spicy cookies first by sifting flour, baking soda, sugar, cloves, cayenne pepper, and a few other spices together. With the help of my KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer, it takes minimal time to mix in five sticks of cold butter. With fewer than 10 minutes from start to finish, I will have five batches of cookie dough prepared and prepared for the oven. I will bake them in three or four batches and when they finish cooling, I will store them in airtight containers until tomorrow.

To triple my great grandmother’s chicken paprikas recipe, I will need to clean and finely chop three large onions. After that, I will clean and slice up six red bell peppers. Preparing this kind of dish is such a pleasure using Cuisinart MultiClad Pro cookware. With a little olive oil in the skillet, the onions are going to sauté beautifully without sticking. The sauté pan is ideal for preparing the chicken.

First, I will brown a quarter pound of chopped bacon. To this, I will add quartered chicken pieces including skins. After the chicken is browned on all sides, I will stir in the onions from the other pan. After adding chicken stock, loads of sweet Magyar paprika and a little freshly ground pepper, this should simmer for around an hour.

When the chicken starts dropping off the bone, the simmering phase of the recipe is done. I will allow the chicken to cool and then will remove the skin along with the bones.

After adding all of the chicken morsels back to the juices in the Cuisinart MCP-12 sauté pan, I will stir in a few large dollops of sour cream and all the sliced red bell peppers. To this, I will add a little flour for thickener. After simmering for five to 10 minutes, the chicken paprikas covered dish will be done. I have not decided whether I will serve it on top of rice or buttered egg noodles and guess I will make that decision later today while the chicken is cooking.

We are currently expecting close to 150 relatives at this year’s family reunion. Several of us have been tracing our ancestry and exploring our heritage, so everybody is excited for the reunion. We asked everybody to collect their old family photographs and their most cherished family recipes, which we will scan and circulate later on this summer. Meanwhile, I better stop this reverie and begin cooking!

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