fast ,easy ,delicious . no time in the kitchen: easy chicken stew

Saturday, December 15, 2012

easy chicken stew

when Brigitte came to visit us she made this for dinner and Jesse loved it . very easy to make.

Ingredients

4 pieces of chicken thighs
1 tbls of oil and 1 tbls of butter
1/2 small onion
I branch of celery
2 large carrots or a few small ones
1 cup of wine
enough chicken stock to cover the chicken
1/2 tbls Italian seasoning
salt and pepper

preparation

clean the celery and the carrots
chopped the vegetables

Make sure the chicken is very dry . Dry it with paper towel if necessary.

Salt and pepper the chicken
Brown the chicken in the butter and oil
put the chicken on the side
in the same pan brown the vegetables
When the vegetables are cooked( about 1o minutes)

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Deglazed with the wine

cook about 10 minutes
add the chicken back to the pan
cover the chicken with the stock
add the Italian spice add some more salt and pepper if needed

cover the pan and put in the oven for about 30 to 40 minutes . Check if it cook after 30 minutes.

A table , bon appetit, Miam miam.

Notes
-You may keep a bottle of wine for cooking a long time in your refrigerator.
but if you don't have any wine you may add a tbls of wine vinegar.
-Make sure you pan is a pan that go in the oven, if you don't have one you may finish cooking the chicken on the top of the stove on medium heat.
-You should try to use onion if you chop them very fine you won't ever feel them. If you absolutely can not use onion at least try some onion powder.
-Brigitte made this stew with chicken legs it was delicious too.
_I like to serve this chicken on boiled rice or you could add potatoes before to put in the oven
Enjoy!

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tips

_ some people like me and Jesse do not like the feeling of onion pieces in their food . But onion really bring a delicious flavor to food and I do not know how to cook without them. but they can be chopped very very fine so you won't even detect them in the food or like Tricia do, you may grate them

-In some of my cooking I use wine it is not indispensable but it does bring a little some thing to the food . Do not use cooking wine it is nasty but you may keep in your refrigerator a bottle of white wine and use it when you need it. You can find some wine very cheap for cooking but still good . usually if a wine is not good to drink it is not good to cook. Your mother use some wine very cheap but not bad to drink I know it because I did drink some!
When in a rush it some time hard to use every thing from scratch but it is good to keep from any food that has been process.

-when making braised food like sausage and cabbage it is important to cook the food slowly, use a medium heat and never boil the food

-when a recipe ask for browning a piece of meat before cooking it is important to do it on a very hot stove in a mixture of oil and butter it must be done fast and the meat must be nice and brown. It is a good idea to make sure that the meat is nice and dry it will brown better. You may dry it with a paper towel or simply live it out of the refrigerator for a while.