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My favourite chicken stew


Course Main Course
Difficulty Low
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 6 people
Author Lorena Salinas from Cravings Journal

Ingredients

Chicken stock

  • 1 bayleaf
  • 200 g chopped celery
  • 200 g chopped brown onion
  • 200 g chopped carrots
  • 200 g chicken wings
  • 3 litres water at room temperature

Chicken stew

  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 1.6 kg chicken thigh and legs without skin and notorious excesses of fat
  • 200 g brown onion finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves grated, minced or passed through a press
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1.5 tsp paprika
  • 2 bayleaves
  • 6 sprigs thyme, leaves only
  • 200 g mushrooms cut in 4
  • 1 litre chicken stock from above
  • 600 g tomatoes cut in 4 and deseeded
  • 200 ml red wine (not from a box please!)
  • 250 g carrots peeled and in slices
  • 600 g new potatoes washed and cut in squares
  • 150 g frozen or fresh peas

Instructions

Chicken Stock

  1. Put everything in a pot and let the temperature go up. Once it starts boiling lower the heat so you only see a few bubbles coming up.

  2. Let boil for 2 hours. You can make vegetable soup or cream with the veggies and a bit of the stock.

  3. Try to remove as much as you can from the fat that floats around in the stock using a spoon. If it boiled too hard then it will be mixed in and you won't be able to take it out.

Chicken stew

  1. Blend the tomatoes with a bit of the stock and reserve.

  2. In a pot on high heat puta bit of olive oil to sear the chicken until the pieces are nice and golden. Remember not to fill up the pan; only put enough chicken pieces to fill up the base. Also don't move them around constantly; lay them on one of their sides and give them 1 or 2 minutes to become golden without moving them and then rotate it. Once the first batch is ready take it out and continue with the rest.

  3. Remove the chicken, lower the heat to medium-low and add a bit more olive oil as well as the onion, bayleaf and thyme leaves.

  4. Use the water that is released by the onions to scrape out the burnt bits of chicken on the pan because they have a lot of flavour in them. Cook the onion until it's soft and translucent and you don't feel that strong smell that it had at the start.

  5. Add the garlic, tomato paste and paprika and cook for another minute.

  6. Add the blended tomato, the rest of the litre of chicken stock, the chicken, mushrooms and the red wine. Bring everything to a bowl and regulate the heat (low to medium-low depending on your stove) so that we only see a few bubbles on the surface. This is what keeps the chicken nice and tender.

  7. Cook with a lid on for half an hour. Remember that you don't have to look over it as it cooks ;).

  8. After 30min take off the lid and add the potatoes and carrots. We don't add them sooner so they don't mash up.
  9. Cook without the lid on for another half and hour or until the liquid starts to evaporate and thickens. Be careful when you stir at this point because you can separate the chicken that is super tender.

  10. At the very end add the peas and cook for barely 2min so they don't go dark.

  11. Serve immediately on its own or with a side of rice, quinoa or cous cous.