Chicken Stew With Tomatoes Tonight! Recipe

Posted by

Rate It!

Add your photo!

Count

Calories

Minutes

Comments Print recipe

Ingredients:

Serving

3 lbs chicken pieces, with skin and bones (1.5kg)
4 tbsp flour (60 ml)
1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped
oil (for frying )
14 oz canned tomatoes ( usually 1 can or 400g)
1/2 tsp sugar
4 -6 medium potatoes, peeled
1/2 lb mushroom, cleaned and halved (250g)
2 tsp hot pepper sauce (or to taste)
2 tbsp worcestershire sauce (30 ml)
2 tbsp chopped garlic (to taste)
1 tbsp salt (or seasoning , to taste, about 1 tblsp)
black pepper
chopped parsley (optional)
chopped fresh herb (optional)

Directions:

Use a large pot, preferably with a heavy bottom.
Cut chicken into serving pieces or use ready-cut chicken pieces (do NOT use skinned, boned breasts). Put in a bowl, scatter over the flour, and then turn over and over to coat more or less. Just more or less.
Heat pot over high heat. Add a generous amount of oil like canola, heat a few seconds, then add the chopped onion. In this case the onion can be in large chunks - the idea is that you do NOT get tearful over a plain stew.
Stir the sizzling onion. Add the chicken. Keep the heat high, and although there won't be space for all the pieces to lie flat, no matter. Let the pieces below fry until they start browning, then stir the whole lot around with a wooden spoon with a long handle. Let bottom pieces brown - but not every piece needs to be fried first. This frying is just to get extra flavour.
In the meantime you have opened the tin of tomatoes. Hopefully it's of good quality, solid, with thick liquid - not just a few tomato bits and thin juice. (If it's the latter - add a few splotches of ketchup to the pot).
Dump it over the furiously frying chicken and onion, and add the sugar. Stir the lot again.
At this stage you might want to add a dash of water, just to stop the whole lot burning. One-third cup water, no more.
Add some salt, which should preferably be your favourite seasoned salt, as modern chickens are not known for their flavour. You'll have to add more later.
Turn heat to low, put lid on, make sure nothing burns and the stew bubbles gently. Now walk away for 20 minutes and do something else, or put the rice on to cook.
Return to the stew, take off the lid, and add the potatoes, mushrooms, Worcestershire sauce, garlic and pepper sauce or hot pepper flakes - not too much. You want a bite, not Jaws.
Add more salt at this stage, and taste. There should by now be a satisfactory sort of sauce in the pot. If you think a flavour is missing, add it, it's your stew.
Put the lid back on, and simmer for another 15 minutes or so, until the potatoes are cooked through.
With a large spoon remove the entire saucy stew to an oven dish. If you have too much sauce, keep the rest, cool and refrigerate, and use as a soup base - it's delicious and can't go to waste. If you don't have enough sauce it's your own fault, as you probably let the liquid all cook away.
At this point, stir in any herbs or parsley you want to use. Chopped rosemary or oregano is great.
Cover dish with foil, and keep warm until serving. Like all stews, it will improve in taste if it stands a while. It's usually best to make a stew a day ahead.
*The mushrooms - yes, their flavour will be lost in the tomato. They're added for texture, for that extra little soft bite, not really because they're mushrooms. You can substitute with chopped small zucchini.
Serve with a green vegetable and rice, and in this house a salad will be expected too.

Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving Per 100 g

Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories	1179.31 Kcal (4938 kJ)
Calories from fat	908.74 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	100.97g	155%
Cholesterol	237.83mg	79%
Sodium	1665.46mg	69%
Potassium	1070.26mg	23%
Total Carbs	40.56g	14%
Sugars	9.65g	39%
Dietary Fiber	6.25g	25%
Protein	28.62g	57%
Vitamin C	13.5mg	23%
Vitamin A	1.1mg	36%
Iron	2.9mg	16%
Calcium	106.2mg	11%

Amount Per 100 g
Calories	240.05 Kcal (1005 kJ)
Calories from fat	184.97 Kcal
		% Daily Value*
Total Fat	20.55g	155%
Cholesterol	48.41mg	79%
Sodium	339.01mg	69%
Potassium	217.85mg	23%
Total Carbs	8.26g	14%
Sugars	1.96g	39%
Dietary Fiber	1.27g	25%
Protein	5.83g	57%
Vitamin C	2.8mg	23%
Vitamin A	0.2mg	36%
Iron	0.6mg	16%
Calcium	21.6mg	11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

salty
savory
bitter
sweet

Search recipes
by ingredients

Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe

Analyze

Try this similar recipes

Pomme Fondant

Potatoes (12 medium), Unsalted butter, Chicken stock and 5 more..
Pan Fried Turnips and Potatoes

Potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes and 7 more..
Rustic Tomato-Basil Sauce

Extra virgin olive oil, Fresh pressed garlic and 11 more..
Meatless Shepherd's Pie

Potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped and 18 more..
V8 Soup

Diced tomatoes, Crushed tomatoes and 9 more..
Mushroom Roll

Flour, Salt, Butter flavor shortening, Cream cheese and 13 more..
Chicken Pie for Three

Flour, Salt, Shortening, Ice water, Carrots, sliced and 10 more..
Dr Pepper BBQ Sauce

Dr pepper, Crushed tomatoes, Brown sugar and 6 more..
Oven Roasted Potatoes

Potatoes, washed (yukon gold), Onion, sliced into quarters and 7 more..
Supreme Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Potatoes, washed,peeled and cubed, Butter, Sour cream and 6 more..
Mushroom Omelette

Mushrooms, Unsalted butter, Garlic clove, finely chopped and 4 more..
Savory Roasted Potatoes

Potatoes, Butter, Parmesan cheese, Chopped garlic and 3 more..