If you want to prepare a tasty, but simple and affordable dish for a family lunch or dinner, then stewed chicken in sauce is almost ideal. Chicken is much cheaper than pork or beef, is not too fatty and is loved by many as a form of meat in principle. Tender and satisfying, even rosy legs, even lean chicken breast fillet. Even the wings are great when stewed. You can choose any part of the chicken carcass and cook it in a stew. Everything will depend only on your taste.
There are also countless options for the sauce in which stewed chicken is cooked. Tomato sauce, sour cream, cream, and mushroom sauce are also suitable for stewing. Can be stewed in soy sauce or mustard. I can’t even list all the possible options for the sauce in which stewed chicken is cooked. One article is definitely not enough.
Therefore, I propose to get acquainted with a small but very tasty part of the recipes for preparing stewed chicken and make a choice for yourself. And then feel free to cook a hearty, delicious dinner for the whole family. We have already looked at the recipe for cooking chicken with potatoes in the oven, but today we will stew the chicken as a dish on its own, and the side dish will be separate and you can choose according to your taste.
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Chicken stewed in tomato sauce
One of the easiest and most delicious ways to cook stewed chicken is to do it in tomato sauce. This sauce does not require complex ingredients, and the sour tomato taste goes well with chicken. For the sauce, you can use tomato paste, fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes in their own juice. You can also use chicken at your discretion; both breasts and legs will be equally good in tomato sauce.
You will need:
- chicken thighs - 500 g,
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons,
- onion - 1 piece,
- butter - 50 g,
- vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons,
- salt - 1 teaspoon,
- thyme - 1/4 teaspoon,
- black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
1. It is most convenient to cook chicken stewed in sauce in a deep bowl with a thick bottom and a mandatory lid. Place a saucepan or frying pan with high sides on the fire and pour in vegetable oil. Put a piece of butter there and melt it.
2. Add tomato paste to the oil and stir thoroughly. Lightly fry the pasta, stirring constantly.
3. Peel the tomatoes. To do this, cut the skin with a cross, then scald the tomatoes with boiling water. The skin will come off easily. Grind the tomato pulp into puree. Add the tomato puree to the tomato paste in oil and simmer for 3-4 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly.
4. Now add chicken pieces and onions to the boiling tomato sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste. If you like to eat onions, then cut them into strips, and if not, then put the whole onion in the sauce. It will be stewed together with the chicken and will give its flavor to the sauce, but there will be no pieces of onion in the finished dish.
5. Add 1-1.5 cups of boiling water to the pan and cover with a lid. Simmer, covered, over medium-low heat for 35-40 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. After 10 minutes of simmering, add thyme or other aromatic herbs you like to the sauce. Continue to simmer.
6. Ready-made stewed chicken in tomato sauce goes well with potatoes or rice. But it can also be served as a separate dish.
Bon appetit!
Delicious fried chicken legs with potatoes and onions
Next, I will tell you a recipe for a dish that will make your mouth water just by reading the recipe. Chicken and potatoes are what we value in Russia, like bread, the basis of the basics.
Simple, fast, and so delicious!
We will need:
- Legs 3 pcs
- Potatoes 1 kg
- Salt
1. First, cut the flesh of the leg lengthwise near the bone; this should be done for faster cooking. This is not necessary, but everyone knows that the smaller the piece, the faster it will cook. Immediately add salt, pepper and seasoning.
2. Heat the frying pan over medium heat, add 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. When the oil starts to sizzle, put pieces of meat in it and close the lid for 5 minutes.
3. While the legs are being cooked, we cut the onion into half rings and the potatoes as you please.
4. Open the lid, turn the legs over and pour the onions into the pan, after which we leave our dish to simmer for another 5 minutes.
Make sure that the heat is not too high, otherwise the onions may burn！
It should become translucent during this time.
5. Potatoes are next in line. When the onion becomes soft, we place the chopped potatoes in the same frying pan and cover with a lid for about 15 minutes. The lid must be opened periodically and our dish must be stirred
6. After 15 minutes, the potatoes need to be salted. It is better to do this at this stage so that the potatoes turn out more tender.
Now you can add seasonings to the potatoes. If you season it too early, the herbs may simply burn.
7. Next, we close the pan with a lid and leave for 10-15 minutes, checking readiness.
The aroma and taste of the dish cannot be described in words！Be sure that everyone will appreciate fried chicken with potatoes in a frying pan！
Chicken legs stewed in sour cream sauce in a frying pan
It is very easy to prepare such a delicious dish as chicken stewed in sour cream. You can choose the side dish to your taste, and you will get a very tasty sour cream sauce, which can be poured over not only the chicken pieces, but also the side dish, like a gravy.
You will need:
- chicken drumsticks - 7-8 pieces,
- onions - 2 pcs.
- flour - 2 tablespoons,
- sour cream - 200 gr,
- garlic - 2 cloves,
- paprika - 1 teaspoon,
- fresh dill - half a bunch,
- chicken broth (optional) - 200 ml,
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
1. Heat vegetable oil in a large frying pan. Add chicken drumsticks and fry them until golden brown for 20 minutes. Constantly turn them from side to side so that they are fried evenly on all sides. Lightly salt the drumsticks while frying.
2. At the same time, in another frying pan, fry finely chopped onion in vegetable oil. Fry it over medium heat until the onion pieces become translucent and begin to brown just a little. After this, pour flour into the frying pan, mix everything well and continue frying in flour.
3. You need to fry the onion together with the flour until the flour begins to brown. There will also be a pleasant smell of fried flour. The main thing is not to let it burn, so don’t turn the heat on high.
4. Now gradually pour the broth prepared in advance into the frying pan with onions and flour. If there is no broth, you can simply replace it with hot water. After pouring in the liquid, continue stirring so that the flour does not stick together into lumps. The future sauce will immediately begin to thicken due to the flour; if it becomes too thick, add more liquid until you get the consistency of a good gravy.
5. Reduce the heat under the frying pan so that the sauce only gurgles slightly and there is no active boiling. It's time to add sour cream. Add it to the pan and stir until it is completely incorporated into the sauce. Let the sauce simmer gently for 2-3 minutes.
6. While the sauce is preparing, add spices to it, squeeze the garlic through a press and add salt to taste. Don't forget that the chicken has already been salted a little.
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7. It’s time to add the browned chicken that was cooked in another frying pan to the sauce. Place it in a frying pan with sour cream sauce and cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat for another 15 minutes. The chicken legs will be soaked in the sauce and the wonderful taste of the spices.
8. About five minutes before it’s ready, sprinkle the chicken stewed in sour cream sauce with fresh, finely chopped herbs.
Chicken stewed in sour cream is ready. Serve with mashed potatoes or rice, it will be very tasty. Bon appetit!
Description of preparation:
I often cook this dish; here you can use chicken fillet, thighs, drumsticks, any part of the bird is just perfect. The most important thing is a lot of onions. We will first sauté it, add a pinch of sugar for caramelization, and then we will simmer it with the chicken. The result is simply amazing, with mashed potatoes or rice - incredibly tasty. Be sure to take note of the recipe!
Purpose: For lunch / For dinner Main ingredient: Vegetables / Poultry / Chicken / Onions Dish: Hot dishes
Chicken stewed in creamy sauce with champignons
Stewed chicken is a dish that is very simple to prepare. And it usually takes very little time. Therefore, this chicken is simply ideal as a quick lunch or dinner when you want something tasty, but are short on time. How relevant this is for working chefs, who simply don’t have the energy to create masterpieces in the evenings. The recipe for stewed chicken with champignons is one of my favorites. Probably because it reminds me of julienne with chicken and mushrooms, which I love so much. If you are also a julienne lover, then you will definitely like this stewed chicken in creamy sauce.
You will need:
- chicken fillet - 600 g,
- champignons - 400 gr,
- onions - 1-2 pcs,
- cream 20% - 200 ml,
- salt, pepper and spices to taste.
Preparation:
1. Fry finely chopped onion in a preheated frying pan with vegetable oil. It should become soft, transparent and slightly browned.
2. Cut the washed and dried champignons into small pieces. Add to the frying pan with the onions and continue frying. If a lot of liquid comes out of the mushrooms, let it evaporate.
3. Fry the mushrooms until golden brown and taste good. Lightly salt them while frying to make them tastier.
4. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces. Then add them to the fried onions and fry everything together until the chicken loses its pink color and turns grey. Don't forget to stir constantly.
5. Add a tablespoon of flour to the pan and mix everything well. Flour will thicken our future creamy sauce. Fry just a little until the flour begins to brown.
6. Pour cream into the pan and immediately reduce heat to low. Mix everything with cream, add salt and pepper to taste. Now cover with a lid and simmer on very low heat for 10 minutes.
Raise the lid from time to time and stir the chicken into the sauce. After a few minutes, the creamy sauce will begin to thicken and take on a nice creamy color.
If desired, you can add your favorite herbs to this sauce, such as rosemary or Provence, and another clove of garlic. This will make the taste even brighter. But even in its original composition, stewed chicken in a creamy sauce with champignons is very tasty. This is how a wonderful lunch will be ready. Call everyone to the table while it's hot.
Chicken breast in spicy creamy tomato sauce
If you have already cooked stewed chicken in cream, and cooked chicken in tomato sauce, then it’s definitely time to try stewing pieces of your favorite meat in creamy tomato sauce. This is an incredibly tasty combination of soft creamy taste and piquant sourness of tomato. Stewed chicken in this sauce is simply the most tender. You can cook both chicken breast and other parts, such as thigh fillets, drumsticks or wings.
You will need:
- chicken meat - 500 g,
- onions - 2 pcs,
- cream - 200 ml,
- tomato paste - 4-5 tablespoons,
- butter - 50 g,
- garlic - 1-2 cloves,
- turmeric - 1 teaspoon,
- paprika - 1 teaspoon,
- black pepper - 0.5 teaspoon,
- cumin - 1 teaspoon,
- nutmeg - 1 teaspoon,
- salt - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation:
1. Cut the chicken breast into small pieces. If you decide to cook wings or drumsticks, you can leave them whole. Place the chicken in a bowl and coat in the black pepper, turmeric and paprika mixture.
2. Heat a frying pan and melt 25 grams of butter on it. Place chicken pieces in oil and fry over high heat until golden brown on all sides. The crust will be very vibrant because of the turmeric and paprika, which together give the orange color.
3. In another frying pan with high sides, fry the onions in the remaining butter. Cut it into small cubes and fry until it becomes soft and browned.
4. Add cumin and nutmeg to the fried onions. Add some salt and stir. Now add tomato paste to the onion. It needs to be lightly fried, stirring constantly. The fried paste changes color and acquires an appetizing smell. this will take approximately 5 minutes.
5. Add cream to the boiling tomato paste. Mix everything and reduce heat. If the sauce is too thick, you can add 100 mils of hot water. The color of the aromatic sauce will be almost coral.
6. Now put the fried chicken pieces into the frying pan with the sauce, stir everything and cover with a lid. Simmer covered over medium heat for another 15 minutes.
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Well, the stewed chicken in creamy tomato sauce is ready. It will turn out very aromatic and spicy, but at the same time moderately spicy. Goes great with rice as a side dish. Don't forget fresh herbs. Bon appetit!
Whatever recipe you choose, I hope your chicken stew turns out just as delicious. Cook with pleasure.
And don't forget to share your great recipes!
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