Dutch Oven Cooking - The Wife's South African Chicken Stew Recipe

[Tank]

Hi All,

Last nights dinner was cooked in the dutch oven. so though i would put the recipe up for others to enjoy as it was fantasic.

Ingredients
Chicken (4 breasts)
Bacon (6 rashers)
2 x Onions
4 x Potatoes
Mushrooms
Peas
Sweetcorn
4 x Carrots
500ml White Wine (dry)
500ml chicken stock & a mixture of spices/herbs (i will get back to you on what mixture we used
Cream

How To

Firstly put a glug of oil in the pan and throw in the onions and soften

Next add the chicken and bacon and cook until the meat starts to colour

From now on do no stir.

Add the potatoes

add the carrots and peas

add the sweetcorn and mushroom

add stock and herbs/spices and white wine

add water to cover the veg

Put the lid on and sit back and have a beer

after a while it will look like this

Keep cooking until the veg is soft and the liquid has reduced

Add cream (i added 1/2 pot)

Stir

And enjoy

 

[Mesquite]

Now that looks good Tank.

I think I'll do that when it's my turn to cook at the moot

 

[Twodogs]

Fantastic.............
Twodogsa

 

[John Fenna]

Noe that looks good - takes me back to my time in SA!

 

[Tank]

Some good eating in SA

 

[decorum]

Now that looks good Tank.

It does, doesn't it

I think I'll do that when it's my turn to cook at the moot

I'm glad you said that

 

[Mesquite]

I'm glad you said that

You won't be getting any carrots in it though Phil.

As far as I'm concerned cooked carrots are on a par with brussel sprouts :yikes:

 

[DaveBromley]

just what the doctor ordered on a chilly july night lol

looks really nice

Dave

 

[Tank]

just what the doctor ordered on a chilly july night lol

looks really nice

Dave

yep hot hot day sat next to a hot hot fire

smelt of rugged smoky goodness by the end of the day

 

[MartinK9]

Very nice.

 

[Mesquite]

500ml chicken stock & a mixture of spices/herbs (i will get back to you on what mixture we used

What were the hebs & spices you used Tank?

 

[Tank]

in the chicken stock was cajan spice, mixed hurbs and salt and peper

 

[John Fenna]

You won't be getting any carrots in it though Phil.

As far as I'm concerned cooked carrots are on a par with brussel sprouts :yikes:

I like sprouts!
Especially stir fried....or boiled so quickly they are still crunchy - but hot!
Still make you fart like a steam engine though.....

 

[DaveBromley]

John i've just lost all respect for you lol, SWMBO puts them on my plate every xmas and says i have to eat them at least once a year. She's a bit odd where sprouts are concerned loves them soooo much she's been caught eating a platefull of sprouts just with gravy on them !!!!!!!! that was a drafty night let me tell you

Dave