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A bowl of Trinidad style stew chicken, cooked down and ready to serve.

Trinidad Stewed Chicken

If you're looking for a quick and easy recipe for chicken stew, then look no further than this one. It's so easy to prepare and tastes amazing.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings: 8
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Caribbean
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 whole chicken cut up into serving sizes (4 pounds total)
  • 2 green onions/scallions
  • 4 tablespoons green seasoning
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or coconut oil
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups of water
  • salt to taste
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Optional seasoning ingredients
  • 3 cloves of garlic chopped or minced
  • 1 large tomato chopped
  • 1 hot pepper
  • 1 bell pepper chopped
  • 3 blades chives
  • 1/2 large onion chopped
  • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
  • 4 pimento peppers chopped
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 2 blades culantro chopped
  • 1 hot pepper can use scotch bonnet pepper or any other hot pepper
  • Soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon browning sauce

Method
 

  1. Remove any skin or residue from the chicken parts. Wash and soak in water for about 10 minutes. You can add vinegar, limes, and some pepper sauce to the water. (one or all are great options).
  2. Rinse chicken from the water then season with green seasoning.
  3. You can add bell peppers, thyme, and onions and set them aside (This can be done the night before).
  4. Heat pot with oil on medium heat.
  5. Add the sugar, coating the bottom of the pot. I prefer to put it more to the center of the pot.
  6. Allow the sugar to get brown (not burn). You do not want it to be a rolling smoke and be black but you do want it dark brown and bubbling.
  7. Add the chicken to the pot (if there's a lot of liquid in the seasoning bowl do not add it) and stir continuously, coating the chicken in the browning.
  8. Continue stirring, until the majority of the water disappears.
  9. Now add the water to the pot along with the remaining ingredients/optional ingredients. Add water to the same level as the chicken
  10. Cover and cook for twenty minutes.
  11. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  12. Add more water if needed (chicken still needs to cook or you would like to create more gravy).
  13. Cook for another 10 minutes or until chicken is tender.
  14. Serve with rice, provision, or dumplings

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