Stewed Chicken with Tomatoes and Mushrooms

Ingredients

• the chicken
• a pint and a half of stock
• four moderate-sized tomatoes
• a table-spoonful of corn-flour
• a good slice of sweet butter
• an onion finely minced
• the red part of a carrot scraped
• a table-spoonful of coarsely chopped parsley
• season them with salt
• season them with pepper
• garnish with fried bread

Method

1. 1

   Draw the chicken and cut it into neat pieces.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a saucepan, add minced onion and carrot, and stir for three minutes.

3. 3

   Add chicken pieces, season with salt and pepper, and fry until lightly browned.

4. 4

   Pour in stock, add halved tomatoes, and mix corn-flour with cold water to make a paste.

5. 5

   Stir until boiling, then simmer for half an hour.

6. 6

   Clean and slice mushrooms, add with parsley, and simmer for another 15 minutes.

7. 7

   Serve chicken on a hot dish, pour sauce over, and garnish with fried bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 259. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tewed Chicken, with Tomatoes and, Mushrooms. — Draw the chicken, and cut it into neat pieces-. Take a good-sized saucepan and melt a good slice of sweet butter in it. Throw in an onion finely minced and the red part of a carrot scraped, and stir over the fire for three minutes. Put in the pieces of chicken, season them with salt and pepper, and fry them in the butter, moving them occasionally to keep them from sticking to the pan. When lightly browned pour upon them a pint and a half of stock (made from the rabbit bones), add four moderate¬ sized tomatoes cut into halves, and a table-spoonful of corn-flour mixed to a smooth paste with a little cold water. Stir the sauce till it boils, draw it back, and let it simmer gently for half an hour. Clean the mushrooms and cut them into thin slices ; add a table- spoonful of coarsely chopped parsley, and simmer again for a quarter of an hour. Put the pieces of chicken on a hot dish, pour the sauce over, garnish with fried bread

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.