Mamas Chicken Fricassee
Chicken fricassee is a great way to prepare a super tasty dish from leftover chicken
pieces and carcasses. My mum used to cook this dish for us on a regular basis and the whole family
loved it. She normally used a stewing hen for the fricassee but I discovered that leftover pieces from chicken breasts with raw meat that is still stuck to the bones and had been frozen were perfect for this dish too.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
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Cooking time: at least 2 H 30 minutes
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Resting time: 0 minutes
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Total time needed: at least 2 H 45 minutes
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Grade of Difficulty: standard
Ingredients
for
Chicken Fricassee
- 1kg / 2.2 lbs stewing hen or chicken breast carcusses with meat
- 1 soup mix
- 7 mushrooms, quartered
- 1 egg yolk (optional)
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 cups of chicken stock
- 1 heaped tbs. flour
- 2 tsp. madras curry powder or other hot curry powder (optional)
- 100 gram / 3.5 oz of butter
- 50 ml / 1.7 oz fresh cream
- 2 tbs. lemon juice
- Fresh coriander leaves
Directions
- Add chicken, soup mix and little salt to a large pot, cover with lid and bring water to the boil
- Reduce heat to low and gently simmer the chicken for 2 hours. The meat should easily come of the bones at this time
- Take pot of the stove and remove the chicken from the liquid and vegetables.
- Let chicken pieces cool down a little and remove all meat from the bones
- Keep 2 cups of liquid from the chicken water
- Place another pot onto the stove and melt the butter in it
- Now add the flour to the bot and mix it thoroughly with the butter using a whisk
- Keep mixing the ingredients while adding the 2 cups chicken water in small amounts to the pot. You should end up with a smooth sauce
- Add a chicken stock cube and the mushrooms to the pot, reduce the heat, cover with the lid and let the mushrooms simmer gently in the sauce for 5 minutes
- Now add fresh cream, lemon juice, curry powder and chicken to the pot, mix all ingredients well, cover with lid and let them gently cook for another 10 minutes
- Switch of heat and let the pot stand for another 5 minutes
- Garnish with a few fresh coriander leaves and
serve chicken fricassee hot with steamed rice and a fresh salad.
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