Prepare a delicious dish for the festive table - Provencal chicken. The ingredients of the dish include a mixture of herbs, which gives it an unusual exquisite taste and aroma.
It is necessary
-
- hen;
- 2 onions;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 4 tablespoons olive oil;
- sage;
- rosemary;
- basil;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- 5 tbsp tomato paste;
- 300 ml of dry white wine.
Instructions
Step 1
Defrost medium-sized chicken at room temperature (or use chilled one), wash and cut into small pieces.
Step 2
Season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Place dried sage under the skin. Brush a deep skillet or saucepan with olive oil.
Step 3
Place the chicken pieces in a saucepan. Drizzle them with olive oil. Preheat the oven to 180C and place the chicken stewpan in there for fifteen minutes.
Step 4
Peel the onion at this time and cut it into small slices. Peel the garlic and cut each clove in half. Mix the tomato paste and dry white wine thoroughly.
Step 5
Remove the chicken from the oven and put the chopped onions and garlic to it, pour in the mixture of tomato paste and wine, add the remaining olive oil, dried rosemary and basil. Place the dish in the oven for forty minutes.
Step 6
Water the chicken with meat juice from time to time. Add water to the saucepan if necessary to form a sauce.
Step 7
Check the readiness of the dish after forty minutes. Pierce the meat with a fork. The cooked chicken should be soft and the sauce thick. A clear broth that does not contain blood impurities should stand out from the pieces.
Step 8
Garnish the chicken in Provencal style before serving with olives, fresh herbs. For a side dish, make boiled rice or boiled young potatoes, pour over it with the sauce left over from stewing chicken.
