Brown Stew Chicken

Name: Brown Stew Chicken
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 1 chicken; 1 tomato; 2 onions; 2 garlic cloves; 1 red bell pepper; 1 carrot; 1 lime; 2 tsp thyme; 1 tsp allspice; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp cornstarch; 2 cups coconut milk; 1 tbsp vegetable oil

A Jamaican dinner. Ready in about 55 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

25 minPrep (about)
30 minCook (about)
55 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

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Main ingredient

2 chicken Shopping tip: A whole chicken (about 3 to 4 lb).

Fresh & other

2 tomatoes Shopping tip: Fresh or canned both work (14.5 oz can of diced = about 4 tomatoes).
5 onions
5 garlic cloves
2 red bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
2 carrots
2 limes
1 ½ tbsp cornstarch
4 ½ cups coconut milk

Sauces & oils

¼ cup + 1 ½ tsp soy sauce
2 ½ tbsp vegetable oil

Spices & seasonings (2): thyme, allspice

1 ½ tbsp thyme Shopping tip: Dried thyme is fine here.
2 ¼ tsp allspice

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Squeeze lime over chicken and rub well.
Drain off excess lime juice.
Mix soy sauce, pimento, thyme, pepper, garlic, onion, scallion and tomato in a big bowl with the chicken pieces.
Cover and marinate at least one hour.
Heat oil in a dutch pot or big pot.
Shake off the seasonings as you remove every piece of chicken from the marinade.
Reserve the marinade for sauce.
Lightly brown the chicken some pieces each time in very hot oil.
Place brown chicken bits on plate to rest while you brown the rest of the pieces.
Drain off excess oil.
Return the chicken to the pan.
Pour the marinade over the chicken.
Add the carrots.
Stir.
Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
Mix flour and coconut milk.
Add to stew.
Stir the whole time.
Turn heat down to minimum.
Cook another 20 minutes until soft.