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Chicken Marengo

Chicken Marengo

A France dinner. Ready in about 59 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Main ingredient

  • 4 chicken legs

Fresh & other

  • 11 oz mushrooms
  • 1.1 lb tomato puree (passata) Shopping tip: Strained tomatoes (UK: passata), in jars or boxes near the canned tomatoes.
  • 3 ½ oz black olives
  • Chopped parsley Shopping tip: Fresh flat-leaf (Italian) parsley. Curly works too.

Sauces & oils

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
Spices & seasonings (1): chicken bouillon cube
  • 1 chicken bouillon cube Shopping tip: Bouillon cubes (UK: stock cubes).

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Heat the oil in a large flameproof baking dish.

  2. Mix-fry the mushrooms till they start to soften.

  3. Add the chicken legs.

  4. Heat briefly on every side to colour them a little.

  5. Pour in your passata, crumble in the stock cube.

  6. Stir in the olives.

  7. Season using black pepper – you shouldn’t need salt.

  8. Cover.

  9. Simmer for 40 mins till the chicken is tender.

  10. Sprinkle with parsley.

  11. Dish up using pasta plus a salad, or mash plus green veg, if you like.

On the side: Green salad

A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.

How to make it (10 min)
  1. Rinse the salad greens. Slice the cucumber.
  2. Put it all in a bowl and toss with the dressing just before eating.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.