Brown Stew Chicken Trini Style
Slightly sweet, smoky, and spicy, this brown stew chicken recipe will have you asking for more. Plus you only need a few simple ingredients to make this tasty side dish.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 3 lbs chicken pieces
- flour or lime juice for washing the meat
Seasoning
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 1 scotch bonnet pepper (chopped)
- 3 tbsp Caribbean green seasoning (chadon beni, garlic, Spanish thyme)
- 2 tbsp ginger
- 1 tbsp Worchester sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tsp salt
Stew
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 cups water
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
Clean and Season
- Clean chicken pieces removing fatty tissue, cartilage and slime.
- Rinse the meat.
- Mix the meat with flour or lime juice.
- Rinse the meat again.
- Add onion, pepper, Caribbean green seasoning, ginger, salt and sauces.
- Cover and set aside to marinate for a few hours to overnight.
Stew
- Place a large pot on medium heat.
- Add oil and leave to heat up for 2 minutes.
- Add sugar.
- After a minute, stir the sugar occasionally.
- Stir more often as the sugar melts and bubbles.
- When the sugar turns very dark and smokes, add the marinated chicken pieces.
- Mix to coat the pieces.
- Cover the pot and leave for the meat to spring its own natural liquid.
- Remove the cover after 15 minutes.
- Stir occasionally and allow the liquid to boil off (another 10-15 minutes).
- When the meat is dry, add water and optional ingredients.
- Cook until the sauce has thickened (about 10 minutes).
- Serve hot.