Monday, August 10, 2009

Quick, tasty and easy to make chicken stew with vegetables when you're starving. This yummy stew will make you feel light yet full and energized.Ingredients
1 medium sized onion, sliced
2 baby carrots sliced round
2-3 medium sized potaotes, cubed
5-6 stew beans chopped 2" long
cauliflower if desired
2 chicken thighs or 1 chicken breast, diced or roughly cut up
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 chicken broth cube
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 bay leaf
2-3 cloves
1 cinnamon
4-5 pepper pods
1 pinch of tumeric
2 cans water(soup cans)
1/2 tbsp cooking butter
Thyme sprigs
Flour to thicken
Salt as desired

Method
Heat the butter and add onions, potatoes, carrots, beans and cauliflower and fry for a few minutes.

Add the tomato puree, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon, pepper pods, tumeric and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
Add the chicken, water, chicken cube, red wine vinegar and salt. Cover and cook until chicken and vegetables are done.
Mix flour with water and slowly stir into the stew to thicken. Garnish with fresh thyme and serve with toasted brown bread or plain.

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