Chicken ragout

Ștefan Baciu, 11.06.2017, 11:53

Today we’ll be
cooking chicken ragout, a traditional Romanian dish that is easy to prepare
since you don’t need too many ingredients. You can prepare this dish in your
own kitchen or in the open air, in a clay pot over charcoals, just as the
people who toiled the land used to do in the past.

For this recipe you
need several chicken thighs, although drumsticks are equally good. You also
need two onions, several garlic cloves, several tomatoes or tomato juice, oil,
a little white wine, one bay leaf, pepper, thyme, a bunch of parsley and salt.

Wash the chicken
cuts, drain and then brown them in oil in a frying pan or a Dutch oven.
Julienne the onions and brown in a little oil, then add in the tomatoes cut
into small cubes or the tomato juice, the thyme twig, the bay leaf and several
pepper grains. Place the mixture into a bowl and then add the browned chicken
cuts. Add water or possibly a glass of wine and simmer over low heat until the
liquid is diminished.

Before turning off
the heat, add several finely-chopped garlic cloves, chopped parsley leaves and
salt to taste. The chicken ragout can be cooked either on the heater or in the
oven. Serve with polenta and pickles. Enjoy!